A tanker ship heads into Liverpool harbour as a pilot boats heads out. In the background. In the background, the Burbo Bank wind farm. While new facilities have increased capacity, the UK currently imports 6% of its electricity.
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A year after Brexit, experts from the Grenoble École de Management and the Centre for European Economic Research look at what impacts the UK’s leaving the EU could have on energy prices and security.
Neighbours enjoy Madrid’s outdoor Cinema Usera.
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Born seemingly spontaneously out of a desire to create and manage shared spaces, Madrid’s “citizen laboratories” are using new tools to build a new vision of how cities should be planned and run.
Crossing borders have always been tough for Africans.
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The introduction of an African passport has the capacity to bring about increased migration of Africans within Africa.
Theresa May allow EU citizens to stay – or she may not.
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After a whole year, the British PM has finally said something about post-Brexit rights for people living in the UK.
Migrants are being rescued by members of the “Proactiva open arms” NGO, off the coast of the Island of Lesbos (Greece).
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Accused of cooperating with smugglers, NGOs defend migrants’ right to life and point to the inadequate policies of European states.
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A huge number of new politicians have joined the National Assembly after the 2017 election.
French President Macron attends a ceremony marking the 77th anniversary of de Gaulle’s resistance call of June 18, 1940.
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Despite a low voter turnout, the new French president has a solid majority in parliament. He will need it to push his reforms at home and in Europe.
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The great Irish novelist saw himself as European first, Irish second. There’s a lesson in that for the UK.
Sparks fly: workers produce steel at a small plant in Shenyang, northeast China.
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Politicians in Europe, the US and the UK have blamed steel industry woes on artificially cheap imports.
UKIP leader Paul Nuttall.
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The party lost its seat in parliament and polled less than two per cent of the vote.
Who knows?
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June 9, 2017
James Tilley , University of Oxford ; Ben Williams , University of Salford ; Daniel Fitzpatrick , Aston University ; John Garry , Queen's University Belfast ; Kathryn Simpson , Manchester Metropolitan University ; Laura McAllister , Cardiff University ; Matthew Cole , University of Birmingham ; Michael Kitson , Cambridge Judge Business School ; Neil Matthews , University of Bristol ; Parveen Akhtar , Aston University ; Richard Murphy , City, University of London ; Robin Pettitt , Kingston University ; Stuart Wilks-Heeg , University of Liverpool , and William McDougall , Glasgow Caledonian University
Rolling coverage of the general election results from expert academics.
German prisoners of war helped to construct the road leading to Wembley stadium in 1948.
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… and why their treatment angered human rights campaigners at the time.
On June 1, 2017, President Donald Trump announced that he would take the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement, and that he could negotiate a “better deal”.
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On June 1, Donald Trump announced that he would take the US out of the Paris climate agreement because it was “unfair” to the US. An economic analysis indicates otherwise.
‘Pulse of Europe’ supporters hold banners before a meeting between Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron on May 15 2017 in Berlin.
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Even if populist movements have been turned back in a few European elections, populism is not going to disappear. The EU needs a strategy to contain it.
Merkel consider her options after meeting with Trump on May 26, 2017, in Italy.
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For more than seven decades, US presidents have encouraged peace in Europe. Trump seems eager to toss that legacy aside. Here’s what is at stake.
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According to a new study, the environment, especially traffic-air pollutants, can impact our genes and increase allergy risks prior to birth.
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Dublin’s role in global business is threatened by Trump’s tax plans, so the opportunity presented by Britain’s EU exit will have to be snatched with both hands.
US President Donald Trump arrives at the Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport in Rome.
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European leaders are still trying to decipher Trump’s thinking on NATO, Europe and many other issues.
The UK’s future trade deals will be subject to EU member state approval.
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It’s likely that a future UK-EU trade deal will be subject to approval by all EU member states and their sub-national parliaments.
Team Macron is ready to talk. You pick the language.
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President Macron is known for his excellent grasp of English, but his top team are also rather good at German.