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1 week ago | 
politico.eu | Esther Webber |Csongor Körömi |Chris Lunday
Peace in Ukraine is “out of reach in the immediate future,” German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius warned Friday as allies pledged a record €21 billion in new military aid to Kyiv. Pistorius said that “Russia needs to understand that Ukraine is able to go on fighting, and we will support it,” after a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group — a format that organizes military aid for Kyiv.
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3 weeks ago | 
politico.eu | Aitor Hernández-Morales |Csongor Körömi |Victor Goury-Laffont |Hanne COKELAERE
United States President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs are shaping up to be a major headache for his far-right allies in Europe. Washington’s decision to impose a 20 percent levy on all European Union imports is set to disproportionately impact the rural and blue-collar workers that have gravitated toward right-wing populist parties across the bloc. That’s left many European political figures who are the MAGA movement’s biggest cheerleaders in an awkward spot.
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1 month ago | 
politico.eu | Csongor Körömi |Veronika Melkozerova
A highly touted partial ceasefire in Ukraine, brokered by Donald Trump, disintegrated shortly after the end of a phone call between the U.S. president and Russian leader Vladimir Putin during which it was agreed.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Csongor Körömi |Veronika Melkozerova
11 hours agoFederal judge blocks Trump administration from banning transgender people from military serviceWASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge blocked enforcement of President Donald Trump’s executive order banning transgender people from military service on Tuesday, the latest in a string of legal setbacks for his sweeping agenda.
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1 month ago | 
politico.eu | Jamie Dettmer |Csongor Körömi |Nicholas Vinocur
The chief of a long-established U.S.-funded media outlet is mounting a vigorous fight to save it from being gutted by President Donald Trump — as Russia and China celebrate the White House wielding its ax. Speaking to POLITICO after a day of hectic lobbying of Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill, the chief executive of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Stephen Capus, blasted the Trump administration’s decision to halt the funding of the Prague-headquartered RFE/RL as unlawful.
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1 month ago | 
politico.eu | Zoya Sheftalovich |Csongor Körömi
The U.S. has “some cautious optimism” that a ceasefire deal in the Ukraine war is coming soon, Donald Trump’s national security adviser Mike Waltz said late Thursday. His comments came after the American president’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, traveled to Moscow to negotiate directly with Vladimir Putin.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Csongor Körömi |Veronika Melkozerova |Eric Bazail-Eimil
7 hours agoThe new Arizona senator argues that Donald Trump’s agenda is largely popular but destined to fail. The Laken Riley Act, which requires the Department of Homeland Security to detain undocumented immigrants charged with even nonviolent crimes, was the first bill that President Donald Trump signed into …
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1 month ago | 
politico.eu | Gabriel Gavin |Csongor Körömi
Shipments of Russian oil to Hungary were interrupted on Tuesday after Ukraine launched a major wave of drone strikes against Moscow, just months after Budapest secured a sweetheart deal with Kyiv that allows it to keep buying supplies of fuel despite the invasion. In a video statement posted online, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said that "oil deliveries on the Druzhba oil pipeline to Hungary had to be temporarily suspended" following the drone attack.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
politico.eu | Gabriel Gavin |Csongor Körömi |Nicholas Vinocur
Hungary again delayed the renewal of the EU’s Russia sanctions on Friday, injecting a last-minute demand for Ukraine to reopen its pipelines and allow Russian gas to flow across the continent. “Now the issue of extending sanctions is on the agenda, I have put on the handbrake and asked European leaders to understand that this cannot continue,” said Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, speaking to state broadcaster Kossuth Radio.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
politico.eu | Csongor Körömi
The city of Paris has quit the platform X over concerns about disinformation and hate speech. The PR account's exit comes at the same time as French President Emmanuel Macron is pushing for X owner Elon Musk and United States President-elect Donald Trump to attend Paris' flagship artificial intelligence summit next month. In a farewell post, the account wrote that it had become "complex" and then "impossible" to use the platform.
