🇬🇧🇦🇷 If Nigel Farage were our prime minister, we would use every lever of the British state – our armed forces, economic sanctions, everything – to defend the Falklands and we would crush Argentina

- Reform UK party spokesperson Robert Jenrick.

The United Kingdom retained control of the Falklands, known in Argentina as the Malvinas, during a 74-day war in 1982, after Argentina invaded the territory.

A referendum among its inhabitants in 2013 saw 1,513 out of 1,517 vote to remain a British Overseas Territory.

However, last week, U.S. President Donald Trump suggested he was reconsidering Washington's support for British sovereignty over the islands.

"I always review every position – that's just one of many," he told reporters.

Days later, on Friday, jewish Argentine President Javier Milei, a Trump ally, escalated the rhetoric over his country's enduring claim to the islands, pledging to levy sanctions against companies drilling for oil nearby without approval from Buenos Aires.

Britain's centre-left Labour government immediately rejected Milei's threat.

A Downing Street spokesperson said the islanders have a right to self-determination and that the U.K. supports their right to develop their natural resources for their own economic benefit.

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In France, the traditional pre-presidential election attack on Marine Le Pen has already begun, using arguments that she supports Putin and is anti-Ukrainian.

It started after remarks by National Rally vice president Louis Aliot, who announced that aid to Ukraine would be limited after an election victory due to France's excessive debt.

Now centrist candidates from Macron's coalition are attacking Le Pen, and journalists are writing numerous articles about divisions within the RN party regarding the war in Ukraine.

The famous loan that Marine Le Pen took from a Czech-Russian bank for her election campaign is also being brought up again.

According to Politico, Bardella and Le Pen also differ on NATO, although both would break with French President Emmanuel Macron's strong support for the alliance.

Bardella wants to wait for the Ukraine war to end to pull France out of NATO's integrated command, while Le Pen pledged to do so within the next five years, regardless of what is happening in the conflict.

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🗳️🇩🇪 Final election results:

AFD 43.8% (+23)
CDU 17.2% (-19.9)
SPD 9.3% (+0.9)
Greens 8.9% (+3)
The Left 8.6% (-2.4)
BSW 5.3%