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“He says he wants to unite the country,” Farage said of Burnham. “A second referendum will divide the country bitterly in a way perhaps we’ve never seen before. “If Andy Burnham — the ‘King of the North’ — wants a fight in Doncaster and the Red Wall with me on rejoining the European Union, then bring it on, I say.” The choice of Doncaster for the speech was no coincidence. The northern city strongly voted to leave the EU, and lies in the so-called “Red Wall” that was once Labour’s industrial heartlands. “He might have just given me the biggest…
By Jean-Philippe Liabot & Andreas Rogal with AFP Published on 01/10/2026 – 20:15 GMT+2 A protest movement in France’s high schools intensified on Thursday, with students setting fire to bins and erecting blockades outside schools in an increasing number of cities. The students have been protesting overcrowded classrooms, teacher shortages and crumbling facilities. Several school principals have been injured, harassed or assaulted at high schools, according to reports from regional education authorities, prefectures and union representatives. Police have already detained hundreds of protesters at the lycées, which students aged 15 to 18 attend for their final three years of secondary education in France. There have…
Published on 01/10/2026 – 6:08 GMT+2•Updated 9:42 A US-led coalition deployed in Iraq more than a decade ago to fight extremists concluded its mission on Wednesday, a move celebrated by the country’s leaders and US President Donald Trump despite fears of emboldened pro-Iran armed factions. Coalition troops deployed to Iraq and Syria in 2014 to fight the so-called Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, which had seized large swathes of territory, committed massacres, and forced thousands of women and children into slavery. The group was defeated in Iraq in 2017 and in Syria in 2019, but coalition forces stayed…
Cet argument ne convainc pourtant pas Eric Coquerel. Pour le président de la commission des Finances et député LFI, si le gouvernement voulait réellement éviter de figer les choix budgétaires avant la présidentielle, il aurait pu opter pour une loi spéciale (soit la reconduction provisoire du budget précédent) et laisser le prochain pouvoir arbitrer. La nécessité d’un budget bis Cette “souplesse” mise en avant par le gouvernement présente toutefois des limites pour les grandes mesures fiscales. Contrairement aux gels ou aux mesures explicitement conçues pour pouvoir être modifiées par décret, les principales dispositions fiscales du PLF comme du PLFSS ne…
Published on 01/10/2026 – 20:15 GMT+2 Both when it comes to defence capabilities and industry capacities, Europe is in a very difficult position, Belgian Defence Minister Theo Francken told Euronews. He pointed to the bloc’s decades-long prioritising of soft power as one reason for this. His comments come as the European NATO members are ramping up defence spending and Brussels is rolling out policies to bolster the defence industry. While Francken sees progress being made, he warned Europe does not have all the capabilities it needs. “Europe has been very good at investing in soft power, in social security, and…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met passenger Yaniv Hayun at Ben Gurion Airport on Wednesday after the Flydubai flight he was travelling on was diverted to Saudi Arabia following a cockpit attack. Hayun was among the passengers who entered the cockpit and helped restrain the co-pilot after the captain was stabbed. Netanyahu hugged Hayun and praised him as a hero. The flight later arrived safely in Israel after the passengers were flown back from Saudi Arabia.
“There is obviously a tension between the right to asylum and 80,000 people appearing at the border of, for example, Ceuta,” one EU diplomat, granted anonymity to discuss the private talks, said ahead of Thursday’s ministerial. The EU also needs to discuss “what can and cannot be done” in an emergency without violating people’s rights, the diplomat said. “It’s a hard nut to crack.” “The need for having these kinds of emergency tools is pretty clear to us. The discussion is whether it should be on the EU level or more on the national level,” Sweden’s Migration Minister Johan Forssell…
By Andreas Rogal with AFP Published on 01/10/2026 – 23:01 GMT+2 The Danish Armed Forces have admitted to have made errors in their initial report on suspected drones of unknown origins that flew over the country in the autumn of 2025. In the run-up to a EU summit in Copenhagen at the beginning of October, drones had been sighted both above civilian and military air bases, causing heightened security measures, temporary airport shutdowns and a private drone ban. The sites affected included Skrydstrup air base — where Ukrainian pilots are trained on F-16 fighter jets. Following some scepticism about the official version of…
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By Andreas Rogal with AFP Published on 01/10/2026 – 20:55 GMT+2•Updated 20:58 Downing Street said Thursday that Manchester City were not “above the rules”, following criticism of British Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s comments about the case. In a statement, a No 10 spokesperson said: “As the prime minister made clear, the initial judgement is serious and there can’t be any suggestion that anyone is above the rules.” Burnham, the former mayor of Greater Manchester and an avid supporter of Everton, told the BBC on Wednesday he did not want to see the club’s Emirati owners walk away as a result of the case.…