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France would defend eastern flank borders even outside NATO, says Mélenchon

The far-left presidential candidate also criticized Germany's rearmament in an interview with POLITICO.…

Le Pen welcomes Trump’s G20 invite for Putin

The White House's invite is already dividing Europe.…

Le patron d’Intermarché maintient son appel à suspendre les CEE mais reconnaît des difficultés

Une fois les certificats d'économies d'énergie suspendus, il serait difficile pour un gouvernement de les relancer, a ad…

Le Pen says she won’t leave NATO until Russia’s war in Ukraine ends

The French presidential front-runner still plans to take Paris out of the military alliance's integrated command, she te…

Germany and Spain clash over who gets into ‘Made in Europe’

Berlin wants a broad club for trade partners, while Madrid proposes a tiered system giving EU-made goods top billing.…

La France ne peut “plus aider financièrement l’Ukraine”, estime Marine Le Pen

La candidate RN à l’élection présidentielle a dit regretter ce choix, qu’elle justifie par la situation financière “extr…

Marine Le Pen : “Une crise obligataire peut se déclencher du jour au lendemain”

PARIS — Pour la candidate du Rassemblement national, “une crise obligataire peut se déclencher du jour au lendemain”, au…

Gabriel Attal : “150 milliards d’économies, c’est une base”

PARIS — Lors d’un grand entretien au sommet Playbook Paris de POLITICO, Gabriel Attal a décliné jeudi les grandes orient…

Parthenon Marbles talks stall as Athens rejects loan proposal

The Greek prime minister has previously compared the removal of the sculptures from Athens to cutting Leonardo da Vinci’…

Paris Playbook summit: Live updates

France's top presidential contenders are speaking exclusively to POLITICO.…

Poland says Starlink fire was sabotage

The digital minister has previously warned that his country faces some 2,000–3,000 cyberattacks on its infrastructure da…

EU launches diplomatic offensive to stop Trump’s diesel export ban

Brussels argues the 90-day ban would be bad for all sides, warning of a serious hit to energy markets.…

Trump’s diesel export threat meets a shrug in fuel-strapped Europe

The U.S. supplies more than half of Europe's diesel, and a ban would be "very serious" for the continent's energy supply…

Revealed: Andy Burnham’s route to victory

Is the Burnham bounce starting to show? Sam Coates and Anne McElvoy dig into a mega poll projecting Labour as the larges…

The world wants to secure AI. It may have to try without the US.

Proposals for global AI protections and guardrails abound this week at the U.N. General Assembly, but they can’t do much…

Russia’s untouchable tycoons

Europe breathed a sigh of relief after finally agreeing on a new Russia sanctions list. But attention is turning to the …

Der Rivale im Weißen Haus: Gipfel zwischen Trump und Xi

Wenn die mächtigsten Männer der Welt aufeinandertreffen, steht die globale Ordnung im Mittelpunkt. In Washington spreche…

SONDAGE EXCLUSIF 2027. Face à Le Pen, Mélenchon et Philippe au duel, Glucksmann garde la tête hors de l’eau

SONDAGE Cluster 17 x POLITICO. Jean-Luc Mélenchon et Edouard Philippe sont au coude-à-coude pour accéder au second tour …

Full transcript: The 2026 Atlantic Council Global Citizen Awards honor four leaders seeking to improve the state of the world

The star-studded evening celebrated the achievements of four global citizens who are using partnership and inspiration t…

Accessibility: Europe’s hidden growth engine

With 90 million EU citizens living with disabilities, accessibility is emerging as an overlooked growth lever, driving i…

Race for traction

The 2026 Global Citizen Awards: Celebrating leadership that builds what comes next

The Atlantic Council honored the Finnish president, the Australian prime minister, the president and CEO of Formula 1, a…

Rebellion in a tiny English village reveals Burnham’s peril on migration

Piddington's symbolic independence referendum presents real questions for Andy Burnham's asylum seeker challenge — and e…

Bessent says US, China trade truce extended by 2 months

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday evening that the U.S. and China have agreed to extend their tr…