Category: Politico News

LONDON — U.K. Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng signaled a sharp change in British economic policy Friday as he cut taxes, pledging a “new era” focused on boosting growth. Markets reacted dramatically as Kwarteng unveiled his first fiscal statement since he was appointed by Prime Minister Liz Truss earlier this month, with the pound sliding to a […]

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi defended Vladimir Putin ahead of Italy’s snap election this Sunday, saying the Russian president just wanted to replace Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s government with “decent people”. During a prime time Rai1 interview, the 85-year-old Forza Italia leader said Putin “was pushed by the Russian population, by his party, by his ministers […]

NEW YORK — The United States urged Russia to end its impunity. Russia ranted about fighting Nazis. Ukraine insisted it had the right to be free. The top diplomats of the three countries appeared at the United Nations Security Council on Thursday, a rare in-person diplomatic showdown since Moscow launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine […]

LONDON — She’s the breed of prime minister the Tory right have long wanted and she’s eying one big bet to show hers is a winning formula. After a hot summer leadership contest dominated by debate about tax cuts, Liz Truss’ new Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng will on Friday outline an economic plan expected to reverse […]

ANTWERP, Belgium — Russian diamonds are on Europe’s radar once again — as is Belgium’s fraught role in the industry. Despite six rounds of sweeping European Union sanctions against Moscow, Russian diamonds have remained a shining absence from the embargo list.  Their omission is due in part to Belgium’s prominent role in the diamond industry. Antwerp has, […]

David Broder is Jacobin’s Europe editor and the author of “Mussolini’s Grandchildren: Fascism in Contemporary Italy.” His work has appeared in the New York Times, the New Statesman, La Repubblica and Il Fatto Quotidiano. As Italy’s Sunday election inches ever closer, Brothers of Italy co-founder Guido Crosetto doesn’t seem too confident his party’s allies will […]

ROME — In July 1992, a 15-year-old schoolgirl rang the doorbell at her local branch of the Youth Front, a far-right student movement in Rome, and asked to be let in.  The all-male group of radicals inside met her with bemusement, as she put forward her application to sign up to their cause. But, gradually, […]

Listen on Spotify Apple Music Google Play EN_Google_Podcasts_Badge Created with Sketch. Stitcher Acast It’s time for the weirdest few weeks of the British political calendar: conference season. Host Ailbhe Rea takes us on a whistle-stop tour of the speeches, fringe events, champagne receptions and bad karaoke parties that happen at the annual Conservative and Labour […]

Welcome to Declassified, a weekly humor column. I think we can all agree that “thunderbolt and lightning, very, very frightening me/Galileo (Galileo)/Galileo (Galileo)/ Galileo, Figaro, Magnifico” is the tribute that the late Queen Elizabeth II would have wanted. So hats off to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who was filmed giving a rousing rendition of […]

NEW YORK — The United States urged Russia to end its impunity. Russia ranted about fighting Nazis. Ukraine insisted it had the right to be free. The top diplomats of the three countries appeared at the United Nations Security Council on Thursday, a rare in-person diplomatic showdown since Moscow launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine […]