Category: 3. Europe

A phone call with the European Commission’s leader seems to have deescalated tensions with Donald Trump after the president went scorched earth with a new tariff threat on Friday.

Trump confirmed Sunday that has agreed to a five-and-a-half-week…

This is a breakthrough moment. But if SAFE is to deliver lasting security, it needs to be matched by a second financial engine — one that supports not just purchases but also industrial capacity — a dedicated multilateral Defense, Security…

Spain has called for an arms embargo against the Israeli government to end the war in Gaza, Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said Sunday.

He also suggested targeted sanctions could be imposed on individuals “who obstruct the…

Trump’s criticism of the Russian president raises the prospect that the mood has shifted against Putin in the U.S. administration, which initially took a more sympathetic approach to Moscow’s position in the war. Trump has repeatedly blamed Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for…

Sports Commissioner Glenn Micallef condemned the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza and said the sporting world needs to speak up.

“When it comes to sports, I think there should be no space in sporting events for those who do not share our values,” he told POLITICO without naming…

“For the first time, they are perfectly even” in polls, said Frédéric Dabi, director general at polling firm IFOP. Le Pen and Bardella both attained 31 percent of voting intentions for the first round of the presidential election in a survey published this week — even if such figures…

The 27 EU nations have yet to agree a mandate for taking forward the next stage of talks, with governments divided over how much they should cooperate with external allies on procurement.

Anne Fort, deputy head of cabinet for defense at the European Commission, told a defense conference in…

In the swish hotel conference rooms and cafés of the Brussels EU quarter, the indignation was palpable: Why had poor Henrik been singled out?

Henrik Hololei, a gregarious Estonian who had reached the heights of director-general in the EU’s civil service, had been caught…