Category: Politico News

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis vowed Monday to overhaul the country’s intelligence service after a spying scandal, but was immediately accused by a top opposition figure who had his phone bugged of trying to “buy time.” Opposition parties rounded on Mitsotakis, who was making his first public appearance after a ballooning wiretap scandal forced the […]

Poland’s de facto leader Jarosław Kaczyński is vowing that his government will take no further steps to meet the European Commission’s rule of law demands to unlock €35 billion in grants and loans from the EU pandemic relief program. “We have shown maximum goodwill, but concessions have yielded nothing,” Kaczyński told the pro-government Sieci news […]

VIENNA — Indirect talks between Iran and the U.S. on restoring the 2015 nuclear deal are expected to conclude Monday in Vienna, putting the final draft of an agreement in front of negotiators from Washington and Tehran. Western officials told POLITICO on Monday that they had finished negotiating technical questions that had remained open in the […]

Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder will not be kicked out of the Social Democrats (SPD), despite his business links to Russian energy companies and personal ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. An internal SPD arbitration committee on Monday rejected a move to expel the controversial ex-chancellor, saying he had “not been guilty of a violation […]

Ryanair was fined 300 million forint (€763,000) by Hungary, the country’s justice minister said Monday, after the airline raised prices following the country’s announcement of a windfall tax. The low-cost carrier said in June that it would charge customers an extra €9.87 on flights from July 1, days after the Hungarian government announced a two-year […]

Senate Democrats passed their signature climate, tax and health care package Sunday afternoon, handing a long-sought victory to President Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer even as the bill hit some last-minute snags. In a 51-50 vote, Senate Democrats approved their party-line package after an amendment process that spanned more than 15 hours. Democrats fought off most […]

KAUB, Germany — Grand plans to shift freight off roads and onto rivers don’t much matter if Western Europe’s most important waterway is running too shallow for ships to pass. Water levels on the Rhine, Europe’s major inland river connecting mega-ports at Rotterdam and Antwerp to Germany’s industrial heartland and landlocked Switzerland, are precipitously low, […]

Ivo Daalder, former U.S. ambassador to NATO, is president of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and host of the weekly podcast “World Review with Ivo Daalder.” One day last month, there stood President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey, holding hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Ebrahimi Raisi — two of the […]

A truce in Gaza starting Sunday evening has been agreed to by Israel and Palestinian militants, mediated by Egypt, after three days of fighting, according to media reports. Israel accepted the Egyptian plan for a ceasefire after saying it had achieved most of its military objectives during the three-day campaign, which began on Friday afternoon, […]

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for sanctions on the Russian nuclear industry and nuclear fuel after an atomic power plant in Ukraine was shelled. “Russian nuclear terror requires a stronger response from the international community, [including] sanctions on the Russian nuclear industry and nuclear fuel,” he said on Twitter after speaking with European Council President […]