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Empty Promises, and Excuses: Labour’s Tax U-Turn is a Mess

A few months after an election victory, millions of people are left wondering how quickly campaign promises can evaporate.

Drin Drin: Italy’s Economic Exodus Forges the Ora! Party

Italy’s “Ora!” party emerges from brain drain: 525,000 young Italians left 2008‑22, seeking better pay and opportunities abroad.

Europeans Want a ‘Secure, Easy-to-Use, and Free Digital Euro’

Most Europeans want a digital euro that is secure, easy to use, and free, as ECB advances plans for launch by 2029.

Renewables: The Best Coolant?

Gulf states outpace Europe on climate action, using oil wealth to build effective renewables while EU governments struggle under heat and debt.

Defiant in Debt: Breaking Free from Global Purse in Tunisia

Tunisia slams the door on IMF bailout talks as debt mountains grow, betting on economic freedom despite global financial storms.

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Europe’s Nuclear Turn Carries a French Accent

Finland's vote to allow nuclear weapons and Switzerland's push for new reactors both trace back to a familiar French ambition to lead Europe's atomic future.

Iran is Splitting the West Like Ukraine Did

Iran's US-brokered peace deal is laying bare severe fractures across Western diplomacy, as America's transactional alliance calculus finds its second major victim.

Russia Still Wants a Red Sea Anchor

Russia's quest for a Red Sea naval base has fallen silent again, the pause manifesting Sudan's bargaining instincts and Moscow's enduring strategic patience alike.

War Killed Mona Khalil and Erased Decades of Conservation

When a conservationist dies in a conflict zone, the loss is ecological as well as human, and the species she protected have no replacement for her.

What Starmer’s Exit Means for Europe and the Middle East

Keir Starmer's resignation hands Andy Burnham a fragile inheritance, as Britain's standing in Brussels and across the Gulf hinges on what changes next.