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POLITICSOct 8UK PM Burnham to discuss sabotage and cybersecurity with Merz in BerlinBurnham's meeting with Merz comes amid increasing warnings of hybrid threats in Europe and follows a drone attack on Leipzig/Halle airport in August - which Berlin has accused Russia of orchestrating.EuroNews [en]
POLITICSOct 8China has nominated health official Song Li as WHO head - ReutersChina has nominated health official Song Li as WHO head ReutersReuters World
POLITICSOct 8Colau acts as leader of the Broad Front: offers Podemos a "role" and "visibility" to negotiate and warns them that "there are lives at stake like Maricarmen's"La ex alcaldesa evita oficializar su candidatura porque ve antes prioritario cerrar un acuerdo con los 'morados' LeerEl Mundo
POLITICSOct 8Lower House set for final vote on new election lawOpposition says overhaul is aimed at preventing Meloni's majority losing next electionANSA [en]
POLITICSOct 8David Sánchez presents appeal against his conviction and points to Judge Biedma: "The investigation was prospective and there was no prevarication"Su defensa presenta un escrito de 104 páginas y pide su absolución LeerEl Mundo
POLITICSOct 8The death of Maricarmen marks a rough express Plenary in which Almeida approves a plan to transform offices and lodging spaces into 18,000 protected flats: "We will find them..."Approval is also given for any tertiary lodging use on industrial land where only hotels could be built. Rita Maestre pointed to a sector of the press and it was criticized that there was no minute of silence.El Mundo
POLITICSOct 8'The Orange Plague': Naked Trump statue on display at European Parliament in StrasbourgA gold statue depicting Donald Trump fully naked and crushing a smaller man’s shoulders has been unveiled in the European Parliament building in Strasbourg, France.EuroNews [en]
POLITICSOct 8I don’t want my children’s English identity questioned – Badenoch“I don’t want to live in a country run by people who threaten journalists, who call veterans traitors, and debate whether my mixed-race children are English,” she said. The post I don’t want my children’s English identity questioned – Badenoch appeared first on Vanguard News.Vanguard Nigeria
POLITICSOct 8Halving MEPs’ salaries would take them ‘out of their bubbles’, MEP saysThe Left MEP Marc Botenga said his group’s proposal to halve MEPs’ salaries would bring them “down to earth” and make it easier for them to “realise what a normal European is going through”.EuroNews [en]
POLITICSOct 8Britain downscales and renames Jerusalem consulate after Israel orders closureBritain said on Thursday its ⁠nearly 200-year-old consulate in Jerusalem ⁠would remain operating at a smaller scale, renamed ⁠as the “UK Mission” in the city, after Israel ordered it shut in a dispute over sanctions on settlements. Israel last month issued a 30-day deadline for Britain to close the consulate after London announced sanctions targeting Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, a dispute that has strained relations between the long-time allies. The deadline expired on...South China Morning Post
POLITICSOct 8Will Berlin help Britain rejoin the EU?With conference season in the rear-view mirror, Andy Burnham jets off to Germany for his first European trip as PM – but how much do Anglo-German relations matter right now? Sam Coates and Anne McElvoy look ahead to his meeting with German chancellor Friedrich Merz as the countries attempt to align ambitions and maybe find […]Politico Europe
POLITICSOct 8Most UK diplomats to leave East Jerusalem consulate, Israel says, as Miliband says 'vital services' to remainIsrael said in September it would act in response to UK sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank.BBC World
POLITICSOct 8UK’s exclusion from ‘Made in EU’ scheme would ‘weaken’ Europe, minister warnsHamish Falconer, the UK’s chief negotiator with Brussels, warns that excluding Britain from the EU’s ‘Made in Europe’ industrial policy risks fracturing the common industrial base and making Europe ‘weaker’.EuroNews [en]
POLITICSOct 8U.S. and Russia discuss reopening path for Russian gas sales to Germany - reportA report indicates that the U.S. and Russia are discussing reopening the path for Russian gas sales to Germany. This suggests potential shifts in international energy policy and diplomatic relations.Seeking Alpha Tech
POLITICSOct 8‘Adios Maricarmen’: Hundreds protest in Madrid after pensioner’s deathHundreds protest near Spain's parliament in Madrid to honour evicted pensioner Maricarmen Abascal and demand action over the country’s housing crisis.EuroNews [en]
POLITICSOct 8Royal Navy serviceman accused of spying for foreign powerSky News World
POLITICSOct 8EU-China talks enter critical phase as trade chief Šefčovič touches down in BeijingGood morning. Mared Gwyn and Angela Skujins with you again this Thursday morning. Today: the EU’s trade chief holds crunch talks in Beijing, Maricarmen’s death sends shockwaves in Spain, and student protests persist in France.EuroNews [en]
POLITICSOct 8French PM Lecornu denies police crackdown as France’s student protests intensifyHigh school and university students across France launched a fourth straight day of nationwide action on Thursday, after Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu promised measures to improve conditions in schools but stopped short of announcing immediate changes.RFI [en]
POLITICSOct 8Can Europe's return hubs work without breaking its own human rights rules?The EU has approved a legal basis for sending people with no right to stay to centres outside the bloc. Governments say rights will be respected. Rights groups warn the safeguards on paper may not hold up in practice.EuroNews [en]
POLITICSOct 8French students prepare for more marches as hundreds of schools closeFRANCE 24's Jamie Smith-Maillet reports from a high school in Paris as students across France prepare for more marches on Thursday.France 24 [en]
POLITICSOct 8Europe Today: Rubio urges Europe to wake up as EU trade chief begins key China tripEurope's ties with China, the US and the UK are all being tested at once. EU trade chief Maroš Šefčovič is in Beijing with a deadline to rebalance trade relations, Marco Rubio tells Europe to wake up, and London weighs rejoining the EU. In France, students are back on the streets today.EuroNews [en]
POLITICSOct 8Maricarmen, the 87-year-old woman whose eviction shook Spain, has diedMaría del Carmen Abascal, the 87-year-old woman whose eviction from her Madrid home sparked nationwide protests across Spain and unleashed a political crisis, died on Wednesday while hospitalized.NPR News
POLITICSOct 8British consulate in Jerusalem to become 'UK Mission, Jerusalem' after Israel announces closure of facilityThe UK government said it will retain its presence in East Jerusalem as Israel insisted the British consulate in the city had "ceased to function".Sky News World
POLITICSOct 8Naked statue of Trump named ‘Orange Plague’ unveiled at European ParliamentThe creator of the sculpture said it was a ‘satirical outcry’ against Trump’s volatile climate and foreign policiesThe Independent World