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“We are talking about many hundreds of millions in benefits to business, trade  and growth and at the time HMG had budgeted for this.”

Costs rack up

A Freedom of Information Request submitted by POLITICO shows that HM Revenue and Customs has spent at least £105.18 million on the…

ANCOM oversees the Digital Services Act in Romania, the European Union’s social media rulebook that governs how platforms like TikTok and X moderate online speech.

“We’ve never seen something like” what happened in the November 2024 presidential election, Popescu…

“This war, particularly on tariffs, is like a boomerang being thrown,” he said. Those using tariffs are “forgetting that [the boomerang] is coming back.”

How did it go? Flattery will get you everywhere, including, apparently, into the good graces of Trump. Starmer showered the president with praise, expertly playing on his well-documented admiration for the British monarchy by theatrically producing a letter from King Charles III inviting him…

The SPD has core disagreements with him in those areas — and little incentive to budge now that Merz has already given them their big wish on borrowing. For Merz, the other key problem is that due to the increasing power of radical parties on both sides of the political spectrum, he has no…

Nicușor Dan, the mayor

Nicușor Dan is an independent candidate who has been the mayor of Bucharest, Romania’s capital, since 2020. 

A mathematician, he moved into activism and politics in the late 1990s upon his return from Paris, where he had completed his doctoral studies. His…