Category: Politico News

The note, which was included with papers relating to Mandelson’s appointment released on March 11,  throws additional light on how Starmer approached questions about Mandelson. The episode has already cost Mandelson, the PM’s chief of staff and the head of the foreign office their jobs and Starmer is facing calls to resign over his handling […]

Inflation to rebound Rising energy prices will likely push inflation back toward 3 percent this year and next, the government said — prompting financial markets to expect two European Central Bank rate hikes this year. ECB officials say they won’t overreact to what may be a short-lived blip, but have warned that they will raise […]

After initially agreeing to the loan in December, Budapest blocked it in February as a dispute flared over the pipeline. Orbán accused Zelenskyy of slow-walking repairs to the infrastructure in retaliation for Hungary’s friendly relations with Russia. Zelenskyy sounded optimistic the cash would finally reach Ukraine. “The unblocking is the right signal under the current […]

Yvette Cooper  The U.K.’s current foreign secretary was keen to remind MPs she wasn’t running the Foreign Office when the seeds of the Mandelson saga were sown. Asked about the Doyle revelation in the House of Commons Tuesday, Cooper said: “Obviously, I was the home secretary at the time that I understand that took place, […]

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps seized two foreign ships traveling through the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, according to a semi-official state news agency, a major escalation coming just hours after President Donald Trump announced he was extending a ceasefire between Washington and Tehran. The state-linked Tasnim News Agency said that the captured vessels were “operating without […]

Die AfD sucht nach einer außenpolitischen Linie und lässt sich dabei von jemandem beraten, den die Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung nicht mehr einlädt. Alexander Rahr, bis 2022 bezahlter Gazprom-Berater in Brüssel und heute Leiter der Eurasischen Gesellschaft in Berlin, stand auf der Gästeliste einer Sonderklausur des AfD-Arbeitskreises Außen für dieses Wochenende. Was der Fall Rahr über die echte […]

MacGregor said she agreed to the meeting in an effort to “educate” the party leadership and deter them from an exit from the European energy market. According to MacGregor, the National Rally’s proposals ahead of a 2024 snap parliamentary election were a wake-up call for Engie and other energy firms. “We suddenly thought: ‘Oh my […]

Eurostat data shows Italy’s deficit was 3.1 percent last year, 0.1 percentage points above the EU’s threshold, leaving the government in a so-called excessive deficit procedure (EDP) — a red flag that Brussels plants on offending countries until they rein in their spending sufficiently. Italy is set to overtake Greece as the most indebted country […]

BRUSSELS — A descendant of the founder of Italian oil giant Eni wants to sue Giorgia Meloni’s government for using his family name in a major funding program investing across the African continent, the Italian press reported on Wednesday. According to the Italian daily La Stampa, Pietro Mattei issued a cease and desist letter to […]

Dans un entretien à POLITICO, le PDG de la première chaîne française, Rodolphe Belmer, appelle à réguler plus fortement YouTube, tout en desserrant la pression sur les acteurs audiovisuels traditionnels. Il balaye aussi la proposition de Mistral de rémunérer les créateurs via une licence globale. Apr 2 8 mins read