Category: EuroActiv

NEW YORK — Just hours after reading at the queen’s funeral, Britain’s new prime minister headed for New York to set out her stall on the world stage. The biggest question awaiting her: Was anyone listening? The trip had been the focus of careful planning by the transition team preparing for the arrival of a […]

Veni, vidi, veto: Giorgia Meloni’s march on Brussels Italy’s far-right firebrand is poised to join like-minded leaders in Poland and Hungary as a spoiler to European Union ambitions Carlo Martuscelliand Jacopo Barigazzi Illustration by Anthony Gerace for POLITICO Giorgia Meloni has a dream: to put the European Union in its place. In late 2020, long […]

Martin Rossen is senior vice president and head of communications & sustainability at Danfoss and is former chief of staff of the Danish prime minister’s office. As Europe braces for the impact from the shutdown of the Nord Stream I natural gas pipeline, the most pressing pain point will be the burning hole in all […]

NEW YORK — Leave it to Vladimir Putin to rain on Joe Biden’s parade of nations. The U.S. president’s speech Wednesday to the United Nations General Assembly was always going to have Russia’s war on Ukraine as its top focus. But the Russian autocrat’s announcement that he will escalate the war through new troop mobilizations and support […]

Europe is drawing up plans to hit Russia with fresh sanctions amid demands for a swift response, after Vladimir Putin threatened to use nuclear weapons in his war against Ukraine.  The Russian dictator announced a major escalation on Wednesday, including the mobilization of 300,000 Russian reservists and a warning that he will use “all resources” at […]

NEW YORK — Tony Blair has been “explaining” the U.K.’s position on the controversial post-Brexit Northern Ireland protocol to skeptical foreign allies, according to a senior British diplomat. Amid a bitter ongoing dispute with the EU, it was revealed earlier this month that the former British prime minister — who won three elections as Labour […]

Vladimir Putin has gone nuclear. Admittedly, things have not been going well. Kyiv’s counter-offensive has retaken thousands of kilometers of Russian-held territory in eastern Ukraine; Moscow’s troops have fled the front lines; dissent from previously loyal pundits has increased; and criticism (oblique though it may be) has even emanated from his pals in Beijing and […]

Flights out of Russia have sky-rocketed in price — and are selling out — following Russian President Vladimir Putin’s address Wednesday in which he called for a partial mobilization of troops to fight in the war against Ukraine. Putin said the decree is aimed at reservists with training and experience. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu […]

Spanish food-delivery firm Glovo, a subsidiary of German platform Delivery Hero, was ordered this week to pay tens of millions of euros by Spanish authorities. The penalty, first reported by local media and confirmed to POLITICO, follows the country’s so-called rider law — a law passed last year that ordered delivery companies to employ their […]

The European Commission will start consultations with EU countries’ representatives on an upcoming sanctions package within days, four EU diplomats told POLITICO. Brussels has already implemented several sanctions packages against Russia over its war with Ukraine. The European Commission is currently preparing new measures and will discuss proposals with EU ambassadors as soon as Friday, […]