Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. She was the European Parliament’s loudest cheerleader for cryptocurrencies. But Eva Kaili’s glittering career as the Parliament’s vice president collapsed when police raided her home a year ago and found €150,000 euros in old-fashioned cash. Kaili and her partner Francesco Giorgi were among the...
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Germany chokes on its own austerity medicine
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. BERLIN — Germans gave the world schadenfreude for a reason. And southern Europe couldn’t be more pleased. For countries that spent years on the receiving end of Europe’s German-inspired fiscal Inquisition, there’s no sweeter sight than to see Germany splayed on the high altar of...
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Belgium’s on-again, off-again hunt for the men accused of corrupting the European Parliament
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. BRUSSELS — Should the key figures accused of corrupting the European Parliament be arrested or not? That’s the question at the heart of the scandal known as Qatargate — the most serious corruption allegations to hit European Union institutions in decades. In a sprawling Belgian...
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Meet Pieter Omtzigt, the Dutch election favorite who doesn’t want to win
The Netherlands is heading to the polls next week in an election that will decide its new prime minister. There’s just one problem: The man who’s been leading the race doesn’t seem very keen on the job. Pieter Omtzigt only founded his New Social Contract (NSC) three months ago, but has been topping the polls...
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Why a march against antisemitism has become a headache for Macron
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. PARIS — The march against antisemitism planned for Sunday in the French capital was meant to mark unity in the face of a surge of antisemitic offenses in France. But instead it has spotlighted political divisions and is fast turning into a quandary for...
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António Costa’s downfall spells trouble for socialist hopes of EU top job
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. António Costa is out as prime minister of Portugal — and that’s a problem for Europe’s socialists in their quest for an EU top job. The center-left had its hopes pinned on Costa getting a powerful role in Brussels as part of the great...
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Brussels spends €30K to rebrand European Quarter as … EU Quarter
This article is part of POLITICO’s Global Policy Lab: Living Cities, a collaborative journalism project exploring the future of cities. Sign up here. “Dynamic and amazing” aren’t adjectives normally associated with Brussels’ European Quarter. The drab district, monopolized by office buildings housing eurocrats and lobbyists, is generally known for being a car-choked, visually bland collection of streets...
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Collapse of Atos, the company he once ran, haunts EU industry czar Thierry Breton
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. PARIS — As the EU’s top official in charge of industrial affairs, Thierry Breton has often brought up his past as a tech CEO to show how he’s particularly well-suited for the job. But now that Atos, the French tech company he led before...
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Ukraine kickstarts European enlargement, just as US backs away
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. It took a war to put the EU’s enlargement process back on the political agenda. For about a decade, enlargement was not an issue dominating the thoughts and agendas of European leaders. Instead, the bloc was focused on its own political problems and —...
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Every bill in the King’s Speech, reviewed and rated
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. LONDON – This is the list of new laws Rishi Sunak hopes will save his skin come election-time. Tuesday’s King’s Speech — in which King Charles III read out the British government’s legislative agenda for the crucial pre-election term ahead — was packed with...
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Westminster’s most gruesome rivalries
LONDON — There are bad spirits lurking in Westminster this All Hallows’ Eve. More out of control than Frankenstein’s monster … more intense than the age-old battle between vampires and werewolves … and more un-killable than a swarm of flesh-eating zombies, these are the bitter rivalries that just can’t be doused in holy water and...
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EU Parliament chief to Ukraine: You should have ‘observer’ MEPs while you wait to join the bloc
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. BRUSSELS — European Parliament President Roberta Metsola suggested that Ukrainian and Moldovan lawmakers could join the assembly as “observer” members while the two countries await formal accession into the European Union. The EU last year designated Ukraine and Moldova as official candidate countries, shortly...