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LONDON/BUDAPEST Britain’s vote to leave the European Union fired up populist eurosceptic parties across the continent on Friday, giving fresh voice to their calls to leave the bloc or its euro currency. Right-wing and anti-immigrant parties in the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and France demanded referendums on membership of the union, while Italy’s 5-Star movement…
Yesterday, 17 million Brits voted on a referendum to leave the European Union after a decades-old alliance. One of the chief architects of the #Leave movement was Nigel Farage, a British politician and head of the UK Independence Party. Farage has long championed the so-called Brexit, and triumphantly spoke to supporters after the vote saying,…
After months of campaigning, the “Leave” camp has won and Britain will be leaving the E.U. The Post’s Adam Taylor talks about what that means for the country and Europe. (Adam Taylor,Jason Aldag/The Washington Post) The whole world is reeling after a milestone referendum in Britain to leave the European Union. And although leaders of the campaign to exit…
Stock markets around the world collapsed and the pound plunged on news that Britain’s electorate had emphatically voted to leave the European Union in Thursday’s referendum. Banks including Lloyds, Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland all saw around a fifth of their value wiped out by Friday lunchtime, with similar losses at housebuilders like Taylor…
It’s not just the pound that’s falling after the U.K. voted leave the European Union. Markets all over the world are in full freakout mode, the euro is falling, and investors everywhere are pulling money out of markets and putting it somewhere safe, meaning the U.S. dollar and U.S. government debt have both strengthened. In…
I’m sitting here looking at my burgundy-red British passport, with EUROPEAN UNION emblazoned in gold letters across the top. I’ve fastened the shirt I’m wearing with cufflinks which have the UK flag on one side, and the German flag on the other—my proud European heritage. I’m thinking about everything I loved about growing up in…
U.S. stocks opened sharply lower Friday, reversing recent gains in a global risk-off trade after Britain surprised markets by voting to leave the European Union. The S&P 500 opened 1.88 percent lower in 1986, according to Howard Silverblatt of S&P Dow Jones Indices. Ahead of the U.S. stock market open, pound sterling held off session…
PARIS, FRANCE – JUNE 21: Germany fans show their support prior to the UEFA EURO 2016 Group C match between Northern Ireland and Germany at Parc des Princes on June 21, 2016 in Paris, France.Shaun Botterill/Getty Images A German court on Friday handed publisher Axel Springer — the parent company of Business Insider, Bild, and…
Lending a new dimension to the phrase “If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em,” recently fired Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski has joined CNN as a political commentator. Presumably now if he wants to grab a reporter so hard that she’s left with bruises on her arm, his case will be handled by CNN’s…
Abigail Fisher, the plaintiff in the latest round of affirmative action cases heard before the Supreme Court, is the perfect villain in a liberal morality play about the evils of racism. Fisher’s case before the Supreme Court, in which she demanded that she be admitted to the University of Texas at Austin despite not having the…