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The latest policy announcement from Burnham’s new government is a 20% tax break for pubs, clubs and live music venues. That means pubs could save an estimated £1,100 a year. Sam Coates and Anne McElvoy delve into the details and again ask, how will this be funded? The two also discuss Burnham’s communication style and if it might need more discipline now that he’s in No.10. This is in light of the new PM’s comments on a potential review of early prison release in England and Wales. The Foreign Office has withdrawn its remaining UK staff from Iran as Donald…
Published on 23/07/2026 – 8:00 GMT+2•Updated 8:39 On today’s show: Europe Today’s anchor Mared Gwyn interviews Latvian Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs about NATO, European security and the alliance’s future. Shona Murray reports on what a meeting between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov could mean for peace in Ukraine, and speaks to Colonel Martin O’Donnell, NATO’s senior military adviser. Luca Bertuzzi explains why the EU is set to fine Google for breaching the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). We also speak to Germany’s Minister of State for Europe, Gunther Krichbaum, about EU enlargement and…
On Tuesday morning, the official launch ceremony for Google’s Nuvem transatlantic submarine cable system took place at Lisbon’s Oceanarium. The project represents a new investment which, as Minister Delegate for State Reform Gonçalo Matias said in his speech at the event, aims to link “North America and Europe along a new digital corridor that crosses the Atlantic”. At a time when “around 95% of all the world’s data travels through submarine cables”, the minister explained, Portugal is stepping up to become one of the main players in a project that will be the first to connect the country directly to…
At the same time, Berlin planned a competition involving Boeing Defence Australia and its MQ-28; German startup Helsing and Hensoldt and its CA-1 Europa; and Airbus and U.S. manufacturer Kratos with their XQ-58 Valkyrie. A NATO flag flies at the organization’s headquarters in Brussels on Sept. 12, 2025. | Simon Wohlfahrt/AFP via Getty Images But a ministry assessment, seen by POLITICO, concluded that none of the available aircraft fully met Germany’s requirements. The MQ-28 would require modifications to perform the ground-attack mission Germany wants, and the head of the procurement agency questioned whether those changes could be completed by 2029.…
Lawmakers agreed to update air passenger rights on 15 June after thirteen years of negotiations. The deal adds new protections, including banning the no-show clause and clarifying compensation and reimbursement, and maintains current protections for flight disruptions. For two decades, airlines have avoided paying, leaving €3.2 billionunclaimed. Airlines contested claims and refused compensation. Consumer groups noted lengthy procedures, unclear policies, and confusing websites. Rights enforcement became a frustration for passengers. This gap allowed claims agencies to create a new business model, exposing the failure of EU rules to protect travellers effectively. “This failure has driven the growth of claim agencies.…
Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s recent visit to China attracted considerable attention worldwide, especially within business communities. Negotiations with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, a speech at the World Conference on Artificial Intelligence (WAIC 2026), and more than 70 commercial documents worth over $15 billion (€13.2 billion). The visit came at the time of booming cooperation between China and Kazakhstan. According to data cited by Tokayev at his meeting with Xi, bilateral trade last year reached a record €42.9 billion ($49 billion), cumulative Chinese investment reached €26.3 billion ($30 billion), and more than 8,500 Chinese-owned companies operate in the country. The…
The gender pay gap in the EU is real, and it is costly according to the numbers. Women’s gross hourly earnings are on average 11.1% less than men’s per Eurostat, meaning that for every €100 a man earns in the bloc, a woman only earns €88.9. Annualised, the gap becomes clearer as the average woman is paid almost €3,900 less than men a year in the EU according to estimates from the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), also based on Eurostat data. That means the 92.5 million women working in the EU are collectively losing more than €358 billion a…
While The New York Times crossword has been a staple in many households for decades, plenty of alternative games have captured our attention in recent years. Sporcle. GeoGuessr. Wordle. And if you consider yourself an AV geek and a geography nerd, we think you might just want to take a look at FlightQ. First launched in March, the flight and geography platform has numerous games aimed at those who love to travel. Like Wordle, which took the world by storm in 2021, some of the games have puzzles that are released daily, whereas others you can play continuously. Here are…
Friedrich Merz und Markus Söder einigen sich auf den engen Merz-Vertrauten Thorsten Frei als Nachfolger von Jens Spahn. Maximilian Stascheit über die anstehende Kabinetts-Rochade rund um womöglich Nina Warken im Kanzleramt und vielleicht Carsten Linnemann bald im Gesundheitsressort. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview ordnet Felix Schreiner, parlamentarischer Geschäftsführer der CDU/CSU-Fraktion, die Personalentscheidung ein. Er sieht in Frei den richtigen Mann, um die Fraktion als Stabilitätsanker der Koalition zu führen und Großprojekte wie die Wahlrechtsreform anzugehen. Ein autonomes KI-Modell von OpenAI bricht aus einer Testumgebung aus und macht sich an der Plattform „Hugging Face“ zu schaffen. Larissa Kögl von „Technologie & KI am Morgen“…
The United States and Saudi Arabia signed a nuclear agreement that would allow the kingdom to develop a civilian nuclear programme. The Trump administration did not release details of the deal, but the framework could potentially provide the kingdom with a facility that would allow Saudi Arabia to enrich uranium. US Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Saudi Minister of Energy Abdulaziz bin Salman formally signed the agreement, along with “bilateral safeguards” against non-proliferation. “These agreements reflect our two nations’ shared commitment to strengthening US-Saudi commercial relations, delivering prosperity at home and security to our allies abroad,” Wright said in a…