Category: Politico News

Simon Collinson, Head of UK Public Sector at Salesforce Digitalization and personalization are key aspects of our decade. Crucial tools for commercial sectors, citizens now expect government services to take them on board.  “Customers’ expectations of public services are influenced by their experience with the commercial sector,” says Simon Collinson, Head of Public Sector at […]

PARIS/BERLIN — Thirty years after the horrors of the Balkan wars laid bare Western Europe’s incapacity to deal with conflict on European soil, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is demonstrating how little has changed. As Yugoslavia started to break apart in 1991, it fell to the Luxembourgish Foreign Minister Jacques Poos to make the ill-fatedly optimistic […]

Timothy Ash is an associate fellow in the Russia and Eurasia program at Chatham House and a senior sovereign strategist at Bluebay Asset Management. For just a minute, imagine a country that has been buffeted for years by political instability. It has seen four prime ministers in just six years and three general elections over […]

U.S. President Joe Biden will host a state dinner for French President Emmanuel Macron in December, the White House announced Monday. The dinner, scheduled for Dec. 1, will be the first state visit hosted by Biden after almost two years in office. The delay is in part a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, White House […]

The currency markets reacted to new U.K. Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget on Friday with a rapid sell-off of Sterling, leading to a slide in the pound’s value against the dollar and other currencies. Markets were spooked by the government’s plans to slash taxes by £45 billion without significant spending cuts. That means government borrowing will […]

A natural gas leak has been detected from a section of the Russia-to-Germany Nord Stream 2 pipeline in Danish waters, Danish authorities said Monday. “A leak has occurred today on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline in the Danish area,” said the Danish Energy Agency. A no-go zone of 5 nautical miles has been established around […]

The Bank of England today backed away from emergency steps to prop up the value of the tumbling pound but said it would not hesitate to raise interest rates to bring inflation back under control. The BoE is monitoring developments in financial markets “very closely” and will raise interest rates as necessary to return inflation […]

LIVERPOOL, England — As an inexperienced leader taking charge of a country in crisis, Liz Truss knew she needed to hit the ground running this month. But three weeks into her fledgling premiership, the new U.K. prime minister finds herself scrambling to stay ahead of events as last Friday’s tax-cutting mini-budget spooked financial markets, sending […]

Another head has rolled on the French left. Julien Bayou is no longer co-president of the green group in France’s National Assembly or national secretary of the Green party, where he’s been an important figure since 2013, after being accused of psychological abuse against his former partner. The Green party — Europe Écologie les Verts […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin granted citizenship to U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden in a presidential decree published Monday. Snowden has been living in Russia since 2013, after the United States charged the former intelligence analyst contractor under the 1917 Espionage Act for leaking highly classified documents about government surveillance programs. He was granted permanent residency in […]