Nasrallah, 64, was killed in the deadly missile barrage in Beirut, according to the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).
Confirmation of Nasrallah’s death would mark a pivotal night for Israel after his 32-year reign as boss where he built up the group as a formidable force in the Middle East.
No official statement has been released by Hezbollah as of yet.
The fighter jet blitz also wiped out several other commanders and officials including Ali Karki, the Commander of Hezbollah’s Southern Front, the IDF claim.
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Muhammad Ali Ismail, the commander of Hezbollah’s missile unit in southern Lebanon, his deputy and “other senior officials” were also taken out.
Israel has wiped out a number of top Hezbollah commanders in airstrikes as they look to continue destroying the para-militant group.
Over the past 11 months, Israel has eliminated nearly all of the terrorist top brass.
Leading many to believe replacing Nasrallah will be a tricky task with a natural predecessor yet to be lined.
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The IDF appears to have been tactically hitting Hezbollah chiefs from the ground up in order to prevent them from building back up from a place of stability.
The man potentially poised to take over from Nasrallah was killed at the end of July.
Israel has decimated Hezbollah leadership but terror group hasn’t gone ‘all in’ yet with its weapons
Shukr was identified as Nasrallah’s right-hand man and was one of Hezbollah’s key military officials since the organisation was founded over four decades ago.
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The United States sanctioned Shukr in 2015, accusing him of playing a key part in the 1983 bombing of the US Marine barracks in Beirut.
Ibrahim Aqil – a terror master on the US most wanted list for 40 years – was the biggest scalp claimed in the IDF blast on southern Beirut.
Aqil, who had a $7 million bounty on his head, was regarded as the second in command of the Lebanese terror group.
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Hezbollah later confirmed Ahmed Wahabi, commander of its elite Radwan Force, had also been killed.
Wahabi was the head of the terror group’s “central training unit,” and was previously top brass in the elite Radwan Force which fought in Syria.
Senior officer Talal Hamiya was named to takeover from Aqil alongside Karaki – the commander who was also eliminated alongside Nasrallah, according to the IDF.
Israel’s attacks have followed a pattern of slowly advancing up the chain of command with several men who worked under Karaki being taken out in the months prior.
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Taleb Abdullah, the commander of the Nasr regional division, and Muhammad Nasser, the commander of the Aziz regional division were killed in airstrikes in Lebanon, on June 11 and July 3.
ISRAEL has claimed to have killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in a series of massive aircraft strikes that rocked Lebanon.
If true, his death would mark a huge shift in the Middle East crisis, with Hezbollah being left incredibly weak and Iran losing its grip on its biggest terror proxy.
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Here we we take a look at Hassan Nasrallah’s life and his rise as the biggest terror boss in the Middle East.
Born in 1960, Nasrallah belonged to a poor Shia Muslim family who grew up in the slums of Sharshabouk in Beirut.
While growing up, he moved to south Lebanon to study theology and became a devout follower of Islam.
In 1982, Nasrallah joined Hezbollah shortly after it was formed as a political and paramilitary organisation.
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Over the years, the fundamental Islamist rose through the ranks leading Hezbollah in multiple conflicts against Israel.
It was under Nasrallah’s stone-cold leadership that Hezbollah became a regional military power before being deemed an Islamic terror organisation by many countries including Britain and America.
He made Israel the prime enemy of the terror group – and sought for its destruction.
The terror chief has deeper ties with other Shia-based terror outfits like the Houthis and Hamas in a bid to wipe Israel from the world map.
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Nasrallah holds the title of Sayyed, an honorific meant to signify the Shia cleric’s lineage dating back to the Prophet Muhammad.
He was regarded as an influential Islamist figure in the Middle East and had countless followers in the region.
For many years Nasrallah kept an extremely low profile and was never seen in public, fearing an assassination at the hands of the Israelis.
The ‘death of Hassan Nasrallah’
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is believed to have personally signed off Friday’s attack after learning about Nasrallah’s secret hideout.
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His spies are said to have discovered the General-Secretary was set to convene a meeting of his surviving leaders at the underground HQ.
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halev said “a lot of preparation” was behind the attack.
He said: “It was the right time, [we] did it in a very precise way.”
Before warning Israel was set to continue with their targeted assaults across the border.
