Category: Politico News

Washington is on edge as China readies a series of provocative military drills set to kick off on Thursday in response to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan. Beijing has threatened incursions into the island’s territory, and for the first time, conventional missile launches over the island. The Chinese navy is positioning warships around the […]

The Senate on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to admit Finland and Sweden to NATO, putting the military alliance on track for a historic expansion in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. With 95 senators voting in favor, the defense treaty heads to President Joe Biden’s desk where he is expected to ratify it in the coming […]

Get ready for Facebook versus the researchers: Round 2. With just over four months to go before midterm elections, academics at New York University are gearing up for another battle with Facebook over how to track digital ads after their first attempt got them banned from the company’s ad database after the 2020 presidential election. […]

European countries recorded thousands of additional deaths during last month’s brutal heat wave, according to preliminary data. Temperatures across much of the Continent soared in the middle of last month, smashing records between July 18 and 20.  The U.K. recorded 40 degrees Celsius for the first time that week, in a heat wave scientists said […]

LONDON — Margaret Thatcher famously declared in 1987 that she would go on and on as prime minister. Soon after she was ousted — but that hasn’t stopped her dominating the Conservatives’ leadership race 35 years later. Wannabe British prime ministers Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak are, despite their different economic and political approaches, competing […]

The EU’s best-laid plans are being put to the test and found wanting — again. With the bloc now facing two health emergencies — the COVID-19 pandemic and monkeypox — it’s become clear that it’s ill-equipped to buy medicines and vaccines for its 450 million people in short order. The European Commission’s newest authority — […]

Paul Taylor, a contributing editor at POLITICO, writes the “Europe At Large” column.   PARIS — The Continent is facing the specter of stagflation, with European Union inflation hitting 9.6 percent in June and growth forecasts slashed for both this year and 2023 due to the war in Ukraine, the lingering COVID-19 pandemic, drought and global […]

The European Commission’s antitrust enforcers are investigating Google’s app store rules, according to two people close to the matter.  Google’s rivals have received confidential questionnaires from Brussels, probing billing terms and developer fees for the U.S. tech giant’s Play Store, the two people, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said. An investigation in the Netherlands […]

Former U.K. Conservative leadership candidate Sajid Javid threw his weight behind frontrunner Liz Truss in another boost for the favorite to replace Boris Johnson. In an article for the Times newspaper, Javid — who dramatically quit Johnson’s government in a move that ultimately called time on his premiership — praised the foreign secretary’s record in […]

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said extending the life of the country’s nuclear power plants might “make sense,” as reduced gas flows from Russia raise the specter of a winter fuel crisis. During a visit to engineering company Siemens Energy in Mülheim an der Ruhr, where a turbine at the heart of the Russia gas dispute is currently […]