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Where’s Macron? French president disappears amid election crisis.

The leader “underestimated how much the public were turned off by his personality,” one party official told POLITICO.

July 4, 2024 4:01 am CET

Germany’s Scholz breaks bad on migration

Multiple high-profile acts of violence and the rising popularity of the far right have convinced the German chancellor to deport migrants who commit crimes.

July 4, 2024 4:00 am CET

Gaza is still the hottest election issue in these parts of Britain

Labour Leader Keir Starmer faces intense pressure in heartland constituencies over his equivocation about war in the Middle East.

July 3, 2024 4:01 am CET

‘We’ve all enabled the situation’: Democrats turn on Biden’s inner sanctum post debate

The senior team’s management of Biden has grown more strictly controlled as his term has gone on.

July 2, 2024 3:54 pm CET

Five simple steps to deceiving your way to Downing Street

From dodgy data to flagrant fibs, POLITICO has the inside track on how politicians are scheming to win votes at the U.K. general election.

July 2, 2024 4:02 am CET

Fighting in Gaza will continue, Netanyahu tells Cabinet amid tense cease-fire talks

The U.S. has been pushing Israel to agree to a three-part cease-fire deal, backed by several countries including France, the U.K., Egypt, Qatar and by the European Commission.

June 30, 2024 3:42 pm CET

The last 10 days of an election campaign 

As the general election reaches its final week, host Sascha O’Sullivan takes us inside the last push of the campaign. She explores how parties use every trick …

June 28, 2024 4:00 am CET

Gunmen target religious sites in Russia’s Dagestan region in ‘terror attacks’

Shooting leaves at least 15 officers and 6 gunmen dead in second major incident this year.

June 23, 2024 11:15 pm CET

China, EU agree to start consultations on electric-vehicle subsidies

China’s Wang Wentao and EU’s Valdis Dombrovskis agreed to launch the consultations in a video call on Saturday.

June 22, 2024 6:36 pm CET

Sunak, Starmer slam Farage claim that EU, NATO ‘provoked’ invasion of Ukraine

“We have provoked this war,” the Reform UK leader said Friday evening.

June 22, 2024 5:25 pm CET

French women voters swing sharply to far right

France’s National Rally has sought to style itself a defender of women’s rights — partly by attacking its traditional bogeyman: immigration.

June 21, 2024 4:00 am CET

12 countries push for EU crackdown on vapes

The European Commission has delayed action on tobacco and nicotine, but countries say it should consider a ban on flavored vapes.

June 20, 2024 6:21 pm CET
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EU cancels vote on child sexual abuse law amid encryption concerns

Countries clash over how to safeguard privacy when rooting out illegal pictures and grooming on private chat apps.

June 20, 2024 12:29 pm CET

A punch-up in parliament reveals Italy’s deepest scars

The Meloni coalition’s plan to give more power to ‘virtuous’ regions has inflamed the country’s North-South divide.

June 19, 2024 4:01 am CET

French election descends into madcap reality TV

The French political class is tearing itself apart with feuding and backbiting ahead of this month’s vote.

June 14, 2024 4:00 am CET

The weirdest things that happened on election night

Wrong results, wrong ballots and snap elections.

June 10, 2024 3:32 pm CET

Ukraine boxing champ Usyk to star in MMA movie with the Rock

Usyk will portray Igor Vovchanyn, a Ukrainian kickboxing champion, in the film “The Smashing Machine.”

June 6, 2024 1:30 pm CET

US sets stage for antitrust probes of Nvidia, Microsoft and OpenAI

The U.S. Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission are nearing an agreement to divvy up investigations of potential anticompetitive conduct by some of the world’s largest technology companies in the artificial intelligence industry, according to three people with knowledge of the negotiations.

June 6, 2024 7:36 am CET

Israel targeted more than 120 US lawmakers in disinformation campaign

The lawmakers were mostly Democrats, and the campaign involved pro-Israeli military posts on their accounts over the past year.

June 6, 2024 6:12 am CET
Explainer

How to watch the European election like a pro

4 days. 27 votes. Here’s our ultimate playbook for how to keep tabs on this ballot-box bonanza.

June 6, 2024 4:01 am CET

Surrounded by colonial history, Wilders campaigns against migration before EU vote

In his first and only offline campaign event, Dutch radical right politician Geert Wilders vows to change the EU from within.

June 5, 2024 6:46 pm CET

Foreign policy becomes a liability for Biden’s campaign as he heads to France

Even Democrats are sounding alarms about foreign wars hurting Biden in November.

June 5, 2024 4:57 pm CET
Unpacked

After Trump conviction, Democrats are in a triumphal mood. They shouldn’t be.

It’s doubtful the conviction will have any lasting impact on Trump’s election prospects, and will likely only accelerate the downward spiral of tit-for-tat partisan retaliation.

June 4, 2024 4:00 am CET

Belgian far-right MEP wins case against Meta over shadowban

“A first victory against Big Tech,” the MEP wrote following the ruling.

June 3, 2024 9:47 pm CET
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