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GREEKS took to the streets yesterday to oppose their country’s “irrational” bailout deal with foreign creditors, as parliament voted on EU-dictated austerity laws.
MPs had until midnight to pass the raft of laws committing the country to years of spending cuts — on top of those which had already crippled the economy since 2010 — as a precondition for the deal.
But Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s Syriza party — elected in January on an anti-austerity manifesto — faced opposition from its own backbenchers and coalition party Anel, leaving it reliant on the pro-austerity opposition.
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