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“This is not the end of our toolbox, we have to be very clear. We have more capacity going forward,” Halev added.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi hit back and accused Israel of using US “bunker buster” bombs in their attacks on Beirut.
Mohanad Hage Ali, deputy research director of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut labelled Nasrallah as a “legendary figure” for many in Lebanon.
He told Reuters how his death would be a huge issue for Hezbollah: “The whole landscape would change big time.
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“He has been the glue that has held together an expanding organisation.”
Nasrallah led Iran-backed Hezbollah during the last war with Israel in 2006 and has been a thorn in his enemies side ever since.
He oversaw a massive rebuild of the group’s military machine to become the most heavily armed terror group on Earth.
Just days ago he pledged to carry on fighting Israel armed with a terrifying arsenal of 150,000 missiles and drones.
Nasrallah’s closest allies over in Iran are also yet to comment on the chiefs condition but did slam Israel for their regime earlier today.
Professor Fawaz Gerges, chair of contemporary Middle Eastern Studies at the London School of Economics, told Sky News: “Benjamin Netanyahu has declared all-out war against the entire axis of resistance – including Iran.
“This is a decade-long war… Hezbollah will bide its time.”
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Despite this sources close to Israel say his death could halt the conflict from erupting across the Middle East.
Hezbollah’s revenge plot
The Iran-backed terror group have reportedly been stocking up on their weaponry in preparation for an escalation.
Iran is said to have particularly helped to bolster its arsenal by supplying light weapons, anti-tank missiles and long-range unguided missiles to Hezbollah, report US and regional sources.
A former Hezbollah officer described the south as “boiling,” as he claimed “we have everything the Iranians have”, say Ynet News.
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Reports also suggest that Hezbollah has been expanding its tunnel network in southern Lebanon to help relocate fighters across the country.
Nasrallah hinted at these preparations last week when he described the coming days as a “historic opportunity” for his men to fight against Israel.
In a chilling declaration, he said: “We’re waiting for their tanks. When they come, they’re welcome.”
Inside the terror tunnels, Hezbollah fighters can reportedly move unseen, store weapons, and launch ambushes, creating a dangerous cat-and-mouse game with the IDF.
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They can also move into a much larger network of bunkers, missile silos, and command centres, deeply embedded in civilian areas.
These tunnels – which can stretch for miles – link critical positions, allowing Hezbollah fighters to emerge, strike, and then vanish back underground before Israel can respond.
MORTAL enemies Hezbollah and Israel are on the verge of open warfare, risking a deadly wider conflict in the troubled region.
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After decades of bloodshed, the powerful and well-armed Islamist militia has tentacles stretching across the globe.
With Iran’s ayatollah as its puppet master, Hezbollah says it has 100,000 fanatical fighters at its call.
Analysts estimate it has as many as 500,000 rockets and missiles trained on Israel.
Military expert Professor Michael Clarke told me: “Hezbollah are a formidable force. They’re very well equipped. They’ve got more tunnels than Hamas had.
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“The tunnels in Lebanon are burrowed out of rock, and hard to destroy. They have around half a million projectiles that they can fire at Israel.
“If they chose to fire off great salvos of these things, a thousand or so at a time, three or four times a day, they are likely to overwhelm Israeli air defences.”
Hezbollah first made their name as a terrorist outfit in 1982 when Israel invaded its northern neighbour Lebanon to root out the Palestine Liberation Organization.
In the bloody fighting, Israel occupied the south of the country and Shia Muslim militias took up arms against the invaders.
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Seeing an opportunity to extend its influence, Iran provided funding and training to the group which became known as Hezbollah — meaning Party Of God.
Hell-bent on destroying Israel, it was soon wreaking havoc.
In 1983, it launched a suicide bombing of barracks in the Lebanese capital Beirut, housing US and French troops, leaving more than 300 dead.
The same year, another Hezbollah terrorist drove a van packed with explosives into the compound of the US Embassy in Beirut, killing 63.
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The terror group — which is also a political party providing education and health care — developed a taste for kidnapping, too.
Then in 2006, a separate full-blown war was triggered by a deadly cross-border raid by Hezbollah.
It was supposed to be a pushover for Israel’s well-trained regular armed forces against a guerilla army.
But as the Israeli tanks rolled into Lebanon they were quickly met with firm resistance.
