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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage during a press conference at Glazier's Hall Southwark, south London. Picture date: Wednesday January 7, 2026

European Union / 11 January 2026

EU reset deal to include ‘Farage-clause’ and won't include City

11 January 2026

An EU flag is flown outside the Palace of Westminster following the UK-EU Summit at Lancaster House, in central London, May 19, 2025

EU / 4 January 2026

Britain to get closer to EU single market

4 January 2026

Industry Secretary Tony Benn and his daughter Melissa, 18, leave a church hall polling station on Portobello Road, after casting their votes in the European Referendum on the Common Market

Politics / 5 June 2025

Fifty years since the 1975 EU referendum: we should have listened to Tony Benn

5 June 2025

KEITH BARLOW examines the 1975 referendum that saw Britain vote to stay in the EEC, revealing how Tony Benn understood that EU free-market principles and capital movement rules would tie the hands of any government putting people’s interests before corporate profits

Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, right, speaks with Eu

Editorial: / 9 June 2024

The growth of Europe’s extreme right means trade unions need to mobilise

9 June 2024

French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin (left) and French

World / 25 March 2024

World in brief: March 25, 2024

25 March 2024

Former European Commission President Jacques Delors waits fo

World / 28 December 2023

Former EU Leader dies aged 98

28 December 2023

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, right, wel

World / 7 February 2022

Iran says sanctions remain its ‘red line’ as nuclear deal talks set to resume in Vienna

7 February 2022

World / 15 September 2021

Prospect of EU army increases with renewed calls for military independence in wake of Afghan disaster

15 September 2021

A view of the Brexit-inspired mural by artist Banksy

Britain / 23 July 2021

Thousands of vulnerable EU citizens missed deadline for settled status putting their rights in Britain at risk, report warns

23 July 2021

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis

Features / 14 July 2021

New Greek labour laws are ‘Thatcherite policies on steroids’

14 July 2021

‘Ruthless’ new regulations will mean ‘working more for less pay and without job security.’ TONY BURKE explains why Greek workers are in need of our solidarity

Israelis look at Gaza Strip from an observation post at the

World / 7 July 2021

Israeli bombardment of Gaza caused nearly £300 million in damages, joint report finds

7 July 2021

A man lighting up candle in Teplice, Czech Republic, in the

World / 1 July 2021

EU leaders urged to break their silence over death of Roma man

1 July 2021

Brexit Minister David Frost looks on as Prime Minister Boris

Editorial / 7 June 2021

A united Ireland is the only way through Brexit’s blockages, bottlenecks and bureaucratic burdens

7 June 2021

Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen arrives for an EU

World / 3 June 2021

Denmark condemned for law endorsing third-country processing centre for refugees

3 June 2021

Security use a sniffer dog to check the luggage of passenger

World / 25 May 2021

EU and US accused of manipulating plane grounding incident to further regime change in Belarus

25 May 2021

An aerial view of an under construction COVID-19 hospital th

World / 9 May 2021

EU declines to back vaccine patent waiver in talks with India

9 May 2021

Migrants look at the sea from aboard the Ocean Viking during

World / 3 May 2021

Migrant organisations condemn EU after 11 drown in latest migrant shipwreck off Libyan coast

3 May 2021

Features / 29 April 2021

The European Union – the new conquistadors?

29 April 2021

Far-right forces are claiming to the EU that ‘democracy is under threat’ in Bolivia in a bid to undermine the democratically elected government, says MIRIAM AMANCAY COLQUE

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen arrives f

World / 6 April 2021

EU chiefs meet Erdogan to rebuild relations despite escalation of Turkish aggression

6 April 2021

World / 1 April 2021

Campaigners welcome European universities’ decisions to end agreements with Ariel University on stolen land

1 April 2021

The European Court of Justice in Luxembourg

World / 31 March 2021

EU takes Poland to court over judicial independence

31 March 2021

World / 25 March 2021

EU needs to boost vaccine production to get rollout on track, says Merkel

25 March 2021

World / 24 March 2021

EU ‘green deal’ will pave the way for more fossil gas and burning of trees, warns Greta Thunberg

