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Stijn van Kessel, a professor of comparative politics at Queen Mary University of London, said the narrative that Trump, Le Pen and Farage promote establishment conspiracies is so powerful because millions of voters in France and the U.K. feel like they have been conspired against too. Van Kessel said it wasn’t clear whether Farage and Le Pen would be able to use their troubles to invigorate their voting bases or suffer electorally. “Politicians such as Nigel Farage and Marine Le Pen have been able to fuel and tap into anti-immigration sentiments as well as this voter distrust,” he said. “There…
Updated: 08/07/2026 – 9:02 GMT+2 Marine Le Pen ally Fabrice Leggeri claims the National Rally presidential candidate will prove her innocence despite an appeals court upholding her conviction for the misuse of millons in EU funds on Tuesday. … More
BRUSSELS — Top European leaders attending a NATO summit in Ankara were given engraved pistols and live ammunition as a leaving gift. The elaborate firearms — and accompanying bullets and cleaning kit — were presented to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President António Costa on Wednesday by the host, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, two EU officials confirmed to POLITICO. A European Council official added that Costa’s security team took the weapon for checks. “We will follow the Belgian procedures to bring it to Belgium and then we will store it in line with the security requirements…
Published on 08/07/2026 – 14:34 GMT+2 Norwegian police said on Wednesday that 28 men across seven countries had been arrested in an operation targeting buyers of material depicting sexual abuse of children. Norway’s National Criminal Investigation Service (Kripos) said the men had used the cryptocurrency Monero to pay for access to several forums on the dark web. “We have worked closely with six countries to coordinate the arrests of the identified users who paid with cryptocurrency to gain access to the forums,” police prosecutor Terje Nedrebo Michelsen said in a statement. The operation had been carried out in early June…
Behind closed doors, Trump struck a more measured tone with his fellow leaders, according to two people in the room. He praised Poland, Germany and the Baltics for hiking their defense spending. Although he complained again about some countries spending too little, he did not mention Spain and kept silent on Greenland. Trump put his own spin on the dynamics. “If you could have seen the respect and the love in the room, and it’s love really for the country, for our country,” he said after the summit. “But they do, they like the job I’m doing. They said, ‘We…
Published on 08/07/2026 – 21:54 GMT+2 More than 6,500 people gathered at dawn in Bosnia and Herzegovina on Wednesday to set off on a march in memory of the victims of the Srebrenica genocide. They came from around the country as well as from abroad to pay tribute not only to the victims but also to those who walked for days to save their lives in July 1995. Ibis Husejnovic is here “to feel the pain, to feel the silence,” he explained. Raifa Duzic said she joined the march to “feel a small part of what those who have been…
“Let us be clear: FIFA’s decision to change the rule on red card suspension mid-tournament is a disgrace and perversion of justice,” said Renew MEP Barry Andrews, who wrote the letter. “Once again, we’ve seen Infantino and FIFA surrender to the demands of the Trump administration.” Despite Balogun taking part, the U.S. lost to a fired-up Belgium team, whose players mocked the U.S. President’s dancing after scoring their fourth goal in a 4-1 demolition of the host nation. The lawmakers argue that since FIFA imposes its ethics rules on the 27 member associations, they are similarly “bound by FIFA’s code…
US President Donald Trump offered NATO allies an unexpected warm embrace as they wrapped up a key summit on Wednesday after earlier lashing out at them over their response to his war on Iran. It was an abrupt swing from antagonism to affection within the space of a few short hours, illustrating the wide range of emotions exhibited by the mercurial US leader. “It was amazing, actually. The unity in that room was incredible, really a love, it was sort of pretty wild,” Trump told reporters after the closed-door meeting of 32 leaders at the NATO summit in the Turkish…
Published on 08/07/2026 – 21:09 GMT+2 US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would use his old Air Force One plane to leave Turkey after a NATO summit, sending his new Qatari-gifted jet on ahead to the UK. Trump said on his Truth Social network he was sending the new jet to Mildenhall airbase so that service members would have a “chance to tour the Aircraft.” “Everybody is so excited, and we thought that they should be the first. For old time’s sake, we’ll be taking the former Air Force One, from Turkey,” Trump added. But the switch from…
The export ban followed several days of Ukrainian strikes on Russia’s energy infrastructure. The timing is not great for Europe. Diesel markets have remained tight since March due to disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz amid the war in Iran. Russia is the world’s second-largest diesel exporter, and while the EU no longer imports Russian diesel directly because of sanctions, a squeeze on Russian exports is likely to ripple through global markets by increasing competition for fuel from elsewhere. That could sustain pressure on fuel costs for diesel-intensive industries on the continent. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday that Ukrainian forces…