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European leaders are at loggerheads – but not in the way you might think
There is agreement between liberal and far-right 'populist' EU leaders over strengthening the repressive Fortress Europe measures against refugees and asylum-seekers. They just disagree about how to do it, writes KEVIN OVENDEN
CRISIS MANAGEMENT: French President Emmanuel Macron, European Commission President Jean-Claude Junker and German Chancellor Angela Merkel
LYNNE WALSH previews the Bristol Radical History Conference this weekend
Keir Starmer’s £120 million to Sudan cannot cover the government’s complicity in the RSF genocide or atone for the long shadow of British colonialism and imperialism, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
Join the traditional march from Clerkenwell Green, which will bring together countless international workers’ organisations in a statement against the far right
Ecuador’s election wasn’t free — and its people will pay the price under President Noboa
Mountains of research show that hardcore material harms children, yet there are still no simple measures in place
We face austerity, privatisation, and toxic influence. But we are growing, and cannot be beaten
A dozen European leaders are to meet at an informal crisis gathering in Brussels on Sunday.
That’s two years to the day since the results of the UK referendum piled up showing people had voted to leave the European Union.
We were told then, and conventional wisdom has repeated it since, that the process would pit a fractured British government against a united bloc of the remaining “EU27.”
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