Mamma mia! Investigating crimes against Italian food. So-called Italian food on sale in the European Parliament causes shock and anger.

Quiz question for Italian readers: Which is the bigger food crime?
a) cream in a carbonara
b) cappuccino after late morning
c) pineapple on pizza
More in Declassified @politico.eu
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Game of Gnomes: The politics of small garden ornaments The European Parliament is the latest in a long line to mix politics and gnomes.

Game of Gnomes! This week's Declassified available for your delight/abject horror/indifference @politico.eu
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Competitive Europe Summit — live updates All the latest updates and analysis from POLITICO’s big competitiveness gathering.

It's the big @politico.eu Competitiveness Europe Summit and you keep up with what's going on with our blog
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Flat-pack diplomacy: The UN’s tiny Ikea table takes center stage Trump likes gold. Putin likes giants. The United Nations likes its tables to be very cheap.

Soft (furnishings) power in this week's Declassified column @politico.eu
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Testing times for Ursula von der Leyen, the heavy metal Commission chief European Commission president has a musical past, but is she now secretly a fan of heavy rock?

New Declassified column @politico.eu rocks 🤘
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Is London sexy or a dangerous hellhole? It’s a divided world out there, pitting the “Woke Leftist Brigade” against the late Silvio Berlusconi.

Which is sexier, London or Brussels? Declassified has the answer @politico.eu
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Meet the Fanatic Four: ICE Man, Tattooed Can’t Watch Porn Man, the Human Torch, and Good Jeans Woman! We need a new superhero franchise, so let’s call Sydney Sweeney and some bloke who used to be Superman!

In this week's Declassified @politico.eu I come up with a new superhero franchise
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The aliens are coming! Donald Trump and locusts vs. Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau The world is in a terrible state, and the extraterrestrials are planning to invade. Happy summer!

This week's Declassified @politico.eu has...
Donald Trump
Katy Perry
Justin Trudeau
A plague of locusts
and Aliens!
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18 times Donald Trump’s golf habit got political The U.S. president loves playing golf but his hobby can get him into trouble.

With Donald Trump heading to Scotland, here are 18 times his love of golf got political
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Trump, Putin and Ozzy Osbourne’s deals with the devil Russia bans the devil, so he heads straight to the White House.

This week's Declassified is a little devilish 👿
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From Hulkamania to Trumpamania: Hulk Hogan’s political journey Hulk Hogan once claimed he wanted to be U.S. president.

Hulk Hogan, basically Donald Trump with muscles and a mustache. More by me here...
www.politico.eu/article/hulk...

The political wisdom of Ozzy Osbourne The heavy metal icon, who has died aged 76, had several brushes with the political class.

I wrote about Ozzy Osbourne and politics
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Le Roi et moi! Macron (and 90+ penises) make British trip Britain gets Emmanuel Macron and the Bayeux Tapestry (for a bit).

After an extended break, my weekly humour column, Declassified, is back @politico.eu
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Paris is disgusting, and I love it: A bedbug’s tale Parisians are furious about bedbugs but are they right to be? We asked a bedbug.

Paris is full of bedbugs, so I went and spoke to one