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Among the 33 proposals — all of which Merz promised to implement rapidly — are a mandatory capital-funded pension savings scheme modeled on the Swedish system and a link between the retirement age and average life expectancy, under which the retirement age would rise by about six months each decade from 2032. “The retirement age will be 70 years old starting in 2092 at the earliest,” a summary of the report reads. The reform is one of a series of urgent, long-delayed measures — spanning tax policy, pensions and long-term care insurance — that Merz and the leaders of his…
Published on 23/06/2026 – 11:08 GMT+2 Two Labour MPs are considering mounting a challenge for the party’s leadership after British Prime Minister Keir Starmer resigned on Monday. Former Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham is widely seen as the frontrunner to take over as Labour leader. But ex-minister for the armed forces Al Carns and Darren Jones, the PM’s chief secretary, are said to be lining up challenges in order to prevent Burnham winning without a contest. They would each need support from 81 MPs in order to challenge Burnham. Speaking on ITV’s Peston political show on Monday, Carns, a former marine…
In less than a month, Britain is set to get its seventh prime minister in a decade. And, barring a political earthquake, it’s all but certain to be Andy Burnham. But several questions remain about what the King of the North really stands for – he now has just over three weeks to turn a by-election victory into a policy platform to govern the country. Sam Coates and Anne McElvoy look at the fading prospect of challengers and likely coronation. Can Burnham really steady the ship 10 years on from the Brexit referendum? With the battle for No 11 well…
By Alessio Dell’Anna & video by Léa Becquet Published on 23/06/2026 – 9:55 GMT+2 Few things could have better symbolically marked 10 years since the Brexit vote — and the chaos that followed — than the departure of yet another British prime minister. Sir Keir Starmer is the sixth to leave office since the 23 June 2016 referendum, a vote that reshaped UK politics and sent shockwaves across Europe. A decade of political bitterness and turmoil followed, leaving both of the UK’s traditional heavyweight parties badly scarred. The centre-left Labour Party is struggling to find its footing after winning the 2024 election. Meanwhile,…
Europe has an empty space problem and a severe housing crisis at the same time. Despite shortages of affordable housing across the bloc, one in three people in the EU live in homes with spare bedrooms, according to Eurostat. The figures highlight a mismatch between housing supply and household needs, as well as stark differences in housing patterns across Europe. Under-occupation refers to homes that are larger than their occupants need, typically because they have more bedrooms than required. It is the opposite of overcrowding and is often linked to older people continuing to live in family homes after their…
Within a year of achieving a historic victory, Labour had fallen behind Nigel Farage’s populist Reform UK in the polls, and proceeded to lose local and regional elections as well. For Labour MPs it became impossible to ignore the rage of a more fickle electorate, whose dynamics had been shaped by the Brexit debate. While Europe is no longer a particularly salient issue for most voters, the split into pro- and anti-Brexit blocs, on the right and the left, is still shaping elections, according to a recent study. At the same time, voters, it seems, have less patience with their…
Published on 23/06/2026 – 9:00 GMT+2 Yet, while numbers can rarely capture the raw complexities of what we want, they carry an inescapable weight when a referendum locks them into law. 10 years later, the Brexit debate, like it or not, is still alive. A landmark study by Ipsos, in partnership with the Policy Institute at King’s College London, and UK in a Changing Europereveals a public deeply conflicted. Today, 48% of Britons state Brexit is going worse than expected, compared to just 9% who view it as a success (“believing Britain’s exit from the EU is working out better”).…
All eyes are on Spain (and Iceland… and Greenland…) this summer as the country is set to see a total solar eclipse in August. And if you’re looking to experience the celestial event in swish digs, you might just want to book yourself a stay at the newly opened Mandarin Oriental Punta Negra, Mallorca. Located in Calvià on the island’s southwest coastline, you won’t be able to see the eclipse from the hotel itself, according to the Visit Palma website. You can, however, book yourself in for one of the hotel’s ultra-exclusive eclipse experiences. Just 15 people will get to…
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Published on 23/06/2026 – 8:01 GMT+2 On today’s show: Euronews’ Mared Gwyn Jones reports on the resignation of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, examining the political fallout in Britain and what his departure could mean for relations with the European Union. Euronews’ Jakub Janas looks at how public attitudes towards Brexit have shifted a decade after the UK voted to leave the EU and asks whether Britons would make the same choice today. Euronews’ Sasha Vakulina explains why relations between Poland and Ukraine continue to deteriorate after a dispute over historical memory escalated into a diplomatic crisis between Warsaw and…