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But opposition to the 90 percent goal has been growing. Italy’s hard-right government is pushing for the target to be lowered to 80 percent or 85 percent.

Nor is it certain that Germany’s incoming government will back the original figure. The center-right Christian Democratic Union…

But given their new place in the opposition, the only way to maneuever politically may be back to the left — to the fundi side of things.

Sven-Christian Kindler, a former Greens lawmaker who did not run for reelection in the February vote, sees the Greens’ missteps as rooted in what…

The German vote

More broadly, the coalition negotiators vowed to take on a more proactive role on the European stage by using the Weimar Triangle — a loose alliance of France, Germany and Poland — as a vehicle for shaping EU policy. Under the previous coalition government led by the…

‘Knows what his role is and isn’t’

Mythmaking comes far less naturally to Starmer, but he clearly sees some faint traces of similarities in their life stories. The PM places his own working-class origins in Oxted, Surrey, just 30 miles from where Burnett, two years his senior, grew…

At its peak, the Lend-Lease programs assisted 38 countries with supplies and equipment to the tune of around $50 billion — the equivalent of nearly $700 billion today when accounting for inflation. Britain received the lion’s share, and eventually only about $8 billion was ever actually…