Category: Politico News

Two brothers on Friday admitted killing Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, hours after telling a court that they were not guilty of her murder. The trial of Alfred and George Degiorgio had been expected to last for some time but, in a dramatic twist, they agreed to plead guilty in exchange for more lenient sentences. Caruana […]

The EU plans to step up its military support for Ukraine with an extra €500 million to reimburse members’ arms donations and a new initiative to train 15,000 Ukrainian soldiers on EU soil, according to several diplomats. The move is expected to be finalized on Monday when EU foreign affairs ministers gather in Luxembourg. The […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday claimed his country’s so-called partial mobilization of reservists to fight in the Ukraine war, announced last month, will end in around two weeks. “This work is already coming to an end,” Putin said at a press conference in Astana, where he traveled to participate in a conference. “There are […]

Climate activists from the group Just Stop Oil have thrown tomato soup over Vincent Van Gogh’s famous ‘Sunflowers’ painting at the National Gallery in London. According to a video posted on social media, two protesters threw the soup at the painting before gluing themselves to the wall beneath the artwork. Just Stop Oil wrote on Twitter that “our […]

STOCKHOLM — Sweden’s incoming prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, on Friday presented his plan for a three-party government with a clear underlying message: Sweden first.  The number of asylum seekers allowed to enter Sweden will be reduced, the amount of international aid the country will provide will be cut and its aspirations to be a trailblazer in […]

German police in Rhineland-Palatinate on Thursday arrested a 75-year-old woman for plotting to kidnap Health Minister Karl Lauterbach and bring down the country’s power grid. According to reports by the German news outlet T-Online the woman is called Elisabeth R., a professor of theology from the University of Mainz who has worked as a protestant […]

LONDON — British Prime Minister Liz Truss has fired her finance minister, Kwasi Kwarteng, as she fights to hang on as prime minister after her budget crashed the markets. Truss will give a press conference later Friday, amid reports of another imminent U-turn on significant parts of her plan to cut taxes. Despite several attempts to […]

People who reckon French President Emmanuel Macron’s current term will be his last should think again. The French constitution prevents him from running for a third consecutive mandate in 2027, but Macron could run for a third mandate in 2032, top ally François Bayrou suggested in an interview with POLITICO’s Playbook Paris. Bayrou, president of […]

Big Tech companies like Google, Meta and Amazon have deceived lawmakers by lobbying through smaller front organizations, leading lawmakers claimed, asking for the firms to be banned from engaging with European Union institutions. Leading Social-democrat lawmakers Paul Tang, René Repasi and Christel Schaldemose on Thursday submitted complaints against eight companies and lobbying groups to the […]

French energy giant TotalEnergies has been accused of “complicity in war crimes” in a complaint lodged by two Ukrainian NGOs with France’s National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office, reported by Le Monde. Razom We Stand and Darwin Climax Coalitions claim that TotalEnergies helped to provide the Russian government with “necessary means to commit war crimes,” after revelations in […]