Category: Politico News

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 […]

ROME — The 5Star Movement appears to be staging a late comeback in Italy’s south ahead of Sunday’s snap general election, building on fears that a new right-wing government would scrap a popular welfare payment. Final opinion polls published 12 days ago suggested the right-wing coalition was on course to win a comfortable majority. But […]

World Bank President David Malpass said in a note to staff Thursday that it is “clear” that humans are causing the planet to heat up by emitting greenhouse gases. The note, seen by POLITICO, was sent following heavy criticism of his appearance at a New York Times event on Tuesday, when he dodged repeated questions […]