Ursula von der Leyen’s State of the Union speech is just the most recent example of turning a blind eye to the EU’s own budding autocrats and the EU's democratic deficit more broadly (Photo: European Parliament) Unsurprisingly, the State of…
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The head of Sweden’s Moderate Party, Ulf Kristersson, said on Wednesday (14 September) he would begin consultations to form a new government after Prime Minster Magdalena Andersson conceded her Social Democrats had lost the weekend’s general election. The Moderates, Sweden…
The Biden administration had adopted a policy excluding all evidence obtained through torture; the prosecutor argued the law allowed it. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read…
The House will take up legislation intended to curb stock trades by members of Congress that can create real or perceived conflicts of interest. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have
Set-piece speeches are the political equivalent of eating a packet of biscuits in one sitting: It feels good at the time, but you feel hungry and bloated an hour later. Ursula von der Leyen’s Wednesday State of the Union speech…
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The decision by Ukrainian state-owned atomic energy agency Energoatom to shut down the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) on September 11 averted much of the risk of a nuclear disaster in Ukraine from Russian shelling of the plant, but it…
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen gave her backing for a constitutional convention to reform the EU treaties in her State of the Union speech on Wednesday (14 September), insisting that leaders must be ‘serious’ about EU reform. Addressing…