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Merz puts spending reform at the heart of the EU budget debate

EU spending should be modernized to focus on defense investment and competitiveness with cuts to traditional agriculture or regional subsidies, according to Friedrich Merz, the German chancellor. Germany – Europe’s biggest economy and biggest contributor to Brussels’ budget – has…

Historic American hotels where US history happened

The United States turns 250 this summer, and the momentum has, to put it politely, gotten away from us. There are now two competing federal commissions—one bipartisan and created by Congress, the other a White House task force that sells…

The “terrible but necessary” work week

Photo by Lauren Hurley / No 10 Downing Street There was a moment yesterday when Labor reached a state of near desperation. Keir Starmer loyalists or not, they appeared to be ending a week of convulsions with Labor weakened, divided…