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Retired Civil Servant (UK) and long term mature student at the University of Life. Arsenal fan , enthusiastic traveller (using trains where available) and Duolingo aficionado.🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦
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French President Emmanuel Macron and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer "haven't done anything" to end the war in Ukraine, US President Donald Trump said on Friday.

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Soul mates.. 😊

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The rise of the AfD over the past decade has triggered deep soul-searching in the political establishment in a country still wracked with guilt over its Nazi past. Could German history repeat itself? Here is what three leading historians had to say 👇

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The Trump administration's push for financial and environmental deregulation is "dangerous," the head of France's central bank Francois Villeroy de Galhau said.

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Welcome news, and absolutely needed. I just hope it is applied equally. We are still seeing chiy mis-aged by the Home Office and young people who have been trafficked treated as criminals and deported. Child protection has to mean all children. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Europe's politicians are openly discussing how they could tackle the threat of nuclear attack without American help, in a dramatic sign of the deep crisis engulfing the transatlantic alliance under Donald Trump.

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German citizens who live abroad are reporting they didn’t receive their absentee ballots with enough time to return them to be counted in Sunday’s election.

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More low-carbon travel links between London and the continent are on the cards. 🚆

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US Vice President JD Vance yesterday night suggested that Donald Trump's administration could reconsider its military presence in Germany, tying continued American defense commitments to Berlin’s stance on free speech.

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You made this mess. You clean it up. That’s how the EU should treat companies polluting the atmosphere with planet-warming greenhouse gases, the bloc’s climate science advisers say.

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And The Guardian‘s “report” on the expansion of St Pancras terminal (that isn’t really news as it’s been known since December) at least doesn’t blather about Milano, but isn’t what I’d call good www.theguardian.com/business/202... Until someone orders some trains I don’t believe ANY of this

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15 minutes old 🐑🐑🐑

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Friedrich Merz, the front-runner to become Germany's next chancellor, issued a stark warning today that Europe must be prepare to defend itself without the US.

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