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Trump has targeted China and India with some of his steepest tariffs, recently upping India’s rate to 50 percent and citing its purchases of cheap Russian oil, which helps fill the Kremlin’s war chest. Speaking to an audience of around 20 leaders, including Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Xi said the SCO would promote a multilateral trading system. Set up in 2001, the group began with China, Russia and four Central Asian countries, as a counterweight to Western alliances such as NATO. It now has 10 full members and 16 countries that are partners and observers, among them Iran, Belarus and Myanmar.…

Across twenty-six islands, 29 port stops and about 1000 nautical miles (185 kilometres), two low- to zero-emission sailing boats have sailed in the Aegean and Ionian Seas as part of the “Seal Greece” campaign. The aim is to protect the Mediterranean monk seal, Monachus monachus, one of the world’s most vulnerable marine mammals. The voyage is being carried out by the Monk Seal Alliance and the Natural Environment and Climate Change Agency (OFYPEKA) of the Ministry of Environment and Energy. In Tinos, we met the expedition covering the Aegean Sea. This is the penultimate stop on their long journey. “On…

There was some logic to that gamble. As Le Pen is banned from running for office by an embezzlement conviction that goes to appeal only next year, why would she risk her parliamentary seat by potentially triggering an election? Wouldn’t she rather let Macron’s camp take the heat for painful financial cuts? That’s not how Le Pen saw it, however. Barely an hour after the announcement of the confidence vote, she vowed she would mobilize her forces to topple Bayrou, and blamed eight years of Macronism for threatening France’s survival. “Only dissolution will now allow the French people to choose…

France is bracing for potential disruptions on 10 September — two days after a planned no-confidence vote in the government — after calls for a nationwide shutdown by fringe online groups gained the backing of mainstream political parties. The viral push for mass demonstrations and an all-out boycott of services is seen as a response to deeply controversial austerity measures unveiled by Prime Minister François Bayrou in July, which would see two public holidays axed and social benefits and pensions frozen. It’s triggered a political crisis, with Bayrou’s government likely to be toppled in a no-confidence vote next Monday. The…

As MPs return to Westminster for a packed autumn term, will the prime minister be back with a bang? Sky News’ Sam Coates and Politico’s Anne McElvoy discuss Keir Starmer’s priorities as the so-called “reset week” begins. There’s chatter around No 10 of a staffing restructure but could this impact the government’s message and delivery of its missions? Back in the Commons, the home secretary will lay out the government’s plans to restrict family members from joining asylum seekers.

“The government’s approach is reductionist. They see the president as merely putting a face to policy or acting as a spokesperson, reading prepared instructions,” Radosław Fogiel, an MP for the populist Law and Justice (PiS) party that backs Nawrocki, told POLITICO. “Representing the country means something broader. The president, as the state’s representative, cannot be limited to a government spokesperson role,” said Fogiel, who is deputy chair of the parliamentary foreign affairs committee.  On Wednesday, newly elected right-wing President Karol Nawrocki will be at the White House. | Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images But the government is adamant that Tusk holds…

The stock takes put pressure on departments to get their ducks in a row, said people with knowledge of them, and give Cabinet ministers face-time with Starmer to press their most urgent requests — including getting No. 10 to lean on other departments. “The prime minister wants” are still among the most powerful words in Whitehall. There is continuity, too. Supporters of the PM point out that the missions themselves still stand, two and a half years after Starmer unveiled them. The Cabinet ministers leading them have all remained in their jobs. Starmer’s “Plan for Change” — which attached “milestones”…

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Die Fraktionschefs Jens Spahn (CDU) und Matthias Miersch (SPD) sollen die Koalition zusammenhalten – doch zwischen den ungleichen Politikern scheint es nur einen Burgfrieden zu geben. Vor dem Koalitionsausschuss am Mittwoch analysiert Gordon Repinski, warum es in der wichtigen Achse knirscht – und wie eine vorläufige Lösung aussehen könnte.Im 200-Sekunden-Interview: Magnus Brunner von der ÖVP. Zehn Jahre nach Angela Merkels „Wir schaffen das“ spricht der EU-Kommissar für Inneres und Migration über die Lehren aus der Flüchtlingskrise und was der neue Migrationspakt für Europa wirklich bedeutet. Außerdem: Westfälischer Frieden in Münster? Rasmus Buchsteiner über das angespannte Verhältnis zwischen Kanzler Friedrich Merz…

“These are major investments,” Blendi Klosi, the member of parliament who proposed the extension, told Albanian media. “This initiative benefits only a specific segment of the sector—those aiming to raise the industry to higher standards.”  The scheme has worked well. Several international brands, such as Marriott International, Meliá Hotels International and Radisson Hotel Group, have opened up, while U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is set to turn an Albanian island into a luxury retreat. Critics warn, however, that the beaches lack sufficient space to accommodate the visitors that such resorts would bring to the area, and that nature…