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GB News presenter Nigel Farage debated Britain's ties with the European Union with Remainer Stanley Johnson following Brexit.
The former MEP claimed Brussels will not "be here in 10 years' time"
but a different configuration will be in place. Prime Minister Boris
Johnson's father noted that the UK is part of Europe's landmass.
Nigel Farage has claimed the EU will not exist in 10 years' time (Image: GB News/GETTY)
Nigel Farage debated Britain's ties with the EU with Remainer Stanley Johnson (Image: GB News)
"There will be a different configuration.
"You
were in Brussels, I was in Brussels, both MEPs. It was a very different
Brussels from when I was there and when you were there."
It comes
as the European Union has warned the UK it will not renegotiate the
deal on Northern Ireland's post-Brexit trading arrangements after Lord
Frost demanded significant changes to the terms.
Brexit minister
Lord Frost said "we cannot go on as we are" but held back - for now -
from taking the dramatic step of effectively suspending parts of the
deal, even though he claimed the UK would be justified to do so.
Brexit: Bill Cash quizzes Lewis on UK's Northern Ireland stance
Boris
Johnson hit out at the "inflexible" approach of the EU in implementing
the agreement he signed but said there was an "opportunity to proceed
differently".
But European Commission vice-president Maros
Sefcovic flatly rejected the UK's call to renegotiate elements of the
Northern Ireland Protocol.
The protocol, part of the Brexit
divorce deal agreed by the UK and Brussels, effectively keeps Northern
Ireland in the EU's single market for goods.
This means checks on
goods being sent from Great Britain into the single market - and in some
cases could result in prohibitions on certain products that do not
comply with EU rules.
The
protocol was put in place to ensure there would be no hard border with
Ireland, but it has instead effectively placed a trade barrier in the
Irish Sea.
Lord Frost said a "new balance" in the arrangements was needed.
He
told peers: "We urge the EU to look at it with fresh eyes and to work
with us to seize this opportunity and to put our relationships on to a
better footing. We stand ready to work with them to deliver the brighter
future which is in reach."
One idea put forward would be for UK
traders to declare whether the final destination for their goods was
Northern Ireland or the Republic.
WASHINGTON –
The U.S. military helped train a "small number" of the Colombian
suspects who have been arrested in connection with the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, a Pentagon spokesman said Thursday.
“A
review of our training databases indicates that a small number of the
Colombian individuals detained as part of this investigation had
participated in past U.S. military training and education programs while
serving as active members of the Colombian Military Forces,” Lt. Col.
Ken Hoffman, a Pentagon spokesman, said in a statement.
Colombian
officials have said 13 Colombians implicated in the attack are retired
members of the country's military, 11 of them have been arrested and two
were killed as Haitian police conducted a manhunt for the killers. The
commander of Colombia’s Armed Forces, Gen. Luis Fernando Navarro, said
the 13 Colombians left the military between 2018 and 2020.
Moïse was
murdered in his private residence on July 7 in a shocking assault that
has jolted the Caribbean country and sowed political chaos among its
leaders. Haitian officials have said Moïse was killed by a team of
foreign "mercenaries" that included the Colombian suspects and as many
as three Americans of Haitian descent.
Colombia has been a major beneficiary of U.S. military assistance for decades, with Washington spending millions of dollars annually to train and equip the country'sarmed forces. The U.S. funds have gone to helping the military stamp out Colombia's drug trade, battle leftist guerilla fighters and increase security.
The
Pentagon regularly trains thousands of troops from allied countries in
South and Central America and the Caribbean, Hoffman said.
“This
training emphasizes and promotes respect for human rights, compliance
with the rule of law, and militaries subordinate to democratically
elected civilian leadership,” Hoffman said.
But some critics have taken issue with the U.S. role in training foreign militaries that go on to engage in human rights abuses.
And
U.S.-trained Colombian soldiers have been recruited by private security
firms in global conflict zones because of their experience in a
decadeslong war against leftist rebels and powerful drug cartels.
