Category: 3. Europe

Biden’s End and the Trump White House: The 2024 Wrap Up with POLITICO’s Jonathan Martin – POLITICO

Ukrainian forces have captured an injured North Korean soldier who was sent to support Russia’s war, South Korea’s spy agency confirmed Friday. The soldier is believed to be the first North Korean prisoner of war captured since December, when Pyongyang deployed forces to support Russia’s war in… Continue Reading

Complications arise when ingredients are used both in cosmetics and in other contexts that fall under industrial chemical legislation that require animal testing. While several regions have introduced language intended to minimize animal testing in chemicals legislation (e.g. the EU under… Continue Reading

OPTICS Left: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump dances at a rally in Michigan days before his electionvictory. Right: No musician had a bigger year than TaylorSwift. Between March 2023 and December 2024 she performed149 shows across five continents, and her tour… Continue Reading

LONDON — Rishi Sunak stood in a deluge and announced an election even he must have known would result in a landslide for Labour’s Keir Starmer. With the new regime now desperately battling to reshape the nation while facing many of the same old problems, it’s been an electoral extravaganza… Continue Reading

After the two decades that seem to have passed since the beginning of January, the year is finally coming to an end. The United Nations called 2024 the “super year” of elections — which sounds accurate. It also said that the fact that 3.7 billion voters headed to ballot boxes in 72… Continue Reading

Holiday special: Brussels vs. Moscow — the EU risks losing its eastern neighbors – POLITICO

The unannounced pre-Christmas meeting between Fico and Putin was reported at the time as an attempt by the Slovak leader to find a way around Kyiv’s refusal to extend Russian gas deliveries to Bratislava following the expiry of an existing contract at the end of 2024. No mention was… Continue Reading