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Migration is derailing leaders from Biden to Macron. Who’s next? – POLITICO
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BRUSSELS — Western leaders are grappling with how to handle two era-defining wars in the Middle East and in Ukraine. But there’s another issue, one far closer to home, that’s derailing governments in Europe and America: migration.
In recent days, U.S. President Joe Biden, his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak all hit trouble amid intense domestic pressure to tackle immigration; all three emerged weakened
Germany chokes on its own austerity medicine – POLITICO
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BERLIN — Germans gave the world schadenfreude for a reason. And southern Europe couldn’t be more pleased.
For countries that spent years on the receiving end of Europe’s German-inspired fiscal Inquisition, there’s no sweeter sight than to see Germany splayed on the high altar of Teutonic parsimony.
The irony is that Germany put itself there on purpose and has no clue how it will find redemption.
Last week’s jaw-dropping
637 stakeholders call on Ursula von der Leyen to publish animal welfare proposals in current political term – EURACTIV.com
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As animal welfare academics, researchers, veterinarians and scientists, we believe that, in accordance with current scientific knowledge, the current legislation is insufficient to protect the welfare of animals. As such, we urge the swift publication of a future-focussed and comprehensive legislative proposal within this political term.
Dr. Jane Goodall, PhD, DBE, Founder – the Jane Goodall Institute & UN Messenger of Peace
Prof.Peter Singer, Princeton University, United States
Dr. Sir. Brian Harold May OBE, United Kingdom
Prof. Carla
The U.S. Built a European-Style Welfare State. It’s Largely Over.
In the early, panicked days of the pandemic, the United States government did something that was previously unimaginable. It transformed itself, within weeks, into something akin to a European-style welfare state.
Congress rapidly fortified the social safety net, making it much stronger than at any point. It made policies like Medicaid and food stamps more generous. It created new federal benefits like paid sick and caregiving leave, and free school lunches. And it made some pandemic benefits, like
Who Decides What a Family Is?
In November, 2014, after a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, declined to indict a white police officer, Darren Wilson, in the killing of an unarmed Black teen-ager, Michael Brown, a photograph from one of many demonstrations that followed nationwide, in Portland, Oregon, was shared hundreds of thousands of times on Facebook. (One post was from Cory Booker, the senator from New Jersey, who called it “a photo I love.”) The image got writeups in Time and the Washington Post and
Es ist Zeit, Amerikas Corporate Welfare State anzurufen
Das subventionsorientierte Modell der „wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung“, das in Amerikas staatlichen und lokalen Regierungen vorherrscht, funktioniert einfach nicht.
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Where Britain went wrong – POLITICO
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LIVERPOOL, England — On the long picket line outside the gates of Liverpool’s Peel Port, rain-soaked dock workers warm themselves with cups of tea as they listen to 1980s pop.
Dozens of buses, cars and trucks honk in solidarity as they pass.
Dockers’ strikes are not new to Liverpool, nor is depravation. But this latest walk-out at Britain’s fourth-largest port is part of something much bigger, a great wave of public and private
Mississippi’s Welfare Mess – And America’s – The Atlantic
Wenn ich schreibe, was in Mississippi passiert ist, bin ich mir nicht ganz sicher, ob ich lachen oder weinen soll. Kurz bevor die Coronavirus-Pandemie ausbrach, plante der damalige Gouverneur Phil Bryant, Geld aus einem Regierungsprogramm für mittellose Kinder zu plündern und es an Brett Favre, den legendären Quarterback der Green Bay Packers, umzuleiten, als Teil eines Tricks, um eine neue Volleyballanlage bauen zu lassen die von Favres Tochter besuchte Universität.
Das ist nur eine von vielen atemberaubenden Geschichten, die aus
The tripwires waiting for Liz Truss as Westminster returns – POLITICO
LONDON — Liz Truss’ inaugural conference as Conservative Party leader unfolded in shambolic fashion with a major policy U-turn and open dissent from senior ministers. But the hard work’s just getting started as restive MPs return to Westminster.
Fresh from reversing her plan to cut the top rate of tax, the U.K. prime minister is under pressure to guarantee that social security will keep pace with the cost of living — with major divisions in the party bursting into the
The Liz Truss Manifesto – POLITICO
LONDON — Liz Truss has not published her plan for government, but this is the closest thing to it.
Over nearly eight long weeks of hustings, interviews, articles and debates, the two contenders for the Tory leadership have made their respective cases for why they should succeed Boris Johnson as U.K. prime minister. Among all the campaign jibes and blue-on-blue attacks have been scores of pledges and promises for how to deal with the urgent problems facing the country.
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