Category: Politico News

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Wednesday accused Russia of deliberately reducing gas flows to Europe and shot down Moscow’s argument that sanctions were preventing the delivery of a massive turbine required for pumping gas. During a visit to engineering company Siemens Energy in Mülheim an der Ruhr, where the turbine at the heart of the […]

LONDON — The British parliament has shut down its TikTok account after MPs sanctioned by China raised concerns about data security.  Parliamentary authorities confirmed they had deactivated the social media profile just six days after opening it, following an outcry by MPs worried about the relationship between TikTok and its Chinese owner ByteDance. Senior Tory […]

VIENNA — The European Union is making a final push to save the Iran nuclear deal, convening all negotiators for an unexpected and sudden resumption of talks on Thursday, three sources familiar with the situation told POLITICO. The goal — as it has been for months — is to restore a 2015 deal that saw […]

Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder confirmed he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow last week. The controversial former Social Democrat leader, who maintains personal ties to Putin and has sat on the boards of Russian energy companies, has come under fire for his refusal to condemn Putin and for traveling to Moscow in […]

Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko has a problem. His government has tasked him with convincing the EU that the country’s nuclear fleet is safe enough to export massive amounts of zero-emissions electricity to the bloc in a bid to help fill Kyiv’s depleted coffers and bring down eye-watering European power prices. But the Russian occupation […]

Poland’s ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party is losing traction in opinion polls, but it isn’t giving any further ground in its rule-of-law dispute with the European Commission. And there’s no sign that the EU is planning to release €35 billion in loans and grants from its pandemic recovery fund. Warsaw has yet to formally apply […]

Nathalie Tocci is director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali, a board member of ENI and the author of POLITICO’s World View column. Her new book, “A Green and Global Europe,” will be published by Polity.  The day his government collapsed, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi warned parliament about Russian interference in the country’s democratic system. […]

ROME — There are some crimes that come to define a moment in history. The brutal killing of a Nigerian street vendor in Italy may be one.  The public discourse over the murder of Alika Ogorchukwu, beaten to death in front of bystanders in the coastal town of Civitanova Marche, has laid bare the divisions in […]

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 […]