Month: September 2022

Welcome to Declassified, a weekly humor column. The following is an exclusive extract from Liz Truss’ diary, found in a skip around the back of 10 Downing Street and taken from under the noses of journalists from the Sun. “AAAARRRGGGHHHH.” Look, we’ve all had bad experiences during the first few days of a new job. […]

MADRID — What a difference a half decade can make — at least in Catalonia. On October 1, 2017, the region’s nationalists staged a referendum on secession, their boldest move since the return to democracy four decades earlier. The vote — and the massive demonstrations that led up to it — reflected the unity and single-mindedness of […]

Iratxe García Pérez has served as the Leader of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats parliamentary group since 2019.  We all know the apologue of the frog and the boiling pot of water — if you throw a frog into boiling water, it will instinctively leap out; but if you let it relax in […]

Germany’s Federal Audit Court on Thursday sharply criticized the government for its plan to cap gas prices, implicitly accusing the government of bypassing debt rules with a €200 billion special fund to cover the plan. The condemnation came shortly after German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced the introduction of a gas price cap to serve as […]

With friends like these, does Liz Truss need enemies? Two of the U.K.’s top international allies — the United States and Germany — have taken potshots at the economic agenda being pursued by the country’s new prime minister, as markets reeled from her plan to go for debt-funded tax cuts in a bid to grow the […]