Category: 3. Europe

European leaders will raise €90 billion in joint debt to fund Ukraine for the next two years after hitting a wall on a plan to issue an unprecedented reparations loan.

Faced with a stalemate over Belgian demands to obtain unlimited guarantees before tapping into the immobilised Russian…

But in the end, the urgency of Ukraine’s financing needs and the desperation of EU leaders to show their support as Donald Trump wavers and Putin talks up victory, won the day.

In a concession to Germany, leaders opened the door to using the frozen Russian assets to repay the loan to…

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19/12/2025 – 5:02 GMT+1

The suspected gunman in a mass shooting at Brown University last week was found dead in the evening of Thursday, officials said. The…

European Union leaders have struck a deal to give Ukraine a €90bn (£79bn; $105bn) loan after failing to agree on using frozen Russian assets.

The agreement, which leaders said would meet Ukraine’s military and economic needs for the next two years, came after more than a day of talks at a…

For one thing, they said, Ukraine’s parliament would be unlikely to endorse any such proposal. “I don’t see the parliament ever passing anything like that,” opposition lawmaker Oleksandra Ustinova said. “It would be seen as a capitulation.” And after all they’ve suffered at the…

To turn it around, Starmer’s aides want to tackle problems baked into the state for years —on welfare, social care, backlogged courts, special needs support and glacial infrastructure development. Ministers will have to enact reforms they promised to the migration system, a political…

Yes, on Thursday, the farmers were back in Brussels! And (spoiler alert!) they aren’t happy.

And yet, despite the noise and manure, is there anything more pro-European than a bunch of farmers from across the continent gathering in Brussels and setting things on fire just meters from…

As another year of political mayhem beckons, host Patrick Baker dusts off the crystal ball to see what’s in store in 2026, both in Westminster and around the world.

POLITICO’s Dan Bloom and Annabelle Dickson explain what’s at stake at the crucial May elections in…