Category: Politico News

The United Kingdom will be the host of the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest, the European Broadcasting Union and BBC confirmed Monday. Britain will stage Eurovision after the EBU decided in June that “with deep regret” Ukraine would be unable to host, given Russia’s ongoing deadly invasion of the country. Ukraine won an emotional 2022 edition […]

FRANKFURT – German business sentiment dropped sharply in July amid surging energy prices and risks of gas shortages, Germany’s key Ifo indictor showed today. The index dropped to 88.6 points in July from 92.2 points in June, hitting the lowest level since 2020. “Companies are expecting significantly worse business in the coming months. Besides, they […]

Europe was not prepared for the extreme heat it experienced this infernal July. That’s obvious from the heat wave’s death toll so far — with more than 2,000 people known to have died in Spain and Portugal, a number expected to climb when data is released in France, the U.K., Belgium and the Netherlands and […]

Marcello Rossi is a freelance journalist specializing in the environment and science. PAVIA, Italy — Under the scorching sun of a mid-July morning, Giovanni Daghetta walks across a dusty, barren plot of land on his rice farm in the province of Pavia, in Lombardy. In a typical year, he’d be wading through 10 centimeters of water amid lush, waist-high rice […]

Recent crises have highlighted the critical need for Europe to secure and strengthen its position as leader in medical innovation. As the European Commission works on the review of the Pharmaceutical Legislation, we need to ensure Europe has the right environment to bring the next generation of treatments to patients. The challenge for the coming […]

Tommaso Grossi is a policy analyst in the Social Europe and Well-Being Programme at the European Policy Centre. Francesco De Angelis is a junior policy analyst for the center’s Europe’s Political Economy Programme.   Historian Donald Sassoon had dubbed the alleged lack of political maturity lamented by many Italian pundits and intellectuals as the “Italian […]

LONDON — The gloves are off in the fight to replace Boris Johnson as British prime minister — and the two contenders are heading for a primetime showdown. In the blue corner is Rishi Sunak — the former top finance minister who became a household name during the COVID-19 fight and who is trailing his rival […]

France is preventing Eurostar from increasing the number of trains running daily between London and Paris, the Telegraph reported on Sunday. French border police and security staff are resisting the train operator’s efforts to add more services due to concerns about staff shortages, the newspaper said. The standoff comes after France was blamed for fuelling […]

Moldova’s prime minister said in an interview that aired Sunday that her nation fears an invasion by Russia in the wake of its invasion of their mutual neighbor Ukraine. “We are worried, of course,” Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita said on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS.” “This is a risk, it’s a hypothetical scenario for now, but […]

Moscow said on Sunday that Russian air strikes on the Ukrainian port city of Odesa were aimed at military targets including a stockpile of U.S.-supplied missiles. The attack on Saturday raised doubts over Moscow’s willingness to abide by a crucial agreement reached on Friday to unblock Ukraine’s seaports to allow for the transport of millions of tons […]