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Hezbollah had tunnelled deep into Lebanon’s craggy hillsides and built well- fortified positions amid its towns and villages.
Rather than the ragtag irregulars the Israelis expected, they faced highly trained and well-armed troops with night-vision goggles and sophisticated communications.
The storm made landfall in Florida overnight on Thursday as a category four hurricane but was downgraded to a tropical storm as it moved rapidly more inland.
It was the strongest storm on record to hit Florida’s Big Bend, and it moved north into Georgia and the Carolinas.
At least 45 people have died and millions have been left without power.
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Insurers and financial institutions say damage caused by the storm could run into the billions of dollars.
Across the region many would wake to find damage from flooding.
In Peachtree Creek some residents took to boats to navigate the flood water while another set about cleaning up.
As the flood water receded along the west coast of Florida, it left behind damaged or destroyed buildings.
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An oak tree fell on a home in Anderson, South Carolina.
Emergency teams, like these Marine deputies, were on hand to rescue those who required assistance.
Below an airboat transports residents rescued from flood waters due to storm surge in Crystal River.
Off the coast of Florida, a man and his dog were rescued by the US Coast Guard, while in St Petersburg a capsized boat washed ashore.
Even before its arrival, the storm had caused power outages for more than one million people and severe flooding in several areas.
Trucks belonging to Duke Energy were pictured in line waiting to repair damage once the storm had passed.
Ahead of the Hurricane many residents moved to shelters like this one at a school in Tallahassee.
President Joe Biden and state authorities had urged people to heed official evacuation warnings before Helene hit, though some chose to stay in their homes to wait out the storm.
People boarded up windows and prepared their properties as best they could.
Those who chose to stay stocked up with food to wait out the storm.
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Sir Keir Starmer must provide more clarity on his plans to improve the UK’s Brexit deal at a meeting next week with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, diplomats and analysts have warned.
The UK prime minister will meet von der Leyen in Brussels on Wednesday nearly three months after taking office amid continued divisions in his cabinet over whether to agree a youth mobility deal with the EU. This would enable young people to work and travel more freely in the UK and across the bloc.
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However, after a summer of summits, bilateral visits and warm words, senior EU diplomats have indicated they are growing impatient with what they see as the UK’s unwillingness to set out clear objectives for the relationship.
“The melody is there, but now we have to start concentrating on writing the lyrics,” said one senior diplomat. A second was more direct: “The UK needs to tell us what they want,” they said.
Labour has said that it wants a deep rapprochement with the EU but has ruled out rejoining the single market or seeking a customs union with Europe, preferring to seek additions and improvements to the existing Trade and Co-operation Agreement.
These include a “veterinary agreement” to reduce trade barriers on agrifoods, easier access for service professionals and a deal to reduce paperwork for touring musicians and other artists.
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Analysts said Wednesday’s meeting was being seen in Brussels as a significant stepping stone to more detailed negotiations beyond Starmer’s general expressions of a desire for deeper co-operation with the EU on security, policing and trade.
“Starmer has to use the meeting to provide a greater, concrete sense of what the government actually wants to do. It can’t be another ‘mood music’ meeting — that won’t land well in Brussels,” said Mujtaba Rahman of the Eurasia Group political risk consultancy.
The prime minister will also see the presidents of the other big EU institutions, Charles Michel of the European Council of national leaders, and Roberta Metsola of the European parliament.
Differences have emerged between the two sides over the question of a youth mobility deal. Brussels has prioritised it as an important first expression of warmer ties but a deal has been rejected in London as appearing to be too close to the “free movement” of people that was ended by Brexit.
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This week Pedro Serrano, EU ambassador to the UK, played down the youth mobility issue ahead of the meeting, suggesting the scheme should resemble a “gap year” programme that would not grant European citizens the right to work in Britain. The commission proposal, now being revised by member states, suggested four years’ residence for the under-30s.
However, speaking after Serrano’s intervention, Starmer reiterated his position that he has “no plans for a youth mobility scheme” between the UK and EU. He added that he shared the view of Yvette Cooper, UK home secretary, that it risked undermining public perceptions of the government’s approach to immigration.
Cooper wants to cut down on legal migration and to focus on training young people in Britain to fill skills shortages.