24 March 2021

A rainbow flag flutters in the wind at the financial quarter

World / 12 March 2021

European Union declared LGBT freedom zone in rebuke to Poland and Hungary

12 March 2021

Britain / 5 March 2021

Home Office taken to court over ‘unlawful’ child refugee policy

5 March 2021

World / 28 February 2021

EU summons its ambassador to Cuba to explain support for ending US blockade

28 February 2021

European Union Ambassador to Venezuela Isabel Brilhante Pedr

World / 25 February 2021

Venezuela expels EU ambassador over new sanctions during pandemic

25 February 2021

Venezuela's interim president Juan Guaido

World / 23 February 2021

Venezuela calls on EU to ‘cease its systematic aggression’ against Latin American countries

23 February 2021

World / 15 February 2021

Campaigners call for halt to imperialist pipeline project and theft of Palestinian resources

15 February 2021

Editorial / 30 December 2020

The Brexit agreement is bad – but it needn’t dictate our future

30 December 2020

World / 29 December 2020

EU urged to ban trade with illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories

29 December 2020

Prime Minister Boris Johnson in Brussels, Belgium, for a din

Features / 29 December 2020

This is a Johnson Brexit deal – and he must be made to own it

29 December 2020

The EU agreement oven-bakes free market capitalism into the fabric of our economy and is harmful to Britain, says CLAUDIA WEBBE MP

European Union chief negotiator Michel Barnier, center, carr

Britain / 28 December 2020

EU ambassadors provisionally ‘green-light’ Britain’s post-Brexit trade deal

28 December 2020

Britain / 28 December 2020

Demand for immigration advice on the increase

28 December 2020

A view of the Brexit-inspired mural by artist Banksy in Dove

Britain / 27 December 2020

Big battles ahead on rights, left warns as vote on ‘weak’ Brexit deal nears

27 December 2020

two Afghan families walk in a clearing after leaving a Croat

World / 21 December 2020

EU warns Bosnia that thousands of refugees face winter without shelter

21 December 2020

World / 21 December 2020

World in brief: December 21, 2020

21 December 2020

Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a news conference in res

Britain / 18 December 2020

Boris Johnson: Brexit trade deal ‘looking difficult’ as ‘deadline’ looms

18 December 2020

Britain / 11 December 2020

Unions warn against a no-deal Brexit

11 December 2020

The Union flag flies outside the Berlaymont building, the He

Editorial / 9 December 2020

Brussels: Boris does the Brexit dance as the US waits in the wings

9 December 2020

Passengers arriving back to the UK pass through customs and

Britain / 9 December 2020

PM dodges questions on how many post-Brexit customs agents are ready for January 1

9 December 2020

Britain / 7 December 2020

UK-EU negotiations remain stuck on issue of ‘level playing field’

7 December 2020

Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a media briefing on coro

Editorial / 4 December 2020

Boris Johnson is not ideologically anti-EU, let alone pro-‘No Deal’

4 December 2020

Britain / 4 December 2020

EU trade talks: hopes of a deal ‘receding’

4 December 2020

Boris Johnson watches quality testing at the 'fill and finis

Editorial / 2 December 2020

It’s the public good that should be the priority in vaccination research

2 December 2020

Britain / 10 November 2020

Lords inflict crushing defeat on government's ‘toxic’ Internal Market Bill

10 November 2020

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen

World / 8 April 2020

Top EU scientist quits over inadequate response to the coronavirus

8 April 2020

Refugees gather as riot police guard a gate in Moria camp on

World / 17 March 2020

Greek border guards ‘detained, sexually assaulted, robbed and stripped’ refugees

17 March 2020

Greece orders coronavirus lockdown of all migrant camps on Aegean islands

A child cries as migrants arrive at the village of Skala Sik

World / 2 March 2020

Two dead and hundreds more in distress as chaos ensues at Greece-Turkey border

2 March 2020

Video shows apparent Greek Coastguard firing warning shots at refugee dinghy

Ken Loach on stage at the Theatre Royal Stratford East in Lo

Britain / 15 December 2019

Film director Ken Loach urges European socialists to ‘clarify’ their stance on the EU

