Paul Taylor
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- Sep 17, 2026
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Opening the door for Canada is a harmless gesture. But it wonât fix Europeâs security crisis | Paul Taylor (opens the original)
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Beyond the morale boost and Mark Carneyâs stardust, âassociate membershipâ means little Ursula von der Leyen brought a new mascot to her annual State of the Union address to the European parliament: the Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney. The leader of a plucky, like-minded liberal democracy, locked in an unsought trade war with its much bigger bully of a neighbour, Carney crossed the Atlantic and attended this flagship event of Europeâs political calendar to demonstrate his countryâ
The people of France are in an extraordinary funk about their future â hereâs why | Paul Taylor (opens the original)
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The race to succeed Emmanuel Macron is looming, but rarely has the mood been so gloomy or the lure of extremist solutions so alarming France, as the French travel writer Sylvain Tesson once noted, âis a paradise inhabited by people who think they live in hellâ. As the campaign for next yearâs presidential election hits its stride with ever more wannabes declaring their candidacies, the country is in a particularly sullen mood. If the vote were held now, the anti-immigration populist Marine
Ceuta showed just how easily Europe can be divided (opens the original)
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The migrant influx prompted recriminations and a tit-for-tat dispute between Italy and Spain. Putin, Erdoğan and others will have taken note Within hours of the first pictures of tens of thousands of migrants swimming the short distance from Morocco to the Spanish north African enclave of Ceuta hitting social media on 30 July, 22 European Union leaders, the Trump administration and Israel had piled on to criticise Madrid. The outbreak of hysteria and recrimination was a case study in 21st-centur
Andy Burnhamâs plans could bring the UK closer to Europe than he realises (opens the original)
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The new PMâs priorities are domestic, but he will soon realise that closer engagement with the EU is a no-brainer What will European leaders make of Andy Burnham, the seventh UK prime minister they have had to deal with in a decade of chronic political instability in London unleashed by the fateful 2016 referendum vote to leave the European Union? The âking of the northâ is largely an unknown quantity in continental Europe and has given priority to a domestic agenda of devolving powers to
Once again Trump brought his wrecking ball to the Nato summit, and once again the alliance survived. But for how long? | Paul Taylor (opens the original)
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As the US president swung between threats to take Greenland and promises of help for Ukraine, pledges of a ‘stronger Nato’ were lost in the wind Nato leaders survived another nerve-racking summit with Donald Trump and the 77-year-old defence alliance lives to fight another day, proving its durability against Atlantic storms. But it will never feel safe as long as the unpredictable, vengeful and ruthlessly transactional US president is in the White House. As usual, Trump stole all the headlines a
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