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- UK Prime Minister Theresa May arrives at a European Union leaders summit in Brussels, on December 13, 2018. (Reuters) Even though Theresa May won the Conservative leadership confidence vote, the result — with a larger-than-anticipated 117 of her party's MPs dissent...
- The House of Commons begins on Tuesday a five-day debate on the Brexit withdrawal deal, setting off one of the most decisive few weeks in recent UK political history. With the government expected to lose the key vote on Dec. 11, a key question for financial markets and Prime Minister There...
- The US mid-term elections occupied many of the political headlines last week, but another landmark event awaited Donald Trump as he headed to Europe at the weekend. For Trump, pausing for breath after a hectic campaign, joined other world leaders such as Vladimir Putin to mark the centenar...
- (AFP) Campaigning for the US midterms has reached fever pitch as election day closes in. Early voting returns indicate that both Democratic and Republican voting bases are unusually engaged, with multiple states seeing more than double the number of early votes cast compared to t...
- As European presidents and prime ministers prepare for Wednesday’s potentially crunch EU Council summit, there are media reports of potentially significant movement in Brexit talks. While European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said on Sunday that “substantially more progress” is need...
- Donald Trump will make his second address to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday. There will be 140 other world leaders in attendance but the US president is likely to steal the show again, despite the growing disgruntlement with him at the supranational body. The reason why most eyes are likel...
- European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker will give his annual state-of-the-union address on Tuesday, with the continent facing a choppy autumn. Storm clouds are gathering again, not only from the Brexit talks but also Italy’s euroskeptic coalition government and the populist surge in E...
- This week saw the political milestone event of Greece officially completing an eight-year bailout program following an economic collapse on the scale of the Great Depression. Yet, important as this moment could be for Athens and the EU at large, several European nations — including G-...
- UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plan was described as dead on arrival last week by Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. While departure from the EU was the backdrop to the Edinburgh meeting, Sturgeon’s mind is at least as much focused on the political positioning that will best enabl...
- Beijing this week hosted the 20th annual China-EU political and business summit. This landmark event provided a timely, important opportunity for the two powers to develop a more unified front on a range of issues over which they are in dispute with the Donald Trump team, from trade to climate ...
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