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In Britain, Nigel Farage’s hard-right Reform UK is also topping polls amid broad public dissatisfaction with Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour government. While POLITICO’s Poll of Polls shows that Germany’s conservative Christian Democrats maintain a slight lead over the AfD in an aggregation of voter surveys, the far-right party has climbed since snagging almost 21 percent of the vote in February’s federal election, its best-ever result. The AfD is now the largest opposition party in Germany’s Bundestag. The AfD was initially founded as a single-issue party more than a decade ago by a group of economics professors who, in the…
So far, about 110 million złoty (€25.8 million) have been paid out, leaving most of the program’s budget frozen. The HoReCa scheme, part of Poland’s long-delayed EU Covid recovery plan, was intended to help small tourism and hospitality businesses diversify after the pandemic. Brussels had withheld the wider recovery fund, worth €59.8 billion for Poland, for years over rule-of-law disputes with the previous government, making its eventual release a signature win for Prime Minister Donald Tusk after his 2023 election victory. But an interactive online map of recipients, published last week, instead lit up social media with eyebrow-raising purchases ranging…
The Philippine military has blamed China for the collision of two Chinese navy and coast guard ships while trying to drive the Philippine coast guard and fishermen from a disputed shoal in the South China Sea. In a statement on Tuesday, it said it would assess how to respond to Beijing’s use of military force against civilians. “Their actions not only posed a grave danger to Philippine personnel and vessels, but also resulted in the unfortunate collision between the two Chinese vessels,” the Philippine foreign ministry said in a statement. Philippine authorities said Monday’s accidental collision resulted in visibly heavy damage to…
“If today we leave Donbas, from our fortifications, from our reliefs, from the heights that we control, we will clearly open a bridgehead for preparing an offensive by the Russians. In a few years, Putin will have an open path to both the Zaporizhzhia and Dnipro regions. And not only that. Also to Kharkiv.” Trump said on Monday that a peace settlement would require “land swapping” done by both Ukraine and Russia, but did not specify which territories are on the table. “If it’s a fair deal, I will reveal it to the European Union leaders and the NATO leaders…
By Una Hajdari with AP Published on 12/08/2025 – 19:03 GMT+2 Evergrande, once China’s second-largest property developer and now the world’s most indebted company, said on Tuesday it will be delisted from the Hong Kong stock exchange on 25 August. The company, founded in 1996, grew on a wave of debt-fuelled expansion by aggressively borrowing to buy land and build projects. It later diversified into wealth management, electric vehicles, theme parks, bottled water and even a soccer club. Delisting in Hong Kong Evergrande was the world’s most heavily indebted real estate developer, with over $300 billion (€257.1bn) owed to banks and bondholders, when…
“I get nothing, no extra resources. They have listened to me, but apart from the 30 extra people at the FGP [Federal Criminal Police], I see nothing,” he said, highlighting a recent shooting in the district of Molenbeek on August 5. “It was 2 p.m., in the middle of the day. A bullet went through the windshield of a car where a mother and her 9-year-old child were sitting. She was nearly killed,” he fumed. “Are we going to wait until innocent civilians are killed before we get the necessary resources?”Moinil said current policy to tackle drug users was insufficient,…
China is severing all contacts with Czech President Petr Pavel over his meeting with the Dalai Lama last month, Beijing’s Foreign Ministry announced Tuesday. “In disregard of China’s repeated protests and strong opposition, Czech President Petr Pavel went to India to meet with the Dalai Lama. This seriously contravenes the political commitment made by the Czech government to the Chinese government, and harms China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity,” said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian during a press briefing.“China strongly deplores and firmly opposes this, and has lodged serious protests with the Czech side. In light of the severity of…
At least 100 Palestinians have been killed and more than 500 others injured over the past 24 hours as Israeli attacks continue across Gaza despite mounting international pressure and condemnation over its conduct of war. Eyewitnesses reported attacks in the north, near Gaza City, where Israel carried out an assault on Monday morning killing five Al Jazeera journalists which sparked a wave of criticism. The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry said that at least 69 people were killed in air strikes in various locations across the enclave, while 31 people were also targeted en route to collect aid at food distribution…
Published on 12/08/2025 – 16:43 GMT+2 If you are a boss using artificial intelligence (AI) to communicate with your employees, beware: your professional credibility may be at stake, a new study has found. AI is rapidly making its way into the workplace. In the European Union, 13.5 per cent of businesses with at least 10 employees reported using AI last year, compared to 8 per cent in 2023, according to Eurostat. And a 2024 survey by Microsoft and LinkedIn found that 75 per cent of knowledge professionals around the world used generative AI at work. While this shift can help…
Israel is facing mounting condemnation for its war on Hamas militants in Gaza, where it has reportedly killed nearly 61,500 people since October 2023. A violent attack by Hamas militants on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023 killed some 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and around 250 people were captured by Hamas and other groups and taken into Gaza, triggering retaliation from the Israel Defense Forces. Lahbib has emerged as one of the most outspoken critics among the EU’s College of Commissioners about Israel’s Gaza offensive, previously warning of a “man-made famine,” pressing for a ceasefire and unfettered humanitarian access.…