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A federal judge temporarily blocked Donald Trump from restricting birthright citizenship. 

As debate time ended for Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill”, the president’s tax-cutting package moved to a special session known as vote-a-rama. 

The head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog said that Iran could start producing enriched uranium again “in a matter of months”. 

After seven years of bitter wrangling, the EU has finally reached an agreement on how to handle migration — one of its most challenging and divisive issues. In this episode of EU Confidential we look at what's in the deal, which has been hailed as a success by Brussels but critic ... Show More

The Italian government has been calling on European countries to come up with a new plan to absorb migrants reaching its shores via the Mediterranean Sea. A tougher approach to migration was one of the campaign promises of the deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini, and after his L ... Show More

Gideon Rachman discusses the fraught process of selecting a new leadership team in Europe and the impact these choices will have on integration, Eastern Europe and the Brexit negotiations, with Jim Brunsden and Ben Hall Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. 

The European Union deal came after a steep rise in arrivals of migrants on the Italian island of Lampedusa. Also: 2030 World Cup to be held across three continents, and bedbug panic sweeps Paris as infestations soar. 

Italy defies the EU spending rules, US crude oil breaks a losing streak record, and German chancellor Angela Merkel calls for the creation of a unified European Army. Plus, the FT's Westminster bureau chief George Parker gives us the latest on a Brexit deal from the halls of the ... Show More

Italy has blocked several ships and ultimately closed its ports to migrant ships. Following this Spain has also blocked ships from disembarking and called on Europe to solve the migrant crisis. Now even Emmanuel Macron has said that NGOs are breaking the rules and playing into th ... Show More

Will the UK ever manage to reduce migration levels to the "tens of thousands?" Should it? And how will immigration change after the UK has left the EU? With Helen Warrell of the Financial Times, plus Owen Tudor from the Trades Union Congress and Steve Ballinger of British Future. ... Show More

It's an important year for the European Union, which holds parliamentary elections in June. As geopolitical turbulence continues to test the strength of global alliances, will Europe pursue further integration or start to pull apart? Gideon discusses these questions, and the role ... Show More

EU leaders are preparing for an emergency summit against a grim backdrop: desperate scenes at the Greece-Macedonia border, where crowds of migrants are being beaten back from storming a fence with salvos of tear gas. Alex Barker, FT Brussels corrrespondent, looks at German chance ... Show More

L’Allemagne a accueilli un nouveau nombre record de migrants l'an dernier, près d'1.5 million au moment de la grande crise migratoire dans l'UE. Pour pallier la pénurie de main-d’œuvre de la première économie européenne, une réforme de la loi sur l’immigration a été adopté par le ... Show More