“In
the criminal world, there is the concept of murder for hire and this is
what happened: they hired some members of the (army) reserve for this
purpose and they have to respond criminally for the acts they
committed,” said retired Colombian army Gen. Jaime Ruiz Barrera.
On
Sunday, Haitian police arrested a 63-year-old Haitian man who lived in
Florida, Christian Emmanuel Sanon. Officials said Moïse’s alleged
killers were protecting Sanon and that he wanted to be president of
Haiti. Sanon identifies himself as a doctor and has accused Haitian
leaders of corruption.
The
Biden administration sent a team of U.S. law enforcement officials to
Haiti on Sunday and the FBI has said it is assisting Haitian officials
in the investigation.
San Francisco is focusing on homelessness in an uncommon –
some would possibly say backwards – new approach, debuting trash cans
that may’t be rummaged by way of in an effort to ship the hungry
homeless to different elements of city.
Some would possibly deal with the issue of homelessness by
constructing shelters or launching job applications, however San
Francisco’s present method is out of sight, out of thoughts. The town is
commissioning excessive tech new trash cans that vagrants can’t paw by
way of, hoping that they’ll take their unpleasant wants some other
place.
Nevertheless, prototyping the flashy new cans will value as much as
$20,000 every – a stunning outlay for a mere beauty process – and town
hopes to have 3,000 of them rolled out by the top of subsequent 12
months. Native media stories there are plans to launch a $537,000 pilot
program to fabricate 15 of the specialised bins earlier than the top of
the 12 months.
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The hyper-competitive actual property market of San Francisco
received’t accept the vagrant-proof trash cans already available on the
market, apparently, which means town has to design its personal and take
a look at these alongside current fashions first. Performing director
of Public Works Alaric Degrafinried defined that the homeless “decide
the lock, they dump the entire can on the road after which type by way
of the issues they need whereas the rubbish is both on the sidewalk or
out on the road.”
The answer in tech-obsessed San Francisco is to “develop the subsequent technology of trash can”
– to ‘disrupt’ trash pickup, within the parlance of Silicon Valley –
and incorporate recycling, a distant notification when the can is full,
and vandalism-proofing. The town will work on three prototypes, ordering
5 of every at an eye-popping $20,000 every, and take a look at these
alongside current techno-trash-cans. They hurried to reassure residents
that the cans received’t really value $20,000 every – as an alternative,
the substitute cans will “solely” value about $3,000 or $4,000 per can.
San Francisco is infamous for its massive and aggressive homeless
inhabitants, nurtured by a mixture of delicate climate, a lenient
authorized local weather, and an insanely excessive value of dwelling.
Current authorized developments have solely inspired the inhabitants to
metastasize, with District Lawyer Chesa Boudin declining to prosecute
shoplifting and different low-level offenses in order that pharmacies
and comfort shops are preyed on many times with police unwilling to
reply a name for any theft lower than $950 – the cutoff for a felony
crime. Any sum lower than that’s merely thought of a misdemeanor,
requiring the worker to personally become involved in a approach they’re
seldom prepared to do out of concern of violence.
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Like its neighbor to the north, Portland, San Francisco is notorious
for open-air drug use, quick-turnaround peddling of stolen items,
urinating and defecating on the streets, and different stunning
behaviors. Boudin is at present dealing with a recall effort on account
of his perceived softness on crime, and a invoice being thought of
within the state legislature would fund the Organized Retail Crime
Process Drive by way of the subsequent 4 years out of concern that the
so-called petty shoplifting is definitely a part of a a lot bigger
conspiracy.
Nevertheless,
San Francisco has been a haven for the homeless for many years, and
rolling out high-end trash cans is unlikely to drive them away.
Regardless of skyrocketing housing costs and a bumper crop of
millionaires, town additionally hosts some 18,000 homeless individuals,
whether or not dwelling on the road, crashing on others’ couches, or
calling the realm’s rising tent cities dwelling.
