Pamela Duncan

Sep 1, 2024 | ca.news.yahoo.com | Gwyn Topham |Pamela Duncan

Train punctuality was best under Gordon Brown, with 90.5% during his 2007-10 premiership. Train punctuality was best under Gordon Brown, with 90.5% during his 2007-10 premiership. Photograph: Karen Robinson/The ObserverAs commuters return en masse after summer holidays next week, the political omens – and the data – afford some hope that a new Labour government may change rail for the better. Say what you like about Gordon Brown, but at least he made the trains run on time.

May 30, 2024 | ftm.eu | Jesse Pinster |Ada Homolová |Carmen Aguilar García |Carmen Garcia |Pamela Duncan

Political parties are a cornerstone of democracies, but citizens’ trust in politicians and their parties is at an all-time low. Lack of transparency and corruption scandals fuel the public's concerns about whether parties are serving the greater good of society or just the interests of few. However, finding out the truth about how parties in the EU are funded is no easy task: all 27 EU-member states have their own rules and their own way of reporting the numbers.

May 30, 2024 | ca.news.yahoo.com | Carmen García |Carmen Garcia |Pamela Duncan

Political donations in France swerve to the right as Le Pen’s niece raises more than MacronPolitical funding in France has swerved to the right, with private donations to the small nationalist group backed by Marine Le Pen’s niece overtaking those raised by President Emmanuel Macron’s ruling party.

May 30, 2024 | ftm.eu | Carmen Aguilar García |Carmen Garcia |Pamela Duncan |Jesse Pinster

Figures from 200 parties across 24 countries suggest hardline groups have seen a surge in donations in recent years, boosting their war chests ahead of European Parliament elections. A quarter of all private money donated to political parties in Europe is going to far-right, far-left and populist movements, boosting their finances by millions of euros ahead of crucial European Parliament elections next week.

Apr 4, 2023 | ca.sports.yahoo.com | Pamela Duncan

Sweden has expelled 1,100 British nationals since Brexit, more than any other country in the EU, according to official statistics released by the European Commission. Full-year figures released on 31 March by Eurostat puts the Scandinavian country top of the post-Brexit removal charts with disproportionately high expulsions compared with more populous countries such as France and Germany, which had issued removal orders for 115 and 40 British citizens respectively since Brexit came into force.