Can consumers keep driving the recovery?
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The UK inflation rate has leapt to 2.3% – here’s why the government is secretly happy about it.
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An influx of people seeking shelter from conflict has sharpened attitudes against groups which have been in Europe for centuries.
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Some radical thinking is in order if the union is to overcome the current crisis.
Rutte’s party remains the largest.
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Prime Minister Mark Rutte saw off the populists, but his smaller coalition partner has been hammered.
Prime Minister Mark Rutte saw off far-right challenger Geert Wilders.
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EU leaders will breathe a sigh of relief after the centre-right saw off the populist threat.
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Dutch populism goes back much further than Trump, Brexit or even Geert Wilders.
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Taking a hard line on hard Brexit has cost Britain goodwill just as it needs allies.
All smiles at 11 Downing Street.
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March 8, 2017
Michael Kitson , Cambridge Judge Business School ; Andrew Gunn , University of Leeds ; Catherine Needham , University of Birmingham ; Donald Hirsch , Loughborough University ; Geraint Johnes , Lancaster University ; Ian Greenwood , University of Leeds ; Jonquil Lowe , The Open University ; Kevin Farnsworth , University of York ; Michael Devereux , University of Oxford , and Simon Wren-Lewis , University of Oxford
Philip Hammond delivers his last Spring Budget on the state of the UK economy. Our panel of experts dissect what it says.
Getting his sums right?
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Recent history shows us why we should take the latest healthy forecasts with a pinch of salt.
He’s got the cheese selection, but no party.
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In France, a president has no real power without a parliamentary majority. And Macron doesn’t even have a party.
Still a bit of a mystery, but an appealing one.
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He’s got Le Pen rattled at an important phase in the election campaign, even without a manifesto.
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The former PM has resigned as leader of his party in the hope of returning to the top job. But it hasn’t quite gone to plan.
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There’s a lot of talk about a Brexit ‘divorce bill’ costing the UK tens of billions – we got two academics to check the facts.
Signing the Treaty of Rome in 1957.
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It’s almost as though Europe saw Brexit coming when the Treaties of Rome were signed in 1957.
A banner deal for the auto sector?
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The French group might well manage to turn around General Motors’ struggling division, but plants will close, and the UK looks vulnerable.
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2017 could be the year of the far-right in Europe, and spell the end of the EU.
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Another ‘last chance’ has been missed. But while talks disintegrate, islanders are just getting on with peace in practice.
‘Rapist, killer cops’: protesters march in Paris’s 18th arrondisement.
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Governments’ continual use of security forces to ‘keep order’ in low-income and minority neighborhoods masks their inability find solutions other than force.
Crossing the Mediterranean is dangerous, but so is war-torn Libya.
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There are fundamental differences between Libya and Turkey, when it comes to returning migrants.
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What do border walls cost? And do they work?