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The German state will become the majority shareholder of ailing energy giant Uniper, its previous majority owner, Finland’s Fortum, announced Wednesday. The deal between Fortum, the German government and Uniper will allow Berlin to “take full control of Uniper to secure energy supply in Germany,” the statement reads. Germany will own 98.5 percent of the company […]

VIENNA — Ukrainian forces have recently pushed Russian troops back across thousands of square miles in northeastern Ukraine, liberating dozens of towns and cities from Russian rule. But for millions of Ukrainians living in occupied Donetsk and Luhansk, the reality of life under Russian proxy rule is grim. And for Ukrainians suspected of collaborating with […]

Janos Pasztor is the executive director of the Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative (C2G). At the U.N. General Assembly, world leaders will likely spare no words in calling for action on climate change. However, few words are as consequential — and unlikely to be uttered — as one: “overshoot.” Overshoot is code for exceeding the Paris […]

Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. He covered the conflict in Donbas in 2014 and 2015 and reported from Ukraine this winter. Not since former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s soldiers fled Kuwait in 1990 has the world seen a supposedly powerful army turn tail in the grip of such panic, abandoning weapons and […]

Hansjörg Wyss is a Swiss businessman and philanthropist, and the co-owner of Chelsea FC. Solving the crisis facing nature is daunting. Over the next few months, we will see whether governments are truly up to the task. I, for one, am optimistic that we will meet the challenge, but leaders must actually commit to accelerating […]

Ahead of this weekend’s election, Italian voters have a problem: separating the truth from the lies they read online. Despite concerns that Russia will try to meddle in the campaign, Italian politicians and social media influencers have so far played the greatest role in spreading election-related online falsehoods, based on an analysis by Digital Bridge, […]

NEW YORK — Countries that refuse to take a side in Russia’s war in Ukraine are “complicit” with Moscow’s “new imperialism,” French President Emmanuel Macron told the U.N. General Assembly Tuesday in an impassioned speech. “Those who are silent today are serving — whether against their will or secretly with a certain complicity — the […]

When President Joe Biden speaks Wednesday at the United Nations General Assembly, the two most important people he’ll be addressing won’t be in the audience — Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping. The Russian autocrat’s invasion of Ukraine is the world’s biggest geopolitical shift over the past year, and it gives Biden plenty of fodder for […]

NEW YORK — Emmanuel Macron praised Liz Truss’ “will to move forward” as the pair met for the first time since the British prime minister said “the jury is out” on whether they’d be friends or adversaries. The French and British leaders met on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly Tuesday where they discussed […]

Russian-backed separatists in the so-called Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) and Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) will hold referendums from September 23-27 on joining Russia, the Russian state-news agency TASS reported Tuesday. Earlier, the Russian-backed separatist parliaments in the regions passed laws allowing such a vote to take place. In response, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba tweeted: “Sham […]