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Former Conservative chairman and friend of Boris Johnson — Sir Jake Berry — is defecting to Reform UK, causing more problems for Tory leader Kemi Badenoch. On today’s episode, Sky News’ Sam Coates and Politico’s Anne McElvoy discuss if his defection will divide parts of Reform policy. Elsewhere, the Anglo-French summit gets under way, with Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer hoping to announce a migration deal with French President Emmanuel Macron to deter small boat crossings. Plus, chatter around Whitehall that No10 are considering a pre-summer reshuffle, but will it have any value?
Third, finalize the new labor code. The current one dates back to 1971. Reform is essential — not just for EU accession but for unlocking flexibility, formality and fairness in the workplace. Technical assistance and public advocacy from international partners can help here. Finally, break down the systemic barriers to participation. This means scaling up access to childcare, improving workplace accessibility for those with disabilities and supporting underrepresented groups, from women and young people to the elderly and displaced. These changes are morally right, economically vital and should align with donor priorities. I’m proud to join that conversation, and urge…
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev are meeting on Thursday in Abu Dhabi, UAE, to discuss next steps in finalising the peace agreement, their offices confirmed. This is the first formal bilateral meeting between the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan since they agreed on the draft text of the peace agreement, following nearly four decades of conflict. The results of this meeting will ultimately shape the future of the South Caucasus not only because of what the two leaders agree upon, but also because of Russia being for the first time absent from the Armenia-Azerbaijan equation. Richard Giragosian, Founding…
In this sense, the stakes are reminiscent of when Jacques Santer’s Commission faced a vote of no confidence in 1999. The motion failed, but Santer and his entire team were forced to step down weeks later when the Party of European Socialists formally withdrew its support.The 2025 version carries faint echoes of those days: A center-left party is furious with the Commission president, and the specter of a scandal hangs over the proceedings. Guaranteed to fail But echoes don’t mean history will repeat itself. However angry they may be over von der Leyen’s rightward turn, the leaders of the liberal…
By Euronews with AP Published on 10/07/2025 – 5:35 GMT+2At least ten people were injured overnight into Thursday after Russia attacked Kyiv with another mass missile and drone attack, according to Ukrainian officials. The attack reportedly caused fires across the city and came a day after the heaviest aerial attack of the three-year war so far. Russia had fired more than 700 attack and decoy drones at Ukraine, topping previous nightly barrages for the third time in two weeks.Rescue workers worked on Thursday at a residential district in Kyiv’s Shevchenkivskyi District after falling debris caused a fire on the top floor of an apartment building,…
Während der Bundeskanzler in Rom über den Wiederaufbau der Ukraine spricht, greift Russland die Ukraine so unerbittlich an wie nie zuvor seit Kriegsbeginn. Hans von der Burchard und Gordon Repinski analysieren, was das für den Gipfel mit Giorgia Meloni und Wolodymyr Selenskyj bedeutet – und warum die Taurus-Frage dabei ein weiter verdrängtes Kernproblem bleibt. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview appelliert der ukrainische Botschafter Oleksii Makeiev an die Bundesregierung: Mehr Patriot-Systeme, mehr Druck auf Russland, mehr Tempo bei der Freigabe eingefrorener Milliarden – auch wenn die Taurus-Linie der Bundesregierung weiter hart bleibt- Innenpolitisch geht es um viel Geld: Der Investitions-Booster steht morgen zur Abstimmung…
As the European Parliament prepares to vote on a motion of censure against European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, the political fallout could be significant – regardless of the outcome, with the motion reigniting concerns about her leadership style, lack of transparency and political positioning.The motion was tabled by Romanian MEP Gheorghe Piperea and signed by 77 members from the right-wing political groups, including the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), Patriots for Europe, and the Europe of Sovereign Nations. At the heart of their criticism lies von der Leyen’s opaque handling of the EU’s Pfizer vaccine procurement and her…
On Wednesday, officials in Athens and Rome pointed the finger at Brussels and its diplomatic service while some of Brunner’s own colleagues inside the Commission admitted the EU side had messed up. The Greek government said it will continue its own talks with Libya and announced emergency measures to address the surge in arrivals on the island of Crete. Speaking to Greek media, Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis stressed that the Libya trip had been organized by the Commission and not by Athens. “There was an organizational bottleneck, which also led to a failure to adhere to diplomatic protocols,” he said.…
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is making the biggest gamble of his career to save his political skin, just as popular opinion — even in traditionalist, conservative strongholds — swings sharply against him. His goal? To bring the large Kurdish minority onto his side by ending Turkey’s most intractable political and military conflict that has killed some 40,000 people over four decades and has brutally scarred national life. His move? To give a place in Turkish politics to Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party or PKK, an organization long proscribed as terrorists by Ankara, the U.S.…
Prioritizing collaboration over compulsion To achieve lasting change, the instrument must provide mechanisms to unlock financial support for waste management infrastructure and innovation. With an estimated $2.1 trillion needed by 2040 to eliminate plastic leakage into the environment, it is imperative that we look for innovative ways to mobilize capital from a diverse range of sources. Every dollar of capital committed to the right project can potentially catalyze ten times that amount from larger institutions. Every dollar of capital committed to the right project can potentially catalyze ten times that amount from larger institutions. The Alliance to End Plastic Waste…