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Who are the best-paid MPs in the European Union?

Exclusive: Huge differences exist between MPs’ salaries and expenses across the EU with some countries paying their parliamentarians ten times more

12/04/2016

World News

France pledges half a billion euros aid to students

Prime Minister Manuel Valls proposed measures to boost youth employment including subsidies for young job seekers and aid for apprentices and students, as protesters threaten to continue their Nuit De

11/04/2016

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Ceremonial dance at the Itsukushima Shrine

Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven industrialised nations enjoyed a traditional Japanese dance on Sunday evening at one of Japan’s holiest

11/04/2016

Ukraine

Ukraine's parliamentary speaker set to become new PM

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has signalled his support for parliamentary speaker Volodymyr Groysman to replace him after tendering his

10/04/2016

World News

Ukraine's prime minister resigns in televised address

Arseniy Yatsenyuk blames "politicians' failure to enact real changes"

10/04/2016

World News

Pay MPs too little and you attract the under-qualified, says expert

Paying Europe’s MPs too little could see only the independently wealthy get involved in politics, an expert has claimed, just like Donald Trump in

06/04/2016

Iceland

'Panama Papers' push Iceland's PM to resign

Iceland’s under pressure prime minister,Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson has tendered his resignation after his family’s offshore investments were

05/04/2016

Iceland

'Panama Papers': Iceland's prime minister requests dissolution of parliament

Iceland’s Prime Minister, Sigmunder Gunnlaugsson has asked for parliament to be dissolved in the wake of the ‘Panama Papers’ scandal. However

05/04/2016

Brazil

Brazil: Lula rallies support for Dilma as impeachment looms

Brazil’s former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been rallying support for his beleaguered political protégé and successor Dilma Rousseff as

05/04/2016

Hungary

Former Hungarian politician Bela Biszku has died

Former Hungarian politician Bela Biszku has died. He was the only high-ranking communist-era official to be tried for his role in a deadly crackdown

01/04/2016

Iraq

Moqtada al-Sadr gives green light to proposed Iraqi cabinet reshuffle

Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has presented a new cabinet to parliament, just in time for the March 31 deadline. Parliament will vote on the

31/03/2016

Iraq

Iraq: PM al-Abadi presents new cabinet just in time for deadline

Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has presented a new cabinet to parliament, just in time for the March 31 deadline. Parliament will vote on the

31/03/2016

Libya

Libya's unity government arrives in Tripoli despite blockade

UN-backed government defies attempts to keep it out

31/03/2016

Iraq

Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr enters Baghdad's Green Zone

Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has entered Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone, beginning a sit-in to call for government reform. On February 13, Sadr

28/03/2016

Real Economy

Facing up to Europe's urban integration challenges

With almost seven out of 10 people in Europe living in towns and cities, this week Real Economy is exploring the economics of urban integration. The

21/03/2016

Russia

Crimea ceremonies mark two years since Russian annexation

President Putin visits to check progress on the construction of a 19-kilometre bridge linking peninsula to Russian mainland

18/03/2016

Europe News

Cyprus warns it will veto EU-Turkey deal: exclusive

Cyprus will veto a planned EU-Turkey deal on refugees unless Ankara recognises the country’s Greek Cypriot government, President Nicos Anastasiades

17/03/2016

USA

Is it too late to stop the Donald Trump machine?

Trump has a good night at what was dubbed Super Tuesday II, despite defeat in Ohio

16/03/2016

World News

Venezuela opposition launches fresh push to oust Nicolas Maduro

The opposition in Venezuela has launched a new drive to oust Socialist President Nicolas Maduro. Saturday’s big rally in Caracas was passionate but

13/03/2016

Turkey

Erdogan warns Turkey's top courts over freed journalists

Turkey’s president warned the country’s top court that it’s survival would be up for debate if it repeated rulings that were against the country

11/03/2016