Category: 3. Europe

Starmer met Reeves over breakfast shortly before he became party leader and decided she had to be in his shadow cabinet, according to Get In, a recent book on Starmer’s journey to Downing Street.

As far as the Turkish leader is concerned, “whatever he does, the EU will have to tag along with it,” said Dimitar Bechev, a lecturer at the University of Oxford.

Two European officials, granted anonymity to speak about closed-door talks, told POLITICO that Turkey’s status as an EU…

“We are neighbors with the Russian Federation and its ally Belarus, so we don’t have a buffer between us and them, and we have only a limited time to prepare and respond,” Kukuła said.

Instead of relying on space to hold off the Russians, Poland is planning to more than double its…

The CDU, Germany’s largest party, is currently negotiating a potential coalition government with the center-left Social Democratic Party after emerging victorious in February’s national election. Party leader Friedrich Merz is widely expected to become Germany’s next chancellor;…

Then, there was the gratuitous shuttering of government-funded broadcasting, a key element of U.S. soft power with a rather negligible price tag — and one that helped win the Cold War. Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty reaches audiences in 23 countries, in 27 languages, and with an annual…

She said Europe would assess the tariffs, and anticipated that further measures would arrive from the White House in the coming days. Trump has stepped back from implementing tariffs on America’s allies and adversaries several times since his Jan. 20 inauguration.

“We’re signing today,”…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has told the BBC that he’s not sure how he’ll be remembered after the Ukraine-Russia war, but would like to see his children walk the streets “without hiding”.

Zelensky was speaking during a panel interview in Paris with journalists from across Europe.

When…

Goldberg later published its contents and revealed the oversight of his inclusion, causing controversy at home and abroad. Democrats have lambasted the incident as a stunning security and intelligence breach and called on the officials involved to resign.

But before Kelner could finish her…

JEAN-MARIE LE PEN, THE INCENDIARY FOUNDER of France’s largest far-right party, was buried on Jan. 11 on an unusually sunny winter’s day in the fancy resort of La Trinité-sur-Mer, where he was born in 1928.

The day started with a ceremony inside a modest church built of…