PARIS — Emmanuel Macron has picked 33-year-old David Amiel to become France’s new budget minister, the French presidency announced on Sunday — a crucial role as the French government attempts to get its deficit under control amid a deep political…
Category: 3. Europe
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Bones of St Francis of Assisi go on public display in Italy
The remains of Italy’s patron saint have only been seen in public once before – for one day in 1978.
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Greenland says 'no thanks' to Trump US hospital boat
Greenland’s PM reminded Trump of its free healthcare, after Trump said he was sending a boat to aid people who were allegedly “not being taken care of”.
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Democrats salivate over Trump tariff chaos
Democrats are frothing at the mouth to center President Donald Trump’s tariff chaos in their affordability messaging as they charge into the midterms.
The party was already planning to slam Republicans over the economy on the campaign trail, riding the playbook that helped propel New Jersey…
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Macron asks Trump to lift sanctions on former EU tech chief Thierry Breton – POLITICO
French President Emmanuel Macron has asked U.S. President Donald Trump to lift sanctions imposed last year on a raft of prominent Europeans including former EU tech chief Thierry Breton, arguing the measures were “unjustly imposed.”
“I would like to personally draw…
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Top EU trade lawmaker calls to delay key vote on EU-US deal – POLITICO
“At our extra meeting tomorrow, I will therefore propose to the EP-negotiating team putting legislative work on hold until we have a proper legal assessment and clear commitments from the U.S. side,” Lange said.
One day after the Supreme Court struck down his signature tariff policy, Trump…
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Trump’s unlikely hero: Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh
President Donald Trump, despite his protestations regarding the Supreme Court on Friday striking down his sweeping tariffs, is singling out one justice as worthy of his praise: Brett Kavanaugh.
The president has spent the last 24 hours lavishing praise on the justice, the only Trump appointee…
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Explosions kill police officer and injure 25 in western Ukraine
Twenty-five people were injured by explosions overnight in what officials are calling a terror attack.
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Kyiv condemns ‘blackmail’ by Hungary, Slovakia as energy standoff escalates
Ukraine condemned “ultimatums and blackmail” by the governments of Hungary and Slovakia on Saturday, after Budapest and Bratislava threatened to stop electricity supplies to Ukraine unless Kyiv restarts flows of Russian oil.
Shipments of Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia…
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How the US is moving away from Chinese imports
President Donald Trump’s historic tariffs, some of which the Supreme Court struck down Friday, remade trade in 2025 — and no country experienced as big a shift as China.
Thanks in large part to U.S. tariffs that at one point reached triple digits, the Asian manufacturing powerhouse’s…
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