Tag: Cost of living
How Liz Truss did it – POLITICO
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LONDON — It was in the unlikely surrounds of Port Vale Football Club, a small town and perpetually lower-league team in central England, that the course of British political history was set.
In a rented boardroom overlooking the 15,000-capacity Vale Park pitch, Liz Truss was being put through her paces. Around the table were two of her most trusted aides, taking turns to roleplay the one man standing in her path to 10
What you need to know (and worry about) – POLITICO
Welcome back! After a scorching summer, Brussels people are trickling back into the office or, for many of you, the home office setup.
A word of warning: It’s going to be an intense rentrée.
From the war in Ukraine to spiking energy prices, EU officials will have their hands full keeping their policy agendas on track amid escalating geopolitical crises. The most obvious field to be disrupted is energy, as leaders scramble to fill up gas reserves and keep
The first 100 days of Liz Truss’ Britain – POLITICO
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LONDON — If the opinion polls are right, this is Liz Truss’ world now — and we’ll all soon be living in it.
With three weeks to go in the U.K. Conservative Party leadership race, every poll of the 180,000-strong Tory membership suggests Truss, the foreign secretary, is streets ahead of her rival Rishi Sunak.
Amid a burgeoning cost of living crisis and with recession now looming, the next prime minister will need
Europe’s last summer before the Russian winter – POLITICO
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Soak up the summer rays while you can — a full-blown Russian winter is heading toward Europe.
Even as fighting continues to rage in Ukraine, the war is already making itself felt across the Continent, in the form of rising food prices, fears of gas shortages and worries about the economy.
And with Russian President Vladimir Putin showing readiness to use food, fuel and fertilizers as weapons of war against Western democracies who