The midterms: what next for President Trump?
Voters look set to hand the president a drubbing in today's vote across the USA. The harder question is what he does with the two years that remain,
South Korean president travels to Washington with business chiefs ahead of summit
Mace | 22nd August 2025 | Brussels, Diplomacy, Embassy News, Washington
President Lee Jae Myung begins a visit to Washington on 23 August with fifteen senior executives from South Korea’s largest companies. The trip comes ahead of his 25 August summit with President Trump and will address trade, investment pledges, energy purchases and defence cost-sharing between the two countries.
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Excellera buys Brussels public affairs firm
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Karoline Leavitt to step down from White House role
The press secretary will be leaving her post at the end of the month
Defence spending controversy aside, the UK cannot turn up to NATO empty-handed
Labour psychodrama is simply not as important as the UK’s diplomatic commitment to its NATO allies.
Checkmate DC’s bold London move
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Brussels Diary by Konstantinos Bogdanos: ‘The local bistros are half-empty as the Belgian middle class finds even a weekend meal an unaffordable luxury”
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Are Labour eyeing a return to the EU? Mace investigates the key players involved
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EU likely to shelve chemical reform amid industry pressure
The reform concerns a pre-existing law on the Regulation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) and has been in place since June 2007.
King Charles: The real ‘special ingredient’ in our relationship with the USA
King Charles’s address to Congress was designed to steady a strained special relationship. Twelve standing ovations later, the Palace had given Downing Street something politics could not: a
