Category: Politico News

Ivo Daalder, former U.S. ambassador to NATO, is president of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and host of the weekly podcast “World Review with Ivo Daalder.”  Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has created a profound identity crisis in Germany. The first shots of the war effectively blew up Berlin’s longstanding policies on security, energy and […]

A losing Vladimir Putin is lashing out, reaching for ever-more-venomous schemes and forcing western capitals to war-game his murderous scenarios. The Russian president is terrorizing Ukrainians in cities far removed from the war’s front lines. He’s suspected of ordering the sabotage of gas pipelines to Europe. And, most terrifyingly, he’s threatening nuclear war.  That’s all […]

Alexander Temerko is a U.K. businessman and councillor at the Institute of Economic Affairs. He is a former junior defense minister of the Russian Federation. Against the backdrop of Russia’s indiscriminate terrorist attacks on cities throughout Ukraine — a show of President Vladimir Putin’s impotent rage at the Kerch Bridge’s frailty and his army’s ability […]

President Joe Biden continued to explain and modfiy his warning about nuclear “Armageddon” from Russia, a stark suggestion about the potential for escalation in Russia’s war against Ukraine he made last week. Asked by CNN host Jake Tapper whether he thought Putin would actually use nuclear weapons, Biden said in an interview that aired Tuesday, […]

ROME — For the climate-conscious leader of Italy’s center-left Democrats, an electric bus tour must have seemed like the perfect gimmick with which to close last month’s election campaign. Sadly for Enrico Letta, the battery ran out on the way to a rally, near Turin. He tried to brush the mishap aside, claiming it showed […]

LONDON — The U.S. is seeking the extradition of British businessman Graham Bonham-Carter, charged with conspiring to breach sanctions imposed by Washington on a Russian oligarch. The U.S. Department of Justice said Bonham-Carter was arrested in the U.K. on Tuesday after being accused of making payments for U.S. properties purchased by Oleg Deripaska, one of […]

NATO defense ministers are gathering in Brussels this week, and sending air defense systems to Ukraine will be at the top of everyone’s agenda, the U.S. ambassador to the alliance told reporters Tuesday. Russia bombarded civilian targets across Ukraine this weekend in retaliation for the bombing of its sole bridge to Crimea. Moscow struck a […]

KYIV — Ukraine’s western city of Lviv is preparing for the worst by buying potbelly stoves, as it becomes increasingly clear that Russia’s strategy is to knock out the nation’s core energy infrastructure in the run-up to winter. The authorities have already bought 600 of the bulbous cast-iron wood burners to be distributed across the […]

BERLIN — The German government stressed Tuesday that it is not willing to discuss fresh EU debt via loans “at present” — but it left open the door to potentially endorsing such a plan later. Bloomberg reported Monday that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz “will support joint issuance of European Union debt” to tackle the fallout […]

LONDON — Get ready for plenty more pomp and ceremony in the United Kingdom. The coronation of King Charles III will take place on Saturday, May 6, 2023, Buckingham Palace announced Tuesday. Charles ascended to the throne last month following the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, but a formal coronation date had not […]