Far right is kingmaker in France following Michel Barnier nomination
The survival of France’s next government depends on Marine Le Pen’s indulgence.
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Quarrel over WWII massacre rekindles bad blood between Poland and Ukraine
The Volhynia massacre, in which the Ukrainian Insurgent Army ethnically cleansed Poles in what is now eastern Ukraine during the Second World War, has come to haunt Polish-Ukrainian relations.
Netanyahu blasts โshamefulโ UK ban on Israel arms exports
Israeli PM vows: โWith or without British arms, Israel will win this war and secure our common future.โ
Boris Johnson accuses UK Labour of โabandoning Israelโ
Former prime minister asks if the British government “want Hamas to win” after it partially suspends arms sales to Israel.
Israel recovers bodies of 6 hostages, including a US citizen
The bodies were located in an underground tunnel in the Rafah area of the Gaza Strip.
Trump Is Now the โOldโ Candidate. It Might Matter.
The age diss is a tactic used to render oneโs competitor as hopelessly out of touch. Suddenly, Donald Trump, once the attacker, is now the attackee.
UK logistics company trials blood deliveries by drone between two NHS hospitals
The blood samples were flown between two facilities in Northumberland, a journey which took just over an hour and shaved seven minutes off the longer route by road.
The last of the Lords
Britain’s new leader Keir Starmer is determined to reform the archaic House of Lords โ but it could come with a hidden price.
Blood scandal payouts heap fresh cost pressure on UK government
Ministers briefed to expect ‘significant additional costs’ as UK widens payouts for worst-ever health scandal.
Klitschko: More Than a Fight review โ Kyivโs mayor confronts Zelenskiy
Kevin Macdonaldโs documentary digs out the roots of the clash between Ukraineโs hero president and the former boxer in charge of its capitalThe bad blood between Vitali Klitschko, former heavyweight champ and now mayor of Kyiv, and Ukraineโs hero pres…
How do Ukrainians survive the traumatic guilt of war? For many, the answer is art | Charlotte Higgins
Whether the issue is shattered relationships or the ugly deaths of those who are fighting, these works give voice to often unspoken horrorsWar is made of blood and terror, but it is also made of emotion, not all of it logical, easy, pretty or comfortab…
โThe Adriatic is becoming tropicalโ: Italian fishers struggle to adapt to warm sea
Sticky mucilage made of microalgae covers the surface and fishing is impossible as waters reach 30CAlmost every morning, Daniele Montini and his wife, Alfreda, take a stroll in the shallow waters of the Adriatic Sea. The ritual, followed by many reside…
Youโve had two years: EU eyerolls at Hungaryโs request for help with Russian oil
After failing to reduce their reliance on Moscow for energy, Hungary and Slovakia now want help from Brussels.
A look at the 28 chaotic days between Bidenโs disastrous debate and his dropout
A complete timeline of events, from President Joe Bidenโs debate performance to his Oval Office address.
Could you be an Olympian?
Hope is not lost, 2028 could be your year!
Ardenza review โ beguiling cine-essay about the angst of the 90s youth generation
Daniela de Feliceโs impressionistic, sensuous documentary meditates on the romantic relationships and student activism of her youth in 1990s ItalyBittersweet memories rise like mist in Daniela de Feliceโs impressionistic, sensuous documentary recallin…
Why Biden finally quit
The Saturday night decision that ended Bidenโs reelection campaign.
Trump brags about ending Roe. No oneโs talking about it in Milwaukee
Heading into the final day of the Republican Partyโs first national gathering since the Supreme Courtโs landmark decision, the issue has barely received a passing mention.
European Political Communityโs UK summit should heed Churchillโs โblood, toil, tears and sweatโ warning
As the European Political Community (EPC) gears up to meet this week and discuss the arc of conflict and instability and Europe’s borders, European leaders must heed Winston Churchill’s call to action, write Dylan Macchiarini Crosson and Steven Blockmans.
