All posts tagged "Election"

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  Ireland to introduce civil service diversity targets

  Targets are to be set for the number of people from ethnic minority backgrounds employed in the public and civil service in Ireland. Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green

  • Posted June 19, 2020
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  Queen’s speech signals constitutional change as Boris Johnson sets out legislative plans

  Fresh from winning last Thursday’s general election, the UK government has said it is taking steps to overhaul the country’s constitution as the Queen opened parliament with a speech outlining

  • Posted December 19, 2019
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  UK civil service chief blocks opposition policy costings as election looms

  The UK’s Cabinet secretary and head of the civil service, Mark Sedwill, has intervened to block the release of a government document estimating the costs of the opposition Labour Party’s

  • Posted November 7, 2019
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  Boris’s Brexit trap

  Members of the UK’s House of Commons will try this week to prevent new PM Boris Johnson from securing a ‘no deal’ Brexit – but Johnson is a step ahead,

  • Posted September 2, 2019
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  Top Finnish civil servants outline tough choices for next government

  The next Finnish government faces making tough decisions to correct the country’s structural deficit, according to the country’s permanent secretaries. The Opportunities for Finland document has been drawn up by officials in

  • Posted February 7, 2019
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  EU observers call for electoral reform in Kenya

  EU observers have called on Kenya to reform its electoral system following a catalogue of violence and intimidation at last year’s disputed presidential election. President Uhuru Kenyatta won an October

  • Posted January 22, 2018
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  UK election surprise leaves Brexit talks uncertain

  UK prime minister Theresa May suffered a huge electoral blow last night, losing her parliamentary majority in a general election held just days before the beginning of formal Brexit talks

  • Posted June 9, 2017
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  UK union chief warns that civil servants lack resources to tackle Brexit

  The head of Britain’s union for senior public sector managers called last week for the UK’s next government to urgently hold a new spending round, giving civil servants the resources

  • Posted May 14, 2017
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  Who is François Fillon? We profile the French presidential candidate of the centre-right

  François Fillon, who appears likely to face the hard-right Front National’s Marine le Pen in the French presidential election run-off, won the centre-right Republicain party’s primary on a promise to

  • Posted December 6, 2016
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  Team Trump – what we know so far

  Since last week’s surprise election of Donald Trump, the focus has moved on to the likely composition of the US president-elect’s Cabinet and White House team. Reports emerged on Tuesday

  • Posted November 16, 2016
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