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Playbook Paris Live: Le Pen says von der Leyen trying to ‘bypass democracy’ with EU budget plans

“We can no longer provide financial assistance to Ukraine, and we regret that,” Le Pen said. Le Pen is the second presidential candidate speaking with POLITICO on Thursday. Centrist candidate Gabriel Attal kicked off the…

Poland says Starlink fire was sabotage

It didn’t cause significant damage and there were no injuries. Poland’s counterintelligence agency, ABW, and the police are investigating the incident. Operated by the state-owned telecoms company Exatel, the station…

Trouble in the Tropics: Terraformation as a Tool for Territorial Theft

The machines arrived without announcement or explanation. One day, they were simply there. Now fear is spreading among the indigenous species. It sounds like a pitch for a science fiction script: an alien species moves…

EU launches diplomatic offensive to stop Trump’s diesel export ban

Prices and supply have been further affected by strikes on Russian oil refineries. The United States is now the world’s largest exporter of diesel and has been setting new records for exports this year, according to…

South Lebanon’s Long Arc of Resistance

Decades earlier, on , during Operation Grapes of Wrath, an Israeli Apache helicopter fired missiles directly at a clearly marked ambulance in the southern village of Mansouri. Driven by Abbas Jiha, a local farmer and…

‘Activists are not as weird as we worry they are’

You might expect me to go into a series of jokes at the Lib Dems’ expense here. It’s the easy and – let’s face it, natural – instinct for a Labour partisan. But I think there’s a more interesting avenue to explore – the…

Tories would prevent long-term jobless spending benefits on alcohol and cigarettes

Under the party's proposals, claimants who have been unemployed for more than six months would see their Universal Credit cut by 30% if they have not previously paid enough into the system, despite being able to work.…

Citizens abroad and party strategy

It includes confident liberalism, modern campaigning, and reaching new communities. However, there is one notable exclusion. In fact, around five million notable exclusions: citizens abroad. The strategy talks about…

Maeve Halligan: When it comes to prediction markets, Britain keeps the credit and America keeps the cash

It has been two weeks since the now infamous advertisement featuring Sydney Sweeney first aired. To those of you who say you haven’t seen it, you are either lying to assert purity or living under a rock – I don’t know…

Trump’s diesel export threat meets a shrug in fuel-strapped Europe

This year U.S. imports have so far accounted for about 18% of Germany’s imports, according to industry association en2x. The United Kingdom, the biggest importer of American diesel in Europe at 108,000 barrels last month…