Private meeting, billionaires and a G6 Gulfstream: The backstory on how Trump picked Vance
The 39-year-old freshman senator was named as Trumpโs running mate on Monday.
โHeโs in the saddleโ: Allies say Trump is in high spirits after shooting
โHe sounds like a person who is ready to go, very strong, unwavering,โ said his former chief of staff.
Like with several other US leaders, luck saved Trump
Trump is not the first incumbent or former U.S. president to have narrowly escaped an assassination attempt โ and chance has often played a part.
Blood turns to martyrdom as Republicans rally around Trump
The incident served to reinforce one of the pillars of Trumpโs image: Strength.
Trumpโs raised fist will make history โ and define his candidacy
In wake of shooting, GOP officials are quick to blame Democrats for demonizing the former president.
Photo of bloodied Trump fist pumping immediately spotlighted by his allies
โPraying for President Trump,โ House Speaker Mike Johnson wrote on X alongside the image.
World leaders condemn shooting at Trump rally
Leaders from Israel, Argentina and across Europe offered support for the former U.S. president.
Biden: โThereโs no place for this kind of violence in Americaโ
โIโm grateful to hear that heโs safe and doing well,โ Biden said of Trump.
Trump shot in ear at campaign rally, world leaders react
Donald Trump was shot in the ear during a Saturday (13 July) campaign rally, streaking the Republican presidential candidate’s blood across his face and prompting his security agents to swarm him.
Trump survives shooting at campaign rally in Pennsylvania
The former president says he was shot in the ear in attack that killed one person and injured two others.
US FTC hits dialysis giants with antitrust probe
The Federal Trade Commission investigation of DaVita and Fresenius Medical Care follows years of consolidation in the dialysis industry.
2 percent on defense? That is so last year.
One of the NATO Summit’s biggest guessing games this week: What should members spend on defense?
How Le Penโs far right blew it
Bad candidates, incompetence and a fierce fightback by rivals denied the National Rally its election dream.
Czechia lifts ban on blood donation by gay men [Advocacy Lab Content]
New Czech regulation, which took effect on 1 July, allows gay men to donate blood, a practice previously prohibited.
Macronโs camp plots unlikely comeback amid French election chaos
With no one in charge, the French president’s allies believe anything is possible.
Marine Le Pen vs. Jordan Bardella: Franceโs next power struggle
A budding rivalry could tear apart the French far rightโs โwinning ticket.โ
Keir Starmer ruled out rejoining the EU. Now he must think again | William Keegan
Labourโs new prime minister is in a position of strength in relation to Brexit. He must be bold for Britainโs sakeThe first moves of a new prime minister can have lasting consequences. When Clement Attlee went from being wartime deputy prime minister t…
Keir Starmer: I didnโt believe the exit poll
The U.K.’s new PM said he was getting used to being called by his new title โ but was still happy to be addressed by his first name.
How the Tory election campaign melted down in six disastrous weeks
Rishi Sunak played a bad hand appallingly โ and paid a terrible price.
Liz Truss battles to save her skin at UK election
She struggled to defeat a lettuce and now Britain’s shortest serving prime minister is fighting for her political life in her Norfolk constituency.
Letโs be a bit more honest about what a โEuropean identityโ looks like
Emphasizing Europeโs โJudeo-Christianโ heritage and looking only to antiquity betrays the European project, excluding the various peoples and entities that shaped the Continent.
Biden plagiarized him in the 1980s. Now Neil Kinnock wants the president to take a few more notes.
A Q&A with Neil Kinnock, who inadvertently tanked Bidenโs first presidential run and sees some similarities between the British left and the U.S. left.
A bear attack in Slovakia reveals what the far right really wants
Across the globe, populists are rolling back efforts to save nature and the planet.
