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Anti-mafia crusader Giovanni Falcone showed exactly how to wage war against organised crime, but, says his former colleague AUBREY JONES, it seems like we need to learn the lessons again. Money is power. People will assume that this statement is so obvious it no longer needs repeating. Yet many law enforcement agencies do not seem […]

Brexit isn’t achieveable and it isn’t going to happen. Professor Juliet Lodge explains why she’s fighting against Britain leaving the EU. Young women campaigning against Brexit. Photograph: Ik Aldama/PA/DPA. – Credit: DPA/PA Images Let’s get one thing straight. This self indulgent pratting about over Brexit will be stopped. But not by MPs kowtowing to party […]

One of Britain’s best Brexit bloggers CHRIS GREY reveals the excuses that leavers are hiding behind, and why they won’t wash During the referendum, Brexiters offered a political message which took a traditional and familiar form: if you vote for us then various (supposedly) good consequences will follow. It is easy to imagine what they […]

Jacob Rees-Mogg’s photograph by Mark Harrison is a study in vanity, says BONNIE GREER, and it reflects the way our world is in 2018. ‘Mogg told me a ‘Gentleman never ever puts his hands in his trouser pockets’. I now always put my hands in my trouser pockets.’ So tweeted photographer Mark Harrison, a few […]

Hard Brexit agitator Jacob Rees-Mogg has demanded Theresa May takes a tougher line with Brussels – but denied he is launching a coup to become prime minister. Rees-Mogg, who leads the anti-EU European Research Group, claimed there was ‘no menace’ in his actions but his continued attacks on May will have Number 10 rattled. If […]

From Theresa May to Dominic Cummings to Arron Banks – readers ask who is really subverting the ‘will of the people’? Theresa May flouts the convention of balance in the Lords by appointing a raft of Tories to the upper chamber. Dominic Cummings, of the lying Vote Leave campaign headed by Boris Johnson and Michael […]

Is it really worth throwing the country into chaos just to save a fiver on a pair of shoes? Brexiteers say they want us out of the customs union to strike new trade deals so we can get cheaper footwear. Only problem is, leaving the customs union will be hugely disruptive and costly and the […]

Brexit may seem like a pain now, says ALASTAIR CAMPBELL, but just wait till the disastrous consequences which will dominate our lives for the forseeable future. There was a time, was there not, when the Brextremists’ case for Brexit was that it would make Britain a much better place to live. We would be better […]

One year into the Mueller inquiry and rattled Trump faces a fight to outrun the investigation, writes PAUL CONNEW. Last month Donald Trump confessed (or boasted?) on Fox News (where else?) that he’d been ‘too busy’ to buy First Lady Melania a birthday present. Well, he certainly wasn’t going to miss marking the first anniversary […]

Here’s a question for the next time you are in conversation with a confirmed Brexiteer. Ask them how being in the EU, has in concrete terms, restricted their lifestyle or made them materially poorer. Not how it has adversely affected some unspecified people somewhere else or people in a survey organised by the Daily Express, […]

Will Britain’s soft fruit industry be squashed as a result of Brexit? WikiTribune’s HARRY RIDGEWELL reports Red berries – succulent, plentiful and locally-grown – are one of the joys of the British summer. But we might have to savour them while we can. Senior figures are predicting the collapse of the UK’s berry industry because […]

Just as Britain edges closer to ditching the EU, new data protection laws from Brussels provide some much-needed safeguards and protections returning power to individuals over the handling of their most sensitive and personal data. If you’ve followed the news in the last couple of months, you will have heard a lot about Cambridge Analytica. […]

This reader would like to issue an apology to the United Kingdom. Dear United Kingdom, Please accept my personal apology for the current creature occupying our highest government office. He is a disaster of major proportions. He is an ignorant, egotistical, cowardly, narcissistic, bloviating, sexual predating, misogynistic, uneducated, congenital lying, criminal miscreant. He has no […]

As Liverpool FC attempt to write another chapter in their storied history in this weekend’s Champions League final, ANTHONY CLAVANE recounts the extraordinarily intimate relationship between Europe and the city itself. Liverpool has a powerful sense of its own cultural identity, one that few other British cities can match; a distinctive sense of style which […]

Labour MEP SEB DANCE on why he agreed to take part in Channel 4’s warts-and-all documentary When I first got the phone call from Christian, I thought the idea was far-fetched. Surely there had been many programmes about the European Parliament? Did people really want to know more about the supposed ‘elite’ in Brussels? Those […]

