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Five years after the EU referendum, a new report published today by whatukthinks.org and the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) argues that Brexit has been far from an unalloyed success so far as public opinion is concerned.more

Slovenia will take over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union from Portugal as of Thursday. Joining the EU in 2014, the country will hold the EU presidency until Dec. 31.more

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will visit Queen Elizabeth at Windsor Castle during her visit to Britain this week, Buckingham Palace said on Wednesday.more

The leaders of the politicians most trusted by Poles are still President Andrzej Duda with 45 percent. indications; the second place was taken by the leader of Poland 2050 Szymon Hołownia and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki - 41 percent each. indications - results from the latest CBOS survey.more

Russian President Vladimir Putin, when asked about the actions of a British warship in the Black Sea, assessed, inter alia, that he is concerned about the "military development of the territory of Ukraine". He also assured that Russia's opponents would not have won the "Third World War".more

A truce to end an ongoing trade row between London and Brussels over the movement of chilled meats from Britain to Northern Ireland – dubbed “sausage wars” – is said to be on the horizon ahead of Thursday’s deadline.more

The Irish government is delaying the return of some indoor activities, including hospitality, over increasing cases of the Delta Covid-19 variant.more

The Home Office is considering plans to send asylum seekers who arrive in the UK overseas to be processed, an idea modelled on a controversial Australian system, it is understood.more

Japan and the United States are making arrangements for First Lady Jill Biden to visit Japan for the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony, but President Biden is not likely to accompany her, the Yomiuri Shimbun daily said on Sunday.more

Health secretary set to announce step 4 will take place in three weeks and not on 5 July.more

Classified Ministry of Defence documents containing details about HMS Defender and the British military have been found at a bus stop in Kent. One set of documents discusses the likely Russian reaction to the ship's passage through Ukrainian waters off the Crimea coast on Wednesday.more

Former President Donald Trump returned to campaign mode with a vengeance Saturday night, vowing at a rally in Ohio that Republicans would take back Congress, bemoaning his loss in last November’s election and retaliating against a GOP congressman who voted to impeach him.more

Matt Hancock has resigned as health secretary after he breached social distancing guidance by kissing a colleague. In a letter to the PM he said the government "owe it to people who have sacrificed so much in this pandemic to be honest when we have let them down".more

Health Secretary Matt Hancock has admitted breaking social distancing guidance after pictures of him kissing an aide were published in a newspaper.more

Poland's hard "no" to open up to Russia - this is how Warsaw's position on the emerging proposals for dialogue with the Kremlin is described by the Brussels website Politico, devoted to EU policy.more

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday said it was "entirely right" for a British warship to travel through the waters off Crimea amid an ongoing diplomatic spat with Russia.more

The Black Sea incident involving the British destroyer HMS Defender was a deliberately prepared provocation, said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. He announced that the Russian army would take "quite a tough stance against this kind of provocation".more

More and more EU countries, once favorable to Russia, are distancing themselves from it, states the daily "Welt". Forecasting that the participation of the Greens in the government is very likely after the September elections in Germany, the daily notes that no German party is more critical of Russia.more

More than 20 Russian aircraft and two coastguard ships have shadowed a British warship sailing near Crimea. Moscow's defence ministry said a patrol ship fired warning shots and a jet dropped bombs in the path of HMS Defender as it sailed some 12 miles (19km) off Crimea's coast.more

Britain has denied Russian reports that its military fired warning shots at a UK destroyer in the Black Sea. Moscow's defence ministry was quoted as saying that HMS Defender entered Russian territorial waters near Crimea while a patrol ship fired warning shots and a jet dropped bombs in its path.more

Boris Johnson has said the historic vote five years ago to leave the EU will now act as a spur to jobs and renewal across the UK as it recovers from the pandemic.more

We have discovered numerous operations against Polish entities as part of the Ghostwriter campaign - said the cybersecurity company Mandiant, confirming the previous arrangements of Polish services. Mandiant was the first to report on the operation, back in 2020.more

Boris Johnson is unlikely to agree to a new referendum on Scottish independence before the next general election in 2024, Michael Gove has said.more

The Commons Education Committee sounded the alarm about underachievement from white children eligible for free school meals compared to their peers in a new report.more

Jeffrey Donaldson, a member of the British House of Commons, has become the new leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) - Northern Ireland's largest grouping. He announced that he would demand changes to the protocol on Northern Ireland, which is part of the Brexit agreement.more