Category: Politico News

Biopharmaceutical drugs hold transformative potential. Since they first emerged in the 1980s, biopharmaceutical drugs, or biologics, have made a significant impact on treatment for patients suffering from debilitating conditions in immunology, ophthalmology and oncology, among many other disease areas. While pain, progressive disability and the loss of ability to work are par for the course […]

What a difference a decade makes. Ten years ago, when Europe was in the throes of the eurozone crisis, Germany led the drive for austerity. Now the rest of Europe is fuming about Germany’s heavy spending on energy subsidies that they fear could exacerbate the Continent’s politically explosive rich-poor divide. It hardly helps these growing […]

Tom Keatinge is the founding director of the Center for Financial Crime and Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute. Western democracies have, for decades now, been open to finance and investment, seeking to capitalize on the benefits they bring. Gone are the capital controls that used to raise financial borders between allies, as […]

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a former political prisoner and CEO of Yukos Oil company, is the author of “The Russia Conundrum: How the West Fell for Putin’s Power Gambit – and How to Fix It.”  When declaring the annexation of Ukraine’s Luhansk, Donetsk, and parts of the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions on Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin […]

Lee Cain is a founding partner at strategic advisory firm Charlebye and a former No. 10 director of communications. “With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed,” Abraham Lincoln once observed. Curiously, it is not a view shared by Liz Truss. The new U.K. prime minister surprised aides on her arrival at […]

KYIV — Alime’s phone was ringing non-stop after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced mobilization in Russia. As a human rights activist in illegally occupied Crimea, she was overwhelmed by calls from September 21, coming from across the social spectrum. There were men nearly in their sixties; women; young medical workers; teachers; students; and people who […]

BIRMINGHAM, England — So in the end, Liz Truss was for turning. But the damage to her faltering administration may already have been done. On Monday, Truss’ Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng bowed to pressure from Conservative Party colleagues and dumped his flagship cut to the top rate of tax from 45p to 40p — a central […]

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy took time out of his busy schedule of fighting a war to troll Elon Musk on Twitter. Zelenskyy on Monday asked his followers “Which @elonmusk do you like more?” followed by a poll in which the options were “One who supports Ukraine” and “One who supports Russia.” Unsurprisingly, the former option […]

KYIV — If Russia’s annexation of four Ukrainian regions was supposed to act as a warning to Ukraine to stop fighting, it hasn’t worked. Ukrainian troops on Monday liberated more of the country from Russian occupation — pushing hard in offensives in the east following the successful recapture of the strategic hub of Lyman and […]

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron’s chief of staff has been placed under formal investigation after being accused of failing to disclose alleged links to a shipping giant. Alexis Kohler, Macron’s most trusted adviser, is seen by many as the power behind the throne, with few decisions taken without his input. The alleged misconduct dates back […]