Category: Politico News

Belarus’ national football team should be kicked out of international competitions immediately, the country’s opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya said on Wednesday. Speaking to POLITICO in Brussels, Tikhanovskaya said: “I am for excluding pro-regime teams” until dictator Alexander Lukashenko is deposed in Minsk. Tikhanovskaya said she still thinks about the sportspeople who spoke out against Lukashenko […]

The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled Thursday that internal legislation by an employer prohibiting the visible wearing of all religious, philosophical or spiritual signs at work does not constitute direct discrimination. The background to the ruling was a legal dispute ongoing since 2018 in front of Belgian courts between a Muslim woman […]

As if things weren’t bad enough for British Prime Minister Liz Truss, now even the king is joining in! Truss, whose start in the top job has been an unmitigated disaster, held her first weekly audience with King Charles at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday and received an unusual greeting. Truss curtseyed and said: “Your Majesty” while […]

Uber whistleblower Mark MacGann is threatening to withdraw from a European Parliament hearing on the Uber Files if he has to share a stage with the ride-sharing company. The Signals Network, a non-profit organization, which has been supporting MacGann since he went public about Uber’s lobbying practices, has told the chair of the Parliament’s Employment […]

Russian criminals could be freed from prison and have their convictions quashed in exchange for serving in Moscow’s flailing war effort in Ukraine, under a new bill drafted by senators. The bill would formally allow those convicted of certain categories of crimes to perform military duty in exchange for early release, the scratching of their […]

VIENNA/BRUSSELS/BERLIN/PARIS — Iran this week privately pressured EU diplomats to abandon sanctions against Tehran over its lethal crackdown on protesters, warning diplomats the move may rupture Europe’s ties to the country.  “If Europe misses taking the nuances of the current situation into consideration, the ramification will be grave and the bilateral relations may not survive […]

BERLIN — The German government on Thursday declassified a top-secret security assessment on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from 2021, only four months before the outbreak of war, which claimed energy supplies “won’t be jeopardized” by increased dependency on Russian gas. The document, dated October 26, 2021, was adopted in the final days of former […]

Connecticut officials and victims’ families on Wednesday praised a jury’s verdict, issued earlier in the day, that InfoWars’ Alex Jones should pay $965 million to people who suffered from his false claim that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax — even as they acknowledged the tragedy and the threat that further conspiracies […]

Europe has endured a decade of disruption, with strong growth following the Great Recession short-lived before the economic and social disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The human toll of the pandemic, which touched every community throughout the EU, no sooner abated than the war on Ukraine began — with people throughout Europe responding in […]

The European Court of Auditors’ new president vowed that “lessons have been learned” after a spending controversy ousted his predecessor, calling for the EU’s spending watchdog to meet the high standards of “ethical conduct.” In an interview with POLITICO, Tony Murphy, who was chosen to head the Luxembourg-based institution last month, said the auditor “should […]