It’s one damned thing after another. As Keir Starmer is discovering, government, like life, can feel like a fusillade of events, each coming faster than the one before. If it’s not a cabinet minister resigning over a past fraud conviction, it’s MPs voting for assisted dying – and that’s just in one day. Through that blizzard of news, it can be hard to make out the lasting changes in the landscape – even those that have profound implications for our place in the world.
I pray EU leaders realize the world needs a strong Europe. At the very least their existence as they know it needs a strong Europe.
Which is why Putin appears to be doing his level best to make that not happen.
Conservatives and the far right are at the helm right now thanks to Von Der Leyen… I had high hopes but it’s probably not gonna happen…
I’m out of the loop, what did she do?
She formed a new Commission following the European elections, a big chunk of it is conservative and right wing politicians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_der_Leyen_Commission_II