Category: Politico News

Nathalie Tocci is director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali, Europe’s futures fellow at IWM, Vienna, and a board member of ENI. Her new book, “A Green and Global Europe,” will be published by Polity.  Wars are unpredictable until the end. Yet, since the Ukrainian counteroffensive began liberating swathes of territory in the north and east […]

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Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday stopped short of backing Ukraine’s request for an “accelerated accession” to join NATO, hours after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the bid in response to Moscow declaring it had annexed four regions of Ukraine. When asked by POLITICO if she backed Ukraine’s NATO accession, Pelosi declined to explicitly endorse it, but said she […]

The energy emergency gripping Europe will be a long haul — and next winter could be even worse. Ministers meeting in Brussels on Friday secured a deal on the bloc’s latest package of relief measures. It’s one they hope will help to protect households and businesses from cripplingly high energy bills and the specter of […]

Bulgaria will hold its fourth election in 18 months on Sunday, but there is little sign that the country is about to break its entrenched political impasse. This prospect of deadlock is bad news for a country wrestling with the daunting challenges of high-level corruption, widespread Russian influence and swingeing inflation in the run-up to […]

The U.S. on Friday unveiled a raft of new sanctions against top Russian officials after Vladimir Putin declared that four provinces of Ukraine would become Russian territory, warning of severe financial costs for anyone who supports the move. Among those sanctioned are top officials of the Russian central bank, including Governor Elvira Nikolaevna Nabiullina, and […]

A German-Polish fight over a large pollution incident that killed thousands of fish in the Oder River is turning toxic.  The two countries were initially meant to unveil a joint report Friday analyzing what happened this summer on the river that in part flows along their mutual border. Instead, Warsaw and Berlin each issued their […]

Kyiv on Friday formally requested an “accelerated accession” to join NATO, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced, as a response to Moscow formally annexing four regions of Ukraine. “We trust each other, we help each other and we protect each other. This is what the Alliance is. De facto. Today, Ukraine is applying to make it […]

The EU is encouraging member states to beef up border staff and tighten security checks for Russians fleeing the draft for the war in Ukraine. European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson issued the urging on Friday, saying countries should assess whether to let in Russians trying to enter Europe on a “case-by-case” basis. “A […]