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Leah Downey is a junior research fellow at St. John’s College, Cambridge University and a visiting academic at the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute.  When British Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng announced his “mini-budget” to parliament on September 23, declaring his aim to achieve an economic growth rate of 2.5 percent, Prime Minster Liz Truss and her […]

Seventy years ago, in the wake of a devastating war, it was energy — specifically coal — that first brought European countries together to form a common market in the quest for peace.  Today, in a new era of war and geopolitical rivalry, it is energy once again — this time gas — that’s threatening to tear that […]

Paul Anderson is a former editor of and columnist for the weekly Tribune.  The British Labour Party’s annual conference, its big media showcase of the year, went off without a hitch in Liverpool late last month. It opened with a platform tribute to the late Queen by party leader Keir Starmer, followed (unusually for Labour) […]

LONDON — The U.K. should not be putting environmental issues at “the top of every single trade agreement” it signs, according to a senior government minister. Conor Burns, who returned to the Department for International Trade last month as Liz Truss became prime minister, told an audience at the Conservative Party conference this week that […]

Welcome to Declassified, a weekly humor column. There just isn’t enough petty revenge in international trademark law. If, for example, I was working for discount retailer Lidl — which, despite repeated job applications, has yet to happen — I would be planning retribution on a grand scale in the wake of the chocolate bunnies court ruling of […]

Call it the two faces of Viktor Orbán. In Budapest, the Hungarian leader and his government blame the EU for seemingly everything: EU sanctions are why your energy bill is high. The EU is why teachers make so little. The EU lied to Europe. “The Brussels bureaucrats and the European elites decided on the sanctions, […]

Listen on Spotify Apple Music Google Play EN_Google_Podcasts_Badge Created with Sketch. Stitcher Acast Host Ailbhe Rea goes behind the scenes at this week’s chaotic Conservative Party conference in Birmingham, with newly-installed leader Liz Truss already on the ropes. The conference saw Truss openly criticized by members of her own government and forced to U-turn on […]

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron swept to power in 2017 after running as an independent centrist who promised to be an ambitious reformer, including on ethics, following corruption scandals that had tarnished previous administrations. But events this week show he has given up on some of those promises. Two of Macron’s top allies in government are […]

Listen on Spotify Apple Music Google Play EN_Google_Podcasts_Badge Created with Sketch. Stitcher Acast This week’s EU Confidential comes to you from Prague Castle, where leaders of the EU’s 27 countries held a historic meeting with well over a dozen other nearby countries, including the United Kingdom, Turkey and Ukraine, among others. POLITICO’s Suzanne Lynch and our team […]

Leaders had a spring in their step as they exited the majestic surroundings of Prague Castle on Thursday night following the inaugural meeting of Europe’s newest diplomatic forum — the European Political Community.  The prospect of yet another talking shop — this one bringing together over 40 European leaders — had left many skeptical, but […]