Category: Politico News

Beijing on Friday suspended climate talks with the U.S., as it announced a raft of measures in retaliation for U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan. The move marks a setback to intensified dialogue on climate change between the world’s two biggest economies over the past year despite a rocky bilateral strategic relationship. China […]

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov signaled on Friday that Russia wants to negotiate a prisoner swap with the U.S. The remark comes one day after a Russian court sentenced American professional basketball player Brittney Griner to nine years in prison on charges of drug-smuggling for carrying cannabis oil, a sentencing that U.S. President Joe Biden […]

China on Friday sanctioned U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her close family in response to her Taiwan trip earlier this week. In a statement, the Chinese foreign ministry said that Pelosi’s trip to the self-governing island was “a gross interference in China’s internal affairs” and that “in response to Pelosi’s egregious provocation, China decides to […]

DALLAS — Viktor Orbán took the stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Texas with an invitation for the American right. “I’m here to tell you that we should unite our forces,” said Orbán, the Hungarian prime minister who has found himself increasingly alienated from democratic countries in Europe, as he has opposed immigration […]

No more ties, shorter showers — European leaders are intent on signaling that everyone will have to do their part as they sketch out national plans to save energy ahead of a winter crunch. EU gas reserves are currently 71 percent full — about 9 percent short of the target the bloc set itself earlier this […]

It was supposed to be a week of celebration for Mark Rutte, who became the longest-serving prime minister in the Netherlands’ history on Tuesday. But instead, Rutte finds himself back early from summer recess on Friday for a crunch meeting with farmer group leaders, whose angry protests threaten his decade of dominance of Dutch politics. […]

Will the West’s stinging economic sanctions on Russia work? Will they get Russian President Vladimir Putin to finally see reason and force him to quit his war on Ukraine? In the last few weeks, the answers to these questions have become ever more pressing. Every day, the terrible trauma and human cost in Ukraine only […]

Welcome to Declassified, a weekly humor column. Declassified is retreating to its summer residence (which, by pure coincidence, happens to be in a tax haven) to relax, get wasted on supermarket own-brand Polish liebfraumilch, and think of some insulting nicknames for Donald Trump. Back in September. Everyone loves the internet. It’s a magical place filled […]

Ben Coates is the author of “Why the Dutch are Different: A Journey into the Hidden Heart of the Netherlands” (Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2015) and “The Rhine: Following Europe’s Greatest River from Amsterdam to the Alps” (Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2018).  The autumn of 2010 feels like a long time ago now.  As the year’s end […]

PARIS — As he says goodbye to his top ally in Europe, French President Emmanuel Macron is bracing for the worst. Macron and his closest confidante in the European sphere, Italian PM Mario Draghi, were once the steady duo that coalesced across EU policy areas as they saw eye to eye on a range of […]