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Coalition government faces high-stakes parliamentary test on deficit reduction timetable
Centrist backbenchers threaten to abstain on third reading unless municipal infrastructure borrowing limits are raised.
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Politics
Coalitions, committees and the machinery that decides who gets what.
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INVESTIGATION
Leaked ministerial schedules expose undisclosed industrial lobbying network
More than 340 off-calendar meetings between departmental secretaries and energy consortiums reveal how environmental oversight rules were rewritten.
BRUSSELS
INVESTIGATION
Electoral registry overhaul transitions eight million voters to biometric verification
Civil liberties advocates raise concerns over automated address matching and database synchronization across provincial agencies.
BRUSSELS
DISPATCH
Agricultural lobby secures key carbon border tax exemption for synthetic nitrogen fertiliser
A late-night legislative concession shields domestic agribusiness from tariffs, drawing fierce pushback from climate policy architects.
PARIS
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