Source: POLITICO PARIS — Europe may have dodged the worst of the banking crisis but regulators at the POLITICO Finance Summit warned now is not the time for complacency. One of the conference’s prominent speakers, Bank of Greece Governor Yannis Stournaras, cautioned against raising interest rates too quickly in the wake of the collapse of […]
Source: POLITICO Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Not even a war has succeeded in pushing Europe’s biggest powers to reach their defense spending targets. The Continent’s largest economies all fell short of a common goal of spending 2 percent of economic output on defense, according to a NATO report […]
Source: POLITICO Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Turkey’s opposition is confident it can unfreeze European Union accession talks and will end Ankara’s veto on NATO membership for Sweden and Finland, if it beats President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the hotly contested upcoming elections. Ünal Çeviköz, chief foreign policy adviser […]
Source: POLITICO A split is emerging at the very top of the European Union over the bloc’s China policy, amid growing pressure from U.S. President Joe Biden for Brussels to take a more hawkish stance toward Beijing. Senior figures in the European Council — including President Charles Michel — are pushing for a less confrontational […]
Source: POLITICO ATHENS — Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis was attacked in central Athens late on Friday, suffering a broken nose, cuts and bruises. The assault, which his party DiEM25 described as a “brazen fascist attack,” took place while Varoufakis was dining in the central Exarchia district with party members from all over Europe. […]
Source: POLITICO Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. ATHENS — Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was supposed to be preparing to call an early election — instead he’s dealing with protestors throwing Molotov cocktails at police as a wave of public rage convulses Greece following a train crash that killed […]
Source: POLITICO Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Sunday apologized over the country’s deadliest train disaster and said he will ask Brussels for help to overhaul the country’s railway network as mass protests continued unabated. “As prime minister, I owe everyone, but above all the relatives of the victims, a big SORRY,” Mitsotakis wrote on […]
Source: POLITICO Former European Parliament Vice President Eva Kaili has filed an appeal against the European prosecutor’s request to lift her immunity over alleged irregularities in assistants’ salaries. The Greek MEP has been imprisoned since early December on preliminary charges of participation in a criminal organization, money laundering and corruption — part of a sprawling […]
Source: POLITICO Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that he is suspending Moscow’s participation in the last remaining nuclear arms control treaty between Russia and the United States. Russia will halt its participation in the New START Treaty, Putin announced in a lengthy speech […]
Source: POLITICO The governments of around 30 countries, including host nation France, called on the International Olympic Committee to exclude Russia and Belarus from the Paris 2024 Olympics — unless Games chiefs unveil a clear “workable” plan for athletes to compete as neutrals. The IOC has said it would explore a pathway for Russian and […]