Category: Politico News

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said Wednesday morning he was planning to run for the Senate in Italy’s upcoming general election. “I think I’ll run for the Senate, so we’ll make everyone happy, after receiving pressure from so many, even outside Forza Italia,” the 85-year-old Berlusconi, who leads the center-right party Forza Italia, said on Rai […]

Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas has tested positive for coronavirus, she announced in a Facebook post on Wednesday. “The morning started positively, unfortunately, corona-positively,” she quipped. Kallas said she has minor symptoms: She lost her voice on Monday, attributing that to a minor cold, because her rapid COVID tests were negative at first. She tested […]

More than 60 countries around the world are struggling to afford agricultural imports, according to a special U.N. task force created earlier this year to address rising food insecurity after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The task force is focusing its attention on dozens of countries around the world, including Colombia, Malawi, Pakistan and Myanmar, according […]

Russia’s security services on Wednesday raided the home of Marina Ovsyannikova, a former editor of the state-run Channel One network who denounced Moscow’s war on Ukraine during a live TV broadcast, media human rights group OVD-Info said. According to Dmitry Zakhvatov, an OVD-Info lawyer who is assisting Ovsyannikova, Russian security forces kicked in the door […]

Searing heat sweeping Europe this summer is incapacitating the Continent’s hydropower plants and prompting a rethink about how to adapt water power as global warming accelerates. As temperatures soared above 40 degrees Celsius across much of Western and Southern Europe in July, dwindling water levels forced hydro plants to curb their power output, divert water […]

LONDON — With her famously wooden speaking style and a wardrobe inspired by Margaret Thatcher, Liz Truss looks an unlikely figure to lead a revolution. But the red-hot favorite to be crowned Britain’s new prime minister next month plans to tear up years of Conservative orthodoxy with an immediate tax-cutting program which party traditionalists fear […]

TUSCANY — Spending the whole of August at the coast is practically an Italian birth-right. But following the surprise collapse of Mario Draghi’s government in July, Italy is holding autumn elections for the first time in more than 100 years — leaving politicians with precious little time for sunbathing.  Instead, the Italian summer is being dominated by […]

Fabrizio Tassinari is executive director of the School of Transnational Governance at the European University Institute and author of “The Pursuit of Governance: Nordic Dispatches on a New Middle Way.” Variously attributed to Winston Churchill or Benito Mussolini, the adage, governing Italians is not impossible but pointless, did for once not hold true. Mario Draghi […]

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy declared Tuesday that the war with Moscow “began with Crimea and must end with Crimea,” after explosions rocked a Russian air base on the peninsula, killing one and injuring others. “Today, there is a lot of attention on the topic of Crimea. And rightly so. Because Crimea is Ukrainian, and we […]

President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed NATO accession protocols for Finland and Sweden, moving the defense alliance closer to adding two wealthy, militarily advanced members amid Russia’s ongoing assault on Ukraine. Biden’s approval followed overwhelming support from both chambers of Congress earlier this summer, with the Senate ratifying the agreement last week. Efforts to welcome […]