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Kruger added: “They don’t like politicians moralizing, but they do think that our politics and policy should reflect the culture of the country, which is actually quite traditionalist. That’s the tension that we’re in.” Public First’s Research Manager Jules Walkden said: “The public views ‘Judeo-Christian values’ as an important part of the country’s history, but not of modern-day politics. Reform’s move towards religious messaging is therefore unlikely to expand its base.” “A majority of the public, including Reform’s own supporters, oppose a greater role for religion in politics, with most voters also resistant to it being used as a political…
The move exposes a gap between political red lines in Brussels and messy national realities, where the far right’s rise is making it harder for mainstream parties to govern without them. Socialists in Brussels were unaware of the plans in Romania, according to two officials familiar with the matter, granted anonymity to speak frankly. Iratxe García, chair of the Socialists and Democrats (S&D), told POLITICO she expects its Romanian peers to work with pro-European forces in future. The 2024 EU election produced the most right-wing Parliament in the bloc’s history. The far-right Patriots group — home to France’s Marine Le…
Published on 27/04/2026 – 17:20 GMT+2•Updated 17:22 Around 20,000 seafarers on hundreds of vessels, including oil and gas tankers and cargo ships, have been stuck in the Gulf, unable to cross the Strait of Hormuz, according to the latest data. Normally about a fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas transits the waterway. Roughly 80 vessels passed through the strait in the week of 13-19 April, according to the maritime data firm Lloyd’s List Intelligence, compared to approximately 130 or more transits per day before the war. Dozens of ships have come under attack since the war started,…
Pope Leo XIV met with the first woman to lead the world’s Anglican Christians on Monday, the newly enthroned Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally, urging unity to evangelise more effectively. The papal audience at the Vatican comes in the 60th anniversary year of the first formal ecumenical statement between the Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches, signed in 1966 at St. Paul’s Outside the Walls basilica by Archbishop Michael Ramsey and Pope Paul VI. The visit, part of what Mullally called a four-day pilgrimage to Rome, is her first trip abroad since taking up her groundbreaking role last month as the…
Published on 27/04/2026 – 20:26 GMT+2 The man who authorities say tried to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner with guns and knives has been charged with the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump. He appeared in court on Monday to face charges after a chaotic encounter in Washington that resulted in shots being fired, Trump being rushed off the stage and guests ducking for cover underneath their tables. Cole Tomas Allen was taken into custody after the shooting on Saturday night and is being charged in federal court in Washington. Authorities say an officer wearing a bullet-resistant vest…
Tensions between Ukraine and Israel have grown as Kyiv seeks to prevent a vessel carrying grain allegedly stolen from Russian-occupied areas of the country from docking and unloading in the port of Haifa. Ukraine’s foreign minister said Kyiv had issued a summons for Israel’s ambassador to appear on Tuesday morning to present a protest note and request appropriate action. Andrii Sybiha said “friendly Ukrainian-Israeli relations have the potential to benefit both countries,” and reiterated that “Russia’s illegal trade with stolen Ukrainian grain should not undermine them.” “It is difficult to understand Israel’s lack of appropriate response to Ukraine’s legitimate request…
Published on 27/04/2026 – 20:56 GMT+2 US President Donald Trump called for comedian Jimmy Kimmel to be sacked for likening First Lady Melania Trump to an “expectant widow,” in a joke made days before a shooting at a dinner attended by the president. “Jimmy Kimmel should be immediately fired by Disney and ABC,” over the “despicable call to violence,” Trump said in a social media post on Monday, hours after Melania Trump also criticised the comment. “I appreciate that so many people are incensed by Kimmel’s despicable call to violence, and normally would not be responsive to anything that he…
BRUXELLES — Nuti Ivo, une tannerie italienne appartenant au groupe LVMH, a acheté des peaux animales à des entreprises paraguayennes liées à la déforestation, selon l’enquête de l’ONG Global Witness, alors même que son dirigeant tente d’obtenir des exemptions dans le cadre de la réglementation européenne contre la déforestation. Avec le soutien de députés et de responsables publics européens, l’industrie du cuir fait campagne auprès de la Commission européenne pour que ses nouvelles règles sur les importations de produits liés à la déforestation n’incluent pas de restrictions sur les peaux animales. Le secteur dit ne pas être responsable de la…
Published on 27/04/2026 – 19:20 GMT+2 The UN Human Rights Committee said on Monday that Sweden had violated the right to life of a child with severe disabilities by deporting him twice to Albania. The committee reviewed a complaint referring to E. B., an Albanian now aged 21, who was diagnosed with autism, grave mental developmental disorder, spastic diplegic cerebral palsy, hydrocephalus and epilepsy. He and his family arrived in Sweden in 2012 seeking protection and medical care but after years of unsuccessful asylum applications and appeals, they were deported to Albania in 2016, when he was 10. The family…