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LONDON — The Liberal Democrats have already selected a raft of prospective parliamentary candidates in their target seats for Britain’s next general election, as part of a wider move to ready the centrist party for a potential return to government. Over the past month, Britain’s pro-EU liberal party quietly picked 28 candidates and built three-person activist teams around each of them. It’s a move that lays the groundwork for the next election — not currently due until 2029 — and marks the earliest in a cycle that the country’s third-largest party has ever picked candidates. POLITICO spoke to 12 Lib…
Mexican football fans celebrated late into the evening on Thursday after the national team opened its 2026 World Cup campaign with a victory over South Africa. Supporters gathered at fan zones across Mexico City, including the iconic Plaza Garibaldi, where crowds cheered, waved flags and performed the Mexican wave as the hosts secured their first win of the tournament. Fans inside and outside Mexico City Stadium also joined the celebrations after Mexico scored twice to claim all three points in the Group A opener.
SpaceX is set for the largest stock market debut ever. Elon Musk’s rocket company begins trading on the Nasdaq on Friday under the ticker SPCX. The company priced its shares at $135 each, raising $75 billion (€64.5bn) and valuing the business at $1.75 trillion (€1.5trn) in the biggest stock market flotation on record. The deal would comfortably eclipse Saudi Aramco’s previous record of $29.4bn, set in 2019 and later increased through an overallotment option. SpaceX made an unusually strong push to attract retail investors, including those in Europe. According to Bloomberg, individual investors placed roughly $100bn (€86.6bn) in orders through…
Donald Trumps aggressive Iran-Rhetorik sorgt für Nervosität an den Märkten und treibt die Ölpreise sowie die Inflation nach oben. Damit manövriert sich der US-Präsident mitten in ein wirtschaftspolitisches Dilemma: Eigentlich fordert er vor den Midterms im November dringend Zinssenkungen, doch der anhaltende Inflationsdruck zwingt die Notenbanken zum Gegenteil. Rixa Fürsen bespricht gemeinsam mit Jonathan Martin in Washington, ob Trump seine eigene Wirtschaftspolitik torpediert. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview: Der innenpolitische Sprecher der Union, Alexander Thom, zur Frage, ob die Reform des Gemeinsamen Europäischen Asylsystems ein echter Game Changer oder nur ein Weiter-so unter neuem Namen wird. Nach dem Fiasko um die gekippte Entlastungsprämie…
The two Brazilian mainland cities closest to Europe are making the most of this geographic advantage to attract a growing number of international visitors, thanks to air links with capitals such as Madrid, Lisbon and Paris. Less than eight hours from the Spanish capital, travellers can enjoy Fortaleza’s skyline of skyscrapers, which looks like a cross between Miami and Benidorm. The tall towers along the seafront give the city a modern urban profile that combines with the long coastal promenade (Beira Mar), in a tropical, holiday atmosphere that encourages you to make the most of the outdoors. Fortaleza: 300 years…
Forty years ago, on June 12, Spain formally anchored its future to the European Union. As the tremors of the 1979 energy crisis subsided and our new institutions dismantled decades of isolation, the European project was met with fierce optimism. For a generation born under a dictatorship but coming of age in freedom, integration unlocked unprecedented horizons, offering groundbreaking educational opportunities and pathways to global employment. Today, it is our responsibility to deliver that same level of opportunity to a new generation. Spain boasts the most educated youth in its history, yet faces one of the highest youth unemployment rates in Europe.…
Listen on Spotify Apple Music Amazon Music Across Europe, political instability, fragmentation and polarization are increasingly becoming the norm. But how are governments tackling these tensions? On this episode of the Brussels Playbook Week Ender, host Sarah Wheaton and her guests hone in on three countries: France, Greece and Denmark. Dialing in from Paris and Athens are our colleagues Clea Caulcutt and Nektaria Stamouli, and Jakob Moroza-Rasmussen, former secretary general of the centrist ALDE European political party, joins Sarah in the studio where he talks about his native Denmark.From the EU farm funds scandal in Greece, to the upcoming 2027 presidential election in France…
Published on 12/06/2026 – 2:58 GMT+2 Anthropic’s launch of a version of its artificial intelligence model that it previously claimed was too powerful to release has garnered excitement as well as criticism over the cost. Called Fable 5, which some are calling “Mythos Lite”, it is included in the Claude subscription but only until June 22. Users will then have to pay full price, which some online have said is too expensive. “A few prompts just to test it out and it ate 5% of my monthly allowance… I have no reason to use this without a trust fund,” one…
Embattled U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is looking for a clear policy win as he fights to stay in office. The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology’s (DSIT) wide-ranging “national conversation” on growing up in the online world wrapped up less than three weeks ago and attracted more than 116,000 submissions, a level of engagement not seen since the then-Conservative government proposed legalizing gay marriage back in 2012. 89 percent of parents who responded backed a “legal requirement for social media services to be a minimum age of access,” according to a transparency release last week. As recently as Tuesday, DSIT official William Jones told a Family…
Published on 11/06/2026 – 9:21 GMT+2 Police deployed a water cannon against protesters in Northern Ireland on Wednesday as violence continued following a knife attack in Belfast earlier this week. Anti-immigration demonstrators, many dressed in black and wearing masks, gathered for a second night, hurling bricks and bottles at officers and setting vehicles and bins alight despite pleas for calm from authorities. Disorder broke out across Northern Ireland and Scotland on Tuesday night after graphic video footage emerged of the attack. It showed a man straddling another man in the middle of a street as he slashed at his face…