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Aljaksandr Lukashenka is courting Kyiv, but his alliances tell a different story. The Afghan delegation and the Burmese ‘president’ in Minsk, and the Belarusian Foreign Minister’s summer holidays in Pyongyang

Schlein and the PS are calling for tighter fiscal controls on the oil giants, saying enough is enough with stopgap measures. “But this is a stopgap measure,” retorts the Confindustria representative. “What about nuclear power, then? Our businesses need to regain their energy competitiveness”

Excise duty cuts to be refinanced, new aid for Ukraine to be sent (perhaps by September, though there are those within the majority who oppose this) and the promises made to Amatrice: the challenges facing the Prime Minister (and the government) as they return to work

Even at Bar Alcamo, people are still discussing Bob Prevost, not to mention those queuing up for a scoop of "Bacio" ice cream. But just like life itself, the Meeting carries on and the events in everyone’s diaries pile up one after the other, delighting the hearts and minds of visitors, keeping the step counter on the Health app happy and calling for an extra bit of holiday time after the fair. 

Having debunked the extremism of the ‘good guys’, it is high time we put an end to this obsession with trauma and the ‘wounds’ of the privileged born in the ‘fat millennium’

From the Ceuta affair to the war in Ukraine, right through to negotiations on the next EU budget, António Costa is trying to defuse tensions between governments. But the 2027 election is causing capitals to adopt a harder line and making any compromise more difficult

“Decline is not inevitable”. The former prime minister launches the Rhine Group to bring innovation back to Europe 

The PD secretary wants the windfall tax introduced immediately and on its own, whilst the wealth tax should only be implemented ‘at European level’. The Minister for the Economy takes the opposite view. However, this is not driven by any EU policy, but by what is politically most advantageous based on the latest opinion polls