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... Theresa May when she was home secretary, on parents and children. Einashe describes how the 2012 law has created thousands of “Skype families” who go years without seeing one another, and how its opponents warn it will lead to a brain drain from the United Kingdom. Copyright © 2017 World Policy...

... The world’s problems are rarely new. There are always precedents that should inform today’s most crucial decisions. World Policy Journal asked five experts from the United Kingdom, Burundi, Chile, Turkey, and Venezuela what lessons from history keep being forgotten. Copyright © 2016 World Policy...

..., the leaders of two of the three main Scottish parties—SNP and Conservative—are women, after the woman who led Labour resigned. The older the voter, the more connected to the present system, and to the United Kingdom. But among a younger generation, there is less emotional connection to a purely British...

... 478,581 has declined steadily for years, prisons are being UNITED KINGDOM 117,176 used to house migrants. SPAIN 9,510...

... human trafficking in supply chains, mainly through the use of transparency laws requiring companies to disclose the measures they’ve taken to address the issue. Such laws are already found in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Brazil, and are under consideration in France. Most of these laws...

... 3.9 million pounds ($5.6 million) from their local government budgets. It is an odd time to be speaking of “Powerhouses” in an area being actively denuded of both power and the wherewithal to use it. This polarization has happened in tandem with an unprecedented devolution in the United Kingdom...

... in coping with terror­ tion clearly breaches important provisions ism than the United Kingdom. The British of the European Convention on Human have waged a prolonged, low-key, yet deadly Rights, a treaty to which Britain is now struggle against both international and do­ a party. mestic terrorism...

... in Brussels, and amid the surge of the Catalans’ campaign for self-determination in Spain. This might be seen as the next step in the process of a EU that’s unwinding, as divisions are no longer between member states, but also within some of them—Spain for the Catalans, United Kingdom for the Scots...

... countries, including the weekly meet-the-people sessions. Anyone United States, the United Kingdom and who is in Singapore for some time will also Australia. The Comparative Country Risk Re­ see the active exchanges over the Internet. port 2000 published by the Hong Kong- There are specific websites...

... and rhetoric while simultaneously existing in a European political sphere where Polish nationalists carry signs reading “Pure Poland, white Poland.” Making an especially strong showing at the Polish march were far-right activists from the United Kingdom. As reported by the Southern Poverty Law Center blog...

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... of many such votes. On the rightist populist map, London’s eastern commuter belt, Amsterdam’s satellite towns, and Copenhagen’s suburbs stand out respectively as strongholds for Britain’s United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), the Dutch PVV, and the Danish People’s Party (DF). While France’s National...

... the then-Delaware-based company and its Italian parent, GTech S.p.A., to move their legal domiciles from the United States and Italy, two countries with comparatively high corporate tax rates, to the United Kingdom, where taxes are significantly lower. Under the law, all corporate entities, including the U.S...

...% CONSERVATIVES 37% UNITED KINGDOM UNITED e U.K. Independence Party’s strong showing in the 2015 election presaged the Brexit triumph. 2008 2016 GREENS 10...

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... lead to Spanish cities, where experiments with citizen empowerment are being carried out like nowhere else,” said Geoff Mulgan, CEO of Nesta, a foundation based in the United Kingdom that focuses on social innovation, in 2016 in El Mundo . The cities have influenced the political agendas of regional...

... as GTech and one of the largest lottery titans, has engaged in tax avoidance moves worth more than $600 million. Specifically, the company “inverted” its operations from Italy and the United States to the United Kingdom, thereby slashing its tax rates by close to half. Lottery boosters often extol...

..., which have not ratified the UN migrants’ convention, violate the European Convention on Human Rights when they deport a migrant who is sick with a communicable and potentially fatal disease. In 1997, the court ruled that the United Kingdom did violate the convention when it ordered the deportation...

... campaigns, bolstered ties with both right- and left-wing groups across Europe, and possibly interfered in internal political processes. Given the United Kingdom’s Brexit vote, the ongoing refugee crisis, the election of Trump, and growing economic and social frustration, the future shape of Europe...

... Luxembourg to 3 million in the United Kingdom. In most nations, their numbers are in the low single digits as a percentage of the total population of Christians. But Pentecostalism’s growth is truly remarkable. Over the past two decades churches based in Africa and the United States have planted numerous...