Category: Politico News

What keeps Council up at night The letter from the Council pushes back against parts of the agreement that would allow the Parliament to be present during international negotiations. The treaties “do not grant the Parliament a right of consultation during the negotiations stage, but only a right of information which does not include, nor […]

As the war of words continued, Ukraine’s Sybiha said Hungary and Slovakia should “send their concerns to the Kremlin.” Russian oil accounted for 92 percent of Budapest’s energy imports last year, according to the Center for the Study of Democracy, a European policy institute. Orbán has frequently argued his country has no viable alternatives to […]

OTTAWA — Canada’s Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon said Monday he has summoned senior staff at OpenAI to discuss “safety protocols” after the tech company decided against reporting a Canadian ChatGPT user who police say went on to kill eight people in a school shooting. Solomon said he will meet with OpenAI’s senior safety team […]

Russia is facing economic hardship and issues with army recruitment, according to Western officials, who said the prospect of a summer offensive will depend on whether they are able to find enough manpower. Nonetheless, the same officials said there is no imminent prospect of Moscow seeking an end to the war as Kyiv also experiences […]

But few expect any sweeping deals will be reached. German industry leaders are instead calling for more concrete and immediate progress to improve their circumstances. “Our companies are coming under increasing pressure because key competitive conditions are being systematically distorted,” Thilo Brodtmann, the managing director of VDMA, said in a statement ahead of Merz’s trip. […]

The U.S. embassy did not immediately respond to POLITICO’s request for comment. Kushner found himself in hot water with French authorities over posts on X by the United States government weighing in on the death of 23-year-old Quentin Deranque, who was killed earlier this month in a fight on the sidelines of a political conference […]

The move effectively puts the ball in Brussels’ court as it mulls a response to the brewing crisis. Late on Monday, Slovakia halted its emergency electricity supplies to Ukraine, whose own energy sector is in crisis after years of Russian bombardment. The pushback against the pipeline outage didn’t stop there: Hungary has also blocked a […]

The Spanish government has defended the contract it struck for storing wiretaps. Spain’s Interior Ministry said in a statement that the government had awarded a contract to “European companies,” which then bought storage products. “There is no risk to security, technological and legal sovereignty, nor is there any foreign interference or threat to the custody […]

Netflix chief Ted Sarandos on Monday dismissed President Donald Trump’s demand that the streaming giant fire former national security adviser Susan Rice from its board, or “pay the consequences,” as the company is embroiled in a high-profile merger fight that will decide the fate of Warner Bros. Discovery. Trump decried Rice as a “political hack” in a Saturday […]

Mentzen had appealed the November court ruling, but rather than wait for the process to play out, his allies registered The Empire Strikes Back in January as a Plan B. At a closed-door congress on Saturday, delegates voted to merge the two entities, transferring New Hope’s structures and assets to the new party. Confederation officials […]