Category: 3. Europe

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That’s why Moscow’s reaction to the Trump-Xi meeting was predictably bellicose, with Kremlin-friendly television channels trumpeting the fact that Russia’s new nuclear-capable missiles could plunge the world into ecological…

35. Craig Saunders and Louise Berwick 

A top civil service power couple. Louise Berwick manages communications on foreign affairs and defense in Downing Street. Her husband, Craig Saunders, is midway through moving from a top Home Office comms job to be head of news and media at the Treasury.

But The POLITICO Poll also revealed limited willingness among the Western public to make sacrifices to pay for more military spending. While there is widespread support for increasing defense budgets in principle across the U.K., France, Germany and Canada, that support fell sharply when…

Being asked to go to a retreat in the Belgian countryside in February to talk about red tape with grumpy Uncle Viktor was perhaps the least appealing invitation to a castle since Dracula held his monthly cheese and wine evenings — “if possible, bring a vulnerable friend. Starts at 9 p.m….

As Keir Starmer flies to Germany for the Munich Security Conference, Westminster Insider Host Sascha O’Sullivan finds out if the Prime Minister’s time abroad has damaged him here at home – and if it has, if it’s been worth it. 

Sascha spoke to half a dozen current…

That has rapidly changed, O’Brien said. Though unlike many networks of progressive institutions, the right has yet to set up a WhatsApp group for collaboration — “If there is, we’re not part of it,” said O’Brien — right-wing operatives and thinkers meet regularly at major…

European leaders have spent the week talking about how to make the EU more competitive — first with industry heavyweights in Antwerp, then behind closed doors at a leaders’ retreat in Belgium.

On this episode of EU Confidential, host Sarah Wheaton digs into what’s…

He followed up with high-profile visits to India and China — seen by most in his team as successful. His allies have consistently defended this approach, stressing that representing Britain in the world is one of Starmer’s most important duties and that he has made a success of it. The…

With the bloc buffeted by multiple geopolitical crises, it’s starting to realize that it can’t come to grips with them if it only acts when all 27 member countries agree. From defense to energy to investment, the European Commission, which makes the rules, and national governments, which…