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    International trade
    UK ready to build ‘closer, more mature’ trade links with EU

    New business secretary set to tell international counterparts at G7 meeting ‘Britain is back on world stage’
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    Roma, Gypsies and Travellers
    Rights groups decry lack of Roma MEPs amid far-right gains

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    European Union
    Top EU officials to boycott informal meetings hosted by Hungary

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    European Union
    EU leaders ‘open-minded’ about future relations with UK, says senior official

  • Emmanuel Macron at a Bastille Day parade in Paris, 14 July 2024: he is seen in the centre of the picture in a street with lines of soldiers in ceremonial uniform and plumed hats facing him. He wears a dark blue suit with shirt and tie and is positioned so he appears to be looking down the ranks from a height.

    France
    France: failure to agree on new PM puts leftwing coalition in ‘stalemate’

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    Italy
    Widow ‘totally shocked’ as US tourist granted house arrest in Rome murder case

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  • The UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, with the Northern Ireland secretary, Hilary Benn (right), meeting the president of Sinn Féin, Mary Lou McDonald,  and Northern Ireland's first minister Michelle O'Neill (left) at Stormont in Belfast.

    Prospect of Irish unification referendum remains remote despite Sinn Féin gains

  • Giorgia Meloni with Viktor Orbán.

    The Guardian view on the far right in Brussels: the centre must do more than hold

  • Simon Jenkins

    It’s worrying to see the prime minister cheerleading for war. Will Ukraine turn into Starmer’s Iraq?

    Simon Jenkins
  • Nathalie Tocci

    Georgia is on the frontline of the struggle between Russia and the west. Will its democracy survive?

    Nathalie Tocci
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  • An EU flag outside parliament in London

    Keir Starmer urged to quickly fix ‘broken’ EU settlement scheme

  • UK prime minister Keir Starmer, left, meeting Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky in Washington DC.

    ‘Britain is back’: Keir Starmer promises UK will be at the heart of Europe

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      Wetherspoon’s boss Tim Martin praises economic ‘pedigree’ of Rachel Reeves

    • Keir Starmer

      Starmer praises Abbott and hails diverse Commons in first speech to parliament as PM – as it happened

    • Nigel Farage claims in first Commons speech that John Bercow tried to 'overturn' Brexit – video

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  • Anti-government protesters in Albania hurl petrol bombs and scuffle with police

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    Albanian anti-government protesters hurl petrol bombs and scuffle with police – video

  • Zelenskiy urges Nato allies to lift restrictions on Ukrainian strikes inside Russian territory

    Zelenskiy urges Ukraine's allies to lift restrictions on strikes inside Russian territory – video

  • Nato chief says 'Ukraine's future is in Nato' in joint news conference with Zelenskiy

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    Nato chief says 'Ukraine's future is in Nato' in joint news conference with Zelenskiy – video

  • The spire of the gothic cathedral of the French city of Rouen in Normandy has caught fire during renovation works

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    Rouen’s cathedral spire on fire during renovation work – video

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