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🇬🇧 Labour's Danish Turn: Can Shabana Mahmood's Reforms Win Back Voters' Trust on Immigration?

By drawing inspiration from the Danish Model, Labour are seeking to reclaim credibility on migration and neutralise the appeal of Reform.

https://t.co/MPBXcRh9BV

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🇬🇧 Rachel Reeves’s Budget 2025

The 2025 Budget represents a decisive move away from austerity and a typical tax-and-spend Labour budget, with tax increases worth £26bn and the scrapping of the two-child benefit cap.

https://t.co/Npc2easY0h

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‼️🇺🇸 GUEST ARTICLE: The High Price of "America Alone": How Trump's Isolationism Has Backfired

The ‘America Alone’ Delusion left the US Poorer, Less Secure and Complicit in Suffering

https://t.co/4nnpoCjkzT

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🇺🇸 The Girls Are Fighting: Trump vs. Musk

Elon Musk’s departure from the Trump administration and his vocal opposition to the president’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” have sparked a dramatic public fallout unfolding across press conferences and social media.

https://t.co/POvQohNpn4

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🇺🇸 California is in open defiance of the Trump administration after the deployment of federal troops

Gov. Newsom is suing, and a protest movement with the motto "No Kings" is gaining national attention.

Read at: https://t.co/hdVrvRSL5e

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🇵🇱🇪🇺 Karol Nawrocki narrowly wins Polish presidency 51-49% over Rafał Trzaskowski. A significant blow to the ruling Tusk government.

Read our full analysis of the Election results: https://t.co/zJbBYLY0hM

#Poland #PolishElection #Nawrocki #Trzaskowski #BreakingNews #Polska.

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🇬🇧 Local elections 2025

Tories collapse, Labour stumbles, and Reform surges in a dramatic local election shake-up.

https://t.co/KictcIyTw1

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🇬🇧 Trans people excluded by law

In a unanimous decision, the UK Supreme Court declared that under the Equality Act 2010, transgender women are not legally considered women, even if they hold a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC).

https://t.co/brvrq42ACF

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🇫🇷🇪🇺 Le Pen Convicted of Embezzling European Funds

Marine Le Pen’s conviction for embezzling EU funds and ban from public office has rocked French politics, killing her 2027 presidential ambitions and pushing Jordan Bardella into the spotlight.

https://t.co/zX99Ex0uTO

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🇷🇸‼️ Serbian Spring?

In the aftermath of the Novi Sad incident last year, massive protests swept Serbia with calls for Vucic’s resignation and an end to corruption.

https://t.co/3pFUF8z1eK

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🇧🇬🇪🇺 Divided by Eurozone Membership

The streets of Sofia have once again witnessed chaos, with nationalists fighting against the scheduled departure of the Lev as the national currency.

https://t.co/udgdW2CUSQ

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‼️🇺🇸 Trumps’s Trade War on Mexico and Canada: An Economic Catastrophe Unfolding

From economic prosperity to recession, a self-inflicted crisis.

https://t.co/qB5FCyG2R3

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🇧🇬 Bulgarian Recount Raises Electoral Fraud Concerns (Again)

The Constitutional Court found several irregularities in polling sections and ruled that 16 deputies were elected illegally, raising questions of electoral fraud and corruption once again.

https://t.co/kZGjlroaA4

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🇪🇺🇵🇹 The Portuguese government has fallen after a vote of no-confidence.

Portugal is set for snap elections!

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🇪🇺🇷🇴 Georgescu Barred From Running:

The far-right candidate for the Romanian presidential elections, Calin Georgescu, has been blocked from running for president after a decision by the Central Electoral Bureau.

https://t.co/z5uSefOTCK

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🇪🇺🇧🇬 Ballots of Apathy:

The Bulgarian electorate has grown weary of repeated trips to the polls, with a wave of voter fatigue particularly hitting the 18-29 year old demographic.

https://t.co/rDJ1GEVK5I

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🇺🇸 In a hypothetical @ChangePolls if there were no term limits for President, Obama would beat Trump by 7pp

🔵Obama: 49%
🔴Trump: 42%

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‼️🇺🇸 Trump Slashes 83% of USAID Programs

https://t.co/Lh5MHZKUZ0

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‼️🌎 Trudeau Out, Carney In: Who is Canada’s new PM?

https://t.co/yFLa31FJTi

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🇪🇺🇷🇴 Romania has banned far-right pro-Russian conspiracy theorist frontrunner Călin Georgescu in taking part in the elections later this year

This comes after he was alleged of violating laws against extremism and promoting fascist leaders

Romania article coming soon!