Category: Politico News

Viktor Orbán has joined Twitter and has “one question on my mind: Where is my good friend, Donald Trump.” The Hungarian prime minister’s bio on the social media site describes him as “Freedom fighter, Husband, Father, Grandfather, Prime Minister of Hungary.” At the time of writing, he had just under 35,000 followers and was following […]

U.S. President Joe Biden promised continued security assistance “including advanced air defense systems” to Ukraine late on Monday, following Russian missile attacks targeting civilians and energy infrastructures. Biden spoke with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy to express “his condemnation of Russia’s missile strikes across Ukraine,” according to a White House statement after the call. On […]

LONDON — The U.K. must continue to spend big on national security technologies such as quantum computing in order to resist Chinese dominance, a British spy chief said. In a speech to be delivered Tuesday, GCHQ’s Director Jeremy Fleming will warn the Chinese Communist Party is seeking to use technologies such as digital currencies and […]

BELFAST — The Democratic Unionists have a typically blunt message for Liz Truss and Joe Biden, Brussels and Dublin: Meet our party’s demands for new post-Brexit trade rules or we’ll kill off Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government for good. The cross-community government at Stormont overlooking Belfast has been unraveling since February when the DUP quit the […]

Europe’s efforts to revamp its chronically underfunded militaries have exposed a peace-time defense industry ill-equipped to supply weapons for the Russian threats piling up nearby. Simply put, there just aren’t enough bullets, weapons and hi-tech systems in Europe to match the EU’s demands and looming dangers ahead. And the demand is high — since the […]

Vladimir Putin was master of all he surveyed; then he invaded Ukraine.  For the first time in two decades, the Russian president’s opponents think it more likely than not that he will depart in the near term, although they disagree about how the endgame might play out, who might replace him, and when. Much depends […]

Paul Taylor is a contributing editor at POLITICO.  PARIS — Despite failing to reach the run-off in France’s three presidential elections, leftist firebrand Jean-Luc Mélenchon is now looking to stir up a popular uprising against the cost-of-living crisis and pension reform, in hopes of ousting centrist President Emmanuel Macron.   Don’t hold your breath.  The […]

Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021. Today, in Russia, one cannot say the word “war.” Instead, the bloody assault on the people of Ukraine must be called a “special military operation.” Dozens and dozens of websites, well beyond the official state media machinery, are pumping out false narratives, and […]

BERLIN — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is planning to travel to China on November 3-4, making him the first G7 leader to visit the People’s Republic since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, two officials with knowledge of the travel plans told POLITICO. Scholz’s trip comes as the chancellor is walking a thin line between […]

KYIV — Oleh Ocheretyanyi isn’t buying Russian President Vladimir Putin’s argument that Monday’s bombardment of central Kyiv was revenge for Saturday’s attack on the bridge connecting Russia to illegally occupied Crimea. A few hours after the attack, with obvious curiosity, the 31-year-old picked out curved pieces of what appeared to be shrapnel from a Russian […]