Category: Politico News

BERLIN — Exit polls suggest the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is on track to win Sunday’s crucial regional election in Saxony-Anhalt that will determine whether the far right will hold a position of real power in the country for the first time since World War II. According to an exit poll by the broadcaster […]

We made history. On just our second flight, we became the first commercial space company from Europe to deliver satellites into orbit. Mission ‘Onward and Upward’ successfully lifted off and deployed payloads into orbit. A new chapter for European spaceflight. More:… pic.twitter.com/AWvqG2l8Mn — Isar Aerospace (@isaraerospace) September 5, 2026 Germany’s Ministry for Research, Technology and […]

But last week, U.S. President Donald Trump suggested he was reconsidering Washington’s support for Britain’s sovereignty over the islands. “I always review every position — that’s just one of many,” he told reporters. Days later, on Friday, right-wing Argentinian President Javier Milei, a Trump ally, escalated the rhetoric over his country’s enduring claim to the […]

“This is due to the preparation and conduct of American contacts in Kyiv,” Peskov said. Witkoff and Kushner are expected to travel to the Ukrainian capital on Sunday. Russian drone attacks on Ukrainian cities have intensified in recent weeks. Ukraine, meanwhile, has stepped up its hits on Russia’s oil infrastructure, in August reaching a monthly […]

President Donald Trump dodged a chance Friday to condemn President Vladimir Putin over allegations that Russia has conducted espionage attacks on NATO nations. Trump, speaking to reporters at the White House, brushed off a question about one such apparent incident — the discovery of explosive-laden drones Aug. 4 at the Leipzig airport in Germany that officials have linked to Russia.

A Russian drone attack on Friday afternoon struck the central Kyiv headquarters of the Security Service of Ukraine, the state’s top counterintelligence agency, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. The attack “directly” targeted the office of Oleksandr Poklad, the acting head of the SBU, Zelenskyy wrote on his Telegram channel. Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko separately said that […]

Three schemes account for the bulk of the government’s spending under the new plan. France will speed up payments under its “national solidarity” scheme designed to compensate for crop losses. It will be topped up to a total of €520 million, provided the country’s 2027 budget is duly adopted. An “agricultural recovery fund” of €235 […]

In a ruling from Washington’s own attempt to break up Google, Judge Leonie Brinkema, of the Federal District of Eastern Virginia, rejected the DoJ’s request for a forced divestiture of parts of its business. That decision leaves the EU alone, at a time of transatlantic discord, in advocating that the online advertising giant break itself […]

“But unlike the real India Gate, which has stood almost for a century, the chocolate version didn’t even survive the journey to India,” De Wever said. “Chocolate is excellent for diplomacy, but not excellent for diplomatic travel.” The gift carried a more serious message. India Gate is a war memorial in New Delhi, and De […]

“The glorification of war criminals has no place; it goes really, really strong against European values and has no space, not in the EU member states, but also in our candidates,” she said. “We are observing the situation very carefully … and we will see what will happen in [the] next days and we also […]