Category: EuroActiv

NEW YORK — Russia is at war not only with Ukraine, but with the whole EU — and it’s losing, according to Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. Russian President Vladimir Putin is “using energy as a war tool” because he is threatened by the EU’s values, Sánchez told POLITICO in New York, where more than 150 […]

McDonald’s will begin to reopen its businesses in Kyiv this week, the fast food giant’s head of communications in Ukraine said Monday. “The reopening of the restaurants in Kyiv and western Ukraine will take place in stages over two months,” the statement on Facebook by Alesya Mudzhyri reads. While McDrive and dine-in restaurants will only […]

YEREVAN, Armenia — Crowds lined the streets of Yerevan hours before Nancy Pelosi’s fleet of seven slick black cars pulled into the center of the Armenian capital on Sunday. Waving American flags, thousands of people turned out to catch a glimpse of the speaker of the House of Representatives as she paid a historic visit […]

LONDON — It was the grandest of state funerals. It was a rare moment of shared national reflection. It was also a masterclass in diplomatic choreography. Two full hours before Queen Elizabeth II’s solemn state funeral began at 11 a.m. Monday, the world leaders began to arrive. They came in waves — with a clear […]

The EU is edging Hungary to the brink in a battle over democratic norms — and then offering it a parachute. The European Commission over the weekend took its most meaningful step yet in an attempt to bring Hungary back in line with the bloc’s rule-of-law standards, proposing a €7.5 billion cut from the country’s EU funds.  […]

James Fitzgerald is a financial journalist and chief reporter at Citywire.  As part of its “Brexit bonfire,” the British government is pushing to scrap all European Union financial regulations. Though the country ceased to be part of the EU on January 1, 2021, due to the interwoven fabric of international financial services and the Brexit […]

Kassym-Jomart Tokayev is the president of Kazakhstan. In a state-of-the-nation address earlier this month, I announced I would seek a democratic mandate to implement a vision for a fairer, more open Kazakhstan. And as my country heads to the polls in the coming months, I believe we must resist the instinct to turn inward amid […]

Ukrainian air defenses have shot down at least 55 Russian warplanes since the start of the war in late February, a U.S. general said Monday, saying the huge losses are a major reason Russian fighter planes and bombers have not played much of a role in the conflict. Ukrainians took down those planes using older […]

NEW YORK — EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell tamped down expectations of a breakthrough on the Iran nuclear deal at the United Nations General Assembly this week, saying he does not believe a meeting with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi would be productive. In an interview with POLITICO on the sidelines of the General Assembly, […]

Tanya Gold is a freelance journalist. This was not the funeral of the head of a state of a medium sized power, who has presided over managed decline since 1952: the guest list told you that. It was something older, and more magical, and savage. Crowned heads and presidents of republics arrived by coach from […]