Former defence ministers are wrong to issue a stark warning that the UK is unprepared for war as a “whole-nation endeavour”, the deputy prime minister has said.more
Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron has met former President Donald Trump in Florida, before heading onto Washington DC for talks. The former PM is in the US for talks with senior government officials about the wars in Gaza and Ukraine.more
Troops swapped places in Paris and London on Monday to mark 120 years since the Entente Cordiale was signed. British troops from Number 7 Company, the Coldstream Guards, took part in a changing of the guard ceremony at the Élysée Palace, while members of French Republican Guard did the same at Buckingham Palace.more
"Donald Trump's 'secret plan' to end the war in Ukraine is to put pressure on Kiev to hand back the Donbas and Crimea to Russia", the "Washington Post" reported on Sunday. According to the former US president, the people of parts of Ukraine would not mind living under Russian rule.more
The UK has lost influence since Brexit to become just one of many “middle powers” in the world, former foreign secretary David Miliband has said. Writing for the Observer, Miliband, now president and chief executive of the International Rescue Committee, said that in order to reverse the decline, the UK needed to enter new “structures and commitments” with the EU on foreign policy.
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The cost of failing to support Ukraine will be much higher than the cost of repelling Vladimir Putin's regime, argue UK and French diplomatic chiefs David Cameron and Stephane Sejourne in a joint article in the 'Daily Telegraph'. Ukraine must win the war, they write.more
'Irish reunification is a legitimate aspiration, but it will not be my priority,' declared Simon Harris, who will become the new Prime Minister of the Irish Republic on Tuesday. He also asserted that he wants better relations with the UK than have been the case in recent years.more
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenski warned yesterday during a videoconference with ambassadors of countries belonging to the United24 platform that without US aid, currently blocked in Congress by Republicans, Ukraine would lose the war with Russia, AFP reports.more
Britain still believes Israel has the right to defend its security, but is shocked by the scale of the bloodshed and this conflict must end, wrote Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Yesterday marked six months since the Palestinian organization Hamas attacked Israel.more
PiS recorded the highest support among rural residents, while the Civic Coalition won in cities. The larger the cities, the more KO's advantage grew - according to an exit poll conducted yesterday by Ipsos. KO's electorate predominates among company owners, directors and students; PiS was voted for by, among others, farmers and retirees.more
The UK is violating international law by continuing to sell arms to Israel, warned more than 600 British judges and legal experts in a letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak published yesterday. They argue that the current situation in Gaza is catastrophic.more
The Gaza war is proceeding as Hamas probably hoped: the longer it goes on, the more Israel loses the support of the world and contributes to prolonging the cycle of violence for years to come, according to Philip Wasielewski, an expert at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) think tank and former CIA officer.more
At least 12 people associated with the British Parliament - an incumbent member of the government, MPs and former MPs, MPs' assistants and journalists - were the targets of a spear phishing attack most likely carried out by hackers linked to an enemy state, media outlets have revealed.more
Vladimir Putin must understand that if necessary, the North Atlantic Alliance can afford a long-term conflict, said the head of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Radosław Sikorski, yesterday, commenting on the idea of creating a special five-year aid fund for Ukraine in the amount of USD 100 billion by NATO.more
Reunifying Ireland would cost the government in Dublin between €8 and €20 billion a year for 20 years, which would require a significant increase in taxes or a large reduction in public spending, the Irish Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA) said in its report.more
Cheap foreign labour will no longer be an option for British companies, James Cleverly has said as new salary thresholds for skilled workers come in.
The Home Secretary said it was “time for employers to play their part” in investing in and recruiting British workers as the Government sought to reduce record levels of net migration.more
The French authorities denied Russian claims that they were ready to talk about Ukraine during yesterday's conversation between the French and Russian defense ministers, Reuters reported today.more
Controlling immigration is more important than “membership of a foreign court”, the Prime Minister has said in his strongest hint yet that he could back leaving the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).more
The UK has had no comprehensive plans for what to do in the event of war for a dozen years; there is no precise plan for the defence of the country, no mobilisation plan, no plan to convert the economy to war, Sky News revealed today.more
"The world is entering the most uncertain and conflict-prone period since the 1930s," writes international policy expert and former high-ranking US intelligence expert Robert Manning on The Hill, citing a report by the US intelligence community.more
Political changes in Poland are being made with an 'iron broom', and Prime Minister Donald Tusk's government is 'cleaning up' after the previous government, bearing witness to the fact that change while needed is not easy, writes Politico journalist Anne McElvoy on "The Guardian" newspaper website.more
The Berlin police recorded 6,420 politically motivated crimes in 2023. The year before, there were around 5,100, in 2021 just under 6,000. This increase is explained, among other things, by demonstrations against the Gaza war, during which many crimes take place, wrote the rbb24 portal.more
The minimum wage has driven up the pay of millions of Britain’s lowest earners by £6,000 a year, making it the single most successful economic policy in a generation, according to a leading thinktank.more
The ranking of trust in politicians in March is opened ex aequo by President Andrzej Duda and Sejm Speaker Szymon Hołownia, followed by Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski. The most distrusted are PiS president Jarosław Kaczyński and former prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki, according to the CBOS poll.more
Leaders of Britain's opposition Labour Party today praised former Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson's flagship idea of equalising life chances between different regions of the country and said Labour would revive the plan once in power.more