After attending school in Finland and later the U.S., Belgium and the U.K., Stubb entered politics in 2004 as a member of the European Parliament. He hit the Finnish…
Read more Former Finland PM Alexander Stubb wins presidential electionThe earlier target represents a loss for the German Greens who, ahead of a three-day party congress in Lyon this weekend, had pushed for the climate neutrality target…
Read more Greens push for EU climate neutrality by 2040 in election manifestoPress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron has propelled rising star Gabriel Attal center stage in a high-risk…
Read more Macron goes all in with high-stakes reshuffle to combat far rightA majority of voters across seven Western countries, including the United States, France and the United Kingdom, believe their democracy is in worse shape than it was five…
Read more Western democracies face crisis of confidence ahead of big votes, poll showsPress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. THE HAGUE — One line in Geert Wilders’ inflammatory pitch to Dutch voters will haunt Brussels more…
Read more Geert Wilders is the EU’s worst nightmarePress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. THE HAGUE — Dutch voters may be about to get someone very different from the outgoing veteran…
Read more Dutch on brink of electing first female leaderPress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. WARSAW — After eight years of rule by the nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party, Polish voters…
Read more What happens next in Poland? 5 things you need to know after a landmark electionIn two German state elections that are seen as a bellwether of the national mood, the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, surged while the three parties that…
Read more Far-right surge upends German state electionsWARSAW — Poland’s opposition held an enormous rally in Warsaw and other cities on Sunday — claiming more than a million people took part — but the mood…
Read more Huge but glum: Poland’s opposition puts a million people on the streetsPress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. BERLIN — The political maneuver shaking Germany’s postwar democratic order involves a piece of legislation that is…
Read more Germany’s far-right ‘firewall’ cracksWARSAW — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy tried to rebuild bridges with Poland late on Saturday, seeking to take the sting out of a political dispute with Warsaw by…
Read more Zelenskyy seeks to rebuild bridges with Poles amid dispute over grain and weaponsWarsaw has stopped supplying weapons to Kyiv and is focusing on arming itself instead, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Wednesday, amid a dispute over Ukraine’s agricultural exports.…
Read more Poland stops sending weapons to Ukraine amid grain fight, Warsaw saysVIENNA — No one does victimhood quite like Austria. Over the past century, the Central European country has presented itself to the outside world as an innocent bystander…
Read more Putin exposes the myth of Austria’s victimhoodPress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. RADAWIEC DUŻY, Poland — Forget mass campaign rallies: Poland’s ruling conservatives are betting that prayer, straw-weaving contests and…
Read more Picnics and prayers: Poland’s ruling conservatives push to win the countrysideBRUSSELS — Right-wing and Euroskeptic parties are set to surge in the next European election at the expense of centrist parties, exclusive polling analysis by POLITICO’s Research and…
Read more Right wing set for big gains in 2024 EU election, polling showsPress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stepped in to call for restraint late Tuesday in an effort to end…
Read more Zelenskyy urges cool heads as Poland lashes out at Ukraine in gratitude spatPress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. STRASBOURG — The European Parliament’s response to Qatargate: Fight corruption with paperwork. When Belgian police made sweeping…
Read more The EU’s reply to Qatargate: Nips, tucks and paperworkPress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. MADRID — Alberto Núñez Feijóo may not want to admit it but his hope of being Spain’s…
Read more Feijóo’s numbers don’t add upMADRID — Incumbent Pedro Sánchez is poised to remain the Spanish prime minister as a result of Sunday’s inconclusive national election in which the center-right Popular Party won…
Read more Spanish election: Sánchez holds off right surgeU.K. Defense Secretary Ben Wallace plans to leave the government at the next Cabinet reshuffle and will not stand in the next general election, he told the Sunday Times…
Read more Ben Wallace to step down as UK defense chief: Sunday Times
