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Merkel and Cameron: unstitching a stitch-up
It would be an unwise person who put money on Jean-Claude Juncker to be next for top job at the European Commission, after David Cameron and Angela Merkel’s talks in Sweden.
Catalina was one of the main characters in our film about life in Bucharest’s tunnels. After the film was shown, she died from Aids-related heart failure. Channel 4 News returned for her funeral.
It would be an unwise person who put money on Jean-Claude Juncker to be next for top job at the European Commission, after David Cameron and Angela Merkel’s talks in Sweden.
A senior aide to Herman von Rompuy has briefed Der Speigel that he expects Jean-Claude Juncker “to decide to withdraw if criticism continues”.
Several Tories who worked on the Newark by-election told me voters who said they weren’t massive fans of the Conservatives but would vote Tory in the by-election to keep Ukip out.
The leaders of the powerful G7 industrial nations meet in Brussels – with a noticeable exception – Russia President Vladimir Putin.
US president Barack Obama says it would be “hard to imagine” that it would be in Britain’s interests to leave the EU, and hints that the US would prefer Scotland not to vote for independence.
Angela Merkel may want France to propose Christine Lagarde as the new European Commission boss. But neither she nor Luxembourg’s Jean-Claude Juncker are safe bets for the job.
How do you solve a problem like Europe? Former prime minister Tony Blair has a go, suggesting Britain should lead on reform in Brussels, while current leader David Cameron gets into an EU spat.
Google introduces a new form allowing people in Europe to request that information about them on the web is removed from search results.
Ukip gains at the polls and an eventual exit from the European Union – the prediction of one academic if voter apathy persists among young people in this country.
So is it payback time for the worst financial crisis in living memory? If so, who was to blame?
Larry Summers, key adviser to presidents Clinton and Obama, is still an advocate of free market capitalism. But what does he think about the link between the EU’s political and economic crises?
Prime Minister David Cameron is pushing other EU leaders to embrace reform following the political “earthquake” that saw eurosceptic parties succeed in the European elections.
Marine Le Pen’s Front National has gripped the French electorate in the Euro elections but offers few solutions for the country’s deep-seated problems.
Nick Clegg says the results of the European elections – which have left the Liberal Democrats with just one MEP – are “gutting” and “heartbreaking”, but insists he will not walk away from the party.