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submitted 15 hours ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

A prince, an ambassador, senior diplomats, top politicians. All brought down by the Jeffrey Epstein files. And all in Europe, rather than the United States.

The huge trove of Epstein documents released by the U.S. Department of Justice has sent shock waves through Europe’s political, economic and social elites — dominating headlines, ending careers and spurring political and criminal investigations.

Former U.K. Ambassador to Washington Peter Mandelson was fired and could go to prison. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces a leadership crisis over the Mandelson appointment. Senior figures have fallen in Norway, Sweden and Slovakia. And, even before the latest batch of files, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, brother of King Charles III, lost his honors, princely title and taxpayer-funded mansion.

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[-] NostraDavid@programming.dev 5 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

toppled top figures

Who? I know of one guy from the UK - Peter Mandelson, as named in the article and summary. Who else?

edit: Have the Norwegian Royals been kicked yet?

edit: Oh, I forgot about Prince Andrew!

edit: Was that it?

[-] EightBitBlood@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

Now do the US.

Far less changes in the same unreasonably short amount of time since these files dropped.

[-] SaraTonin@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

I’ve seen political pundits saying how bad the feeling in the Labour Party is and how no prime minister has ever managed to survive anything even remotely similar

But it hasn’t happened yet, Starmer has historically low polling numbers anyway, and i don’t think that many political wonks believed he would still be leader come the next election anyway

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