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UK Retail Sales Jump After May Heatwave

Late-May heat drove a spike in summer and online shopping, creating a fragile rebound facing rising taxes, higher energy bills, tighter labour rules.

Catalan Economists’ Informe Fènix Says Low-Wage Boom Is Impoverishing Society

SPD Moves to Halt Bundestag Pay Rise Set for July

Oxfam: CEO Pay Surged Since 2019 as Workers’ Real Wages Fell

HMRC Data Shows Tax Threshold Freeze Pushing Millions Into Higher Bands

The Ark Pet Centres Shuts All UK Stores After 30 Years

Sunak Warns AI Is Flattening Entry-Level Hiring, Proposes Replacing National Insurance With Profit Taxes

OECD Report Finds Mexico’s Worker Tax Burden at 21.7% as 2025 Rates Rose in Most Countries

NRW SPD Calls Crisis Meetings After Poll Puts Party at 14% and Fourth

Government Puts Rentable Garden Homes Plan to Cabinet

AfD Sets Tax and Energy Platform, Urges CDU to Back Fuel Relief

Greens’ Ricarda Lang Calls for Legal Right to Work From Home as Fuel Costs Surge

Germany’s Net Investment Turns Negative for First Time Since Reunification

Police Review Take Back Power’s Coordinated Supermarket ‘Liberations’ in Four UK Cities

Booker Unveils 'Keep Your Pay Act' To Make First $75,000 Tax-Free

Milei Touts Visa Investments, Details Plan for 90 Bills to Lock In Deregulation

Sir Michael Moritz Applies for German Citizenship, Citing UK Hostility to Jews

Ayotte’s State of the State Maps Nuclear Push, Tougher DWI Penalties and Child Care Incentive

Polanski Defends Drug Legalisation and Rebukes Starmer as Reform Pushes for TV Showdown

ICE Divides Illinois Democrats in First Live-Broadcast Senate Primary Debate