Daughter of Moldovaโ€™s pro-Kremlin presidential candidate is keeping your bank safe

Corina Stoianoglo posts selfies with ECB president while her father strives to keep her fellow-citizens out of the EU.

UK budget: 5 things you need to know as Labour hikes taxes

Big swings from the new chancellor will reshape the British state.

Gaza horrors still โ€˜not enoughโ€™ for world to act, UNRWA says

The U.N. agency โ€” which Israel partially banned on Monday โ€” says over 70 percent of Gaza’s population relies on its services to eat.

Meet the gun-toting Brits who will vote for Donald Trump

A British tea room in the swing state of Georgia plays host to some unlikely political views.

French government announces more than โ‚ฌ5B in additional spending cuts

The move will affect development aid and EV subsidies.

VAT on UK international schools โ€˜could prompt hundreds of pupils to leaveโ€™

Private schools are expected to begin paying 20% duty but EU diplomats want international institutions to be exemptImposing VAT on international schools in the UK could lead to hundreds of pupils leaving, European diplomats have said, as they called fo…

Scheme to boost French school trips to Britain โ€˜at riskโ€™ under new UK entry rules

Trade body for Franceโ€™s travel industry reportedly writes to UK home secretary over concerns for programmeโ€™s futureA scheme designed to boost the numbers of French children able to travel to Britain for school trips is reportedly in peril as a result o…

โ€˜Explainer-in-Chiefโ€™ Bill Clinton Makes the Economic Case for Harris

In eastern North Carolina, the former president tells voters why the pandemic caused inflation, not Democrats, and prescription-drug prices are on the ballot.

Commonwealth summit agreement raises slavery reparations after row with UK

Commonwealth countries raised the issue in summit communiquรฉ despite Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s insistence the issue would not be on the agenda.ย 

Press release – EU budget for 2025 to focus on research, health, education, and climate action

Parliament demands an EU budget for 2025 that focuses on improving people’s lives, boosting competitiveness, and addressing current challenges.Committee on Budgets Source : ยฉ European Union, 2024 – EP

The end of the British Empire

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and King Charles III head to the Commonwealth summit to talk climate change and growth. Not all their friends will be there.

Europe gave 1 million Syrians fleeing war international protection. Some countries want to deport them.

Italy and Austria are pushing to recast Syria as a “safe” country, even as the bloc welcomes thousands of Syrian refugees fleeing war each year.

How Gรผlenโ€™s feud with ErdoฤŸan shaped todayโ€™s Turkey

The cleric’s supporters infiltrated the police and judiciary โ€” but went too far when they challenged ErdoฤŸan’s allies and family.

World Banks says Europe-Central Asia must invest in education to drive economic growth [Advocacy Lab Content]

Developing economies of the Europe and Central Asia region are experiencing economic stabilisation despite sluggish growth. To advance, governments are being encouraged by the World Bank to invest in higher education.

IMFโ€™s end-of-inflation party sobered by debt, war โ€ฆ and a US election

Inflation may be on the retreat, but growth is slowing and debt is rising as the West and China square off ever more directly.

Non-formal learning activities enrich childrenโ€™s lives | Letter

Irelandโ€™s transition year shows us that going off-curriculum can bring significant advantages, says Ruth MarvelEnrichment activities are often seen as the poorer cousin to core academic subjects โ€“ but we know that they can have a powerful influence on …

Who could be in Trumpโ€™s next Cabinet? Here are leading contenders.

Former President Donald Trump, who is in the throes of a tight campaign, has not engaged in formal conversations about a potential Cabinet. But that hasnโ€™t stopped him from spitballing potential contenders during his frequent plane rides to campaign events, or when he is impressed by one of his allies on television. โ€œHe would be [โ€ฆ]

Who could be in Kamala Harrisโ€™ Cabinet? Here are the leading contenders.