Despite the differences, UK ministers say they believe “landing zones can be found” on the issue, while arguing it is important not to “lose sight of the big picture” as the EU and the UK jointly face the challenges of Russian leader Vladimir Putin, populism and irregular migration.
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UK chancellor Rachel Reeves is also pushing for an ambitious deal to reduce trade barriers with the EU, including telling the Financial Times before the election that she was willing to sign up to the Brussels rule book in certain sectors, including chemicals.
“Rachel is relaxed about that,” said one ally of the chancellor. “She doesn’t see any problem with being a rule taker in established industries.” The Starmer government is, however, still attached to the idea of Britain having regulatory flexibility in emerging technologies.
Reeves’s role in the forthcoming talks with the EU will be vital, given the chancellor’s focus on delivering the government’s overarching mission: boosting growth.
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Her allies say the chancellor believes a compromise can be reached with Brussels on a youth mobility scheme but she also supports Cooper’s position that it cannot look anything like the pre-Brexit free movement of people.
A MUM has urged shoppers to snap up free nappies “even if you don’t have kids” before Morrison’s shoppers issued a stark warning to parents.
Stephanie Pim shared a post on Facebook encouraging shoppers at the major supermarket chain to check the app to see if they’re eligible for free nappies.
She wrote: “If you have a Morrisons card check your app. Free nappies.”
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However, it’s not just those with children that can snap up the essential item.
The savvy mum added: “Even if you don’t have kids- grab them and pop in the food bank.”
Stephanie’s Facebook post received hundreds of likes and comments from fellow shoppers.
One user wrote: “Thank you for the heads up, it is on mine.”
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“I got them a couple of weeks ago,” said another.
However, many shoppers commented that even after signing up for the Morrison’s card and baby club, they still weren’t eligible for the free nappies.
This user commented: “I’m in baby club and not on mine.”
Another added: “Not on mine.”
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While a third explained: “Spoke to someone in Morrisons who said it’s potluck if you get them or not which seems silly as people who don’t have children get them and there are others out there with children who need this.”
Morrison shoppers have also complained about the lack of nappies in stock with many customers expressing frustration on social media.
One shopper wrote: “The problem is tons of people got this offer and my local Morrisons has never had the nappies in stock.”
It comes after several lucky shoppers were surprised to learn they could get free Pampers nappies from Tesco.
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One excited shopper shared her Tesco receipt on Facebook, revealing that she could choose from either a pack of 55 size ones, a pack of 44 size twos, or a pack of 40 size threes.
The savvy mum, who posted the find on social media, urged parents to check their receipts to see if they’re eligible.
Those lucky enough to be selected get a pack of Pampers nappies for free.
The popular brand costs around £10 normally.
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The mum’s Facebook post received numerous likes and comments with shoppers eager to get their hands on the free nappies.
One user commented: “If we go to Tesco. Always yes for a receipt.”
“Need to go to Tesco, worth seeing if we’re one of the lucky ones,” wrote another.
While a third said: “If anyone gets anything like this but doesn’t need them, put them in the Foodbank Collection boxes.”
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Welcome back. No discussion of Europe’s future omits to place defence and security at or near the top of the list of policymakers’ priorities. For Nato’s European members, the aim is to deliver not just higher but better-quality defence expenditure.
Still, the obstacles to an integrated European defence effort are formidable — and the question of how far to involve the EU remains contested. I’m at tony.barber@ft.com.
A ‘true defence union’
In 2014, when Nato governments pledged to spend at least 2 per cent of GDP annually on defence, only three countries met the target. This year, 23 of the alliance’s 32 states will do so, according to Nato estimates.
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In principle, then, there is progress. But the leaders who will run the EU’s Brussels-based institutions for the next five years say, correctly, that more needs to be done. They take the view that the EU can play a vital role in stimulating and co-ordinating an improved effort from national governments and defence industries.
Speaking at the European parliament in July, Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, said:
For the first time in decades our freedom is under threat . . . I believe now is therefore the time to build a true European defence union.
An early sign of her commitment was her nomination of former Lithuanian premier Andrius Kubilius as the EU’s first defence commissioner.
The EU legislature has still to confirm the appointment of Kubilius. But he has wasted no time in airing proposals that, if put into effect, would define his five-year term.
