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Keir Starmer meets the world

New U.K. prime minister heads to NATO with a message of support on Ukraine.

July 8, 2024 11:32 pm CET

Secret meetings, private threats and a massive arms race: How the world is preparing for Trump

In 2016, no one in the world was ready for President Trump. America’s NATO allies aren’t making the same mistake this time.

July 7, 2024 11:31 am CET

Germany’s Scholz averts coalition meltdown over budget

Coalition leaders reached a preliminary budget deal that defused a crisis, but left open the question of how Germany will meet its defense commitments.

July 5, 2024 9:59 am CET

Surging Le Pen threatens Macron’s European defense dreams

The far-right National Rally remains Euroskeptic and suspicious of NATO despite recent toned-down rhetoric.

July 5, 2024 6:00 am CET

Europe has avoided the nuke question for decades. No longer

America has protected Europe with is nuclear umbrella for more than 70 years. In the era of Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, the continent is quietly debating a different nuclear future.

July 5, 2024 6:00 am CET

Ukraine’s ‘people’s satellite’ wreaks havoc on Russian targets

Ukrainian military intelligence has been using the satellite to target Russian troops, weapons and logistics.

July 1, 2024 6:00 am CET

Biden plagiarized him in the 1980s. Now Neil Kinnock wants the president to take a few more notes.

A Q&A with Neil Kinnock, who inadvertently tanked Biden’s first presidential run and sees some similarities between the British left and the U.S. left.

June 27, 2024 7:03 am CET

China targets Morocco as launchpad into Europe’s green auto market

As Brussels gets tougher on Chinese imports, Beijing is diversifying its strategies to maintain access to key markets.

June 26, 2024 6:00 am CET

Hungary: The EU’s two-faced defense champion

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has railed against Western aid to Ukraine while spending big on defense at home.

June 25, 2024 6:00 am CET

France deepens military ties with Germany, Poland ahead of risky snap election

There is fear that a far-right victory could upend France’s foreign and military policy.

June 24, 2024 5:44 pm CET

The crisis Britain’s politicians are too scared to discuss

Voters may want social care to be on the ballot at the UK general election, but no one seems to be listening.

June 21, 2024 4:01 am CET

Centrists from US to Germany move right on immigration

As elections loom in the U.S., the U.K. and France, the fraught politics of migration are a key issue animating voters on both sides of the Atlantic.

June 20, 2024 7:04 am CET
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Scorched-earth summer: Biden, Sunak and Macron go negative

Struggling leaders in America, Britain and France are bombarding their political opponents, some of whom are testing the bounds of the mainstream.

June 20, 2024 6:45 am CET

EU chips plan to send emissions soaring, report finds

The bloc is keen to expand its microchips production, but the sector risks becoming a major polluter.

June 19, 2024 6:00 am CET

Europe gives China a taste of its own trade medicine

Europe is using the threat of tariffs to press Chinese electric car makers to set up in the EU and share know-how.

June 18, 2024 4:23 pm CET

NATO should flex its nuclear muscles, Stoltenberg says

In Telegraph interview, NATO secretary-general also raises alarm about China’s burgeoning nuclear program.

June 17, 2024 1:23 pm CET

Top Ukraine reconstruction official abruptly quits, citing ‘systemic obstacles’

Mustafa Nayyem’s resignation comes day before key Ukraine Recovery Conference in Berlin.

June 10, 2024 8:44 pm CET

French Greens risk extinction. That could benefit von der Leyen.

The environmental movement in France is bracing for an EU election debacle, according to the latest polls.

June 6, 2024 4:52 pm CET

Brits think Labour will unpick Brexit. They may be disappointed.

New polling for POLITICO suggests many voters just haven’t got Keir Starmer’s message.

June 5, 2024 8:06 pm CET

Inside UK Labour’s push for a US special relationship — even with Trump

Keir Starmer could finally get his handshake with Joe Biden if he becomes prime minister, five days after taking the job.

June 2, 2024 5:13 pm CET

Germany allows Ukraine to strike targets inside Russia with German weapons

Berlin’s announcement follows a similar move by the Biden administration.

May 31, 2024 2:37 pm CET

US the big holdout in allowing Ukraine to hit Russia with Western weapons

France, Germany and most EU members have far fewer restrictions on the use of donated weapons.

May 29, 2024 6:19 pm CET

UK election: Conservatives ditch young to chase gray vote

National service for teenagers and generous pension promises comprise the party’s core voter strategy.

May 29, 2024 4:00 am CET

Deadly Rafah strike doesn’t cross Biden’s ‘red line’

The U.S. may not be happy with the civilian deaths Rafah, but they’re within the boundaries of what it’ll accept.

May 28, 2024 11:57 pm CET
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