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Regulators suspect foul play in how far-right firebrand Călin Georgescu used the Chinese-owned app to sway voters.| POLITICO
Regulators suspect foul play in how far-right firebrand Călin Georgescu used the Chinese-owned app to sway voters.| POLITICO
Moscow: Stop violating democratic norms! Bucharest: That’s rich coming from you.| POLITICO
Commission president could be forced to rely on Greens and liberals to secure a second term, weeks after they were rejected by voters in the European election.| POLITICO
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In exchange, China is getting top secret Russian military technology.| POLITICO
A ban on Russian overflights of European nations complicates Budapest meeting plans.| POLITICO
Von der Leyen finally gets some good news, but only after she sat through the U.S. president’s rant against windmills.| POLITICO
Brussels has signaled it won’t yield to U.S. pressure to ignite a bonfire of green regulations as part of their trade deal, a top official tells diplomats.| POLITICO
Politicians and campaigners fear that an advertising law designed to improve transparency could stifle it.| POLITICO
Hungary’s current European Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi was in charge of the country’s embassy at the time of the allegations.| POLITICO
A software developer from Denmark is having an outsized influence on a hotly debated law to break open encrypted apps.| POLITICO
The fighting in Ukraine is only part of Russia’s wider war against the continent as a whole. It’s high time to recognize this reality and act accordingly.| POLITICO
Biden administration pushes competition policy as weapon against surging prices; European regulators aren’t so sure.| POLITICO
Latest politics and policy news on Transatlantic relations| POLITICO
Plans to attract U.S. researchers to France were quickly criticized by members of the research community.| POLITICO
The European Commission chief and the French president are trying to woo American researchers with a new program called “Choose Europe for Science.”| POLITICO
Brussels’ zero-for-zero tariff offer not enough, U.S. president says, but indicates he’s open to a deal if the bloc commits to closing the trade deficit in goods.| POLITICO
Europe’s original plan to bring AI under control is no match for the technology’s new, shiny chatbot application.| POLITICO
A ‘landmark’ AI testing deal hailed by the UK leader is being shunned by the emerging tech’s biggest players including OpenAI and Meta.| POLITICO
The European Commission president appears to be winning the U.S. president’s ear on Ukraine, but that comes at a price.| POLITICO
Politicians are scrambling to get rid of questionable credentials on their résumés after the abrupt resignations of at least three politicians over dodgy academic records.| POLITICO
Radosław Sikorski upbraids Moscow for being “incapable of living in peace” with its neighbors following a series of incursions into NATO airspace.| POLITICO
A call between Trump and EU leaders gave them hope that he’ll protect their interests in any Ukraine peace deal. Here’s why it may not last.| POLITICO
Russia’s leader had good reason to look delighted by his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump.| POLITICO
Ukraine’s president also said Russian attack that killed at least 21 civilians was “frankly brutal.”| POLITICO
It’s the first time NATO forces have directly engaged with Russia since its invasion of Ukraine.| POLITICO
European Commission boss gets a rough ride from European lawmakers after defending her transatlantic agreement.| POLITICO
“Know that we stand ready, that we are vigilant and that we will defend every inch of NATO territory,” says secretary-general.| POLITICO
The Kremlin has increasingly targeted European leaders — in particular Germany’s chancellor for his staunch support of Ukraine.| POLITICO
The war is exacerbating a demographics decline that had already started well before Putin ordered his troops across the border| POLITICO
Diella, who is powered by artificial intelligence, will handle public procurement.| POLITICO
Privately, however, some conceded they may have to settle for the lower figures for now as COP29 talks amble toward the finish line.| POLITICO
Fünf Patriot-Systeme für die Ukraine – das ist die Zusage von Verteidigungsminister Boris Pistorius. Das Problem: Die Bundeswehr hat selbst kaum noch welche. Wie die Bundesregierung den Spagat zwis…| POLITICO
Handing Donbas to Russia without security guarantees will gift Putin a springboard for future invasion, Ukraine’s president says.| POLITICO
Kyiv is afraid to be left out of negotiations, while Trump might strengthen Putin just as Russia is beginning to feel the strain of the war.| POLITICO
Will the Russian ruler outmaneuver America’s president with devastating consequences for Ukraine?| POLITICO
The leaders will only have translators present during the Ukraine war talks — and a press conference is set to follow.| POLITICO
Europeans are still most concerned by Vladimir Putin’s Russia, Pew Research Center survey shows.| POLITICO
Public prosecutor has launched an investigation but Patriots deny wrongdoing and say “we have very good lawyers.”| POLITICO
