Category: Politico News

King Charles is expected to meet New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani in New York during his visit next week, according to two people familiar with the planning. The unlikely duo will both attend a wreath laying at the 9/11 memorial in downtown Manhattan on Wednesday. The event will also be attended by former New York Mayor Michael […]

U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, will travel to Pakistan on Saturday to restart negotiations to end the war with Iran, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Friday. Vice President JD Vance, who joined Witkoff and Kushner in peace talks with Iranian officials earlier this month in Islamabad, […]

“I traded $100 on myself, knowing this would happen (also knowing that I wouldn’t be vying for the democratic nomination) and the attention it would create to highlight how this company is destroying young men and as Senator I will go after Kalshi and impose significant penalties on them – 25% – a vice tax […]

The French president also said he expected tensions with the U.S. to outlast President Donald Trump. “This is a historical trend,” he said. “We can engage with the U.S. on some issues, and [that] still makes a lot of sense because of the common values and historical bonds, but I really believe that this U.S. […]

Mandelson served as EU trade commissioner from 2004 to 2008 and was a senior figure in the U.K.’s Labour Party. Prime Minister Keir Starmer recently dismissed the seasoned politician from a senior Foreign Office role following allegations of ties to Epstein, after appointing Mandelson as U.K. ambassador to the United States at the start of […]

Honeymoon’s over That’s not to say they didn’t find some common ground. A few voiced optimism about the EU’s chances of finding consensus without the pugnacious Hungarian premier. “For the first time in years there are no Russians in the room,” Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk posted on social media, alluding to Orbán’s closeness to […]

Over dinner, leaders talked about how to make the EU’s barely used mutual defense clause — Article 42.7 — work in practice, while avoiding any suggestion it could replace NATO’s Article 5 security guarantee. That discussion comes at a sensitive moment for European capitals, which are trying to respond to growing uncertainty over Washington’s commitment […]

While Cyprus wants the article to be better defined, countries on the frontline against Russia are worried about the EU pledge clashing with NATO’s Article 5 common defense pact. Seeking to reassure them, Cyprus Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos told POLITICO on the sidelines of the leaders’ meeting that 42.7 is “not about defense, I agree […]

Raising taxes But EU institutions and countries such as France are calling for a more ambitious package, arguing the bloc needs to invest in strategic sectors and compete with its Asian and American rivals. For them, a bigger budget does not necessarily mean asking EU countries with strained public finances to pay more. Instead, they […]

8. Italy doesn’t want to pay for Brussels building work Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni isn’t happy about plans to renovate the Justus Lipsius building in Brussels (that’s the building just off the Schuman roundabout that looks like a 1970s leisure center and is next to the giant glass egg building). “We cannot propose renovating […]