Category: Politico News

European antitrust enforcers are asking whether Microsoft would shut rivals out from Activision’s popular video game library as part of a review of the tech giant’s planned $69 billion deal for the game developer, according to people familiar with the matter and documents seen by POLITICO.  The European Commission circulated questionnaires to competing firms in […]

It weighs more than 18 tons, is 12 meters long, and if it doesn’t move soon could devastate Europe’s economy. A gargantuan gas turbine — essentially a huge engine — has been sitting in Cologne for days, stuck in sanctions limbo. It should have been ferried over Finland and into Russia by now, to begin pushing vital […]

Rachel Wolf is a former Downing Street adviser and was co-author of the 2019 Conservative General Election Manifesto. She is the Founding Partner at Public First.  “Get Brexit Done. Invest in our NHS, schools, and police.”  In October 2019, this banner hung across the Manchester Central Conference Complex in the United Kingdom, and went on to form the backbone of the Tory election manifesto.   It was simple, […]

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Former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon has been convicted for refusing to testify and provide documents to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol. A federal court jury in Washington deliberated for less than three hours before finding Bannon guilty on two counts of contempt of Congress, which the […]

A U.N.-backed plan to allow Ukrainian food exports to navigate Russia’s Black Sea blockade has raised hopes that the worst ravages of a global food crisis can be avoided. But Ukrainian and Western officials are skeptical that Moscow will stick to the final deal. They believe it’s likely that President Vladimir Putin will “weaponize” grain […]

Russia and Ukraine reached an agreement Friday with the United Nations and Turkey to reopen Ukraine’s seaports and guarantee safe passage for the ships carrying Ukrainian grain in the Black Sea. At a press conference in Istanbul unveiling the deal, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said: “This is an agreement for the world. It will bring […]

Germany will bail out gas importer Uniper, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Friday, promising to do “what is necessary and as long as it is necessary” to help keep the country afloat amid fears of a Russia-driven energy crisis. Speaking to reporters in Berlin, Scholz — who interrupted his summer holidays in the Bavarian Alps for […]

DUBLIN — The European Commission on Friday threatened the U.K. with four new legal actions in a dispute over post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland. The litigation threat is in response to London’s failure to enforce EU-required checks on British goods entering Northern Ireland, and Boris Johnson’s plan to tear up a key part of […]

FRANKFURT — Europe’s fight against a historic inflation spike risks pushing the region into recession, fresh survey data signaled Friday. Key business surveys showed economic activity contracting in the eurozone while crawling to a halt in the U.K. The catch: Far from offering support, the European Central Bank and the Bank of England may add […]