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China to lift sanctions on EU lawmakers to unlock trade talks
Donald Trump’s trade war is pushing China and the EU closer together despite their differences.
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French authorities have accused Russia's most high-profile hacking group of orchestrating cyberattacks on President Emmanuel Macron's 2017 election campaign.
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Notorious Russian hackers behind 2017 ‘Macron leaks,’ France says
Paris accused Russia’s Fancy Bear group of conducting cyberattacks on the French president’s campaign team.
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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen took multiple swipes at Donald Trump in a speech that laid bare the increasing antagonism across the Atlantic.
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Von der Leyen slams Trump: We don’t punish neighbors
Commission president criticizes the American leader’s trade war, approach to other countries and targeting of universities.
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European leaders today warmly congratulated Mark Carney on his election as Canada’s new prime minister, hailing the result as a boost for transatlantic relations in the turbulent age of US President Donald Trump.
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EU cheers Mark Carney’s election win in Canada
The former top banker stood up to U.S. President Donald Trump on the campaign trail and secured a dramatic victory.
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Canadian broadcasters called the country’s election for Mark Carney’s Liberals, completing the mother of all political comebacks for the centrist party.
For PM Keir Starmer, that means another ally on the world stage.
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Centrists of all lands, unite!
Presented by Google By ANDREW MCDONALD with NOAH KEATE PRESENTED BY Send tips here | Subscribe for free | Listen to Playbook and view in your browser WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING: Canadian broadcasters …
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Europe’s highest court struck down Malta’s controversial “golden passport” program, which effectively allows people to buy citizenship, in a landmark ruling today.
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Malta’s ‘golden passport’ scheme is illegal, EU top court rules
Court of Justice of the EU says Tuesday the program was nothing short of the “commercialisation” of citizenship.
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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni slammed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s three-day ceasefire in Ukraine as “decisively insufficient,” and said it’s time for Russia to demonstrate it wants to end the conflict.
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Italy’s Meloni says Putin’s 3-day ceasefire ‘insufficient’
Russia has yet to prove it wants to end the war, prime minister says.
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Donald Trump has jokingly said he would be his own “number one choice” to be the next leader of the Catholic Church.
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Trump: ‘I’d like to be pope’
He was joking (we think) — but said the conclave should take a look at a cardinal from New York.
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🚨 BREAKING: Britain and India are closing in on a long-coveted trade deal after an intensive two-day negotiating sprint in London.
Full story: ow.ly/tqIA50VJImP
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The EU needs to boost defense production as Washington threatens to phase out its presence in Europe, European Council head António Costa told us.
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EU needs defense autonomy as US shifts focus, EU Council chief says
KAZANLAK, Bulgaria — The EU needs to boost defense production as Washington threatens to phase out its presence in Europe, European Council head António Costa told POLITICO. “We certainly need to p…
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Power in Spain and Portugal has been restored after a massive blackout paralyzed most of the Iberian Peninsula yesterday.
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99 percent of Spain’s power supply restored after blackout, authorities say
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is set to meet the National Security Council as Spain seeks to figure out what happened.
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COMMENTARY: If the US does manage to engineer a ceasefire deal this week, there should be grave doubts it will be the final word on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s revanchism.
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An ugly Ukraine deal was predictable — but this will merely pause Russia’s revanchism
Without U.S. security guarantees and a firm “porcupine strategy” to make sure Kyiv is heavily armed, this deal will just be a way station in Putin’s bid to subjugate the country.
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EU auditors yesterday warned that the bloc is dangerously reliant on China for mainstream microchips powering everything from cars to washing machines.
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Europe has risky reliance on China for low-tech chips, auditors warn
Brussels is far from meeting its targets to reshore microchips manufacturing.
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French President Emmanuel Macron wants to turn France into an El Dorado for American scientists.
But French researchers say he should take care of his own before trying to lure others.
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French researchers to Macron: Take care of us before wooing Americans
Plans to attract U.S. researchers to France were quickly criticized by members of the research community.
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Spain's national transmission system operator has not found signs that a cyberattack was at the root of yesterday’s massive power blackout in Spain and Portugal.
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Spanish grid operator rules out cyberattack in its facilities after power cut
There has not been any type of intrusion in the electrical network control systems,” authorities say.
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The center-right European People’s Party reelected its chair Manfred Weber for a second three-year term.
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Chief of Europe’s most powerful party accepts his crown for second term
Manfred Weber will continue to helm the center-right European People’s Party and shape the agenda of Brussels’ institutions.
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EU governments are considering appeasing Donald Trump's US administration by changing European rules on taxing multinational corporations to exempt America from a crucial provision of a landmark global tax deal.
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EU governments consider appeasing Trump on global minimum tax
Capitals fear retaliation from the U.S. and are considering changing the rules to grant American companies an exemption from a crucial provision of the global tax deal.
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Donald Trump’s approval ratings may be at rock bottom but the far-right frontrunner for Romania’s presidency reckons alignment with the US president is still a winning ticket ahead of Sunday’s election.
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MAGA man leads the field before Romanian election rerun
George Simion, the candidate tipped to win the first round of the presidential election, publicly aligns himself with Donald Trump.
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Nigel Farage’s right-wing Reform UK party is set to grip its first (small) levers of power after this Thursday’s local elections in England.
MPs and strategists from both main parties hope this will show governing isn’t so easy.
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Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is about to face the hard part: Being in charge
The populist party could hold its first reins of power after Thursday’s local elections. So what will it actually do? POLITICO went on a mission to find out.
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Top officials at the EU's in-house data protection authority have expensed a high number of trips to their home countries in past years — prompting calls for closer scrutiny from a key oversight committee.
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Privacy officials’ travel to home countries sets off EU alarm bells
Privacy regulator’s secretary general traveled on the EU’s dime to Spain, his home country, far more often than to other countries.
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The highly-politicized tussle over Italy’s financial system has taken another twist as Milan-based Mediobanca struck back against a government-backed bid from Monte dei Paschi di Siena.
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Mediobanca rebels at Rome’s efforts to force it into a shotgun marriage
Counter-attack by Milan-based bank deals blow to plans for a ‘third pole’ in Italian banking.
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In tonight's London Playbook:
🇮🇪 MPs gave Irish rap group Kneecap a full blown Commons debate.
🇮🇳 Britain is closing in on its trade deal with India.
👀 The local elections landscape is not looking ideal for Labour. Or the Tories.
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🎧 Im Berlin Playbook mit Gordon Repinski:
Wie Markus Söder ein Herz für die SPD entwickelt. 200 Sek mit Pauline von Pezold über Lukas Hufnagl und die Kündigung der AfD-Zentrale. Jonathan Martin zu 100 Tagen Trump.
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La proportionnelle n’a plus le vent en poupe chez les députés Renaissance.
Playbook Paris vous explique tout, sous la plume de Anthony Lattier 👇
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Attal dose au mur
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