15 December 2019

Britain / 8 October 2019

MSPs and unions join the campaign to defend EU nationals

8 October 2019

Features / 21 September 2019

Looking to a future free of EU control

21 September 2019

PHIL KATZ flags a new initiative to build the case for a people’s Brexit

Revellers at last year's Avante Festival

World / 8 September 2019

Communists call for Europe of the peoples and workers, not the EU of big capital at Portugal gathering

8 September 2019

Pro-European Union supporters gather in central London, for

Features / 21 August 2019

Second referendum? Not in my name

21 August 2019

I’m a young person who would’ve voted to remain – here’s why I don’t want to ‘have my say’ in a second referendum, writes HECTOR GIBBS

Features / 28 July 2019

Remain and Regret

28 July 2019

The Labour Party is risking a golden opportunity if it goes down the dead-end Remain road, argues PAUL O’CONNELL

Activists block the entrance to the European Investment Bank

World / 7 June 2019

Protesters demand European Investment Bank ends investment in fossil fuel projects

7 June 2019

Britain / 29 May 2019

Boris Johnson to be summonsed to court

29 May 2019

Migrants rescued by the crew of the NGO ship Sea-Watch 3 arr

Features / 20 May 2019

Migrant rescue ship defies Italy's alt-right poster boy Matteo Salvini

20 May 2019

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn during campaigning in Peterborou

Britain / 30 April 2019

Labour NEC reaffirms party's existing policy on leaving the EU

30 April 2019

The governing body agreed the party will commit to supporting a second referendum if a general election cannot be forced, or if the government will not change its policy on Brexit

Britain / 18 April 2019

European Parliament votes for £11bn subsidy to arms companies

18 April 2019

The Sea-Watch rescue ship Alan Kurdi sails in the waters off

World / 15 April 2019

Migrants abroad the Alan Kurdi finally given refuge

15 April 2019

Sea-Eye described Europe's handling of the emergency as ‘a shameful episode’

Britain / 5 April 2019

DUP takes aim at May's ‘slapdash’ Brexit approach

5 April 2019

EU leaders stand around listening to European Council Presid

Britain / 22 March 2019

EU leaders criticised for holding Britain to ransom over Brexit

22 March 2019

A projection on the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, Lon

Editorial / 22 March 2019

Remainers have more in common with Leavers than those leading them

22 March 2019

Theresa May speaks during Prime Minister's Questions in the

Editorial / 20 March 2019

May's deal is dead. But what does that mean for Labour?

20 March 2019

Editorial / 14 March 2019

Public losing patience with Brexit delaying tactics

14 March 2019

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan waves as he addresse

World / 14 March 2019

EU hands Erdogan's regime £1.2bn as part of its ‘shameful’ refugee deal

14 March 2019

Features / 13 March 2019

We shouldn’t applaud them – Airbus tycoons are our true EU rulers

13 March 2019

Labour MPs cheering on threats of capital flight are everything thats wrong about the left’s current EU-naivety, writes EDDIE DEMPSEY

Features / 4 February 2019

Brexit and bereavement — beyond the politics of despair

4 February 2019

Parliament is obsessed with the petty, bitter politics of division. Labour has to shift the conversation into a politics of hope, says ALAN SIMPSON

Supporters of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro march in C

Editorial / 27 January 2019

The counter-revolution acquires a new flavour

27 January 2019

Features / 22 January 2019

It’s time to smash the Tories, stay in the EU and deliver the Corbyn project

22 January 2019

We must stand up for working people by fighting Tory Brexit, says MANUEL CORTES

Britain / 20 January 2019

Lexit campaigners discuss how to defend EU referendum result

20 January 2019

Features / 18 January 2019

David Aaronovitch follows in the footsteps of Paul Mason

18 January 2019

The befuddled Times journo takes a swipe at Corbyn. NICK WRIGHT explains

Britain / 7 January 2019

May must stop avoiding a meaningful vote on her Brexit deal, Corbyn tells MPs

7 January 2019

Cartoon / 3 December 2018

May's road to nowhere...

