Category: Politico News

Ukrainian authorities did not comment on the attack by midday Sunday, but Kyiv acknowledged targeting the Taman port’s oil export facilities earlier this year. With Russia’s fossil-fuel earnings funding its war on Ukraine, Kyiv views oil export sites as key targets. After Moscow intensified its attacks on Ukrainian power infrastructure last year, the two sides […]

The remarks reflect a growing consensus across Europe that the Greenland episode — the worst in a long line of feuds between allies sparked by Trump since his return to the White House — has put an unprecedented strain on transatlantic ties.  On Saturday, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Munich adopted a warmer […]

Rixa Fürsen und Gordon Repinski analysieren und bilanzieren den Samstag auf der Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz. Die Ansprache des US-Außenministers Marco Rubio war versöhnlicher als viele erwartet hatten. Wie schon bei JD Vance vor einem Jahr ging es um Sicherheit und Migration, zugleich betonte Rubio das gemeinsame Wertefundament zwischen Europa und den USA. Gordon und Rixa ordnen […]

The Council has asked the government to relieve the financial pressure of the loan and declining grants, requesting an extra £20 million in annual funding. Its chief executive warned last year that the organization might have to sell assets to survive, and that dozens of country operations were at risk.  A similar process has unfolded […]

California Gov. Gavin Newsom handed his arch nemesis a backhanded compliment on Saturday, noting President Donald Trump’s attacks on Europe have united the continent in critical ways. Newsom, during a panel at the Munich Security Conference, said Trump’s behavior toward the alliance — from threatening to seize Greenland to questioning the NATO alliance and enacting […]

His comments came after U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave a speech in Munich that touched on Make America Great Again themes, highlighting Europe and America’s common heritage and shared Christian values, and also underlined that the U.S. still sees European countries as allies. U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker, a close Trump ally, […]

Estonia isn’t ruling out joining early-stage talks on a common nuclear deterrent in Europe, Deputy Defense Minister Tuuli Duneton said in an interview. “We are always open to discuss” with partners, she said, while emphasizing the U.S. was still “committed to providing nuclear deterrence for allied nations.” Latvia’s Prime Minister Evika Siliņa echoed that. “Nuclear […]

MUNICH — The U.S. ambassador to NATO declared Saturday that “Americans are not leaving” Europe or the alliance, assuaging a concern that has caused panic across the continent. Matthew Whitaker’s comments at the Munich Security’s Conference’s POLITICO Pub came hours after Secretary of State Marco Rubio sought to reassure European allies nervous that Washington would walk away from them […]

MUNICH — U.S. Senator Thom Tillis shot back at comments made by fellow Republican Lindsey Graham on Saturday, voicing frustration with the South Carolina senator’s dismissal of Greenland’s sovereignty. The disagreement over President Donald Trump’s threat to seize the Danish territory boiled over at the annual summit here, starting with Graham’s comment Friday, “who gives a shit who […]

Navalny died in a Russian penal colony in February 2024. The Russian authorities said he died of natural causes. But poisoning was “highly likely the cause of his death,” the five countries said in a joint statement on Saturday. Sky News reported that British scientists from Porton Down, the U.K.’s top secret laboratory, played a […]