Category: 3. Europe

U.S. President Donald Trump is back in the U.K. for a doubly unprecedented trip – the first state reception of a U.S. president at Windsor Castle, and the first time a U.S. president has been honored with two state visits.  

His first was hosted by Queen Elizabeth at…

Environment ministers set to meet on Thursday (18 September) in Brussels are wrangling over national emissions targets for 2035 which must be fixed at EU level before the COP30 climate summit in Brazil later…

The final stage of the Vuelta a España, Spain’s premier cycling race, was abandoned in chaos on Sunday. Pro-Palestinian protesters, chanting “they will not pass,” overturned barriers and occupied the route in Madrid, forcing organizers to…

Climate change fueled scorching summer temperatures that killed an estimated 16,500 people in European cities this summer, pushing overall heat deaths to more than three times what might otherwise have occurred, according to a new study.

The…

Poland offers a striking case study. Confronted with the immediate threat posed by Russia after the invasion into Ukraine, Warsaw faced the need to rearm at unprecedented speed and scale. Traditional budget channels were insufficient. To bridge the gap, the government established the Armed…

For Germany’s Merz, the question of how to handle Israel is miserably difficult. The Nazi legacy of the Holocaust casts a long shadow over German politics: On Monday night, an emotional Merz fought back tears in a speech at a synagogue in…

Charles’ biographer Robert Hardman previously told POLITICO: “In soft power terms, other world leaders, other countries are far more interested in the monarchy than they are in Downing Street.”

This contrast — together with the continuity represented by the monarch — may be at an…