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LONDON — Britain’s most senior civil servant is negotiating his exit from government as Keir Starmer battles to steady his crisis-hit government. Chris Wormald is expected to resign as cabinet secretary after just over a year in post, according to three U.K. officials, granted anonymity to talk about internal discussions. The announcement could come Tuesday, […]

“I believe that things must move forward,” Macron said. An Elysée official told reporters on Thursday that joint borrowing could cover sectors spanning from AI, to quantum, defense, space, semiconductors and robotics. The official said France could find allies in its call for more joint debt, arguing that Nordic countries could be open to that […]

Tuesday’s ruling by the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) stems from a 2021 decision by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) to fine WhatsApp €225 million for not being transparent enough with users about what it does with their data. The Irish privacy regulator had originally proposed a lower fine of €30 million to […]

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After a helter-skelter 24 hours — with calls for the PM to quit and another senior resignation from the heart of No10 — has Keir Starmer done enough to convince his party he is the man for the future, or has he simply just bought time? Sam and Anne reflect on a tumultuous day in […]

Welcome to the first edition of the Brussels Playbook Podcast! In the debut episode, Zoya Sheftalovich and Ian Wishart break down two big questions facing Brussels: How far is the EU willing to go to bring Ukraine into its fold? And can Europe finally get serious about fixing its economy? First, Ukraine and enlargement. EU […]

Die Ukraine droht im Lärm der globalen Krisen unterzugehen. Während auf internationalen Panels über Iran, China oder Venezuela diskutiert wird, rutscht der russische Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine auf der Agenda nach unten, auch kurz vor der Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz. In dieser Folge steht die Frage im Zentrum, wie viel Aufmerksamkeit dem Krieg noch bleibt und was […]

With more than 21,000 employees across 65 facilities in Europe, U.S.-based RTX is a major player in the European defense sector, building on the region’s technical and manufacturing talent. In addition to direct investment, RTX works with approximately 11,000 suppliers across Europe and spent $8 billion in the European supply chain in 2024 alone. Industrial […]

The tourism economy flourished, but it came at the cost of local residents, who were ejected from apartments hastily converted into short-term rentals and priced out of their local tascas. Home prices across the country jumped more than 124 percent between 2015 and 2025, and the median price-per-square meter in Lisbon now hovers around €5,914. […]

The EU’s idea echoes Emmanuel Macron’s multi-speed Union blueprint, which he has outlined several times since he became French president in 2017. The latest version has been informally dubbed “reverse enlargement,” according to an EU official and two European diplomats, because it effectively brings countries into the bloc at the beginning of the process of meeting membership criteria rather than […]