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UPDATE) ‘I think it’s rather obvious that the relationship between the
President and Senator Pacquiao is not as cordial as it was,’ says
Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque
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Battle lines have been drawn between warring factions in the ruling
PDP-Laban and no less than President Rodrigo Duterte has made it clear
that Senator Manny Pacquiao, ironically the acting party president, is
no longer his ally.
Pacquiao had apparently pissed off Duterte when the senator made comments about corruption under the present government in a recent interview with Radyo 5.
Pacquiao said on June 22 that should he ultimately decide to run for
president in 2022, he would declare a “war against corruption.”
An irked Duterte dared Pacquiao on Monday, June 28, to name these
corrupt officials, or else he would campaign against the boxing champ.
“Go to Congress and start talking,” Duterte told Pacquiao in his
weekly public address. “If you will fail to do that, I will campaign
against you, because you are not doing your duty. Do it, because if you
will not, I will just tell the people, ‘Do not vote for Pacquiao because
he is a liar.’”
In a press conference on Tuesday, June 29, Presidential Spokesperson
Harry Roque said, “I think it’s rather obvious that the relationship
between the President and Senator Pacquiao is not as cordial as it
was.”
Duterte’s scathing remarks were a huge blow to Pacquiao, whose authority as acting leader of the President’s party is now being challenged by a faction led by vice chairman Alfonso Cusi, Duterte’s energy secretary.
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It also signals Duterte’s abandonment of Pacquiao as a possible
successor in 2022. The boxing icon turned senator is rumored to be
gunning for the presidency. Among his potential opponents? Duterte’s own
daughter, the feisty Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte, and the President’s
longtime aide-turned-senator Bong Go.
Pacquiao’s rags-to-riches story as a world-famous athlete and senator
makes him a potent contender for the highest post in the land. By
attacking Pacquiao for the second time in a month, Duterte seems to be
eliminating obstacles to Malacañang in favor of the person he would
endorse in 2022.
This is a strategic move for Duterte, who floated his own vice
presidential bid just before lambasting Pacquiao on Monday. Political
experts have called Duterte seeking the vice presidency as a “bastardization of the electoral process.”
This was the second time in recent weeks that Duterte has attacked Pacquiao. On June 28, Duterte also told Pacquiao to study foreign policy first before criticizing the government’s “lacking” response to Chinese militarization in the West Philippine Sea.
Pacquiao has long been requesting to sit down with Duterte to help
resolve the rift within PDP-Laban. But Roque said he has not seen any
appointments with Pacquiao in the President’s schedule.
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After hours of silence, Pacquiao threw his counterpunch at Duterte on
Tuesday afternoon. I am not a liar, Pacquiao told the President. As is
expected of a fighter, Pacquiao then accepted Duterte's challenge.
"Magsimula tayo sa DOH. Silipin at busisiin natin lahat ng mga
binili mula sa rapid test kits, PPE, masks at iba pa. Handa ka ba
Secretary Francisco Duque na ipakita ang kabuuan ng iyong ginagastos?
Saan napunta ang pera na inutang natin para sa pandemya?" Pacquiao asked in his statement.
(Let's start with the DOH. Let's look into the rapid test kits, PPE,
masks, and other supplies it procured. Are you ready, Secretary
Francisco Duque, to show the entirety of your spending? Where did the
money that we loaned for the pandemic go?)
Pacquiao was not done. He also retaliated against Duterte by
recalling the President's speech on October 27, 2020. That day, Duterte
himself admitted "corruption is not weakening, it's getting stronger"
under his administration.
"Mawalang-galang po mahal na Pangulo, ngunit hindi ako
sinungaling. May mga naging pagkakamali ako sa buhay na aking itinuwid
at itinama, ngunit dalawang bagay ang kaya kong panghawakan: Hindi ako
tiwali, at hindi ako sinungaling," said Pacquiao.
