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5 days ago |
politico.eu | Dan Bloom
LONDON — Businesses who want to go all-out on schmoozing Britain’s Labour ministers can do it over lunch. The price tag? A cool £55,000. The figure (plus VAT) has been put on attending, introducing and sponsoring a lunch at the ruling party’s annual conference in September, according to a pitch to lobbyists seen by POLITICO. It forms part of the “Business Leaders’ Summit,” the general attendance fee for which rose from £3,000 in 2024 to £5,000 this year.
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1 week ago |
politico.eu | Tim Ross |Clea Caulcutt |Dan Bloom |Nette Nöstlinger
LONDON — Who can stop the Iran war? With Donald Trump poised to order a bombing raid on Iran’s subterranean nuclear facilities — and Israel urging him on — it seems unlikely that the answer could be three European ministers and an Estonian politician with the title of EU high representative for foreign affairs and security policy.
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1 week ago |
politico.eu | Dan Bloom
LONDON — U.K. MPs just liberalized a 164-year-old abortion law with typical British understatement. Now, to hope that Donald Trump’s America doesn’t notice. The House of Commons voted 379-137 Tuesday night to remove criminal sanctions for women having their own abortion in England and Wales, partially unpicking a law passed in 1861. It was a moment in history, but backers who took pains to paint it as a narrow, common-sense reform largely achieved their goal.
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2 weeks ago |
politico.eu | Clea Caulcutt |Dan Bloom
PARIS — Plans for a United Nations conference on reviving the two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinian people appear to be on ice after Israel’s strikes against Iran, POLITICO was informed. One European diplomat, who, like others quoted in this story, was granted anonymity to discuss the matter, said the meeting had become “collateral damage” of the Israeli bombardment.
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2 weeks ago |
politico.eu | Annabelle Dickson |Dan Bloom
LONDON — Keir Starmer has staked his future on convincing voters he’ll rebuild the state. First he needs to convince his Cabinet they have the tools to do it. Members of the prime minister’s top team have been privately sounding the alarm over their ability to deliver on Labour’s manifesto pledges, as Britain’s top finance minister Rachel Reeves prepares to unveil stark spending choices Wednesday.
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U.K. has advised Brits against travel to the whole of Israel Foreign Office has extended advice against "all but essential travel" to *all* of Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (apart from bits where FCDO advises against "all travel") https://t.co/IN0M0zxtZl
RT @cleacaulcutt: Major two-state solution conference set to be postponed after Israeli strikes on Iran, European officials tell POLITICO,…
RT @Steven_Swinford: The economic consequences of Israel's air strikes on Iran are profound It's likely to see higher levels of inflation…