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May faces Brexit showdown, seeks ministers’ backing

Bloomberg Theresa May faces a showdown with her cabinet on Tuesday as she seeks their backing for one last push for her divorce deal with the European Union. Pro-Brexit ministers and those looking to succeed May as prime minister are expected to lead objections as they debate proposals to make the agreement more attractive to the opposition Labour Party, potentially ...

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Austria’s Kurz faces no-confidence vote

Bloomberg Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz is set to face a no-confidence vote as soon as next week, raising the specter of a deepening state crisis. His decision to sack nationalist Interior Minister Herbert Kickl, triggering the resignation of the remaining Freedom Party cabinet members, estranged his erstwhile partners and raised the chances that the parliamentary motion will pass with Freedom ...

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Separatists leave jail to sit in Spanish parliament

Bloomberg Five Catalan separatist leaders emerged from jail to take up their seats in Spain’s parliament on Tuesday in an act of political theatre that may inflame passions on both sides of a divided country. Oriol Junqueras, the leader of the Esquerra Republicana party, is among four pro-independence campaigners who won seats in the lower house in Spanish general elections ...

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