All four of the ECB’s top jobs come up for grabs in the next two and a half years. The identity of Luis de Guindos’ successor next year will influence how the other three are filled.| POLITICO
The bloc’s biggest players want to delay a vote on the 2040 emissions-cutting milestone.| POLITICO
BMW CEO Oliver Zipse tells POLITICO the EU should be more flexible on forcing carmakers to go green if it doesn’t want to kill the industry.| POLITICO
“The EU is weaker today than ever due to the persistent failure” of the Commission president, the Patriots say in document seen by POLITICO.| POLITICO
POLLING FROM ACROSS EUROPE. UPDATED DAILY. Poland — National parliament voting intention What is Poll of Polls and how does it work? Read more here. Poland — 2025 presidential election Poland elect…| POLITICO
Grzegorz Braun was kicked out of the parliamentary session for his stunt.| POLITICO
The populist right-winger even appears to be turning accusations from liberal politicians and media to his advantage ahead of Sunday’s vote.| POLITICO
France faces a tricky legal and technological challenge to make a social media prohibition for under-15s happen.| POLITICO
Plastic pollution, mass tourism, climate change and poaching all put pressure on a fragile ecosystem, revealing how local challenges often stem from global problems.| POLITICO
“You don’t need a scary name for a missile that can fly 3,000 kilometers,” says one of the Flamingo’s developers.| POLITICO
The fragile tariff truce has spared Europe from the U.S. president’s wrath and kept him on board on Ukraine so far — but at a reputational cost.| POLITICO
The birthplace of modern Romania is losing faith in politics 36 years after Communism fell, amid threats of reprisals at Sunday’s bitterly fought election.| POLITICO
Bucharest mayor fends off challenge from hard-right firebrand George Simion, who conceded defeat after initially declaring himself the winner.| POLITICO
Romania’s new leader told POLITICO how he will approach international affairs and what he will do to rebuild trust in a democracy battered by corruption, economic strife and Russian meddling.| POLITICO
Ghislaine Maxwell, who wants a pardon, says she never saw Trump ‘in any inappropriate setting’ | POLITICO
Thanks to one small town, it seems there might yet be hope for Europe, and for a greener future without risky dependencies on China.| POLITICO
Joe Biden’s $369B subsidy package needs a ‘structural answer,’ European Commission president says.| POLITICO
Peter Kyle’s comments come a day after Farage’s Reform UK, which is leading in the polls, vowed to scrap the U.K.’s Online Safety Act.| POLITICO
Raphaël Graven, connu sous le pseudo Jean Pormanove, est mort en plein streaming après avoir subi à maintes reprises des violences en direct sur la plateforme Kick. POLITICO revient sur l’att…| POLITICO
The air inside can be up to five times as toxic as on busy streets.| POLITICO
The extra investments pledged under the trade deal would come from private companies, which Brussels conceded it has no power to control.| POLITICO
The U.S. president’s desire to be “peacemaker-in-chief” is based on a profound fallacy: that peace merely entails an end to fighting.| POLITICO
Ceasefire negotiations ended in late July, with the U.S. saying Hamas was not acting in good faith.| POLITICO
The rail line linking Belgium’s port of Antwerp to Germany’s Ruhr region dates back to the 19th century but has fallen into disuse since World War II.| POLITICO
But U.S. president “as always, talked a lot about what he would do, but in a way that no one could say what exactly he was going to do,” official tells POLITICO.| POLITICO
Donald Tusk’s government vowed that “every złoty will be checked,” blaming the former Law and Justice administration for forcing a rushed rollout.| POLITICO
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It’s a one-sided affair with most EU exports subject to a 15 percent U.S. tariff — but the auto, aviation and semiconductor industries have escaped the worst.| POLITICO
Siege could become a second Bakhmut for Ukraine, where defenders eventually retreated under ‘meat wave’ assaults by Russian troops.| POLITICO
Despite clear warnings, Carlos Mazón kept his schedule, posing for pictures as disaster struck.| POLITICO
The two sides have completed an intensive two-day negotiating sprint in London.| POLITICO
Trouble is brewing in the very regions that cradled the 16th-century Protestant Reformation.| POLITICO
French government also wants to ban websites selling knives to children.| POLITICO
A confidential study found that a known Russian disinformation network had ramped up its posts by 60 percent while pushing the narrative that the European Commission president was “toxic.R…| POLITICO
Poland will receive the biggest share of the new national and regional partnership plans, which cover regional, agricultural and migration funds.| POLITICO
Right-wing Reform UK party says it would ‘consider multiple partners including El Salvador’ in third country prison pledge — and heaps praise on Trump ally Rudy Giuliani.| POLITICO
X’s chatbot under fire in Poland, too, over insulting comments targeted at Prime Minister Donald Tusk.| POLITICO
Aix-Marseille University is wooing researchers who feel targeted by the Trump administration.| POLITICO
