Bloomberg Prime Minister Theresa May has a week to find a compromise on the conflicting Brexit demands from the north and south of Ireland, and a political scandal threatening the Irish government could further undermine her chances of success. Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar wants written assurances that Brexit won’t mean a return to checkpoints and towers along what will …

Bloomberg The Catalan independence movement is divided over how to move forward as opinion polls suggest the December regional election is too close to call. While ousted President Carles Puigdemont doubled down this weekend on his pledge to make the wealthy region an independent state, his former ally Esquerra Republicana suggested the party should focus on policy instead. The clash …

Bloomberg Chechnya’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov, who won a new five-year term last year, said it’s time for him to step aside and let the Kremlin choose a successor. A Russian official downplayed the statement as an emotional message meant to show he’s not clinging to power, the Interfax news service reported. “There was a time when people like me were …