Month: May 2026

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Things can’t only get better  It wasn’t always like this.  The last Labour prime minister to win big before Starmer was Tony Blair. When he came to power in 1997, the U.K. had a bigger economy than China’s, was a leading member of the growing European Union trade bloc, and was approaching peak oil and gas production in the North Sea. Blair led […]

Adding insult to injury, instead of approving the deal as negotiated, the European Parliament is now trying to rewrite it by tacking on four new amendments. These changes would include sunrise and sunset clauses, suspension mechanisms and safeguards that were never part of the original Turnberry deal. In plain English, Brussels is trying to move […]

The debate over Niebler’s immunity reveals the tensions between the Parliament and prosecutors, including EPPO, over who gets to decide whether lawmakers should be investigated. If the full Parliament backs the JURI decision — which seems likely given Niebler is a member of the EPP, the Parliament’s largest political group — it would prevent the prosecutors from […]