The American obsession with guns fails to stop dangerous obsessions with fantasies, says MITCH BENN. Something has to change to stop those fantasies becoming reality. I’m about to make what may or may not be a startling admission. See what you think. I had, all things considered, a pretty happy time at school. I guess […]

ANGELA JAMESON explores Italy’s new government and what it might mean for the EU Electing a populist government is a risky thing to do financially. In Italy this week bond markets have sold off heavily as investors brace themselves for being governed by a bizarre and unexpected alliance of the anti-establishment Five Star Movement and […]

This week the team investigate the latest madness from the Daily Mail, the rights of Irish citizens and the looming Brexit Bill showdown. Richard Porritt, Steve Anglesey and Geri Scott return for another episode of The New European podcast. This week Geri investigates what will happen to Irish citizens in the UK after Brexit and […]

Feminist campaigner and journalist Caroline Criado-Perez will guest edit The New European as we become The New Feminist for one week only to showcase women’s voices and stories. The takeover edition will replace The New European’s May 31 issue and will feature a line-up of female journalists, authors and thinkers, commissioned by Criado-Perez to take […]

A senior European Union official has brutally branded the UK’s approach to Brexit as a ‘fantasy’. The official insisted Britain must accept the ‘consequences’ of its decision to quit the bloc and abandon the ‘fantasy’ that things would remain the same. The increase in tension emerged after the UK made clear it would seek a […]

The country is agreed, says CHRIS WRIGHT. Hard Brexit is unthinkable Last week, David Miliband warned that Jeremy Corbyn would be the ‘midwife of hard Brexit’ if he does not commit his party to staying in the single market. Meanwhile, both Nick Clegg, the former Liberal Democrat leader, and Nicky Morgan, the former Conservative education […]

Former UKIP official and self-proclaimed ‘gammon’ GAWAIN TOWLER on why the left’s latest insult might leave it with egg on its face. Before Zoe William’s article in these pages last week, the last reference to gammon in The New European was via Hardeep Singh Kohli rhapsodising about the king of meat, pork. It is not […]

Mandrake discusses Telegraph star recanting Brexit heresy after falling from grace at the struggling newspaper. The veteran EU researcher Dr Richard North – who wrote a series of influential eurosceptic books with his friend the Sunday Telegraph columnist Christopher Booker – admitted in a blog last week how he had given up reading newspapers because […]

MICHAEL WHITE discusses U-turns from the PM and Boris Johnson as they try to keep a lid on the Brexit betrayal chaos You all knew that was more or less inevitable. Picture: Martin Rowson – Credit: Archant The sound of Boris Johnson assuring Brexit voters that they need not ‘fear betrayal’ by Theresa May must […]

Tories who try to silence me by telling me to leave and go home are running scared, says YASMIN ALIBHAI-BROWN. Until last week I’d never met the Tory MP Peter Bone. This is what I knew of him: paid a trainee working in his business 87p per hour in 1995, although this was before the […]

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From the actors, to the locations and the inspiration, Europe has always been at the heart of Star Wars, says JAMES OLIVER… even the Nazis. The law of unintended consequences is always intriguing, and the story of Star Wars offers some particularly fine examples. Back in the mid-1970s, when George Lucas began working on his […]

Boris Johnson discussed the UK’s relationship with Russia in a phone conversation with pranksters posing as the Armenian prime minister. In an embarrassing security breach, the foreign secretary spoke about subjects including the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia during the hoax call. Pranksters Alexei Stolyarov and Vladimir Kuznetsov, known by […]

Will Colombia’s elections return it to conflict? WILL WORLEY reports from Bogota on a country still grappling with the consequences of its own controversial 2016 referendum Two years into a historic peace deal but facing numerous challenges, from economic woes to regional insecurity, Colombia is on the brink of one of the most important elections […]

Who is on Question Time tonight and where do they stand on Brexit? Here’s your guide… The BBC’s flagship current affairs programme tonight comes from Worthing Assembly Hall, home of the largest Wurlitzer organ in Europe. But what sort of tune should we expect from the panel on Brexit? Here’s who you can expect… Sarah […]

Don’t be fooled by the urbane environment secretary, says ANDREW ADONIS. He is from a long line of zealots who have harmed our country. Because he is polite, reads books and can appear thoughtful, Michael Gove is sometimes mistaken for a cuddly intellectual in politics. This image is cultivated by his acolytes, who, after a […]

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