With Jeremy Corbyn’s Your Party suffering some teething problems, host Patrick Baker delves into the art of starting a new political outfit.
Corbyn himself speaks to POLITICO’s Bethany Dawson at one of the many Your Party regional assemblies happening across the…
Confidential background notes from the Direction Générale de la Sécurité Intérieure, France’s domestic intelligence agency, partly cited in court and seen by POLITICO, alleged that two of the suspects “received instructions in Russian from unknown individuals via the encrypted…
An emerging U.S.-China detente gives European leaders breathing room to find a strategy on trade, raw materials and the war in Ukraine — but the thaw between the two great powers risks pushing European interests to the side.
President Donald Trump and his counterpart Xi Jinping agreed to…
With top politicians of the center left and center right feuding over key government policies, it’s affecting Germany’s place at the heart of the EU as other countries are having a hard time figuring out Berlin’s position on a host of key issues. There are also growing doubts over the…
Is it enough to come first in an election?
In the Netherlands, you hear that centrist Rob Jetten won big and Geert Wilders’ far right lost a lot — even though either one could still turn out to be No. 1 when all the votes are counted.
Eva Hartog breaks down the results of…
The Sagrada Família has become the tallest church in the world, after workers placed the first part of a cross at the top of its central tower.
Now measuring 162.91 metres tall, the Spanish basilica has officially pipped the…
The legislation to withdraw from the treaty was introduced by a right-wing opposition party, Latvia First, but passed with support from one of the three parties in the ruling coalition. The centrist Union of Greens and Farmers broke ranks with Prime Minister Evika Siliņa to help push the…
Steve RosenbergRussia Editor in St Petersburg
BBCIn a wood on the edge of St Petersburg they’re reading out a list of names.
Each name is a victim of the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin’s Great Terror.
In this part of…
Belarus has repeatedly launched such balloons, ostensibly to smuggle cigarettes across its border with Lithuania. The stunts have drawn international outrage and caused Lithuania to close its border with its unruly eastern neighbor for a month until Nov. 30.
Both European Commission…
“These censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him,” the statement added.
The announcement follows renewed scrutiny over Andrew’s friendship with the late disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein,…