Category: Politico News

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 […]

Danone is seeking a Russian buyer for its dairy business in a deal that could result in a write-off of up to €1 billion. The French food company said Friday it plans to “initiate a process to transfer the effective control” of the business, which made up around 5 percent of Danone’s revenue in the […]

Elon Musk said on Friday he’s “just following the recommendation” of a Ukrainian diplomat who told the SpaceX founder to “fuck off,” by seeking to offload responsibility for funding his Starlink internet terminals in Ukraine. Musk’s trolling came after Ukraine’s former Ambassador to Germany Andrij Melnyk and the country’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reacted with hostility […]

Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng took an early flight back to London from a U.S. trip late on Thursday, amid reports of an imminent U-turn on more of the fiscal policies he proposed three weeks ago. Kwarteng left a day early from a series of meeting with International Monetary Fund (IMF) leaders in […]

Listen on Spotify Apple Music Google Play EN_Google_Podcasts_Badge Created with Sketch. Stitcher Acast As Liz Truss considers another humiliating budget U-turn, host Jack Blanchard looks back at the U.K.’s infamous 1972 ‘Dash for Growth’ budget — when another Tory Chancellor announced unfunded tax cuts and sent inflation through the roof — and considers the parallels […]

LONDON — Liz Truss’ enemies are circling — and plenty of them will soon have one less reason to back her. The U.K. prime minister is hosing down multiple fires after a disastrous mini-budget sparked market turmoil. Yet MPs who might normally be expected to rally to Truss’ defense could soon be out of the […]

There is growing alarm along the EU’s eastern edge about a spike in migrants using the Western Balkans — and Serbia, specifically — as a gateway to enter the bloc.  The route is, in part, the result of Serbia’s friendly visa policies. The country allows visa-free travel from places like India, Tunisia and Burundi, but […]

Welcome to Declassified, a weekly humor column. Terrible news from deep space, where NASA fired a small craft into the path of an asteroid, thereby throwing it off course and showing that in the future, humanity could be saved from being wiped out should another massive space rock be headed this way. At this point, the […]

ROME — Italian prime minister in-waiting, Giorgia Meloni, is in a power struggle within her right-wing alliance that threatens to derail her attempts to form a new government. Trouble flared on Thursday over the appointment of Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party colleague, Ignazio La Russa — a collector of fascist memorabilia — as the new […]