(With all due respect, dear President, but I am not a liar. I have
made mistakes in my life, and I learned from them, but there are two
things I stand by: I am not corrupt, and I am not a liar.)
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Battle of factions
The Philippines’ ruling party, PDP-Laban, was Duterte’s political
vehicle in the 2016 elections. What was once a small party rapidly
expanded to a 100,000-strong membership as the former Davao City mayor
rose to the presidency.
But cracks in PDP-Laban started brewing over a year before the 2019 midterm elections, when the party first struggled for stability and survivalfollowing infighting among factions and the external threat from presidential daughter Sara Duterte’s Hugpong ng Pagbabago.
The battle went all the way to the Supreme Court,
which ultimately decided that the faction led at the time by Senator
Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III was the legitimate representation of
PDP-Laban.
Koko is the son of the late senator Aquilino “Nene” Pimentel Jr., the
man who founded PDP-Laban in 1982 to help fight the dictatorship of
Ferdinand Marcos. The younger Pimentel is now on the side of Pacquiao,
whom he allowed to replace him as PDP-Laban president in December 2020.
Before this, Pimentel had appointed Pacquiao as campaign manager for
PDP-Laban’s senatorial slate in the 2019 midterm elections.
Now, not only is Duterte abandoning his former ally Pacquiao. The
President is also making it clear that he is siding with the Cusi
faction in PDP-Laban instead of the side led by Pimentel and Pacquiao.
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There are now rumblings that some members of the party are planning to oust Pacquiao as acting president.
There will be a PDP-Laban national assembly on July 17, which many
suspect would be the day Pacquiao’s enemies within the party would boot
him out.
Pimentel has so far remained on Pacquiao’s side, telling Cusi is
better off doing his job as a Cabinet official instead of being
preoccupied with party politics.
He also slammed party members in the Cusi faction, questioning their loyalty to PDP-Laban.
“Secretary Cusi should not rush ‘party meetings’ and should instead
focus on and make sure the attendees are people who are
‘real/authentic/genuine’ party members and not those who simply had
themselves identified with PDP Laban, but whose ‘heart/loyalty’ belongs
to some other existing political party. [They are] just waiting for and
wanting PDP-Laban to implode and after the 2022 elections, will just
wave ‘bye bye’ to the party,” Pimentel said in a message shared to
reporters.
Meanwhile, the Cusi faction seems to be doing everything it can to
curry Duterte’s favor. During the national council meeting in Cebu City
that Pacquiao had tried but failed to stop in May, PDP-Laban members adopted a resolution pushing Duterte to seek the vice presidency in 2022.
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The party members even said they would give Duterte a free hand in
choosing the presidential candidate he would run alongside, even if the
candidate was not a party member.
Duterte’s VP run?
This was in sync with Duterte’s remarks on Monday night, when he said
he is mulling to run for vice president because there were “things” he
would like to continue when his term as chief executive ends in 2022.
The continuity of these plans rests on whoever would become his successor.
“Meron ako ditong dinagdag: running for vice president, ako.
Sabihin ko, it’s not at all a bad idea and if there’s a space for me
there, siguro,” said Duterte. (I added one more thing in our agenda here: me running for vice president. I’d say it’s not at all a bad idea and if there’s space for me there, then maybe I would run.)
“Pero kung wala akong space – everybody is crowding up, wanting
to be one, vice president – sila na lang muna kasi tapos na ko. But
there are things that I’d like to continue and that would be dependent
on the president that I would support,” Duterte said.
(If there’s no space for me – everybody is crowding up, wanting to be one, vice president – then they can have it since I’m done anyway. But there are things that I’d like to continue and that would be dependent on the president that I would support.)
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Cusi told ANC’s Headstart on
Tuesday that should Duterte end up choosing his longtime aide Go as
presidential bet, then 90% of PDP-Laban would supposedly back this
tandem.
This is not the first time that factions within Duterte’s party have clashed in recent months.
