Germany’s competition watchdog is set to look into whether Microsoft should come under the scope of new rules that allow the country to rapidly prohibit anti-competitive conduct, according to people familiar with the matter. Two individuals close to the matter told POLITICO that the German Cartel Office has prepared a draft decision to launch […]
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Climate change is turning up the heat on Europe’s growing list of crises. With another heat wave sweeping France and the British Isles this week, the Continent faces a worsening drought — with serious consequences for energy security, food prices, trade flows and biodiversity. Two-thirds of the European Union’s land is now covered by drought warnings. […]
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LONDON — It’s a long-held maxim in British politics that divided parties do not win elections. And so it is with some horror that U.K. Conservative Party politicians and supporters have watched the contest to replace Boris Johnson descend into the most rancorous Tory leadership battle in decades. Already dubbed ‘the dirtiest race in history‘ in […]
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BERLIN — Germany’s Wagnerian foreign policy spectacle is moving east. Spoiler alert: It’s even worse than the original. For months, Berlin has frustrated (read enraged) many allies with its one step forward, two steps back approach to confronting Russia over Ukraine. Yet that tortured episode is looking like little more than an overture to what’s […]
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Svitlana Zalishchuk is a former member of the Ukrainian Parliament (2014 to 201)9 and former foreign policy adviser to the prime minister of Ukraine. She’s currently an adviser to the CEO of Naftogaz. The sanctions Western countries have imposed on Russia in response to its bloody war against Ukraine go far beyond what the Kremlin […]
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Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. In 1976, the dissident Russian writer Vladimir Bukovsky arrived in London. His opposition to the Communists had started at an early age, being thrown out of school in his final year for editing an unauthorized magazine, and by the time he arrived in Britain, he’d spent more […]
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French officials warned Thursday that flare-ups could cause a massive wildfire to further spread in the country’s parched southwest, where fresh blazes have already blackened swathes of land this week.
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The situation at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has deteriorated rapidly to the point of becoming “very alarming,” Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Mariano Grossi warned the Security Council on Thursday afternoon.
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The chief U.N. nuclear monitor called for an immediate stop to fighting that risks a radiation disaster, as Russians and Ukrainians blamed each other for strikes dangerously close to the reactors.
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