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Representatives from the CWU and ASLEF unions said they would come under pressure to disaffiliate from Labour if the government was to dilute its workers’ rights package. No. 10 has insisted dilution is not on the cards Sep 8 3 mins read

Equal treatment In a separate lawsuit filed mid-July, the Patriots accused the Parliament of bias and lack of impartiality after it ruled the party had misspent funds in a campaign in Czechia. The Parliament’s Bureau, composed of MEPs and tasked with taking decisions on administrative issues, ruled the Patriots should pay for that campaign with their own money and give back the EU funds spent on it, which came to €228,000. The decision violated “the principles of equal treatment and non-discrimination, as it deemed similar campaigns by other parties to be reimbursable,” the Patriot’s case document, seen by POLITICO, read.…

The foreign minister also alleged that Sánchez had moved to mobilize demonstrators a few days after the Spanish leader “lamented not having an atomic bomb to ‘stop Israel.’” Sa’ar was apparently referring to a speech on Sept. 8 in which Sánchez emphasized Spain’s small stature on the global stage. Madrid does not “have nuclear bombs, nor does it have aircraft carriers or large oil reserves,” the prime minister said at the time, adding that his country therefore “cannot stop the Israeli offensive.” The statement was part of Sánchez’s wider plea for the international community to work together to stop the…

The AfD won nearly 15 percent of votes in the state, coming in third place, according to the initial results. In the last municipal elections in North Rhine-Westphalia five years ago, the party won 5.1 percent of votes. In the city of Gelsenkirchen, a former center of heavy industry, the AfD candidate appeared set to face a center-left politician in a runoff for mayor. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) still came out clearly ahead of all other parties with 33 percent of the total vote, according to initial results. Merz’s coalition partners in the center-left Social…

“The National Rally is not up for sale to the highest Macronist bidder, as opposed to [the conservative] Les Républicains and the Socialists,” Bardella hammered home on stage. “We are not like them.”   On Saturday, Lecornu signaled his intention to seek out support within moderate groups on the left in a wide-ranging interview with local newspapers, extending several entreaties and ruling out “a political deal” with the National Rally.  In private, Le Pen and her top lieutenants have likened a potential agreement between Macron’s camp and the Socialists to a mutual kiss of death.   While the far-right leader…

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On Saturday, two Romanian F-16 fighter jets spotted a Russian drone over Romanian territory while doing a scouting exercise to monitor Russian airstrikes across the border in Ukraine. Romania’s foreign minister slammed the incursion as “unacceptable and reckless.” No damage or injuries were reported, Romania’s defense ministry said in a statement. “We stand in solidarity with Romania,” Kallas said. “I am in close contact with the Romanian government.” In the previous Russian incursion into Poland, five drones had been on a direct flight toward a NATO base before being intercepted by Dutch Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jets. The incursion in…

Musk’s comments are the latest in a war of words with the British government. He has been a vocal critic of the U.K.’s Online Safety Act, which he says threatens free speech, and has attacked Downing Street’s handling of grooming gangs. “I really think that there’s got to be a change of government in Britain,” Musk said Saturday. “We don’t have another four years, or whenever the next election is — it’s too long. There’s got to be a dissolution of parliament and a new vote held.” This isn’t the first time Musk has talked about violence in Britain. Last…

“It is always in times of deadlock and tension that our country has moved forward,” he said. “My state of mind is simple: I want neither instability nor immobility.” Lecornu is doing his best to distance himself from the budget cuts that François Bayrou tried and failed to push through the French assembly, leading to his downfall on Sept. 8. France is trying to rein in its spending to reduce its debt pile of €3.3 trillion and a budget deficit equal to 5.4 percent of the country’s economic output. But a split legislature has brought French policymaking to a standstill,…

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