If Kamala Harris wins the election, she will likely approach the task of filling out her Cabinet and West Wing much like she did when she took over Joe Bidenโ€™s campaign operation this summer. While sheโ€™ll ensure her closest advisers and key Cabinet members are people she personally trusts, there will be some continuity with [โ€ฆ]

As a recent migrant to Germany I say this: the border clampdown is an insult to the values championed here | Bonita Dordel

Even as I am taught about the German credo of tolerance and compassion, the government is betraying it to pander to the far rightI live in a small, quaint old town in north-west Germany, and every day I attend four hours of German and integration lesso…

The future is bright for beer โ€“ given the right policy framework

Beer plays an important role in Europeโ€™s economy, but excise burdens, production costs and the post-Covid environment are putting pressure on the sectorโ€™s ability to act as a motor for the whole economy.

Battle for Moldovaโ€™s future: Gendered disinformation is Russiaโ€™s secret weapon

Much like the US vice president, who has similarly been the target of disinformation campaigns, Sanduโ€™s candidacy has been a lightning rod for misogyny cloaked in political rhetoric.

University in Lisbon suspends plans for course on racism taught by all-white staff

Nova university programme criticised for only having white instructors and for some of its content, such as session on โ€˜does racism really exist?โ€™A top university in Lisbon has suspended plans to launch a postgraduate programme on racism and xenophobia…

Irelandโ€™s big school secret: how a year off-curriculum changes teenage lives

The transition year led Paul Mescal and Cillian Murphy to become actors โ€“ and has had similarly seismic affects on thousands of secondary school students. Should other countries follow suit?โ€˜If you know your Flann Oโ€™Brien, youโ€™ll know that bike mainten…

Les 42 personnes qui comptent dans la tech

Ministres, PDG ou lobbyistes, ils faรงonnent le dรฉbat public sur le sujet.

Europeโ€™s medical schools to give more training on diseases linked to climate crisis

New climate network will teach trainee doctors more about heatstroke, dengue and malaria and role of global warming in healthMosquito-borne diseases such as dengue and malaria will become a bigger part of the curriculum at medical schools across Europe…

UN aid workers feel forgotten and in peril as Gaza war drags on

โ€œWeโ€™re punished for doing our jobs,โ€ said one foreign doctor who volunteered in Gaza.

The EU is helping Turkey forcibly deport migrants to Syria and Afghanistan

European taxpayers finance ill-treatment and forced expulsion, an investigation found.

Leaked: Tense correspondence between EU commissioner hopefuls and Parliament

Still, the 23 nominees were cleared by the institution’s legal committee for hearings in early November.

Budget will be key to Barnierโ€™s survival

The French prime minister understands the scale of the emergency heโ€™s been confronted with โ€” and that it will determine the fate of his minority government.

Everyone Boris Johnson throws under the bus to sell his new book

The former prime minister has axes to grind with political foes, world leaders โ€” and even the Great British public.

Keir Starmer must not yield to rightwing opposition over EU youth mobility | Letters

Readers call for the prime minister to do the right thing by investing in future generations through European schemeWho or what is Keir Starmer frightened of? With Julyโ€™s landslide victory under his belt, he doesnโ€™t have to face the electorate for anot…

Setting Gender-Based Asylum Straight: The Court of Justiceโ€™s Landing Point

 

 

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Just a couple of weeks after the Taliban regime in
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A ‘dramatic break’ with China would be a ‘big mistake’, former ECB chief Trichet says

France’s public debt is very much in the spotlight. The country’s recently appointed prime minister, Michel Barnier, calls it a “sword of Damocles” hanging over future generations. Indeed, for many countries, paying interest on the national debt depri…

Californiaโ€™s failed AI safety bill is a warning to Britain

What can London learn from Sacramento’s doomed attempt to regulate the existential risks posed by powerful AI?

The EUโ€™s most pointless job

Josep Borrell loves to condemn things โ€” sometimes in the “strongest possible terms.” Does it ever have any impact?

