The Treasury Department issued new “general licenses” to help aid flow as a humanitarian crisis deepens. Sacks of flour from a World Food Program convoy are unloaded in Afghanistan. The Treasury Department will make it easier for international organizations and…
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Tuesday (21 December) said the EU’s withholding of funds was “
Two trillion euros, in fact. Such huge financial injections into EU economies can come with well-documented risks of embezzlement, corruption and corporate capture of public money (Photo: Michal Jarmoluk) At over two trillion euros, the long term EU budget and…
What was behind the resignation of David Frost as UK “Brexit Minister”, and would it be enough to halt the declining UK-EU relations? Dick Roche shares his thoughts. Dick Roche is a former Irish Minister for European Affairs and former…
![Why the French Presidency’s insistence on European ‘Belonging’ matters [Promoted content] | INFBusiness.com](https://globalpolitics.info/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/1955c3080d8720cd2ff935e67756d989.jpg "‘Belonging’ (Appartenance in French) is the last of the three keywords announced as the motto of the upcoming French EU Council Presidency, along with recovery (relance) and strength (puissance). Why such an emphasis on a notion no government can buy and no parliament can pass legislation on?")
‘Belonging’ (Appartenance in French) is the last of the three keywords announced as the motto of the upcoming French EU Council Presidency, along with recovery (relance) and strength (puissance). Why such an emphasis on a notion no government can buy…
The move reverses a Trump-era decision that would have sent many of the thousands of inmates released to home confinement during the pandemic back to prison. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland had asked the Office of Legal Counsel to reconsider…
Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, says Democratic outrage over Senator Joe Manchin’s opposition to sweeping policy bills shows he is not welcome in his party any longer. Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, seen in his office on Capitol…
President Biden and Senator Joe Manchin III have many differences over the proposed domestic policy bill, but one issue stands out: the child tax credit. Demonstrators near the Capitol in Washington urge passage of the package known as the Build…
Democrats have been left hoping that the West Virginian, who fashions himself as an old-school centrist dealmaker, will eventually budge on President Biden’s agenda. Senator Joe Manchin has long enjoyed the national spotlight. Sign up here to get On Politics…