Category: 3. Europe

Two years ago, Dutch schools banned smartphones to reduce distractions, enhance student concentration, and encourage better academic performance. Since then, mobile phones, smartwatches and tablets have been exiled from classrooms, corridors and canteens in schools across the Netherlands.

Europe is facing another energy shock — so what can it actually do to keep prices down?

Zoya Sheftalovich speaks with Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen in a conversation recorded live at POLITICO’s Competitive Europe summit, on how the EU is responding to rising costs…

Ein Jahr nach seinem erneuten Amtsantritt zeigt sich Donald Trump als außenpolitisch kurzsichtig und wirtschaftspolitisch fatal. Ohne Exit-Strategie ist er in den Iran-Krieg gestürmt und agiert nun mit einer gefährlichen Realitätsferne. Gordon Repinski analysiert, warum…

But Troels Lund Poulsen, who leads the Liberals, the blue bloc’s biggest party, has flatly ruled out going into government again with the Social Democrats, and urged Rasmussen to join him on the right. “It is possible to get a new direction in Denmark,” he said.

In a document seen by POLITICO and circulated by Moldova to EU officials shortly after the parliamentary election, the government documented how Orthodox priests in the country had received “instructions to spread disinformation seven days a week instead of only on Sundays.” Moscow also…

Now, fraught coalition talks will begin, with control in Copenhagen likely hinging on which direction Rasmussen — the current foreign minister and leader of the Moderates party — will swing. His party has enough seats to hand power to Frederiksen, or to Venstre’s Troels Lund Poulsen…