Category: Politico News

The Commission proposed the new sanctions package, which broadens restrictions on Russian energy, banks, goods and services, on Feb. 6. The EU had hoped to get final approval on both measures — the sanctions package, which requires unanimity to pass, and the €90 billion loan — before this past Tuesday, the fourth anniversary of Moscow’s full-scale […]

The South Carolina senator began the meeting by repeatedly cursing, according to a Congressional aide briefed on the matter, who recounted how he told Frederiksen: “Who gives a fuck who owns Greenland?”  Graham then reportedly branded the Danish premier a “little lady.” The exchange was enough to prompt Slotkin to walk out of the meeting […]

Almost as soon as the final medals were awarded, attention turned to a possible Summer Games in Rome in 2036 or 2040, despite a broader trend of countries declining to bid for the Olympics amid astronomical costs. Hosting the Summer Games is “a dream that we are all silently harboring,” Sports Minister Andrea Abodi admitted […]

“When safe pathways are out of reach, people are forced into dangerous journeys and into the hands of smugglers and traffickers,” IOM Director General Amy Pope said in a statement, adding migrant deaths are “not inevitable” and are “a global failure we cannot accept as normal.” The EU has been taking steps to reduce migration […]

Mandelson’s lawyers did not immediately respond to a request for comment. He has previously said he was wrong to have continued his association with Epstein, who died in 2019, and apologized “unequivocally” to Epstein’s victims. Mandelson has said none of the Epstein emails released by the U.S. Department of Justice “indicate wrongdoing or misdemeanor on […]

SONDAGE Cluster 17 x POLITICO. Quelques jours après la mort de Quentin Deranque, la ville est polarisée entre les soutiens du maire sortant Ecologiste, Grégory Doucet, et ceux de l’ancien président de l’Olympique lyonnais, Jean-Michel Aulas. Feb 19 3 mins read

Greek political parties have clashed over the affair for years, as an expanding list of cases revealed the highly invasive surveillance tool on the phones of opposition politicians, government ministers, military officials, journalists and business executives. The Greek government has denied using the illegal spyware. On Thursday, the court found four defendants guilty of “breaching […]

The European Parliament voted to support it in December. Some MEPs who opposed it said it infringed upon EU and national rules. The Commission said Thursday it “it is not necessary to propose a new legal instrument” because “EU support can already be provided relatively quickly by Member States willing to do so under existing […]

Rome, he said, will formally ask the European Commission to pause the system until changes are made to emissions benchmarks and allowance allocation rules, including delaying the phase-out of free allowances. Urso also called for the introduction of a stable support mechanism for exporting companies, arguing that this element was not fully defined in the […]

Droht ein neuer Handelskrieg zwischen der EU und den USA? Nachdem der Supreme Court zentrale US-Zölle für rechtswidrig erklärt hat, steht der sogenannte 15-Prozent-Deal zwischen Brüssel und Washington erneut auf der Kippe. Joana Lehner und Jürgen Klöckner besprechen, warum ein Plan B zum bisherigen Deal keine Option ist. Im Policy Talk spricht Evonik-Vorstandsmitglied und Interims-CFO […]