secretary and long term trump staffer and tom peck political sketch writer at the independent. hello welcome to the programme. the european commission will set out next week emergency measures to reform the structure of the european electricity market. the exact makeup of that intervention is still to be decided. but a growing number of eu member states are calling for electricity prices to be decoupled from the price of gas which has soared as a result of russia s war in ukraine. the commission president, ursula von der leyen, said prices which havejumped ten fold in the last year have exposed the limitations of how the market is currently managed. it is no more fit for purpose, and that is why we, the commission, are now working on an emergency intervention and a structural reform of the electricity market. it is the czech republic that has summoned eu s energy ministers to this meeting next week, they currently hold the rotating presidency of the eu council. and just befor
his coalition, ensemble , lost around a hundred seats, with major gains for both marine le pen s far right party and a new alliance led by far left leaderjean luc melenchon. now on bbc news, it s time for dateline london, with sean ley. hello and welcome to the programme which brings together leading uk commentators with the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to audiences in their own countries from the dateline london. this week, what does international law amount to? on tuesday, judges in british courts decided it was permissible to fly would be asylum seekers to rwanda in east africa because, if the policy is subsequently ruled unlawful, the british government can be relied upon to bring them back again. it was a judge on the european court of human rights whose intervention prevented the flight taking off at all. a day later, lord geidt became the second independent ethics adviser in succession to the prime minister to resign. the government was conside
by indian politicians. at least three people were killed. now on bbc news, it s time for dateline london with sean ley. hello and welcome to the programme which brings together leading uk commentators with the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to audiences in their own countries from the dateline london. this week, what does international law amount to? on tuesday, judges in british courts decided it was permissible to fly would be asylum seekers to rwanda in east africa because, if the policy is subsequently ruled unlawful, the british government can be relied upon to bring them back again. it was a judge on the european court of human rights whose intervention prevented the flight taking off at all. a day later, lord geidt became the second independent ethics adviser in succession to the prime minister to resign. the government was considering paying subsidies to steel manufacturers in the uk in breach of the rules of the world trade organization. the cod
decided it was permissible to fly would be asylum seekers to rwanda in east africa because, if the policy is subsequently ruled unlawful, the british government can be relied upon to bring them back again. it was a judge on the european court of human rights whose intervention prevented the flight taking off at all. a day later, lord geidt became the second independent ethics adviser in succession to the prime minister to resign. the government was considering paying subsidies to steel manufacturers in the uk in breach of the rules of the world trade organization. the code says ministers should not break the law. downing street was considering suspending it and asked for his advice. for lord geidt, this was the last straw. on friday, borisjohnson escaped these domestic distractions to spend the day in kyiv. these domestic distractions he is one of the allies of ukraine championing international law as a tool to bring to account rations for actions taken nations for actions ta