Category: Politico News

German Finance Minister Christian Lindner has questioned if efforts to help the country’s energy companies tackle soaring energy costs would lead to lower energy prices for local consumers. Speaking to German newspaper Bild am Sonntag, Lindner, the head of the country’s liberal Free Democratic Party, said the so-called gas levy, the plan to charge Germans a […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s threats to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine are serious, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said. In an interview with the BBC on Saturday, Borrell said the Russian war in Ukraine had reached a “dangerous moment” as the Russian army struggles in the seventh month of its invasion. “Certainly it’s a […]

Leaders of the G7 condemned the “sham” Russian referendums being carried out in occupied Ukraine as a “phony” pretext to illegally grab territory. In a statement on Friday evening, the group of the wealthiest nations said that the votes organized by Moscow were in breach of the U.N. Charter and international law and had no […]

U.S. Intelligence officials have resumed their national security risk review of top-secret documents that were seized at former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate, according to a spokesperson for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The resumption, which has not been previously reported, comes after a federal appeals court delivered the Justice Department a […]

The U.S. Department of Treasury announced Friday it was updating guidance to expand internet service to Iranians, most of whom have been cut off from the internet by their own government amid its violent crackdown on peaceful protests. “While Iran’s government is cutting off its people’s access to the global internet, the United States is […]

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Saturday vowed to intensify a crackdown against protesters after more than a week of anti-government demonstrations that have left 35 people dead. Iran must “deal decisively with those who oppose the country’s security and tranquillity,” Raisi was quoted as saying by state media, according to a Reuters report. Officials said […]

Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo on Saturday condemned serious threats against the country’s justice minister as “totally unacceptable” after a car containing firearms was found near his home. Three people were arrested in the Netherlands late Friday in connection with the threats against Belgian Justice Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne. The arrests came after a […]

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy charged Russia with deliberately targeting Ukrainians in occupied parts of Ukraine in Moscow’s call-up of more soldiers for its invasion of the country. Zelenskyy said that in Crimea, annexed by Russia in 2014, as well as “other parts of Ukraine, which they so far control,” Russians and separatist loyalists are seeking […]

NEW YORK — By the time Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov took the stage at the United Nations General Assembly this week, he and his country had already lost much of the audience. Throughout the annual gathering, world leader after world leader had expressed deep discomfort if not outright condemnation over Russia’s war in Ukraine. […]

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki labeled as “scandalous” comments by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen that the EU has “the tools” to deal with a member state if things “go in a difficult direction.” At a conference at Princeton University on Thursday, von der Leyen was asked about the candidates in Sunday’s legislative […]