PDP-Laban’s Bulacan chapter also issued a statement in early May
slamming Pacquiao when the latter said in a media interview that he
found Duterte’s response to the Chinese militarization in the West
Philippine Sea “lacking.”
These developments are reminiscent of the party dynamics in 2018 to
2019, when cracks within PDP-Laban were first made known to the public.
All eyes are on PDP-Laban when it holds its national assembly on July
17. – Rappler.com
Why is Italy more populist than any other country in western Europe?
Italy is unmatched in Western Europe in the scale of its electoral support for populists. Michelangelo Vercesi
argues that this exceptionality, combined with the strategic adaptation
of political entrepreneurs to different territorial political
traditions, is a legacy of how the unitary state formed
Populism’s success in Italy
Current electoral polls show that two right-wing populist parties – the League (Lega)and Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d'Italia)
– are Italian voters’ most preferred. Overall, four of the five parties
with the highest share of electoral support are populist.
This is nothing new. Electoral support for populist parties has been
rising since the breakdown of the former party system in the early
1990s. The aggregate proportion of votes for populists increased from
30% in the general election of 1994 to almost 70% in 2018. No other major West European democracy has witnessed such levels of support for populists.
Italy's aggregate proportion of votes for populists increased from 30% in the general election of 1994 to almost 70% in 2018
Why is Italy ‘more populist’? The answer lies in a combination of
widespread anti-institutional and anti-party sentiments, and the
strategic response of party leaders.
The deep roots of populism in Italian society
Economic and political crises help explain circumscribed populist outbreaks.
Yet they fall short in accounting for the pronounced and persistent
inclination of the Italian electorate to vote for populists. The demand
for populism in Italy derives from the traditional mistrust towards
politics of Italian society. This makes Italian voters more likely to vote for populists.
demand for populism in Italy derives from the traditional mistrust towards politics of Italian society
Such a tradition of disaffection has its roots in the formation of
the unitary state of 1861. Following this, the Catholic Church and large
sectors of southern elites took a firm position against the new polity
and its elites. The original lack of legitimacy of the new state and its institutional weakness initially nurtured anti-institutional and anti-political sentiments in the population. Fascism simply fanned the flames.
In democracy, party leaders develop policy programmes and political
discourses to maximise voters’ support. Given societal predilections for
populism, Italian political leaders have used populist messages as a
strategic way to get votes.
These organisations were rooted in society and, in the absence of
strong political institutions, gave legitimacy to the Italian political
system. When the party system effectively collapsed in the early 1990s,
the populist market opened up.
In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, only two minor
populist parties gained representation in parliament. These were the
Common Man’s Front and the People’s Monarchist Party.
Meanwhile, in the early 1990s, the Italian party system broke down. Around this time, the birth of the so-called Second Republic resulted in six significant populist parties entering parliament.
The Northern League (later the League), The Network, Forza Italia
(later the People of Freedom), Italy of Values, the 5-Star Movement, and
the Brothers of Italy – all these parties have promoted, to varying
degrees, anti-elitism, people-centrism and anti-institutionalism.
Lower house % vote share of populist parties in Italy, 1946–2018
CMF:
Common Man's Front; PMP: People's Monarchist Party; NL/League: Northern
League/League; The Net: La Rete; GI/PoF: Go Italy/People of Freedom;
IoV: Italy of Values; 5SM: 5-Star Movement; BoI: Brothers of Italy
Different populist variants in different territorial settings
The rise of Italian populism also followed the breakdown of traditional, territorial political differences which had shaped postwar electoral outcomes. In fact, three voter types
– ‘of belonging’, ‘of opinion’, and ‘of patronage’ – characterised
distinct portions of the territory during the postwar period.
Geographical macro-areas of voting in Italy, 1946–2018
Despite the deep changes in voting from the 1990s onwards, these geographical macro-areas
have continued to shape voting patterns. At the 2018 general election,
for example, the North voted mostly for the centre-right coalition. The
South voted overwhelmingly for the 5-Star Movement, while the former
‘red belt’ (traditionally left wing) shrank further. The Democratic
Party won only in the regions of Trentino-Alto Adige / South Tyrol and
Tuscany.
