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LONDON — Britain’s economy will be hit by President Donald Trump’s trade war with its allies even if the U.K. strikes a trade deal with the White House, Chancellor Rachel Reeves said Tuesday. “It’s absolutely the case that even if tariffs aren’t applied to the U.K. we will be affected by slowing global trade, by […]
Read MoreThousands of supporters of Bulgaria’s far-right Revival party tried to break into the headquarters of the European Union mission in Sofia during a protest against the country’s plans to adopt the euro in 2026. Around 10 police officers sustained minor injuries and about six people were detained, a senior police official told international media after […]
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BERLIN — Europe’s most powerful economy is poised to take a major step to bolster its defense capabilities, with Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz announcing a plan to partly exempt defense spending from the country’s constitutional fiscal restraints. “In view of the threats to our freedom and peace on our continent,” Merz said Tuesday evening in […]
Read MoreMUNICH — EU trade boss Maroš Šefčovič will travel to Washington next week for high-level meetings as Europe braces for a potential trade war with the United States, three officials confirmed to POLITICO. The European Commission executive vice president is poised to hold meetings with senior members of Donald Trump’s administration including Commerce Secretary Howard […]
Read MoreWelcome, Willkommen, to POLITICO’s German election liveblog, where we’ll be bringing you real-time updates as Germans head to the polls. Sunday’s election comes after the three-party governing coalition between Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats, the Greens and the liberal Free Democrats collapsed in November. The campaign has been dominated by the issue of migration after a series of deadly attacks perpetrated by […]
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It’s dawning on the world — and some Republicans on Capitol Hill — that sometimes President Donald Trump should be taken literally after all. Trump levied sweeping tariffs on key trading partners Mexico, Canada and China early Tuesday morning, sparking retaliation from Beijing and Ottawa, sending the stock market into a tailspin, and alarming government […]
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Ukraine’s allies in Europe are rushing to fill the void left by the Trump administration’s decision to pause its intelligence sharing with Kyiv. It isn’t going to be easy. The U.S. has provided Kyiv with everything from signals intelligence, satellite imagery and targeting data used to strike Russian positions during the three-year war. Now, it […]
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BELGRADE — The EU is boosting the size of its peacekeeping mission in Bosnia after recently convicted Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik banned state-level institutions in Serb regions, sparking separatist fears. The EU “will temporarily increase the size of its force,” the European Union Force Bosnia Herzegovina, or EUFOR, said in a statement late Friday. […]
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On the eve of International Women’s Day, Italy’s national government late Friday approved a draft law that introduces femicide into the country’s law following an uproar over violence against women by their former or current partners. Those convicted would face life in prison under the proposed legislation. The draft law “provides for aggravating circumstances and […]
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The foreign ministers from France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom released a joint statement Saturday putting their support behind an Arab-backed plan for the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip. “The plan shows a realistic path to the reconstruction of Gaza and promises — if implemented — swift and sustainable improvement of the catastrophic living […]
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