Category: Politico News

Bill Gates said that requiring a “kill switch” alone for artificial intelligence would not be enough to prevent people from using the technology to carry out attacks as lawmakers debate how to regulate AI’s risks. “The kill switch is, that’s kind of a weird thing. It’s not enough to have a kill switch,” the Microsoft […]

“Enlargement … remains a geopolitical imperative. Accession, however, takes time,” reads a draft version of the pre-enlargement review text seen by POLITICO. “Candidate countries must complete a rigorous, merit-based process and deliver far-reaching and lasting reforms. That time should be put to full strategic use to both prepare the Union for larger membership and deepen […]

He backed the U.K. government’s current approach to the European Union, warning people would be “misplaced” to seek to return to a customs union. “Look at the arrangements we’ve already got,” he said. “You don’t add a lot more to it through a customs union … and you’d be having to, you know, frankly, accept […]

Ukraine first announced the budget gap in August. It emerged after Ukraine had to bring forward state defense spending originally planned for the second half of the year, as Hungary delayed the EU’s €90 billion loan to Kyiv. Purchases made included “fiber-optic drones, middle-strike drones, interceptors,” former Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov told POLITICO in June. […]

Tech billionaire and artificial intelligence investor Peter Thiel criticized Pope Leo XIV on Thursday, accusing the pontiff of serving as a “useful idiot for the [Chinese Communist Party]” by calling on world leaders to regulate AI. During an interview with Mathias Döpfner, CEO of POLITICO’s parent company Axel Springer, the PayPal co-founder said the pope’s […]

Metsola said the bloc had taken a similarly strong and self-confident stance in the crisis around Trump’s threats to annex Greenland at the beginning of 2026, and also when von der Leyen last week invited Canada to become an associate member. But despite strong ties with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and his country, crucial […]

Mélenchon is among the front-runners in next spring’s high-stakes presidential election to replace Emmanuel Macron, according to polls. He and far-right rival Marine Le Pen both want Paris to pull back from the military alliance, raising alarm bells at NATO headquarters about France’s future defense policy. Leaving NATO is a matter of “dignity” given U.S. […]

The fire broke out in the village of Wola Krobowska, 50 kilometers south of Warsaw. It didn’t cause significant damage and there were no injuries. Poland’s counterintelligence agency, ABW, and the police are investigating the incident. Operated by the state-owned telecoms company Exatel, the station links Starlink satellites to terrestrial internet networks. Together with a […]

Gill declined to share details on the content of the diplomatic talks but said “there are strong voices — also there — that believe any proposed ban of this nature would be a very bad idea indeed.” The EU’s imports of U.S. diesel have increased in recent months, and the bloc currently imports some 57 percent of […]

“Sadly, it has jumped up to the Terminator is coming,” James Wise, a partner at Balderton Capital and chair of the U.K. government’s sovereign AI fund, said of the current narrative. “I don’t think the Terminator is coming at all.” Those fears land atop the agendas of world leaders this week, with U.S. President Donald […]