Category: Politico News

LONDON — Liz Truss, currently the frontrunner to succeed Boris Johnson as British prime minister, bungled an attempt to gain an endorsement for her record on gay rights.  A representative of her campaign contacted the official LGBT+ Conservatives membership organization about cooperating on an endorsement for Truss and her record on LGBT rights during her […]

China on Tuesday threatened to surround Taiwan with its forces later this week for live-fire military exercises, in retaliation to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the self-ruling island that Beijing claims as its own. The exercises, which will last from Thursday and Sunday according to state media Xinhua, will take place after Pelosi […]

Spain’s government ordered all businesses to limit their temperatures and told shops to turn their lights off at night as the country scrambles to save energy ahead of this winter. Air conditioning cannot be lowered below 27 degrees in summer and heating cannot exceed 19C this winter, while shop fronts must go dark by 10 […]

The European Commission has closed a deal for up to 250 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine developed by Spanish pharmaceutical company HIPRA, it announced Tuesday. The vaccine is still being assessed. The European Medicines Agency in March started a rolling review of the shot, which is designed to protect against both the Alpha and […]

An internal EU legal battle over how the bloc should police the rule of law within its own ranks has quietly ended, POLITICO’s Brussels Playbook reported Tuesday. The European Parliament in May dropped a lawsuit against the European Commission pressing the EU’s executive branch to immediately deploy a new power allowing it to slash funds […]

The United States killed Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahri in a drone strike over the weekend, two people briefed on the operation told POLITICO. Al-Zawahri was an Egyptian who took over Al-Qaeda after the U.S. killed its longtime leader, Osama bin Laden, in 2011. Although he never achieved the household name status of his predecessor, Al-Zawahiri’s […]

Max Bergmann is director of the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He served as a senior adviser in the U.S. State Department from 2011-2017.  For the European Union, granting Ukraine candidate status was, without question, a significant step. However, what Kyiv, as well as other Western Balkan capitals, should be […]

Stricken with Covid for the second time in two weeks, President Joe Biden nevertheless was a leader triumphant on Monday night, taking to the Truman Balcony to announce a foreign policy success that could very well help define his first term in office. Dressed in a blue suit and red tie, the sun reflecting a […]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will visit Taiwan on Tuesday, decisively ending weeks of wrangling between the United States and China about whether she should make the trip. Pelosi’s controversial stop in Taipei, which would make her the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit the self-governing island in decades, indicates that the Pentagon has downgraded its assessment of a […]

The Palace of Westminster is falling down The seat of British democracy is literally falling apart — and MPs can’t decide how to save it. By Esther Webber and Callum Tennant in London LONDON — A funny thing happened in the seat of British democracy. As parliamentarians prepared to take their places in the House […]