Hungary offers olive branch to Brussels in bid to reenter Erasmus scheme

Budapest would prevent politicians from serving on university boards in hopes of regaining EU funds for universities.

Ukraine war briefing: Fight hard through autumn, Zelenskyy urges forces

Mark Rutte to take Nato reins from Jens Stoltenberg; โ€˜I donโ€™t really buy itโ€™ says former Trump adviser of boasts about ending war. What we know on day 951 See all our Russia-Ukraine war coverageVolodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday that the situation was …

Russia plans to boost defence spending by a quarter for 2025

Russia will boost its defence budget by nearly 30% next year, surpassing welfare and education spending, a draft budget showed. The 2025 defence budget is set at 13.5 trillion rubles ($145 billion), up from 10.4 trillion in 2024. Military expenditure …

Kicking gender-based violence into the past, soccer partners-up [Advocacy Lab Content]

The United Nations says gender equality is catastrophically off track, and gender-based violence continues to scar society. Soccer is making a pitch to end domestic violence through engagement and education.

How the Trump-Vance platform could win or lose

Donald Trump never stops talking about immigration, trade and the economy. Those policy areas have animated all three of the former presidentโ€™s campaigns for the White House, and he often finds ways to morph other topics into border security, tariffs, taxes and inflation when heโ€™s riffing on the campaign trail. And for years โ€” amid [โ€ฆ]

UK universities urge government to restart flow of EU students after Brexit

Universities UK โ€˜holding backโ€™ on requests to restart Erasmus programme, but hopeful amid talks on youth mobilityBritish universities are urging the government to find a way to restart the flow of EU students to Britain after Brexit, including a possib…

Flanders has a new government

It took them a summer of negotiations.

World leaders tout AMR declaration, while NGOs sigh

SNEAK PEEK โ€” Leaders have agreed to a political declaration on antimicrobial resistance. NGOs are disappointed, but is it really so bad? โ€” The World Health Organization has allied with TikTok to curb the spread of health misinformation. โ€” What will it take to be prepared for the next pandemic? Itโ€™s not looking good, Gastein [โ€ฆ]

Costas Kadis: A bookish technocrat to handle oceans and fisheries

A conservation biologist by training, Kadis has held several ministerial posts over the past 25 years.

Italy revives policy of failing badly behaved pupils to โ€˜bring back respectโ€™

โ€˜Grades for conductโ€™, similar to a law introduced by Mussolini, aims to tackle rising aggression towards teachersItaly has reinstated a measure to fail badly behaved pupils as concerns grow over aggression directed at teachers.The โ€œgrades for conductโ€ …

Tech policy: 20 people to meet at Tory conference

We break down the 20 figures shaping the Conservativesโ€™ tech policy in opposition.

Brexit chief Michael Gove to edit Tory bible The Spectator

Former cabinet minister will take over on Oct. 4 while the Conservative leadership election is still ongoing.

โ€˜The rest of the world is watching.โ€™ London Mayor Sadiq Khan cautions Americans against reelecting Trump.

Sadiq Khan tells POLITICO Trump would set the wrong tone for the rest of the world.

Could American voters abroad hold all the cards?

As more Americans have returned to living abroad, campaigns are hoping to reach every potential voter in a tight presidential race.

French PM Barnier unveils new government, putting budget and EU affairs under his purview

The Cabinet is the โ€˜most right-wing’ in more than a decade.

EU to offer new youth mobility scheme in test of Labour โ€˜resetโ€™ with Brussels

Officials warn repeat of Tory rejection could dent new governmentโ€™s hopes of pacts on defence and agricultureFresh proposals to allow young people to move between the UK and the EU will be presented to the British government within weeks, in what is se…

Press release – LUX Audience Award 2025: the five finalist films revealed

Animal, Dahomey, Flow, Intercepted, and Julie Keeps Quiet have been shortlisted for the 2025 Lux European Audience Film Award.Committee on Culture and Education Source : ยฉ European Union, 2024 – EP

War of words between Serbia and Kosovo intensifies as EU talks stall

Serbian President Vuฤiฤ‡ says he has โ€œno relationshipโ€ to Kosovo leaders as EU-led talks fail to produce results.

