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Redaktion Published: July 7th, 2024

How the EU and UK can now work together

With the victory of Keir Starmer’s Labour Party in the UK general election, a long series of political misjudgments and personal shortcomings by the British Tories were harshly punished after 14 years in power. An absolute majority of 172 is reminiscent of Tony Blair in 1997, while on the Conservative side 11 cabinet members lost […]

Redaktion Published: July 3rd, 2024

No new faction around the BSW

The formation of a new parliamentary group in the European Parliament around the Sahra Wagenknecht alliance (BSW) has failed. This was admitted by BSW lead candidate Fabio De Masi on Wednesday. They had come very close to forming a new parliamentary group in the meantime but had not found enough supporters. Now they want to […]

Redaktion Published: July 3rd, 2024

New opportunities for EU-UK relations after the British elections 

Polls predict a significant victory for the Labour Party under Keir Starmer. However, even with a change in government, no fundamental reversal of Brexit is expected. Labour has already ruled out a return to the EU single market or the customs union, as well as any form of cooperation that would require a return to […]