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Her comments add to existing pressure from military figures on new Prime Minister Andy Burnham, and his Chancellor John Healey, to commit to a target of 3 percent by 2030. Healey resigned as Keir Starmer’s defense secretary claiming the Treasury was moving too slowly on defense spending. He said at the time the U.K. should […]

Plus possible de se dérober : Edouard Philippe s’apprête à dévoiler enfin sa réforme des retraites, cinq ans après avoir promis qu’il était prêt à décaler l’âge légal de départ à 65, 66 ou 67 ans. Plusieurs fois repoussée, l’annonce est redoutée par son équipe. Encore plus depuis que le candidat Horizons se voit accusé […]

“I mean, look, I spoke to her but it is not traditional that she will stay the day after,” Metsola said Tuesday. “I think there was a lot of questions why, and I think that’s not up to me to judge.” Wilkinson, the Canadian ambassador, confirmed that Ottawa had made its preference clear. “I know […]

Members of the European Parliament voted Tuesday to waive the parliamentary immunity of far-right MEP Grzegorz Braun, who is facing Holocaust denial charges in Poland. Braun, who leads the ultranationalist Confederation of the Polish Crown (KKP) party, is accused of having denied the crimes of genocide committed by Nazi Germany in Auschwitz during a public […]

Reiche Länder müssen sich laut OECD noch weitere 20 Jahre lang auf Covid-Folgekosten einstellen – POLITICO Skip to main content

European Council President António Costa has promised the meeting — a rare two-day affair — will make significant headway on the budget, which he plans to have agreed before leaders break for Christmas. “The European Council will have a strategic discussion on migration,” the note goes on, as well as “a strategic discussion on enlargement […]

Security-Update: Russlands neuer Luftkrieg – mit Moritz Schularick – POLITICO Skip to main content

The roughly 30-kilometer-wide strait carries about 8.7% of global seaborne trade, according to UN figures, and links the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden and the wider Indian Ocean. The advance has coincided with a new wave of Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia. On Monday, the group said it had fired dozens of missiles […]

The European discussions on global cooperation will focus on work done at the G7, the G20 and the United Nations, one of the diplomats said. Last Friday, the European Commission’s top tech official, Executive Vice President for Tech Sovereignty Henna Virkkunen, called for global AI rules and cooperation. Virkkunen also pointed out that the EU […]

The ratification push is only one strand of Ottawa’s broader European courtship. In separate talks, officials are working to lock in cooperation on critical minerals, education, digital infrastructure and Arctic security, with a meeting in Montreal next month set to move them forward. The Canada-EU agreement, which entered provisional force in 2017, has not been […]