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EUROPEAN Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker hailed the EU empire’s eastward expansion yesterday — claiming it had no second-class members.
Addressing the Romanian parliament, Mr Juncker said the country’s EU membership in 2007 had extended the bloc’s reach to the Black Sea.
“In the EU, there have never been second-rate countries or countries that are left behind,” the unelected Eurocrat claimed. But he stressed the bloc’s new line that member states could progress “with different rhythms.”
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As the Alliance of Sahel States and southern African nations advance pan-African goals, the African Union must listen and learn rather than parroting the Western line on these positive developments, writes ROGER McKENZIE
US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT