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Poland's President Just Set a Veto Record No One Came Close To, and the Government Can't Get Past Him

WARSAW, June 13 -- President Karol Nawrocki has vetoed more bills than any Polish head of state in the country's post-communist history, blocking his 37th piece of legislation barely ten months into a... Read More


Indonesia's Students Call It 'Heading to Bankruptcy' as Prabowo's Fuel Hike Brings Them Back to the Streets

Around 2, June 13 -- Thousands of Indonesian students poured into central Jakarta to denounce President Prabowo Subianto's economic management, returning to the streets after the government raised fue... Read More


France Says an Israeli Firm Ran Fake Accounts Against Gaza Critics, From Swinney to Mamdani

EDINBURGH, June 13 -- France's state disinformation watchdog has concluded that an Israeli company ran coordinated networks of fake social media accounts against politicians who criticized Israel's wa... Read More


Fortress Europe Becomes Law: The EU's Asylum Pact Takes Effect, and the Database Crashes by Lunchtime

BRUSSELS, June 13 -- The European Union's Migration and Asylum Pact took full legal effect on Friday, converting into binding law the largest hardening of the continent's asylum system in a generation... Read More


A Safe Full of Jewels: Spain Opens a New Probe of Zapatero, the First Ex-PM Investigated Since Franco

MADRID, June 13 -- The jewels were in a safe. More than a hundred pieces, a court says, together worth over 1.3 million euros, found by police in the Madrid office of a man who once governed Spain. On... Read More


America Tells Europe to Spend More, Then Pulls a Third of Its Fighter Jets Off the Continent

WASHINGTON, June 12 -- The administration that has spent the year telling Europe to stop free-riding on American protection is preparing to remove a third of the fighter jets it commits to the contine... Read More


Hungary Tables the Anti-Graft Law Meant to Unlock the Billions Orban Froze

BUDAPEST, June 10 -- For sixteen years the money sat at the center of the fight, billions in European funds frozen in Brussels while Viktor Orban built the state that gave the European Union reason to... Read More


Farage Will Headline the CPAC Britain He Swore to Avoid, and Truss Gets Her Stage

LONDON, June 10 -- When the American right's traveling conference announced its British franchise in March, with Liz Truss as its face, Nigel Farage's party had two words for it: well clear. That is w... Read More


Badenoch Would Scrap Britain's Equality Duty and Triple Stop-and-Search

LONDON, June 10 -- The argument Kemi Badenoch brought to the Institute for Government on Tuesday was that Britain's institutions have been frightened into failure, that the fear of being called racist... Read More


Washington Told Britain to Drop Its Under-16 Social Media Ban. London Said No.

LONDON, June 10 -- The lobbying came on official paper. The United States government, through its embassy in London, formally asked Britain not to protect its children the way Britain has decided to p... Read More