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Inside America’s midterm election battle

With the outcome set to have consequences far beyond Washington, from trade to defense, we’re bringing you a special episode of The Conversation , hosted by POLITICO’s Dasha Burns. Dasha sits down with two political…

Burnham tries to avoid a slavery reparations ‘disaster’

Judah suggested this would improve attendance at CHOGM, which is often patchy; India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi does not plan to attend next week’s summit, for example, though there will be a delegation led by…

Got beef? When politics meets meat

Trump this week poked fun at James Talarico, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas, saying he was absent from the campaign trail after being “food poisoned by meat ’cause he can’t stand it.” Talarico has, in…

Britain by numbers: everything we don’t know about the country

So this week on Westminster Insider , Sascha and Pat look into the numbers behind Britain’s economy — and just how much government policy is really made up of guesswork, rather than solid measurements. Sascha talks to Dr…

Who’s afraid of whom in Brussels?

Spare a thought, too, for the MEPs who may have to vote through the amendments one by one, with hands raised in plenary. Commission officials are scared of Austria’s Europe minister Well-heeled Commission officials (and…

The debate over membership semantics became a luncheon laugh line when European Council President António Costa endorsed Von der Leyen’s offer to Canada before joking the final designation is “subject to revision” EU…

Europe’s coffin-makers warn Chinese imports could be death knell for industry

The coalition is concerned that such shipments could escape accurate recording in import statistics, obscuring the true extent of Chinese competition. This has led to a hypothesis that manufacturers have dubbed the “IKEA…

Everything that went wrong with Spain’s high-speed railways

Spain’s transport ministry says the preliminary investigation points to a chain of failures. After a computer malfunction knocked out the German-made signaling system installed in 1992, railway network officials took…

Healey backs away from cutting welfare cost amid warnings of public finance shortfall

Experts rounded on Healey's steady-as-she-goes budget on Thursday, with the Institute for Fiscal Studies saying he had left himself a mountain to climb by ducking big tax and spending decisions. In a damning analysis…

Left-wing Berlin mayor candidate’s private Hamas remarks complicate coalition talks

Eralp acknowledged that boundaries had been crossed at some campaign events. The journalists then asked whether she was referring to Ibrahim Ibrahim, a pro-Palestinian agitator who attended the Left Party’s…