3 December 2018

by Steve

Jeremy Corbyn and shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer look

Britain / 26 November 2018

MPs have no choice but to reject May's Brexit deal, Corbyn charges

26 November 2018

Ploughing on with the current deal is not stoic but ‘an act of national self-harm,’ the Labour leader told Parliament today

Cartoon / 18 November 2018

May rues the day

18 November 2018

by Billy B

Editorial / 14 November 2018

May’s bogus Brexit deal should be rejected in its entirety

14 November 2018

World / 4 November 2018

CPI's McCartan calls on labour movement to 'step up the struggle for an Irish exit' from the EU

4 November 2018

Keir Starmer delivers a speech at Labour Conference 2018

Features / 26 September 2018

Keir Starmer's Brexit position could cost Labour the next election

26 September 2018

After his conference outbursts, how does his argument for staying in the EU stand up, asks JENNY PEARSON

Britain / 18 September 2018

Brexit deadline could be extended

18 September 2018

World / 11 September 2018

Hungary warned over far-right policies

11 September 2018

Editorial / 9 July 2018

Johnson and Davis's exit may plunge the Tories into terminal crisis

9 July 2018

World / 29 June 2018

EU ‘deliberately condemning people to drown at sea,’ warns Doctors Without Borders

29 June 2018

Britain / 28 June 2018

MPs demand May outline costs of Brexit

28 June 2018

Former justice minister Phillip Lee speaks during a debate i

Britain / 12 June 2018

Justice minister quits over Tories' ‘irresponsible’ Brexit approach

12 June 2018

Venezuela / 30 May 2018

Maduro blasts EU ‘colonialism’ after further sanctions

30 May 2018

Britain / 8 May 2018

EU opposition to socialism 'why I voted against every European treaty:' Dennis Skinner

8 May 2018

Veteran MP for Bolsover tells the Morning Star the European Commission's fear of Corbyn is no surprise

STUC Conference ’18 / 16 April 2018

Brexit ‘a huge opportunity’ to end race to the bottom on pay, delegates hear

16 April 2018

Hungary / 15 April 2018

Pro-EU marchers demand new election after losing

15 April 2018

Editorial / 29 March 2018

The EU's military mobility plan is a sign of dangerous militarisation

29 March 2018

World / 28 March 2018

EU announces free movement plan - for armies

28 March 2018

Catalan regional police officers stand amid smoke during cla

Spain / 26 March 2018

Puigdemont awaits German decision on whether to extradite after protesters rail against his arrest

26 March 2018

Trade / 23 March 2018

EU leaders miffed at only getting temporary exemption from US steel and aluminium tariffs

23 March 2018

World / 14 March 2018

EU reveals counter to Trump’s steep export tariffs

14 March 2018

World / 14 March 2018

EU threatens diplomats with visa sanctions if their countries refuse deportees

14 March 2018

EU Withdrawal / 13 March 2018

Jeremy Corbyn is right, Brexit will be what we make of it

13 March 2018

Membership of the single market does not permit the rebalancing of the economy Britain needs to get back on its feet, writes DOUG NICHOLLS

Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard, shadow Scottish secretary Lesley Laird and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn

Scottish Labour Conference / 9 March 2018

Rightwingers ordered to stop scuppering Brexit

9 March 2018

CONRAD LANDIN reports from Scottish Labour Conference in Dundee

World / 6 March 2018

Luxembourg to join Austria in anti-nuclear EU lawsuit

6 March 2018

The Prime Minister wants to tie Britain into EU rules on com

Editorial / 2 March 2018

Theresa May's Brexit vision would maintain the worst aspects of EU membership

2 March 2018

World / 2 March 2018

Dutch PM Rutte sets out vision for a deregulating, militarised EU in Berlin speech

2 March 2018

analysis / 2 March 2018

Labour’s customs union with the EU is a work in progress

2 March 2018

Britain / 2 March 2018

TUC leader slams 'chasm' between May's rhetoric and reality

2 March 2018

Jeremy Corbyn has set out a Brexit negotiating strategy that

Features / 1 March 2018

A progressive Brexit is possible

1 March 2018

Amid difficult political terrain, the Labour leadership has spelled out how to advance working-class interests without conceding to xenophobia or nationalism in a post-Brexit Britain, says VINCE MILLS