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As the spring statement approaches and another senior figure departs the No 11 Treasury machine, can the chancellor find more money to appease the public and her party? Sam and Anne pore over the policy areas pushing for further cash – especially student loans and defence – despite Rachel Reeves insisting this isn’t a moment for increased spending. Over in the Lords, are the shutters about to come down on the assisted dying bill? Plus, does the US have the final say on whether the UK should sell off the Chagos Islands?

Published on 26/02/2026 – 9:24 GMT+1•Updated 9:56 German MEP Bernd Lange (S&D) made clear Thursday he would not bow to pressure to salvage the EU-US trade deal, arguing Washington has already broken it following last week’s Supreme Court ruling and President Donald Trump’s fresh tariff salvo. “Nobody can pressure me. I’m a European Parliament representative and the representative of the people,” Lange told Euronews’ flagship morning show Europe Today. “For us it’s crystal clear that the US really is breaking the deal,” he added. “If in the next week nothing happen, then we have to reflect about countermeasures, counter tariffs…

Streets in Uba and nearby Juiz de Fora remain covered in mud and debris after floods and landslides killed at least 46 people and left dozens missing. Residents have returned to clear shops and recover vehicles buried under sludge. Business owners in the area reported water levels reaching almost two metres, causing extensive damage to stock and premises. Rescue teams continue searching unstable areas, though hopes of finding survivors are fading as more rain is forecast this week. Authorities say thousands of residents have been displaced. The disaster adds to a growing series of extreme weather events affecting Brazil, where…

Published on 26/02/2026 – 8:54 GMT+1•Updated 9:00 South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook has been named as president of the jury for the 79th Cannes Film Festival, which will run from 12-23 May. The director of Oldboy, Stoker, The Handmaiden and No Other Choice is the first Korean, and the third Asian Cannes jury president, after Japan’s Tetsurō Furukaki in 1962 and Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai in 2006. “Park Chan-wook’s inventiveness, visual mastery, and penchant for capturing the multiple impulses of women and men with strange destinies have given contemporary cinema some truly memorable moments,” said festival President Iris Knobloch…

Good morning. I’m Mared Gwyn, back holding the newsletter pen this Thursday morning. Just in: Top EU trade lawmaker Bernd Lange has told Europe Today that it is “crystal clear” that the US is breaching the terms of the EU-US trade deal agreed on a Scottish golf course last summer. “Contrary to our goal to reach stability and predictability with the deal in Scotland, totally the opposite,” Lange said, adding that “for us, it’s crystal clear that the US is really breaking the deal.” “Now we have the normal tariffs plus ten or perhaps fifteen percent above. This means a…

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The European Commission is set to table a sweeping “One Europe, One Market” action plan at the March 2026 EU summit, with “Buy European” at its core. Politically, the idea is clear: use European taxpayers’ money to support European industry. But the economic situation is more complicated. The big picture Von der Leyen’s competitiveness roadmap, based on the Draghi and Letta reports, aims to complete the EU single market by 2027. It also redirects public procurement and industrial funding towards EU-based production in strategic sectors: defence, clean tech, chips, chemicals and automotive. The Commission describes this as Europe’s answer to…

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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has entered its fifth year after starting in February 2022. Over these four years, consumer energy prices across Europe have been heavily affected. Russia’s share of EU pipeline gas imports fell sharply from around 40% in 2021 to about 6% in 2025, according to the European Council, following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent wave of EU sanctions, embargoes and efforts to diversify energy supplies. Energy markets were already volatile before the invasion, but the war intensified the pressure. Prices have been more stable across the EU over the past two years. However, household electricity…

As the United States and China race to develop artificial intelligence (AI), American firm Anthropic is the latest company to sound the alarm that Chinese AI companies have been stealing the technology that could decide who wins. DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax secretly generated over 16 million conversations with Anthropic’s AI chatbot Claude, using more than 24,000 fake accounts, to harvest its intelligence and train their own competing models, the company alleges. OpenAI and Google have also warned about similar accusations at Chinese firms this month, raising fears that China is short-circuiting years of costly AI research. What is AI…