In response to these territorial political differences, Italian
populist parties have differentiated their populist discourses. In so
doing, they have effectively created three main types of populism:
plebiscitary, technocratic and identity:
The electoral success of parties of the same type has appeared to
depend on territorial variations and ideological orientations.
Technocratic populists have adopted centrist positions. We can associate
the other two types with (radical) right-wing positions.
In general, populist parties have occupied the political space left
empty by the dissolution of pre-1990s governing parties. Technocratic
populism has been characterised by a balanced distribution of votes
between North and South; plebiscitary populism has received more votes
in the South; identity populism has been particularly successful in the
North.
Populism for all
We should understand the exceptionally high support for populism and
the existence of a variety of populist parties in Italy as the
consequence of anti-institutional sentiments within Italian society. The
roots of this sentiment lie in the formation of the unitary state.
Political entrepreneurs created populist parties to benefit electorally from disaffected voters
Political entrepreneurs created populist parties to benefit
electorally from disaffected voters. At the same time, different types
of populist parties with similar ideological positions have proved
particularly successful in specific parts of the territory,
characterised by distinct traditions of voting behaviour.
Italian populism serves an important purpose of forging a variegated
political consensus. It is, therefore, well rooted in Italian democracy,
and unlikely to disappear any time soon.
Lecturer in Political Science, Leuphana University Lüneburg
Michelangelo gained his doctorate at the University of Pavia.
He has held visiting and teaching positions at the University of
Vienna, the University of Milan, and at Keele University in the UK.
Michelangelo's research interests are comparative government,
political elites, and leadership, as well as party politics and
representation.
His monograph Prime Ministers in Europe: Changing Career Experiences and Career Profiles, coauthored with Ferdinand Müller-Rommel and Jan Berz, is forthcoming with Palgrave.
Michelangelo is an executive member of the International Committee on Political Sociology.
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CDU is facing its first post-Merkel electoral campaign, and the SPD is
struggling to gain more than a 15% vote share. The Greens, meanwhile,
are the second largest party in Germany. The impact of their results on
the new German government may be the Eurozone’s most important political
development of 2021. Gabriele Beretta argues that this could also have
dramatic macroeconomic consequences for the Euro Area
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Following
the stalemate produced by April's elections, Bulgaria has just gone to
the polls for the second time this year. Ekaterina Rashkova-Gerbrands
argues that these elections have resolved nothing, leaving Bulgaria in a
dilemma
Tech
mogul Elon Musk supported colonisation of Mars in a recent tweet,
saying population collapse is a big problem on Earth. And as
the population of Mars is zero, it needs people. Musk has been
advocating Mars’ colonisation for a long time, even with a set deadline
and plan of action. The billionaire tweet was in response to a post
shared by a Twitter handle titled ‘Tesla Owners of the East Bay’
In
a recent tweet, Tech mogul Elon Musk supported colonisation of Mars,
saying population collapse is a big problem on Earth and as
the population of Mars is zero, it needs people.
Elon
Musk tweeted, “I’m trying to set a good example! Population collapse is
a much bigger problem than people realize and that’s just for
Earth. Mars has a great need for people, seeing as population is
currently zero. Humans are the custodians of other life on Earth. Let us
bring life to Mars!”
Musk has been advocating Mars’ colonisation for a long time, even
with a set deadline and plan of action. The Tesla CEO’s tweet was in
response to a post shared by a Twitter handle titled ‘Tesla Owners of
the East Bay’.
Bringing the problem of ‘population collapse’ on the fore, the fan
club handle had tweeted how it is upon earth to solve it with reducing
the birth rate in the world.
On the microblogging site, the club wrote, “Population collapse could
be upon us, but we appreciate that you good sir are still making
tangible efforts to stave it off." Musk, who is father of
seven children, said that he is trying to set a good example.
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