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However, he said that the party has “reverted to type” since it won control of the Welsh parliament, known as the Senedd, from Labour in May after 27 years in power. Labour has controlled the Welsh government since the introduction of devolution in the late 1990s. Kinnock said he believes Plaid Cymru’s “mask has slipped,” after its Leader Rhun ap Iorwerth met Scottish First Minister John Swinney and Sinn Féin Vice President Michelle O’Neill earlier this month to discuss greater cooperation on achieving independence. Opinion polling since Andy Burnham became prime minister in July suggests currently no one party would…
Published on 28/09/2026 – 14:11 GMT+2 Ukraine has cut its $27 billion (€23.7 billion) funding shortfall to $20 billion (€17.6 billion) through austerity measures, Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi said on Sunday, although he warned that it “remains an open question” how to plug the remaining gap. The spending cuts will affect areas including road repairs and cultural projects, while military salaries will be protected. “We are looking for optimisation and redistributing available sources to set priorities. The armed forces are the top priority for all of us,” Koretskyi said in an interview with the TSN news outlet, stressing that military…
The City of London is lobbying hard against a windfall tax on the banks, as Labour seeks to balance the books. Questioned on the departure from the U.K. of billionaire Chris Rokos — who pays £330 million a year in tax to the U.K. — Reynolds maintained that “we have to have rules.” “We want to create the very best conditions for growth, for entrepreneurship,” she said. “But we have to have rules, and people who make a living here should pay taxes here.” The Treasury minister would not be drawn on the government-wide budget, which will be announced in October,…
Published on 28/09/2026 – 15:09 GMT+2 The EU’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said European foreign affairs and defence ministers urged her and the EU executive to not to duplicate North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) protocol when developing a playbook to deal with hybrid threats. “Many stress that it has to be absolutely complementarity with NATO,” she said at a press conference following a foreign affairs council meeting in Brussels on Monday. “We don’t create anything additional, but this has to work hand in hand.” Kallas could not say how many of the 27 member states supported the anti-hybrid warfare…
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U.S. sanctions on the ICC, which is based in The Hague, would present it with numerous operational challenges such as paying staff, accessing IT services and maintaining its detention facilities. The blocking statute could protect the court by preventing European companies from complying with U.S. sanctions. German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul on Monday visited the ICC in a show of support. His appearance was notable given Germany’s otherwise stalwart backing for Israel. At a joint press conference with Wadephul, Dutch Foreign Minister Tom Berendsen called the blocking statute the “nuclear option,” the AP reported. The Dutch government has been in…
By Jean-Philippe Liabot & euronews Published on 28/09/2026 – 20:12 GMT+2•Updated 20:39 Jordan Bardella is at the centre of a new controversy in France after an article published by Mediapart on Monday alleged that the president of the hard-right National Rally (RN) party had made antisemitic remarks early in his political career. In the report, Mediapart alleged Bardella had made a number of antisemitic and conspiratorial comments in private conversations between 2013 and 2015. Bardella celebrated his 18th birthday on 13 September 2013 and would go on to become the National Front’s departmental secretary in Seine-Saint-Denis a year later. The investigative outlet said…
The pontiff chose Metz, a city long shaped by Europe’s shifting borders and conflicts, to honour Robert Schuman, the French Catholic statesman who became one of the architects of European integration after the Second World War. At a gathering titled “At the Roots of Europe for Peace and Unity”, Leo met European leaders and senior figures including confirmed Luxembourg Prime Minister Luc Frieden, Prince Albert II of Monaco, Grand Duke Guillaume of Luxembourg and former European Commission president Jean‑Claude Juncker. Macron, who had originally been scheduled to attend only Leo’s morning speech, also joined the Mass at Saint‑Étienne Cathedral and…
A sudden revival of the 1990s confrontations between Orange Order marchers and Catholic demonstrators puts the police back in the middle — and leaders of Northern Ireland’s supposed unity government on opposite sides. Sep 27 6 mins read
Pope Leo XIV left for Rome on Monday evening after a historic four-day visit to France that sparked huge enthusiasm. The American pope was escorted to the airport in the eastern city of Metz by President Emmanuel Macron, who saw him off after the pope wrapped up a trip that also took him to Paris and Lourdes. “We’re sad that he’s leaving, but happy that everything went well,” Macron said. On Sunday evening, Macron reversed an earlier decision not to attend the Pope’s final Mass at Metz Cathedral. He had not been present for any of the Masses held during…