Tech policy: 20 people to meet at Labour conference

We break down the 20 figures inside and outside government shaping Labourโ€™s tech policy.

Trade policy: 20 people to meet at Labour conference

We break down the 20 figures inside and outside government shaping Labourโ€™s trade policy.

Swedish children to start school a year earlier in move away from play

Compulsory preschool year for six-year-olds to be replaced with extra year in primary school from 2028Children in Sweden are to start school at six years old from 2028, a year earlier than at present, in an overhaul of the countryโ€™s education system th…

Act now to ensure health policies address the burgeoning demands of Myopia

One of the worldโ€™s leading vision impairments, myopiaโ€™s prevalence is set to increase, with vast implications for countryโ€™s budgets and their peopleโ€™s health and well-being.

Harris refuses to veer off script in her second high-profile interview

The vice presidentโ€™s appearance at the NABJ event follows Donald Trumpโ€™s combative sit-down interview with the association.

Meet the commissioners: Class of 2024

Everything you need to know about Ursula von der Leyen’s team for her second term.

Europe beats the US for walkable, livable cities, study shows

Midsize European cities such as Zurich and Dublin found to have essential services accessible to 95% of residents within 15 minutesWhen Luke Harris takes his daughter to the doctor, he strolls down well-kept streets with โ€œsmooth sidewalks and curb cuts…

Finnish horse enthusiast is an EU tech front-runner

Henna Virkkunen is well placed to nab a key European Commission post on tech or innovation.

Why more and more French teachers are walking away from their jobs

French teachers are quitting in record numbers, overwhelmed by low pay, crowded classrooms and increasing demands. Despite successive reforms by previous governments, staffing shortages persist. And leaving the profession is often a difficult process….

Dutch government announces โ€˜strictest asylum policy everโ€™

Netherlands will ask the European Commission for an opt-out on EU asylum and migration policies.

โ€˜Dragon-Bearโ€™: How China and Russiaโ€™s spy operations overlap in Europe

Beijing is recruiting agents among EU politicians who have demonstrated fealty to Moscow, underscoring their alignment, according to a senior European intelligence official.

Doctor shortages, low pay and overtime: Europe’s hospitals are under the weather

Europe is suffering from a healthcare crisis, with chronic staff shortages, low pay and overtime prompting strikes in Germany, Slovenia, and Sweden. In France meanwhile, a controversial medicine education reform has students and doctors up in arms.

ย โ€˜Weโ€™re the only plane in the sky:โ€™ 9/11 on board Air Force One

Where was the president in the eight hours after the Sept. 11 attacks? The strange, harrowing journey of Air Force One, as told by the people who were on board.

How Kamala Harris will try to take control of the debate

A review of her most memorable moments on the debate stage and the dais offer clues to how sheโ€™ll take on Trump.

โ€˜Going back in timeโ€™: the schools across Europe banning mobile phones

Calvijn College was one of the first schools in the Netherlands to ban mobile phones. Four years on, officials report its culture has been transformedSix years ago, as officials at the Netherlandsโ€™ Calvijn College began considering whether to ban phone…

The great Commission puzzle: Who we think will get each portfolio

Ursula von der Leyen is about to hand out key jobs in her team. Hereโ€™s POLITICOโ€™s version of the next Commission.

Why the Kremlin loves social media

This weekโ€™s indictment of a social media content firm shows how itโ€™s getting easier and easier for Russia to influence U.S. elections.

Trump wants 25th Amendment changed to impeach vice presidents

He has repeatedly accused Kamala Harris and Democrats of hiding the state of Bidenโ€™s health.

