“We’re turning a page,” EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said on Monday after the bloc’s first summit with the UK since Brexit. “We’re opening a new chapter.” It is not the first page that has been turned in the […]
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Germany is at a crossroads and now for Friedrich Merz the hard work begins. The point of this election was never just about a nation’s struggle to rediscover its economic mojo or re-evaluate its asylum policy – important as those
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Jessica Parker BBC Berlin correspondent BBC He is the man tipped to be Germany’s next leader: an antidote to Europe’s crisis of confidence, say his supporters. Friedrich Merz, 69, is a familiar face of his conservative party’s old guard. Politically,
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Jessica Parker BBC Berlin correspondent BBC Alya made her way to Germany from Syria 10 years ago, with her then newborn Rami “I was crying,” says Alya, when she saw news of last week’s Munich attack that left a toddler
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Customer recounts moment he saw alleged CEO killer at McDonald’s A witness at the Pennsylvania McDonald’s where Luigi Mangione was arrested said customers had remarked on the 26-year-old’s resemblance to the suspect in the killing of a health insurance CEO
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BBC It costs €15,000 (£12,500) for the whole “package”, we are told. For that we would be given an inflatable dinghy, with an outboard motor and 60 life jackets, to get across the English Channel. This is the “good price”
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Ukrainian national police The attack on central Kherson left six people dead – a police photo blurred one of the victims Six people have been killed in a local market area in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson. According to
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EPA Zelensky during a meeting with Biden in the Oval Office It was billed as a decisive week for Ukraine. A chance for President Volodymyr Zelensky to present his boldly named “victory plan” to America’s most powerful politicians, during a
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Getty Images Zelensky’s plan is designed to be a “bridge” towards stopping the war (file pic) As Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky prepares to reveal a “Victory plan” to President Joe Biden on Thursday, Kyiv is looking to the US leader for
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BBC Ingolf thinks the rest of Germany looks down on people from the old East “If the old parties had done their jobs properly then the AfD would not exist,” Ingolf complains, echoing a common sense that the rest of
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