TAG: Immigration
2023: The year in figures and charts
2023 was marked by crisis, transition and conflict.As the war in Ukraine dragged into its second yea...
8 months ago
Rishi Sunak appears to rule out spring UK election
LONDON — Rishi Sunak said his “working assumption” is that he won’t call a U.K. general election unt...
8 months ago
Nigel Farage’s new party wants net zero to be center stage at UK general election
LONDON — Nigel Farage has made immigration a central issue at numerous U.K. elections. This year he hopes to repeat the trick with climate change policy.Farage’s right-leaning Reform UK party plans to make scrapping Britain's ambitious climate targets cen...
6 months ago
Italy can do without Russian gas, says energy minister
ROME — Italy has emancipated itself from Russian natural gas and would have no problem with a proposed package of EU sanctions on liquified natural gas (LNG) that the European Commission is considering, Italian Energy Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin sai...
5 months ago
Investors too confused by French election to panic — yet
Financial markets went into France's Sunday election bracing for a good old-fashioned freakout — but the results from the first round of voting were too confusing to trigger a selloff. On the contrary, initial reactions on Monday suggested a measure of re...
2 months ago
Starmer’s ‘quiet’ climate radicalism sets up battle with Farage
LONDON — Early last year, U.K. Labour leader Keir Starmer’s top green lieutenant traveled to Berlin. He was there to take notes on a German government full of climate vim. Starmer’s man Ed Miliband — then in opposition, now the U.K. energy secretary — enc...
2 months ago
Labour’s top policy priorities
LONDON — Keir Starmer has arrived in Downing Street with his new Cabinet. So what are their first priorities?Big-ticket items include decarbonizing the electricity grid by 2030, building 1.5 million homes over five years, hitting long-missed health servic...
2 months ago
The UK’s Brexit dream is dead
LONDON — British voters head to the polls Thursday for their first general election outside the European Union. But in so many ways, the Brexit dream has already died.All the key Vote Leave characters have left the stage. Five years after winning a landsl...
2 months ago
Is Brexit Britain about to turn into Switzerland — without the fondue?
It’s the one thing nobody wanted to happen. Now it might happen anyway.Brussels hates its relationship with Switzerland: A complex tartiflette of over 120 different bilateral agreements that seems to constantly be up for renegotiation.When Brexit talks be...
2 months ago
Hungary FM teases more Gazprom contracts after huge blowup with EU ministers
Less than 24 hours after clashing with the EU’s foreign policy chief at a meeting of EU foreign ministers, Hungary’s top diplomat Péter Szijjártó made a surprise trip to Russia. The foreign minister sat down with the head of state-owned energy giant Gazpr...
1 month ago
German businesses fear far right success will scare off much-needed workers
The far right’s landmark victory in a regional German election last weekend wasn’t just a slap in the face for the federal government in Berlin: It was a disaster for a business and financial establishment trying to stop Germany’s economic decline.The far...
1 month ago
Ed Miliband is Britain’s minister for good vibes
LIVERPOOL, England — Never mind the fiscal blackhole, here’s Ed Miliband.A rainy Labour Party conference in Liverpool was haunted this week by the specter of Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ imminent, cost-cutting Budget. It was overshadowed by a row over top go...
3 weeks ago
Barnier’s first big test: A budget to cut France’s ‘colossal debt’
PARIS — French Prime Minister Michel Barnier is set to unveil his 2025 budget on Thursday in a critical test of both his leadership and whether France’s fractured parliament can function when no party holds a majority.The National Assembly, the more power...
6 days ago