Category: 3. Europe

The virtual meeting came days after the U.S. president called for NATO countries to “take the lead” and send warships into the Strait, whose retaliatory blockage by Iran has set off a global energy crisis. Trump doubled down Wednesday night, telling POLITICO: “They gotta get guts and go…

Scenario 2 — Act as a spoiler 

Trump could also choose to make life difficult for allies inside NATO without going in all guns blazing.

That’s already happening in a limited way. The U.S. has exploited the fact that all policy documents in NATO working committees are approved…

Even before the war in the Middle East, airlines had signaled the bloc was facing a structural kerosene deficit, due in part to sanctions on Russian oil and declining European refining capacity. European jet fuel production relies on crude imports, mainly from the Middle East.

“Europe…

In an announcement on Thursday, the government confirmed it had agreed a text with the U.S. that exempted the U.K. from tariffs on pharmaceuticals as well as mechtech for at least three years. It added that the countries had also agreed to work together towards mutual recognition of medical…

Bauer declined to say how many requests the U.S. had been made, telling POLITICO he did not yet have the figures and that compiling them would take time.

“The question is — why submit a request to a neutral state in the first place?” he added, hardening Vienna’s stance against…

Gabriele Gravina has resigned as the head of Italy’s football association (FIGC) following their failure to qualify for a third consecutive World Cup.

The four-time world champions suffered another play-off final defeat when they were beaten 4-1 on penalties by Bosnia-Herzegovina on Tuesday.

No…

The delegation toured the white tower that was to host the authority, visited the Flemish old town, and interrupted lessons at the European school, named after late Commission president Jacques Delors. At the end of the day, several guests acknowledged that being the first to declare was an…

The Commission reported the incident last Friday, having discovered it earlier in the week. The attack affected the Commission’s public website platform europa.eu based on Amazon Web Services. Data pertaining to at least 29 other EU entities may be affected, CERT-EU said.

Commission…