The Investigator review โ harrowing documentary details search for justice after Balkan wars
Viktor Portelโs film follows Czech investigator Vladimรญr Dzuro as he returns to sites of torture and death, and meets survivors as well as supporters of perpetratorsRevisiting the blood-soaked conflicts that followed the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991, …
Bulgaria extends ban on exports of insulin, antibiotics for children [Advocacy Lab Content]
Bulgaria continues to experience serious medicine supply problems, leading caretaker Health Minister Galya Kondeva to extend the export ban on antibiotics for children, insulin and blood sugar-lowering drugs until mid-July.
Trump keeps flip-flopping his policy positions after meeting with rich people
Top CEOs were seen nodding their heads when Trump talked about finding ways to keep American-educated talent at home.
NHS England probes data leak after cyber attack on blood-test provider
Health service investigates ransomware hit to determine content of published files
London hospitals hackers publish stolen blood test data
The gang shared almost 400GB of the private information on their darknet site and Telegram channel.
Centrists from US to Germany move right on immigration
As elections loom in the U.S., the U.K. and France, the fraught politics of migration are a key issue animating voters on both sides of the Atlantic.
Scorched-earth summer: Biden, Sunak and Macron go negative
Struggling leaders in America, Britain and France are bombarding their political opponents, some of whom are testing the bounds of the mainstream.
Recent asylum case law of the CJEU: Distinction, Integration or Extension from ‘Mainstream’ EU law?
Professor Steve Peers, Royal Holloway University of
London
Photo credit: Luxofluxo, via Wikimedia Commons
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While attention has been focussed
on the overhaul of EU law on asylum โ which I have analysed in an upcoming
article…
London could become the European capital of state-owned asset seizure
Madridโs appeal looks like it will determine just how vulnerable other EU countries are to their valuable assets being targeted in the U.K.
EU drugs watchdog probes painkiller linked to deaths
Campaigner welcomes investigation into drug after hundreds of suspected adverse reactions An investigation has been launched by the European drugs regulator into a popular painkiller linked to a series of illnesses and deaths.The European Medicines Ag…
For King and country? Europeโs young may not be willing to fight
โThe price of unchecked tyranny is the blood of the young and the brave,โ Biden said at the Day-Day commemoration. But checking tyranny comes at a price โ and one the Westโs young donโt seem ready to pay.
Blessed are the leaks: Italian home plays host to another โweepingโ statue
Figurine sits in front garden of family that previously claimed to have seen tears of blood from another statueIn the front garden of the Gregori family home on the outskirts of Civitavecchia, a port city close to Rome, is a well-curated grotto contain…
Biden in Normandy says he prays Americans donโt become isolationists
In the first of his two addresses in France, Biden makes the case for international alliances.
On the (fake) campaign trail with von der Leyen: Lattes, endless selfies and Palestinian protesters
As the Commission president crisscrosses the continent, back in Brussels, support for a second term is crumbling.
London hospitals declare critical incident after cyber attack
Ransomware attempt on provider forces cancellations and delays blood tests and transfusion deliveries
An Americanโs guide to the EU election
The EU is complicated, so let’s break it down for our cousins across the Atlantic.
Activist defaces Monet painting to draw attention to global heating โย video
A climate activist was arrested at the Musรฉe dโOrsay in Paris after sticking a blood-red poster over Monet’s painting of poppy fields. The woman then revealed a T-shirt saying ‘L’enfer’ (hell). The action by a member of Riposte Alimentaire (Food Respon…
Climate activist defaces Monet painting in Paris
Woman from Riposte Alimentaire arrested after sticking poster on impressionist painterโs CoquelicotsA climate activist has been arrested for sticking an adhesive poster on a Monet painting at the Musรฉe dโOrsay in Paris to draw attention to global heat…
Out with the old: Gen Zers ready to take the reins
Hailing from across the political spectrum, young people are looking to breathe new life into EU policymaking.
US Democrats in full-blown โfreakoutโ over Biden
One adviser to major Democratic donors keeps a running list of reasons Biden could lose.
Noisy planes at Brussels Airport sparked Belgian political war
The Flemish regional government says locals are bothered by a new flight plan that sends aircraft roaring over their roofs.
