Category: Politico News

PARIS — The National Assembly, France’s lower chamber, approved a €44 billion support package to help French people face the consequences of soaring inflation and energy prices. The measures are spread over two texts, a so-called purchasing power bill, approved in the early hours of Friday morning last week, and an updated version of the […]

Across Europe, stock exchanges’ greatest fears may be coming true as an ambitious plan for a ticker tape gathers momentum in Brussels. Stock exchanges are fiercely resisting calls for a “consolidated tape” that would create a price feed for stock trades across the EU’s disparate trading venues. They fear the tape could eat into lucrative […]

Western sanctions are hurting Russia’s economy but the Kremlin’s war chest is still brimming with cash thanks to soaring commodity prices, new data shows. Russian exports of oil, gas and metals fell significantly last month as sanctions announcements spooked international buyers, according to Kremlin estimates seen by the Russian daily Vedomosti — but rising prices […]

Moin Kikhia is the founder and president of the Libyan Democratic Institute. Since February, the eyes of the world have been firmly fixed on the horrors unfolding in Ukraine. But while Europe’s attention has been consumed by the crisis on its eastern flank, the trouble burgeoning on its southern one in Libya has been largely […]

Harold Chambers is a political and security analyst focused on the North Caucasus.   The European Union has finally decided to reward those who face up to the Russian threat.   Ukraine and Moldova have been granted candidacy status, and Georgia has been assured that, upon fulfilling certain conditions, it will receive the same status as […]

LONDON — In capital cities across Europe, politicians have largely celebrated the downfall of Boris Johnson. Not so in Kyiv.  While long-standing protocols mean closely-allied governments rarely comment when a fellow leader loses power, in war-torn Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy immediately broke with tradition to voice deep sadness at Johnson’s imminent exit as U.K. prime […]

INVESTIGATION A network of young neo-Nazis is setting up terrorist cells across Europe and the US for the purpose of carrying out armed attacks, a joint investigation reveals. By Alexander Nabert,and Christina Brause (Welt am Sonntag), Bryan Bender (POLITICO) and Nick Robins-Early (Insider) In Berlin, Brussels, Las Vegas, Munich, New York, Potsdam and Washington When […]

EU energy ministers on Tuesday reached agreement on what, just six days earlier, had been dismissed as unthinkable: mandatory, bloc-wide gas rationing in case of winter supply shortages. “This was not a mission impossible,” cheered the Czech government, which currently helms the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU. But the deal — meant […]

Barbed warnings of “Nazi” rhetoric went flying Tuesday as the controversy over Viktor Orbán’s “mixed race” remarks breached rare territory — the Hungarian prime minister’s own circle. Just four days after Orbán startled European leaders by declaring countries were “no longer nations” after different races blend, one of the prime minister’s own longtime advisers, sociologist Zsuzsa […]

LONDON — A high-stakes TV debate between the two candidates to succeed Boris Johnson as U.K. prime minister was abruptly cut short Tuesday evening when the moderator fainted live on air. The debate — jointly hosted by the Rupert Murdoch-owned venture TalkTV and his Sun newspaper — went off air just after the halfway point […]