The remarks show how the mood has changed across the bloc on the potential pact it hopes to agree with the Donald Trump administration. Brussels at first trashed the agreement that London struck with Washington, but now the EU is coming to terms with the prospect that keeping a 10 percent baseline tariff is the…
1 p.m.: Durham is proper Labour heartland territory. Until 2021, the party had controlled the county for a century. After mopping up every seat here in the general election, this was seen as Labour’s best chance of regaining control of a council. But Farage has been campaigning hard here personally and hopes to make real inroads….
Prada presented its womenswear ready-to-wear fall-Winter collection at Milan Fashion Week in February – Copyright AFP/File ADEK BERRY Data consistently show that women are underrepresented at all levels of decision-making worldwide and that achieving gender parity in political life is far off. Yet some nations are doing better than others. Which are the most female-empowered…
The remarks come as the U.K. government pushes for a trade deal with the Trump administration to try and ease tariffs placed on the U.K. and other global economies last week. The U.S. imposed a baseline tariff of 10 percent on all U.K. imports, as well as a 25 percent tax on vehicles and steel…
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The LGBTQ+ community won’t back down. Pride began as a rebellion and that spirit is still very much alive today. Although the current political administration is trying to take down the LGBTQ+ community, queer celebrities and allies are rising up and reminding everyone to stay strong even in the face of fear. Big names from…
Storm ahead There is still time for Starmer to become either of them. He left the White House under dark clouds — literally — and unanswered questions. Aides later clarified that despite Trump speaking of a trade deal, they were not prioritizing a full-fat free-trade agreement, long coveted in London after Brexit. Starmer, on the…
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The results from Germany’s most consequential election in a generation are still coming in, but Friedrich Merz’s conservative CDU/CSU is projected to win the biggest share of the vote and the most seats in the new Bundestag. In a post on social media — written entirely in capital letters — Trump did not mention either…
Across Ukraine, local politicians were candid in their opinions of Trump’s attacks. “We may like Zelenskyy, or we may not, we may scold him, or we may praise him, we may condemn his actions, or we may applaud them … because he is OUR President,” Borys Filatov, mayor of the industrial city of Dnipro, wrote…