How Putin hijacked Austriaโs spy service โ and is now gunning for its government
Intelligence officials suspect Wirecard COO Jan Marsalek of colluding with the far-right Freedom Party on Moscowโs behalf.ย
PMQs scorecard: Westminster goes nuts as Sunak grins about election date
Prime minister refuses to rule out snap poll โ as Tory MP Craig Mackinlay is applauded for remarkable Commons return.
UK infected blood scandal: what happened in other countries?
Victims in Britain have finally gained a measure of justice โ elsewhere the fight has had varying outcomesOn Monday, infected blood victims in the UK finally felt they had obtained a measure of justice and closure, nearly 50 years after the scandal beg…
UKโs infected blood scandal could and should have been avoided, inquiry finds
An infected blood scandal in Britain was no accident but the fault of doctors and a succession of governments that led to 3,000 deaths and thousands more contracting hepatitis or HIV, a public inquiry reported on Monday (20 May).
‘Day of shame’: UK inquiry finds cover-up of NHS infected blood scandal
An infected blood scandal in Britain was no accident but the fault of doctors and a succession of governments that led to 3,000 deaths and thousands more contracting hepatitis or HIV, a public inquiry reported on Monday.
Rishi Sunak apologises for โcalamityโ of infected blood scandal
Public inquiry finds British state guilty of โchillingโ and โpervasiveโ cover-up
Infected blood: UK apologizes for decades-long healthcare scandal
A public inquiry found that the infected blood scandal could have largely been avoided
The International Criminal Court just saved Benjamin Netanyahu
Far from forcing a pause in the fighting, accusations of war crimes will cause Israelis to rally around their embattled prime minister.
Infected blood: UK reckons with its worst health scandal
Patients given contaminated blood by the National Health Service decades ago are braced for a damning report Monday on the state’s conduct.
The Weekโฆ Rishi Sunak hopes for an economic win
Two of Westminsterโs best-connected journalists, Sky Newsโ Sam Coatesย and Politicoโs Jack Blanchard, guide you through their top predictions for the next seven days in British politics. This week the government will be hoping to see the rate of inflation hit the Bank of Englandโs 2% target as Rishi Sunak aims to claim a victory for [โฆ]
โI realised my tuition money was blood money,โ say Edinburgh hunger strikers
Activists demand university divests from Alphabet and Amazon over Gaza
WHO urges countries to ban high-salt foods
Cardiovascular diseases kill 10,000 people in the WHO European Region every day, the agency said.
Drukkje min broderั blod! Why the best Eurovision songs are no longer in English
While Europeโs lingua franca remains dominant, there has been a definite shift since a Portuguese song triumphed in 2017There was a time when in order to win Eurovision you had to โfly on the wings of loveโ, โtake me to your heavenโ or โsail into infin…
Xi Jinping: China will โnever forgetโ NATO bombing its embassy in Serbia
Chinese leader jabs the West as he prepares to arrive in Belgrade.
‘Blood sport’ or ‘humane and quick’? Controversial whale slaughter begins in Faroe Islands
Critics say the practice is cruel and unnecessary, though defenders claim it is an integral part of island life and resist what they see as meddling by outsiders.
Xi lashes out at Nato over 1999 Belgrade bombing ahead of Serbia visit
Chinese president cites ties โforged with bloodโ as he looks for allies during first European trip in 5 years
Russian forces execute surrendering Ukrainian soldiers: Human Rights Watch report
Human Rights Watch said Ukrainian soldiers were “gunned down in cold blood”.
โIโm happy weโre not killing them any moreโ: Irelandโs last basking shark hunter on the return of the giants
For 30 years, Brian McNeill hunted the worldโs second-biggest fish from small boats off the wild west coast of Ireland. Now the species has made a recovery so rapid it has astounded scientistsThe ambush was simple. A spotter on a hill would scan the se…
Which European politicos would shoot a puppy?ย
Trump VP contender Kristi Noem shot to infamy for killing her dog. But maybe sheโs not alone โฆ
Rivals move in as Franceโs leftist firebrand runs into trouble
Jean-Luc Mรฉlenchon’s latest scandal, in which he compared a French university head to a Nazi, has some on the left considering succession plans.
