Politics

Donald Trump's picks for the big science and technology jobs seem calculated to spread despair. Scientists need to formulate a robust response

Academic institutions, such as Leipzig University, must learn how to stand firm and not let intimidation become routine

Donald Trump will abandon us as soon as it suits him and pretending otherwise is nonsense

A refresh of EU product safety standards, GPSR, will be a disaster for the UK’s small exporters, with the government little help

If the reality show is intended to revive his career, Jacob may end up being disappointed

Ridiculous borrowing, impossible promises and an unwillingness to face reality have led to budget deadlock and talk of a Greek-style financial crisis

There’s a good case for shaking up UK campaign finance - but banning one particular donation would backfire

Bucking global trends, voters kept the incumbents in charge and Sinn Féin out of power in the general election. But Trump may be about to throw a spanner in the works.

Britain and Europe are up against an alliance of evil. Now is the time to resist Russia, and for the UK to lead by example

The Slovak prime minister agrees with Trump about everything — well, almost

It’s being outdone by China and has failed to transition to electric vehicles. Can the big manufacturers on the continent go into overdrive? Or are they heading for a crash?

Victory for Kim Leadbeater’s bill won’t stop legitimate doubts about it - or it becoming a distraction for a PM struggling to define himself

Why has No.10 been so swift to wield the axe now when the PM has known about her conviction for years?

Telling small groups of people that they will be taken seriously if only they shout loudly enough is damaging for democracy

Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage won a referendum on the lie that leaving the EU would control immigration

Călin Georgescu is a textbook post-truth politician: a conspiracy theorist, anti-vaxxer, climate change denier, and moon landing sceptic

The country has twice rejected the chance to join the EU, including in a referendum 30 years ago this week with a 52:48 split. Why did they say no? And how’s it working out for them?

I was there when Chirac asked for money that should have gone to Lebanon’s citizens. Now Macron is struggling to save the country from destruction

A misjudged call for the government’s resignation and a string of lame jokes made for another poor performance from the Tory leader

While Keir Starmer continues to pretend that a worthwhile deal can be done without concessions or going back to the single market, this role is a non-starter

The president-elect’s embrace of comedians, podcasters and combat sports stars is a lesson for hectoring liberals

Across the world, a new coalition is growing – of exhausted people on all sides who are gunning for Scholz, Macron... and Starmer

In paying their tributes, many people are still underestimating the former deputy prime minister

The sneaky, the snobbish and the snide. The spiteful, the shameless and the downright sinister. They are all shits – and all here in the New European’s annual rundown of 50 people the UK could definitely do without

People who were born during the postwar ‘baby boom’ are sick of being tarred with the same brush. One size does not fit all

Following a rise in politically motivated sentences after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, prisoners in Russia and Belarus have come to rely on letters from strangers

The country has an obsession with cleanliness but there are some kinks in its food waste system that need to be ironed out

If Umbria is hailed as the heart of Italy, then its capital, Perugia, is the heart of all things chocolatey

Despite the new globalised name, speculoos, thankfully, still taste like home

There are few things we like better than stories about good people who turned out to be less so