Joe Biden and Rishi Sunak seek UK/US trade pact before 2024 elections – POLITICO
LONDON — President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak are preparing a “foundational” U.S. / U.K. trade agreement designed to be wrapped up before…
Rishi Sunak to sign UK-India trade deal without binding worker or environment pledges – POLITICO
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. LONDON — Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s trade deal with India will not include legally…
King Charles calls to ‘reinvigorate’ ties between France and UK – POLITICO
PARIS — Britain’s King Charles III urged France and the U.K. to revitalize ties Wednesday, as both countries seek to improve relations after several acrimonious…
Poland stops sending weapons to Ukraine amid grain fight, Warsaw says – POLITICO
Warsaw has stopped supplying weapons to Kyiv and is focusing on arming itself instead, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Wednesday, amid a dispute over…
Putin exposes the myth of Austria’s victimhood – POLITICO
VIENNA — No one does victimhood quite like Austria. Over the past century, the Central European country has presented itself to the outside world as…
WTF is Christine Lagarde up to? – POLITICO
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Deep in the Wyoming wilderness last month, Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central…
EU risks trade war with China over electric vehicles – POLITICO
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. BRUSSELS — This is how it starts. In the midst of an invasion by Chinese…
With Apple’s iPhone 15, the EU wins the charger war – POLITICO
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. BRUSSELS — Made by Apple. Designed — at least in part — by Eurocrats.…
Brussels drops tax plan to distribute multinationals’ profits across EU – POLITICO
The European Commission is dropping a plan to reallocate multinationals’ profits among European Union countries in a new framework for taxing large corporates at EU…
Shock and recriminations as Chinese spy scandal rocks UK parliament – POLITICO
LONDON — Rishi Sunak has spent most of his brief premiership treading a delicate balance on relations with China. So the last thing the British…
Rishi Sunak hopes AI could be his legacy – POLITICO
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. NEW DELHI — With the clock likely ticking on his time in Downing Street,…
EU cracks down on 6 Big Tech giants – POLITICO
The European Union set tighter curbs on Apple, Amazon, Google owner Alphabet, Meta Platforms, ByteDance and Microsoft by naming them digital "gatekeepers" under the Digital…
The specter of Liz Truss still haunts Britain – POLITICO
LONDON — A year is a long time in politics — but the reverberations of the surreal fall of 2022 are still being felt across the…
Zelenskyy sends strong signals with choice for Ukraine’s new defense chief – POLITICO
KYIV — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s choice for the country’s new defense minister sends two clear signals to Ukraine’s allies and adversaries: Kyiv is serious…
OMG, they killed Yevgeny! You bastards! – POLITICO
Who’d shed a tear for Yevgeny Prigozhin? Well, the apparent death of the belligerent leader of the notorious mercenary Wagner Group in a plane crash…
Senator Ted Cruz slams US agency for ‘collusion’ with EU on Big Tech rules – POLITICO
U.S. Republican Senator Ted Cruz called for details on the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) work with its European counterparts in a letter to FTC Chairwoman…
With a return of Trump looming, Ukrainians ramp up homegrown arms industry – POLITICO
KYIV — Ukraine’s long-range Beaver drones seem to be making successful kamikaze strikes in the heart of Moscow, but Serhiy Prytula is coy about how…
British firms quizzed on Chinese tech links as US-style clampdown looms – POLITICO
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. LONDON — British firms are being asked about their investments in a swathe of "sensitive"…
Russia fines Google for failing to delete ‘false content’ about Ukraine war – POLITICO
Russia has fined Google 3 million rubles — around €30,000 — for not deleting what it says is fake news about the war in Ukraine.…
Britain won’t copy Biden’s IRA spending splurge – POLITICO
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. LONDON — Britain will resist calls for vast new green investment in response to…