New EU regulation on human tissue and blood safety passed by European Parliament
The European Parliament adopted new rules for use of blood, tissues and other substances of human origin (24 April). The so-called SoHO regulation (substances of human origin), is an important update of directives that are more than 20 years old. The …
Blood covered royal horses rampage through London
The Household Cavalry horses caused havoc in central London but are now accounted for, said police.
Open Strategic Autonomy for plasma therapies in the EU
We can meet the needs of EU patients who rely on plasma therapies โ and the EUโs goals for strategic autonomy โ by ensuring a vibrant plasma-based biotech sector.
Lettaโs love letter to bigger markets
Italy’s former PM acknowledged that finding the political will could be an uphill battle as financial issues are “not very sexy” for voters.
‘The blood of Palestinian children is on your hands!’ Heckler interrupts von der Leyen
A speech by Ursula von der Leyen was briefly interrupted on Wednesday by a man who accused her of being a “criminal” over her support for Israel.
Why Ukraine is losing the war with Russia
The Westโs failure to send weapons to Kyiv is putting Putin on course for victory.ย
Friendly Arab nations urge restraint, but will Netanyahu listen?
World is waiting to see how Israel will retaliate after Iranโs attack, and if Bibi will match the forbearance of a legendary predecessor.
Former high priest of EU politics Selmayr finds higher calling in the Vatican
“The monster of the Berlaymont” has been nominated for a new role.
Bloodied, despondent, clutching a toy: the Ukrainian artists savaging refugee portrait stereotypes
For Ukraineโs entry in this yearโs Venice Biennale, two artists asked refugees to help them create an โacceptableโ portrait of a woman ravaged by war. We meet the team behind an astonishing projectIn a room inside a Liverpool gallery, Saskia Pay, a you…
Weight loss drugs like Ozempic not linked with suicidal thoughts, EU drugs regulator finds
There is no evidence to suggest a link between the use of weight loss drugs like Ozempic and suicidal thoughts, the EUโs drugs regulator has found. The European Medicines Agency (EMA)โs drug safety committee, PRAC, evaluated the risk of possible side effects in people who have used a class of drugs known as GLP-1, after [โฆ]
Blood, chaos and decline: these are the fruits of unbridled western hubris | Owen Jones
The radical right is correct that the west is waning. But itโs rampant capitalism and endless wars that are causing its collapse, not โwokenessโThis century has one overarching theme: the fall of the west, that is, the US and its European allies. Every…
Which of your fave Taylor Swift, Drake and Beyoncรฉ songs has Chechnya banned in culture crackdown?
The Eras Tour won’t be coming to Grozny anytime soon.
Drone strikes hit Russia-controlled nuclear power plant in Ukraine
โThis is a major escalation of the nuclear safety and security dangers,โ said UN atomic chief.
Europeโs policies to combat antisemitism have failed the โreal worldโ test
In short โ and let me be blunt โ if governments arenโt prepared, or are unwilling, to turn words into action, the entire strategy will be useless.
Nile crocodiles and Burmese python among rare species seized in Spain
Other endangered animals rescued in 2023 included a burrowing parrot, an African spurred tortoise and a blood-eared parakeetSpecialist wildlife police in eastern Spain have rescued an exotic list of endangered animals over the past year, including a pa…
Project to save children from the mafia extended to Sicily and Naples
Scheme was founded in 2012 to prevent at-risk children being enticed by Italyโs most powerful mafia, the โNdranghetaA project to save children from Italyโs biggest mafia by removing them from mob families is being extended to organised crime groups in …
Hundreds queue to donate blood after deadly concert hall attack in Moscow
Hundreds of people stood in line in Moscow early Saturday to donate blood and plasma following an attack on a concert hall in Russia that has left more than 130 people dead and many wounded. The Islamic State groupโs Afghanistan branch claimed respons…