One is to make EU governments stockpile minimum levels of ammunition and other supplies. Another, more controversial idea is to draw on unused tens of billions of euros in the EU’s post-pandemic recovery fund to ramp up defence expenditure.
Vulnerable Europe
The sense of urgency is not misplaced.
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Writing for the US Council on Foreign Relations, Thomas Graham puts matters bluntly:
Currently, Europe is in no position to defend itself. Comfortable in its reliance on the US as its security guarantor after the cold war, it allowed its military forces and defence industries to atrophy to devote greater resources to raising standards of living.
As a result, European military forces cannot effectively operate without direction and material support from the US.
Now, Graham says, Europe has been “shocked out of its geopolitical slumber” by two developments: Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and a possible second term in the White House for Donald Trump.
Legal and constitutional constraints
Various difficulties stand in the way of an EU-led defence effort. In this collection of articles for the EconPol Forum, a Germany-based research network, one essay highlights the problem of lack of co-ordination:
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European states are not aligning their military spending priorities. For this reason, a simple increase in national defence spending does not automatically lead to a higher joint industrial and operational capacity of the EU but increases the risk of wasting the growing military resources.
Another article underlines the legal and constitutional constraints on the EU:
On the one hand, the EU treaties currently do not provide a fully fledged legal basis for a proper EU defence; on the other hand, several national constitutions (including the German, Italian, Irish and others) include clauses that limit what can be jointly achieved in terms of defence.
In this article for the UK in a Changing Europe think-tank, Delphine Deschaux-Dutard explains that, in spite of these constraints, the EU has launched some useful initiatives, mostly in response to Russia’s attack on Ukraine.
They include:
1. The European Peace Facility, which finances the delivery of military equipment to Ukraine
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2. The Act in Support of Ammunition Production, which promotes collective European procurement of ammunitions
3. The European Defence Industry Reinforcement through Common Procurement Act, which sets up a fund to assist weapons purchases
Where to get the weapons?
Defence procurement poses a particular challenge for Europe. According to the French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs, EU countries announced over €100bn of defence purchases in the 15 months after Russia’s attack on Ukraine in February 2022.
Of that sum, 78 per cent represented armaments from outside the EU. The major suppliers were the US (80 per cent of non-EU procurement), South Korea (13 per cent) and Israel and the UK (3 per cent each).
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The EU has programmes in place for a more self-reliant, collaborative European defence effort, especially in research and development, but the sums of money involved are small.
Defence industry executives and specialists recently drafted a report that highlighted shortcomings in the EU effort. “Companies are worried their collaborative outputs will be put on the shelf, never again to be looked at once EU funding runs dry,” Aurélie Pugnet wrote for the Euractiv news site.
Who should run the show?
Not all EU governments are convinced that von der Leyen’s commission should be handed more control over European defence policy.
In this FT article, Paola Tamma and Henry Foy quoted a senior EU diplomat as saying: “We would not accept a power grab by the commission.”
For good measure, this unnamed policymaker dismissed the idea of commonly issued EU defence bonds as “pure fantasy”.
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Where will the money come from?
This raises the question of how to maintain or increase defence expenditure when budget deficits and public debt are already high in many EU countries after the 2008 financial crisis, the Covid pandemic and the subsequent energy crisis.
In a survey published this week by the World Economic Forum, some 53 per cent of chief economists identified public debt as a major risk to the stability of advanced economies.
The fiscal pressures facing EU governments are outlined in this authoritative European Central Bank study, which highlights the huge costs involved in addressing defence and security, demographic ageing, digitalisation and climate change. These are depicted in the ECB chart below.
However, the ECB makes the point that, if skilfully managed, higher defence spending could be beneficial for European economies and the public finances:
Additional defence spending could potentially increase GDP growth in the EU, with positive implications for fiscal sustainability in the longer term, if it (i) is concentrated in R&D-intensive investment, (ii) does not crowd out other productive investment, and (iii) focuses on EU-based sources.
EU budget
The fiscal constraints on defence spending are linked to the question of the EU’s next long-term budget, due to run from 2028 to 2034.
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Any hope that the EU’s 27 states will reach an early consensus on the budget has been complicated by the domestic political weakness of President Emmanuel Macron in France and the troubles of Germany’s three-party ruling coalition.
