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By the time you read this, Sir Kier Starmer will ... still be prime minister of the UK. But only just. And not for long.
Probably until this autumn, in fact. But that's only because his enemies (by which I mean his own Labour MPs and cabinet ministers, not the opposition Conservatives) have nobody lined up to replace him.
I write this before polling stations close across England, Scotland and Wales, for huge local elections to councils, and to the two national parliaments in Edinburgh and Cardiff. (Which I wrote about before, here).
Labour is expected to be wiped out across the north of England by the far-right racists of Reform (Nigel Farage's new-ish latest party), and by the newly-resurgent and genuinely leftwing Greens in London...
Less than a month after the historic defeat of Viktor Orban, events are moving at speed. A billionaire backer of the propaganda ministry breaks down in tears on television, 65 percent of polled Hungarians think Orban should be on trial, an Orban-supporting news programme closes, plus a clash of parties celebrating the new parliament in Budapest.
EU aims to fund “volunteer first-responder teams” in the West Bank to deter settler violence, as EU foreign ministers prepare to blacklist more settler extremists.
A veteran watchdog of the rule of law in Hungary, German Green MEP Daniel Freund warns that Slovakia is now going down a similar path. He said the EU Commission must trigger the conditionality mechanism immediately to protect EU taxpayer money from being funnelled into private interests, to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past.
The London-based oil major reported adjusted earnings of €6.1bn, beating market expectations and doubling last quarter’s results. The chief executive defended the results as showing Shell’s “relentless focus on operational performance.”
MEPs are still to agree their final position on the trade agreement with the US — despite pleas from the bloc’s top trade negotiator for a ‘breakthrough’.
The EU’s embrace of US ‘identity politics’ has helped create a culture war that has polarised politics and debate across the bloc, contends Frank Furedi.
The EU-Mercosur deal spoke of “alignment of production standards,” but animal welfare groups said it risked promoting intensive animal farming in Latin America.
There is no energy crisis in the world, and experts do not expect one in the near future, regardless of the fact that the Persian Gulf may remain closed for quite a long time, says Mikhail Krutichin.
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