Polanski’s final pitch in Holborn by-election: I’ll keep Burnham honest
Politico Europeby John Johnston4d ago
LONDON — Zack Polanski promised to smash Britain’s two-party political system — but his campaign for a U.K.
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Politico Europeby Mouza Hasan Almarzooqi, director of the Economic Studies Department, TRENDS Research and Advisory7d ago
Decades ago, the world treated global trade as a neutral ground decades ago that helped energy markets in becoming more integrated today as we still see them today.
OpenAI’s agents went rogue — its human response caused the real damage
Politico Europeby Ryan Heath, Paul Karp, Finn McHugh, Miriam Webber17d ago
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The 17 European Parliament lawmakers you should watch
Politico Europeby Max Griera20d ago
Not all MEPs are equal. If you want to know how the European Parliament intends to shape major policy battles on deregulation, climate, tech and the EU budget, as well as prepare for the midterm...
Germany cuts fuel tax as Middle East conflicts send prices soaring
Politico Europeby Ketrin Jochecová, Jürgen Klöckner22d ago
Germany will lower tax on petrol and diesel by 17 cents per liter in a relief package worth €2.5 billion, the German government announced Friday.
Biotechnology at scale: Europe’s next competitiveness test
Politico Europeby Natalie Hertsens11 Sept 2026
Key findings - Biotechnology is increasingly important to Europe’s healthcare, food security, industrial decarbonization and strategic autonomy, generating €75.16 billion in gross value added in...
The far-right leader pushing Germans to forget the Nazi past
Politico Europeby James Angelos3 Sept 2026
The man leading the charge to make Germany proud again won’t say he wants his fellow Germans to “forget” the Nazi past, but that is where his ideas invariably lead.
How Merkel and Merz lost eastern Germany to the AfD
Politico Europeby Anne McElvoy3 Sept 2026
Ulrich Siegmund, lead candidate for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, took to the stage in the central marketplace of the town of Naumburg and declared there was a new “awakening”...
What 248 books reveal about Kaja Kallas
Politico Europeby Jonas Loesel1 Sept 2026
While actively running the EU’s foreign policy on the world’s most demanding issues, Kaja Kallas still finds time outside work to read about … more foreign policy.
The former neo-Nazi activists behind Germany’s rising far-right star
Politico Europeby Nicholas Potter, Frederik Schindler27 Aug 2026
A generation after Germany banned a neo-Nazi youth organization for seeking to cultivate a new extremist elite, four of its former members now hold influential roles around the politician who is on...