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Pressure grows for shake-up of EU’s expanding overseas offices
The European Parliament has already frozen 10% of this year’s 190-million-ecu budget for external delegations and has warned the funds will remain blocked, forcing emergency savings and blunting the...
View ArticleOverseas staff on the move
The exercise involves a hefty cut-back and reorganisation of the Commission’s presence in Africa so that offices can be strengthened in parts of the world now considered of increasing importance to the...
View ArticleWoman of the world
She and Neil do not live in a grand house with lots of rooms and servants to match. “Our street isn’t even tree-lined,” she says. Des. Res. for the Kinnocks is actually a modest three-bedroomed terrace...
View Article‘But it must be true: it says so in the Daily Mail!’
It was grandly promoted as a “unique” exercise in democracy, but according to a team of international observers, it fell some way short of gaining full legitimacy. EN is referring to last week’s poll...
View ArticleCommission warns island groups over illegal fishing
The European Commission has today (12 December) handed out “yellow cards” to the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines over their illegal fishing...
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The secrets of King Charles’ coronation
Does anyone understand the vagaries of a coronation? We certainly don’t. POLITICO commissioned our resident constitutional expert to explain. Once again, they asked not to be named for this piece....
View ArticleMacron condemns ‘new imperialism’ in the Indo-Pacific amid growing Chinese...
PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron denounced “new imperialism” in the Indo-Pacific on Thursday as he pledged France would boost its presence in the region to defend the sovereignty of smaller...
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The UK’s Brexit dream is dead
LONDON — British voters head to the polls Thursday for their first general election outside the European Union. But in so many ways, the Brexit dream has already died. All the key Vote Leave...
View ArticleChina pressures lawmakers from Slovakia, other countries to skip Taiwan summit
China is putting pressure on lawmakers from six countries to not attend a China-focused summit in Taiwan that kicks off on Monday. While Beijing is well known for its attempts to curb politicians...
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The end of the British Empire
ABOARD THE PRIME MINISTER’S PLANE TO SAMOA — As a symbol of the decline of British power, it could hardly be more stark. This week King Charles III and his prime minister, Keir Starmer, will host 55...
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