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Brussels forces Google to make search results worse for EU customers

Google has redesigned Search across its EU results to comply with the Digital Markets Act, calling the changes the biggest quality drop in the product's history. The Commission's own decision accepts that several of the affected features helped users find what they were looking for.

Vicky Richter · 11 September 2026
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AfD’s election surge puts Dexit back on Germany’s political map

AfD’s rise has not proved that Germany wants Dexit. It has proved something else: ideas once pushed to the political fringe now have to be taken seriously. After Saxony-Anhalt, the argument over sovereignty, borders, the euro and Germany’s place in Europe is no longer easy for the political establishment to dismiss.

Vicky Richter · 9 September 2026
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When Foreign Money Marches Through London

A US congressional investigation alleges that Chinese linked money, channelled through a tech tycoon's sprawling donor network, reached a UK company tied to Code Pink, the far left protest group organising demonstrations outside RAF bases and the Ministry of Defence. Whatever your view on Gaza, this is no longer a left or right question. It is a sovereignty question. When a hostile one party state helps bankroll dissent on British streets, the march stops being an expression of democratic will and becomes an instrument of someone else's foreign policy.

Vicky Richter · 17 August 2026