After conversations this month with high-level policymakers in Brussels, Mujtaba Rahman of the Eurasia Group consultancy concluded that the budget debate will be extremely fraught. An expansion of the EU’s Covid-era joint debt issuance is far from certain, he says:
Opposition to more common borrowing is now so entrenched that most senior EU officials do not believe it will happen in the short term.
The small window that existed to do something more quickly — essentially between now and Germany’s federal elections in September 2025 — has effectively been closed by . . . Macron’s early election gamble.
This both weakened Macron’s voice in Europe and arrested the momentum that was building behind the idea of more common financing for intra-EU security and defence.
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German blockage
To restore the momentum, there would need to be significant change in Germany, the EU’s largest economy.
After Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced the creation of a €100bn fund for modernising Germany’s armed forces. But Rafał Ulatowski, writing for the Washington Quarterly, contends that there are good reasons to doubt whether this initiative has really transformed the country’s defence policy.
It’s not that Germany lacks the money. Rather, as Markus Jaeger argues in the Internationale Politik Quarterly, the problem is twofold.
First, Germany’s constitutionally enshrined “debt brake” imposes restrictions on deficit spending that hinder investment in defence.
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Second, there are political constraints — “less in the sense of a lack of public support and more in terms of a lack of political leadership”.
Scholz’s coalition is on the ropes amid a rise in support for radical parties of right and left that oppose both support for Ukraine and an expanded defence effort.
In conclusion, the outlook for European security will be shaped not only by November’s US election result. A great deal hangs, too, on Germany’s Bundestag election a year from now.
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A RESTAURANT in Solihull less than a 10 minute drive away from Birmingham Airport has been crowned best ‘hidden gem’ restaurant in Britain.
Lavang restaurant was awarded the accolade for its rave reviews from customers and its out the way location – nestled in between an electrical shop and a Chinese takeaway on a residential estate.
The award was given by Tripadvisor in its Travellers’ Choice Awards Best of the Best Restaurants 2024.
Winners of the awards were chosen by looking at the quality and quantity of reviews and ratings for restaurants from travellers over a 12-month period.
Lavang’s location may not be the most exotic, but its menu serves up a tonne of South East Asian delights.
There’s everything from flavourful tandoori dishes to delicious charcoal grills.
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And the prices on the menu are cheap too – poppadoms, a starter, curry, rice, naan, and chips for two people will set you back around £40.
Lavang’s chic and sophisticated style is also realised once you step inside.
The decor includes a beautiful white blossom ceiling, and customers describe everything as looking very clean and well presented.
Diners have also commented on Lavang’s staff being extremely friendly and efficient, with dietary requests always accommodated.
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The restaurant is even commended for having an “impeccable playlist”.
Mr Miah, Lavang’s owner, explained to Sun Travel why the restaurant is perfectly located for customers.
Frankies at the beach and Rye Rugby Club
He said: “Being located in Solihull; we’re in close proximity to both the NEC and Birmingham Airport – this in turn allows us to invite customers that are both local, and that are visiting the region.”
He added: “We are incredibly honoured and thrilled to receive this award. It’s a testament to the hard work and dedication of our entire team, who strive every day to provide exceptional food and service to our guests.
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“Winning this award reinforces our commitment to excellence and motivates us to continue elevating the dining experience at Lavang.
“We are extremely grateful to our loyal customers for their support, and we look forward to sharing many more memorable moments with them.”
One customer who visited the restaurant in August this year and shared their experience on Tripadvisor.
They wrote: “After finding this gem of a restaurant I haven’t dined anywhere else for the same type of cuisine! That’s saying something because I love going to different places.
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“Starters often taste better than the mains in a lot of restaurants; possibly because when you first sit down you’re hungry. Not here! Starters and mains are perfectly prepared each and every time; you truly savour and enjoy the whole meal.
“The level of service attention, helpfulness and friendliness is at exactly the right level creating a relaxed ambience of a great evening out.”
Another offered a tip with their review: “Do book as it’s always busy but this does not detract from its quality – it just adds to the enjoyable buzz of the restaurant.”
It’s located in a basement cellar with stone vaulted ceilings and bare brick walls, with candlelit tables.
Coronation Curry House in Bristol has fun colourful decor and Indian artwork adorning the wall, and customers describe its chicken tikka as “comforting and tender”.
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