Slovak National Party pushes anti-LGBTI+ school bill, echoing Hungarian controversy

Members of the ruling Slovak National Party (SNS) have bypassed Education Minister Tomรกลก Drucker (Hlas-SD/NI) to introduce an anti-LGBTI+ bill aimed at schools, despite the European Commission currently taking Hungary to court over similar legislation.

โ€˜Itโ€™s disastrousโ€™: White evangelicals waver after Trumpโ€™s shifts on abortion

Trump canโ€™t win without overwhelming evangelical support. His recent comments on abortion have some of his allies on the religious right worried.

Europeโ€™s farming lobbies recognise need to eat less meat in shared vision report

Dialogue with green groups results in agreement on โ€˜urgent, ambitious and feasibleโ€™ reforms in agricultureEuropeโ€™s food and farming lobbies have recognised the need to eat less meat after hammering out a shared vision for the future of agriculture with…

Want babies? Donโ€™t start vaping, Putin warns schoolkids.

Russian president tells pupils: Think you’re cool? Think again.

Schoolโ€™s out for smartphones

Governments across Europe are imposing smartphone bans in schools in an attempt to tackle screen addiction and cyberbullying.

Greece announces new rules banning mobile phones in schools from September

The new regulations and system of penalties are an extension of rules education minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis announced in March which saw pupils face expulsion for filming classmates and ridiculing them online in a bid to clamp down on cyberbullying.

Teenagers increasingly shun condoms and risk disease, WHO warns

Condom use among 15-year-olds has declined since 2014, WHO report finds.

Want to prove you care about young people, Keir Starmer? Give us back our freedom to explore Europe | Beth Riding

The scrapping of the Erasmus scheme was a mistake. But by working with Brussels, the PM can put it rightIn my lifetime, it has always felt as if the government has served old people at the expense of young people. The most notable example during the Co…

New mandate, new opportunity: A competitiveness strategy for European life sciences

We have an important chance to regain Europeโ€™s edge in one of its most important sectors โ€“ and, in turn, help people live longer and feel better.

UK snubs EU over rejoining Erasmus exchange scheme

A government spokesperson says the U.K. has โ€˜no plansโ€™ to rejoin European program.

Catalonia turns the page

Catalans themselves have now decided to end the nationalist/independence majority in their parliament โ€” and we intend to listen to them.

France to trial ban on mobile phones at school for children under 15

โ€˜Digital pauseโ€™ experiment at 200 secondary schools could be extended nationwide in JanuaryFrance is to trial a ban on mobile phones at school for pupils up to the age of 15, seeking to give children a โ€œdigital pauseโ€ that, if judged successful, could …

Steve Hilton, the British ex-Fox News host, wants to run for California governor

Hilton has supported Trump, but heโ€™s also leaned into his own brand of โ€œpositive populism.โ€

What Kamala Harris was really saying in her convention speech

She understood the need to tie her story to yours.

Enrich your life with dieย deutsche Sprache | Letters

Joan Walley on how the efforts to promote the teaching of German in Stoke on Trent are bearing fruit. Plus letters from Veronica Hardstaff and Keith HaywardThe Goethe Institute is right to insist that the shocking decrease in the number of A-level stud…

Slovak education chief refuses to implement anti-LGBTQ+ measures in schools

“I absolutely reject any politicization of education,โ€ says Education Minister Tomรกลก Drucker.

UK ministers rule out joining youth mobility scheme with EU

Report that EU proposal on work and study for under-30s could be revisited is denied by governmentUK politics live โ€“ latest updatesMinisters have reiterated their opposition to any deal with Brussels allowing young people to live and work in EU countri…

Nigel Farage could be the real winner if Labour lets teens vote

The Reform UK leader is wooing young people just as Labour wants to lower the voting age.

Whatโ€™s driving Kamala Harrisโ€™ surge in the polls

Harris has made eye-popping gains with traditional, core Democratic base voters while also appealing to independents.