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British Council’s £197m debt should mostly be written off, MPs say

The Commons public accounts committee said the government lacked a "positive vision" for the council, whose soft power value to the UK is put at £1bn a year. The MPs called on the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development…

Elif Eralp und der Palästina-Sumpf

Drohen in Deutschland bald französische Verhältnisse? Im 200-Sekunden-Interview warnt der hessische Innenminister Roman Poseck vor einer Eskalation der bundesweiten „Gen Z regelt“-Proteste am Wochenende. Er erklärt, wie…

How Ireland plans to beat the data center backlash

“You're giving one industry permission to expand at a very significant rate, saying it’s no problem because you need to build renewables, but that actually will reduce the share of renewables on the system as a whole.”…

5 things Westminster doesn’t know about the UK economy (but probably should)

“In recent years, falling response rates have significantly affected the quality of the LFS, making it more difficult to estimate reliably the number of workers and the hours they work,” the watchdog said. Gilbert says…

Inside America’s midterm election battle

With the outcome set to have consequences far beyond Washington, from trade to defense, we’re bringing you a special episode of The Conversation , hosted by POLITICO’s Dasha Burns. Dasha sits down with two political…

Britain by numbers: everything we don’t know about the country

So this week on Westminster Insider , Sascha and Pat look into the numbers behind Britain’s economy — and just how much government policy is really made up of guesswork, rather than solid measurements. Sascha talks to Dr…

Got beef? When politics meets meat

Trump this week poked fun at James Talarico, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas, saying he was absent from the campaign trail after being “food poisoned by meat ’cause he can’t stand it.” Talarico has, in…

Who’s afraid of whom in Brussels?

Spare a thought, too, for the MEPs who may have to vote through the amendments one by one, with hands raised in plenary. Commission officials are scared of Austria’s Europe minister Well-heeled Commission officials (and…

Burnham tries to avoid a slavery reparations ‘disaster’

Judah suggested this would improve attendance at CHOGM, which is often patchy; India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi does not plan to attend next week’s summit, for example, though there will be a delegation led by…

The debate over membership semantics became a luncheon laugh line when European Council President António Costa endorsed Von der Leyen’s offer to Canada before joking the final designation is “subject to revision” EU…