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Bears, cars and angry farmers fuel green backlash
Bears, cars and angry farmers fuel green backlash A 28-country guide to how climate policies are splitting Europe. Europe’s hopes for a greener future are being doused in pesticides, thrown in the...
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Brussels spyware crisis expands: Two MEPs hit in phone-hacking security breach
BRUSSELS — Two members and one staffer of the European Parliament’s security and defense subcommittee were the target of spyware, in a widening security breach of the EU institution’s work. French...
View ArticleCountries must send more ammo to Ukraine: EU’s top diplomat
Ukraine needs more ammunition and EU countries should do whatever it takes to provide it, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell has told ministers. Ukraine has been struggling of...
View ArticleEU records most asylum applications since 2015-16 migrant crisis
The number of people requesting asylum in the European Union last year soared to its highest level since the 2015-16 migrant crisis, according to the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA). Figures...
View ArticleUS government slaps sanctions on notorious European spyware maker
The United States government on Tuesday unveiled sanctions on two individuals and five corporate entities tied to the Intellexa consortium, a network of European firms behind the sale of a widely used...
View ArticleScientific progress: A look ahead
Twenty years ago. 2004. The year the Olympics returned to their birthplace of Athens. I was also returning home to Italy to commence a new job in the biopharmaceutical sector, then and now a critical...
View ArticleExplosion rocks Odesa near where Zelenskyy was meeting Greek PM
An explosion rocked the Ukrainian port city of Odesa on Wednesday during a top-secret visit there by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. The blast,...
View ArticleFrance overtakes Russia as world’s No. 2 arms exporter
The big winners of the global weapons race are the U.S. and France while Russia saw a steep fall, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute’s latest analysis of arms transfers....
View ArticleEU finalizes gig work rules after countries back deal
BRUSSELS — It took more than 800 days of negotiations, but the European Union has secured new gig work rules after member countries backed a deal on how to resolve the status of platform workers....
View ArticlePolish rivals unite in DC to lobby for Ukraine military aid
President Joe Biden’s meeting with Poland’s two leaders at the White House on Tuesday is both about getting more aid to Kyiv, and an attempt to show that even political rivals can come together for...
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EU doles out €500M for artillery ammunition and missiles as it seeks to match...
Make no mistake about it, the European Union is now in the defense business. That was underlined on Friday, when the European Commission announced €500 million in funding under the Act in Support of...
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EU leaders ink €7.4B economic aid, migration deal with Egypt
CAIRO, Egypt — The EU on Sunday signed a major aid deal with Egypt geared at curbing irregular migration to Europe’s shores and boosting the North African country’s economy. European Commission...
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The shameful abandonment of seafarers
Elisabeth Braw is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, the author of “Goodbye Globalization” and a regular columnist for POLITICO. On Mar. 6, a Houthi missile killed three crew members on the...
View ArticleEU leaders set to open door for Bosnia’s accession
European leaders are set to give the political green light to the opening of accession talks with Bosnia and Herzegovina, according to a draft document dated March 19 and seen by POLITICO. The EU...
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Pioneering policy leadership in a transformative era
With the European Parliament and U.S. elections looming, Europe is facing policy uncertainties on both sides of the Atlantic. Persistent geopolitical turmoil in Ukraine and the Middle East, and...
View ArticleGreek government survives no-confidence vote over deadly Tempi train crash
Greece’s conservative government survived a vote of no-confidence on Thursday triggered by the opposition over its handling of a deadly train crash. Four opposition parties had accused the government...
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Russia’s sanction-proofed economy is helping it avoid a defeat in Ukraine
Samir Puri is an associate fellow at Chatham House, a visiting lecturer at King’s College London and the author of “Russia’s Road to War with Ukraine.” While Russian President Vladimir Putin’s...
View ArticleRyanair to resume flights to Israel in June
Irish airline Ryanair said Thursday it will resume flights to and from Israel as of June 3 following the decision of Ben Gurion International Airport to re-open a low-cost terminal. “It is great news...
View ArticleCyprus demands Lebanon control migrant flows
Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides will head to Lebanon on Monday for talks on migration after the Mediterranean island declared a crisis on refugee flows. “We are indeed in a crisis, but I want...
View ArticleEU launches probe into Chinese wind turbines
BRUSSELS — The European Commission is launching a new foreign subsidies probe into Chinese wind turbines. The news is expected to be announced by European Commission Executive Vice-President Margrethe...
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On holiday with Europe’s right-wingers
NICOSIA — “We’re conservatives! We all like wine!” a voice rang out as the bus, filled with a few dozen European conservatives, snaked its way up the dusty hill, the roadsides lined with giant fennel...
View ArticleTurkey-Greece tensions flare (again) over marine park plans
Turkey on Tuesday hit out at Greece’s plans to set aside some of the waters between the two countries for ecological sustainability, as Ankara is contesting the sovereignty of some of the maritime...
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Fraud-busters swoop on Greek contracts involving €2.5B of EU recovery funds
ATHENS — Authorities are investigating allegations of fraud linked to the way €2.5 billion in EU funds has been awarded to just 10 companies in Greece, POLITICO can reveal. The offices of the...
View ArticleEU election latest: Knives out for Ursula von der Leyen
Listen on Spotify Apple Music Google Play Acast With just weeks to go until the European Parliament election, we’re bringing you the state of play. Host Sarah Wheaton is joined by Elisa Braun,...
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Does the EU have what it takes to fight China on green tech?
The EU is getting increasingly trigger happy as it launches probe after probe into whether China is unfairly supporting its exporters and, in so doing, potentially killing off competitors based in the...
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Greek opposition seizes on EU funds fraud allegations
ATHENS ― Rival politicians in Greece are demanding answers over fraud accusations linked to the way €2.5 billion in EU funds was awarded to just 10 companies.Opposition parties claim the country’s...
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Greek government picks EU election wild card — from an Albanian jail
Greece’s ruling party has made one especially contentious choice to run in June’s European elections: Fredi Beleri, the jailed mayor-elect of the town of Himarë on the Albanian riviera. Beleri’s...
View ArticleGreek lawmaker faces criminal charges after brawl in parliament
One Greek lawmaker has ended up in police custody and another is in hospital after a brawl in the parliament in Athens on Wednesday. Independent MP Konstantinos Floros — formerly with the far-right...
View ArticleFrance wants to use Greece’s air defense system for the Olympics, report says
ATHENS — France has requested to borrow a Greek air defense system for the duration of the Paris Olympic Games, according to the Greek daily newspaper “Kathimerini.” French authorities have submitted...
View ArticleGreece, Spain will refuse to send Ukraine air defense systems
The race is on to get air defense batteries to Ukraine, but it doesn’t look like they will be coming from Spain or Greece. Madrid won’t redeploy one of its three Patriots to Ukraine, reports Spanish...
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