Category: Politico News

Turkey’s foreign ministry summoned the German ambassador to Ankara on Tuesday after the Bundestag’s vice president compared Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to a “sewer rat.” “We condemn in the strongest terms the insulting statements made by Mr. Wolfgang Kubicki, the Vice President of the Federal Parliament of Germany, about our President,” the Turkish ministry said in […]

The White House is expected to publish its long-awaited executive order on transatlantic data transfers next week, according to three officials with knowledge of the matter. The order is designed to address European concerns over surveillance practices in the United States and may be signed by President Joe Biden and then published as early as October 3, one of […]

LIVERPOOL — A Labour government would require British trade negotiators to ensure all regions of the U.K. benefit from new agreements. Shadow International Trade Secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds will make the pledge as he delivers his speech to the Labour conference in Liverpool, in part to paint the governing Conservatives as desperate to get deals over the […]

China has its sights set on the U.S. midterm elections. Ahead of November’s vote, a social media influence operation originating in the world’s second-largest economy targeted American voters of both major parties, according to a report released Tuesday by Meta. The activity — which ran between November 2021 and September 2022 — used fake social […]

In Germany, news magazine Der Spiegel warned about natural gas shortages. In the United Kingdom, the Guardian, another media outlet, raised doubts about Russian war crimes in Ukraine. In Italy, Ansa, a leading news agency, criticized Kyiv’s storage of much-needed grain. These news stories were all promoted extensively on Facebook and Twitter. They were all […]

DUBLIN — Ireland unveiled a whopping €11 billion budget Tuesday designed to shelter households and businesses from runaway energy bills and a home-grown housing crisis. The unprecedented package of expanded benefits and tax cuts by Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe represents €2,200 for every man, woman and child in Ireland. It includes hikes in welfare and […]

LONDON — Post-Brexit controls have caused a 25 percent drop in the number of Eurostar passengers able to board services to Europe each hour at London’s St. Pancras station. Jacques Damas, chief executive of the cross-Channel high speed train company, said St. Pancras can only process a maximum of 1,500 passengers per hour assuming all […]

New pound banknotes featuring a portrait of King Charles III will be presented by the end of the year and will enter circulation by mid-2024, the Bank of England said Tuesday. “His Majesty’s portrait will appear on existing designs of all four polymer banknotes,” the statement said. “This will be a continuation of the current polymer […]

BERLIN — German opposition leader Friedrich Merz accused Ukrainian refugees of taking advantage of Germany’s social welfare system by seeking protection in the country, collecting benefits and then returning to Ukraine. “What we’re seeing is welfare tourism on the part of these refugees to Germany, back to Ukraine, to Germany, back to Ukraine,” Merz, the […]

Japan on Tuesday accused Russia of unacceptable behavior and warned it will take “appropriate measures” in response, a day after the Russian federal security agency, the FSB, detained a Japanese diplomat in Vladivostok. The official, identified in reports as Tatsunori Motoki, was accused of being a spy. Motoki is a consul at the Japanese Consulate […]