Category: Politico News

European Council President Charles Michel said EU leaders will discuss the security of critical infrastructure at a summit on Friday, following damage to Nord Stream gas pipelines that Western countries have called a likely act of sabotage. “Sabotage of Nordstream pipelines is a threat to the EU. We are determined to secure our critical infrastructure,” Michel […]

BIRMINGHAM, England — They say absence makes the heart grow fonder — and it’s the absent guests from this year’s Conservative Party conference who will be among the hottest topics of conversation. Neither former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, nor his former Chancellor Rishi Sunak, are expected to attend the annual party gathering, which kicks off […]

Giulia Blasi is a writer and activist based in Rome, and the author of the feminist primer “Manuale per ragazze rivoluzionarie” (Rizzoli, 2018) and “Rivoluzione Z” (Rizzoli, 2020), and “Brutta” (Rizzoli, 2022). ROME — When questioned about her views on abortion rights, Brothers of Italy leader Giorgia Meloni replied that she intends to give women […]

Joseph Webster is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center and edits the China-Russia Report, an independent newsletter. This article represents his own personal opinion. With Ukraine’s forces routing Russian forces on the battlefield, President Vladimir Putin appears to be flailing desperately. He has ordered a huge — and politically risky — […]

Latvia’s national election on Saturday appeared set to show a victory for the New Unity party of Prime Minister Krišjānis Kariņš, according to an exit poll. The center-right New Unity party was projected to capture 22.5% of the vote, well above the second-place party, according to the poll conducted by the SKDSA research center, Riga […]

The U.N.’s aviation agency on Saturday voted against keeping Russia as a member, excluding Moscow from an important international decision-making body. Russia failed to secure enough votes to remain in the International Civil Aviation Organization’s 36-member governing council that is reserved for countries “of chief importance in air transport.” The ICAO has 193 members in total. […]

ROME — Giorgia Meloni, the far-right leader who is expected to head the next Italian government, said that Rome will start putting national interests first, in her first speech since last Sunday’s elections. Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party leads a right-wing coalition that took 44 percent of the vote. In the election campaign, she warned that […]

Ukrainian forces are closing in to recapture the city of Lyman in the eastern Donetsk region of the country, the Defense Ministry in Kyiv said on Saturday. “Ukrainian Air Assault Forces are entering Lyman, Donetsk region. [The Ukrainian army] has and will always have the decisive vote in today’s and any future ‘referendums’,” the ministry […]

Russian forces have abducted the head of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Ukrainian operator Energoatom said on Saturday. Ihor Murashov, director general of the power plant, was arrested by Russian patrols on his way from the facility to a nearby town on Friday afternoon, according to Energoatom, a state enterprise operating all four nuclear power […]

Vladimir Putin gave a chest-thumping speech on Friday when he declared he was seizing four territories in Ukraine and lashed out at Western countries he claimed are influenced by “satanism.” But the reality in Ukraine tells a different story, one in which Russia continues to lose territory and where momentum has clearly shifted to the […]