Brexit secretary denies UK seeks Article 50 extension
Theresa May’s government is not seeking to extend Article 50, according to U.K. Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay. Asked three times if he denied a report in the Telegraph that U.K. officials are...
View ArticleSuspicious packages delivered to European, US Consulates in Australia
SYDNEY — Suspicious packages containing white powder were sent to embassies and consulates in Canberra and Melbourne Wednesday. Police, fire crews and ambulances attended the Melbourne missions of...
View ArticleLabour will put forward no-confidence motion if May loses Brexit vote
The U.K. opposition Labour Party would put forward a vote of no confidence in Theresa May’s government under the Fixed Terms Parliament Act if she loses the “meaningful vote” on her Brexit agreement...
View Article3 UK ministers threaten to quit over no-deal Brexit
Three Remain-supporting ministers today threatened to quit the Conservative Party if Theresa May doesn’t rule out a no-deal Brexit, with others reportedly ready to join them. “We will have no choice...
View ArticleLabour’s Keir Starmer: Remain should be on ballot in second Brexit vote
Any second referendum in the U.K. should be a straight choice between “a credible Leave deal or Remain [in the EU],” Keir Starmer, the opposition Labour Party’s shadow Brexit secretary said Tuesday....
View ArticleHouse votes to block Trump’s national emergency declaration
WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives voted Tuesday to overturn President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration, delivering a harsh rebuke to the president’s attempt to go around Congress...
View ArticleIranian president rejects Mohammad Javad Zarif’s resignation: report
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani rejected Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif’s resignation on the grounds of national interests, according to local media. “As the Supreme Leader [Ali Khamenei] has...
View ArticleEstonia’s opposition Reform party wins election
Estonia’s center-right Reform party beat Prime Minister Jüri Ratas’ governing center-left Center party, securing 28.8 percent of the vote and 34 seats in Sunday’s general election. Ratas’ party, which...
View ArticleFrench minister: No-deal Brexit could stoke anti-British sentiment
The U.K. crashing out of the EU without a Brexit deal could create “bitterness between nations,” with “British-bashing in France and French-bashing or European-bashing in London,” warned France’s...
View Article‘Unreal’ Brexit fears ‘put to bed’ by late-night deal, says Varadkar
Fears that the EU intends to trap the U.K. in the Northern Ireland backstop are “unreal” and can be “put to bed” by the add-ons to the Brexit deal agreed late last night in Strasbourg, said Irish Prime...
View ArticleBarry Gardiner: Labour to whip MPs to rule out no-deal and no-Brexit
Labour Party MPs will mostly get free votes in today’s House of Commons votes on a series of alternative Brexit plans, but are likely to be whipped to vote against a no-deal scenario or revoking...
View ArticleRomania indicts former anti-corruption chief Kövesi: reports
Romania on Thursday indicted on corruption charges Laura Codruta Kövesi, a candidate to be the first-ever EU public prosecutor, meaning she cannot travel abroad, according to media reports. Romania’s...
View ArticleEU soft power fills space for US tech giants
While the EU battles American tech giants on earth, it helps them with free data beamed down from orbit. Brussels pitches its Copernicus Earth observation space program as a force for global good,...
View ArticlePOLITICO Westeros Playbook: Who’s Jonny? — Night King’s landing — Cersei you...
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View ArticleAustralia’s secret US refugee deal faces blowback from victims, Kiwis
SYDNEY — Revelations that Australia resettled Rwandans accused of murdering tourists after the U.S. agreed to take in refugees being held in Australia’s controversial offshore refugee centers are...
View ArticleAustralian PM confirms secret Rwandan guerilla deal
SYDNEY — The Australian prime minister confirmed his country resettled two Rwandans accused of murdering tourists two decades ago in a secret deal revealed by POLITICO Thursday. “They’re in Australia,”...
View ArticleJuncker lashes out at ‘stupid nationalists’
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker called out “stupid nationalists” in an interview Wednesday, on the eve of the European Parliament election. “These populist, nationalists, stupid...
View ArticleRomanians reject criminal code reform
Romanians overwhelmingly voted “No” in Sunday’s non-binding referendum on whether the government should be allowed to offer pardons and amnesty in corruption cases, and on the broader powers...
View ArticleJeremy Hunt: Tories would be ‘annihilated’ in pre-Brexit general election
The Conservative Party would be committing “political suicide” if it tried to force through a no-deal Brexit this autumn as that would trigger a general election it would lose, Foreign Secretary Jeremy...
View ArticleTory leadership hopefuls line up to fix Brexit
Tory leadership hopeful Rory Stewart says a citizens’ assembly of 500 members of the public paid to sit seven days a week could draw up a Brexit withdrawal deal palatable to the U.K. parliament. “If we...
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