Politics
Politics
European politics: the EU, Brussels, elections, governments and policy.
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Government failings allowed Covid 'to spread like wildfire' in care homes, inquiry finds
The sixth report from Covid inquiry criticises the lack of PPE and the way patients were discharged from hospital.
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UK to deploy jets to defend Saudi Arabia from Houthi attacks
The UK announces it will provide additional defensive military support to Saudi Arabia as Houthi attacks escalate in the region.

Europe’s €800bn defence spending splurge, yet it’s a seller’s market if the EU barely borrows together, and buys alone

MEPs resist 17% cut to EU foreign aid, instead seek €25bn top‑up

PM Babiš blames press for ANO election loss, renews calls to abolish license fees for Czech public media

Generation Z in France, Spain and Albania is trapped: study hard, stay poor, live with your parents. No wonder they’re protesting

Don’t be fooled. The AI that was supposed to save us time is doing just the opposite | Gaby Hinsliff

EU ministers seek balance between workplace rights and competitiveness in 21st century jobs act

Russia’s KOSMOS military satellite stalks Finnish spy satellite, in what could see the first strike in a Ukraine star wars (Ukraine Battlefield update, day 1,698)

Trump, Rubio and Hegseth are fumbling Ukraine, Europe needs to stop making the same mistake

Northern Ireland and Scotland schools sent hoax bomb warnings, officials say

Reform MSP quits party to sit as independent

'We tore it up': French looters brag online as minister admits police 'lost control'

Europe’s new Franco-German auto deal will protect combustion engines, not European jobs

Protesters block access to Louvre museum in Paris in support of demonstrations

Burnham says youth employment and training crisis is a 'moral failure'

Andy Burnham launches campaign against ‘headphone dodgers’ on public transport

Marine Le Pen warns of 'threat to democracy' and blasts 'exhausted Macronist power'

Pope Leo XIV after his hospital stay: "I feel closer to those who suffer illness"
