Politics

Bloomberg Theresa May struck a deal to revise the terms of the UK’s divorce from the European Union but it’s unclear whether she’s done enough to win Parliament’s support in a crucial vote on Tuesday. After a chaotic day of changing plans in London, the prime minister made a last-minute decision to fly to Strasbourg, France, for late talks with ...

Bloomberg A top member of the European Union’s largest political bloc will meet with Viktor Orban in what may be the Hungarian prime minister’s last chance to avoid potential expulsion from the continent’s political mainstream later this month. Manfred Weber, the European People’s Party’s candidate to lead the EU executive, was expected to meet with Orban in Budapest on Tuesday ...

Bloomberg North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is showing signs he might fire his first rocket in 15 months. Long-time observers suspect he is bluffing. Two days after Kim’s summit with US President Donald Trump broke down over sanctions relief and disarmament steps last month, satellite images showed that North Korea was rebuilding a long-range rocket site it recently dismantled. The ...

Bloomberg Estonia’s ruling Center Party, the runner-up in parliamentary elections, unexpectedly invited anti-immigrant populists to coalition talks, raising the risk that nationalists may gain a voice in another European Union government. With the EU struggling to address gains made by euroskeptic nationalists in elections from Rome to Warsaw, Center invited the anti-establishment EKRE party and the junior ruling Isamaa to ...

Bloomberg Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa said he opposes a strategy of creating large European corporate champions at the expense of competition within the region. “We can’t accept it when some large member states say it’s essential to create big champions at the global scale, merging European companies, sacrificing competition in the internal market and sacrificing the development potential of ...

Bloomberg Theresa May’s government declared Brexit talks are “deadlocked” as ministers urged the European Union to make a last minute concession to stop the deal being thrown out by Parliament this week. May’s office said on Monday that she spoke to European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker by telephone late on Sunday, but the prime minister is not planning to travel ...

Bloomberg Abdelaziz Bouteflika arrived home from Geneva, signalling that the Algerian president intends to push ahead with his bid for re-election in the face of mass demonstrations demanding he step aside. Bouteflika’s decision to run for a fifth term has triggered seismic protests in the North African OPEC member, presenting the 82-year-old leader and ruling National Liberation Front (FLN) party ...

Bloomberg A Philippine news website critical of President Rodrigo Duterte violated a constitutional ban on foreign ownership in media companies, the Court of Appeals said in a decision released Monday. Rappler Inc. cannot claim that it is 100-percent Philippine-owned as required by law, the appeals court said, standing by its earlier decision affirming Securities and Exchange Commission’s closure order. The ...

Bloomberg The fight for the future of Venezuela re-opened on the streets of its capital, with electricity flickering in-and-out around the country for most of the last three days. Juan Guaido, the challenger to President Nicolas Maduro, brought thousands of supporters to the streets of Caracas, though fewer showed up than in late January after the National Assembly he heads ...

Bloomberg India said Pakistani forces violated a cease-fire agreement along the Line of Control in Kashmir, and accused its neighbour of failing to take credible action against terror groups. There was shelling with mortars and the firing of small arms by Pakistan in the early hours of Sunday, and India “retaliated befittingly,” according to an Indian defense official. The Indian ...