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    Michelle Donelan in talks on UK access to EU’s £88.6bn science scheme

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The Government is set to hold talks with the European Union on the UK having associate membership of the bloc’s flagship Horizon Europe research programme. Science and Technology Secretary Michelle Donelan is travelling […] More

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    Montenegro's new president says country firmly on EU path

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Montenegro’s president-elect Jakov Milatovic is pledging to speed up the small country’s bid for membership to the European Union and to adhere to the bloc’s policy line toward Russia over its invasion of […] More

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    World’s first self-driving bus service launches next month

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Full-size, self-driving buses will begin public services next month in what is believed to be a world first. Stagecoach announced the ground-breaking scheme over Scotland’s Forth Road Bridge will launch on May 15. […] More

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    As it turns 25, N Ireland’s Good Friday Agreement explained

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email It has been 25 years since the striking of the Good Friday Agreement, the landmark peace accord that ended three decades of violence in Northern Ireland, a period known as “the Troubles.” The […] More

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    Free-market ex-UK Treasury chief Nigel Lawson dies

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Nigel Lawson, the tax-cutting U.K. Treasury chief under the late Margaret Thatcher and a lion of Conservative politics in the late 20th century has died. He was 91. Lawson, who led the Treasury […] More