House Committee Takes Step Toward Potential Release of Trump’s Tax Data
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Frank Shakespeare, TV Executive Behind a New Nixon, Dies at 97
He helped dispel the candidate’s stiff image for the 1968 presidential campaign and then led U.S. government broadcasting efforts overseas under Nixon and Reagan. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have
Austria pushes for fences at Bulgaria-Turkey border
Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer is pushing for joint EU funding of a fence at the Bulgaria-Turkey border ahead of the Swedish EU council presidency, as migration remains a hot topic in the bloc. Ahead of a key local election in…
German youth to take biggest hit amid medicine shortage
As key medicines, including antibiotics, fever drugs, and painkillers, are becoming scarce in German pharmacies, doctors warn that children and teenagers could be hit hardest. According to the Federal Agency for Drugs and Medical Devices, the shortages are exclusively due…
French GDP predicted to decline slightly by end of year
French economic activity is expected to fall by 0.2% in the fourth quarter of 2022, according to the French public statistics institute, but insisting that it will not lead to a recession. In a report published on Thursday, the French…
The not-so-soft killing of the EU’s Farm to Fork strategy
It would be a slap in the face of the 1.1 million EU citizens that signed the official European citizen initiative 'Save Bees and Farmers initiative' (Photo: Dearbhlaith Larkin & Felipe Guapo, Carolan Lab Research Group, Maynooth University, Ireland) When…
Belgian PM calls for coordinated EU response to IRA, energy crisis
Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo called for an EU response to high energy prices and the US Inflation Reduction Act on his arrival at the EU summit in Brussels on Thursday. As European industry is trying to cope with…
Court strikes down DUP stance on customs checks
The move by Northern Irish Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots to suspend import checks on goods entering the territory from Great Britain was illegal, the High Court ruled on Thursday. In February, Poots, the former leader of the Democratic Unionist Party…
Frontex interim director under investigation
Aija Kalnaja, the interim head of the EU’s border guard agency Frontex is under investigation by the EU anti-corruption watchdog (OLAF), it was confirmed to EURACTIV on Friday (16 December). The European Commission and member states were informed of the…
Swedish far-right migration minister attend press conference together for first time
The Deputy party leader of the far-right Sweden Democrats party participated in a press conference on resident permits with the migration minister on Thursday even though his party is not formally part of the Swedish government. On Thursday, Deputy Party…