Category: Politico News

Welcome to Declassified, a weekly humor column. The next prime minister of the U.K. will need the backing of as many high-profile figures as possible, and the race is on to get the biggest name of them all on board. No, not the man on the way out of 10 Downing Street, Boris Johnson, whose […]

Justice Samuel Alito, the author of the Supreme Court’s earth-shaking decision last month overturning Roe v. Wade, is mocking foreign leaders who lamented his opinion doing away with a half-century of federal constitutional protection for abortion rights in the U.S. During a surprise appearance as a keynote speaker at a religious freedom conference in Rome last week, […]

Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. “The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never!” says a character in “The Master and Margarita,” Mikhail Bulgakov’s grimly satirical Stalin-era novel blending fantasy and reality. But in the real world, the eyes can all too often deceive — especially when the lies are spoken […]

Mikko Huotari is the executive director of the Mercator Institute for Chinese Studies. Sébastien Jean is a professor of economics at Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers. After a long period of uncertainty, the European Union and China once again engaged in high-level economic and trade dialogue, just before Brussels went on summer break. It’s […]

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron has decided to host the ruler of oil rich Saudi Arabia for dinner in Paris, days after lecturing African leaders for failing to stand up to tyranny in the world. On Thursday night, Macron is welcoming Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, also known as MBS, at the Elysée Palace […]

Listen on Spotify Apple Music Google Play EN_Google_Podcasts_Badge Created with Sketch. Stitcher Acast We debate what the EU and its leaders can do to counter Russian propaganda, particularly in Africa, about the global food crisis. And we tell the story of Umeå, Sweden, which has become a trailblazer in incorporating gender equality into urban design. […]

As part of his first major shakeup of Ukrainian law enforcement officials since the start of the Russian aggression, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday appointed a new prosecutor general. The move in turn paved the way for the immediate appointment of a new anti-corruption prosecutor, which was part of Kyiv’s obligations to its Western backers. […]

Health care workers in Ukraine are exhausted.  The war is in its sixth month and shows no signs of ending, with Russia now occupying about a fifth of the country’s territory. The conflict has driven over 6 million refugees to other European countries, with a further 6 million internally displaced. An army of staff on […]

The relationship between the U.K. and the U.S. “is deep and it is strong,” the new American ambassador to Britain Jane Hartley said in an interview with Times Radio Thursday. Speaking publicly in her new role for the first time, Hartley repeatedly stressed the importance of Washington’s relationship with London, making clear that it is […]

Suspected Kremlin agents peddle falsehoods masquerading as Instagram models. The terrorist organization Hezbollah posts propaganda updates as if it were a news organization. More than 2 million Iraqis join Facebook groups where guns are bought and sold without checks. Welcome to the world of Arabic-language social media — a Wild West where content moderation is […]