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Nigel Farage surges with Gen Z women
Reform UK has found an unlikely demographic to woo as it seeks power.

EU says British war on newts could violate Brexit deal

What we do (and don’t) know about the UK-India trade deal

Inside the grassroots movement rebuilding flood-ravaged Valencia

Battle over top Italian insurer Generali pits oligarchs against Milan elite

Netherlands delays nitrogen emissions target, defying its own judges and the EU

Trump official rips climate policy at London energy summit
City climate action is a path to economic transformation
Europe’s climate and industrial policies are inextricably linked — cities are at the heart of both
US Mideast allies face ‘worst-case scenario’ with Trump aid cuts and tariff whiplash
The withdrawal of aid by the U.S. and Europe could feed extremism and lead to a surge in emigration, experts warn.
Postwar Russian energy return ‘illusory,’ Belgium says
Belgian Energy Minister Mathieu Bihet told POLITICO he wants to phase out the country’s Russian gas imports — but didn’t back an outright ban.
Shootings, debt and political paralysis show Brussels is falling apart
Losing €4 million a day and without a government, Belgium’s capital is in desperate need of leadership.
How Trump is forcing Europe to get real on steel
The EU wants to rearm, reindustrialize and refinance as Donald Trump’s United States abandons the role of global policeman.
Finland’s Stubb boosts Trump ties over golf
The two presidents discussed Ukraine and icebreakers in Florida.
Myanmar earthquake death toll tops 1,600
The number of people killed by the 7.7-magnitude temblor could go up to 10,000, the U.S. Geological Survey estimates.
Call for help: Eastern cement imports are killing EU industry
Cement imports from Ukraine to Poland surged 540 percent, from 101,700 tonnes in 2022 to 652,300 tonnes in 2024, threatening Poland’s and Europe’s cement industries.
Saving steel: The fight to keep Europe’s industrial waste on its shores
EU steelmakers, facing steep decline, want Brussels to intervene to give them more access to scrap metal. Recyclers aren’t happy.
ECB set to cut interest rates again as inflation takes a back seat to Trump
But is it enough for the central bank just to take its foot off the brake?
Musk trolls Trump’s €500B AI mega plan
The tech billionaire and close ally of the U.S. president sniped at one of the White House’s first major proposals.
Dutch government ordered to cut nitrogen pollution — or face €10M fine
Greenpeace’s victory means that PM Dick Schoof must achieve emission-reduction targets by 2030 or face the penalty.
Serbia hit with double whammy on gas supply
New U.S. sanctions against Russia target Serbia’s main gas company, at the same time that Azerbaijan claims to not be able to deliver its supply.
The method in Trump’s Greenland madness
The climate skeptic is responding to the reality of the Arctic’s melting ice: more resource extraction, faster trade routes, new military bases.
Serbia charges 13 in railway station tragedy, critics allege cover-up
Belgrade government is trying to “throw dust in the eyes of the people,” former Novi Sad Mayor Boris Novaković says.
Westminster’s top books of 2024
POLITICO asked politicians and chroniclers of SW1 to tell us the book they most enjoyed reading this year — here are the results, in their own words.
Inside the floating 80s relic that wants to be Britain’s energy future
POLITICO spent the afternoon on a soon-to-be-abandoned North Sea gas plant that’s hoping to ditch fossil fuels with government help.
Do Syria’s liberators still deserve the terrorist label?
Assad’s downfall was met with unbridled joy and relief among Syrians and Syria’s expatriate community.
Will Donald Trump kill US-UK-Aussie sub defense deal?
The landmark defense agreement between the U.S, U.K. and Australia could be in jeopardy with the maverick Republican back in the White House.
Belgium’s Romanians poised to propel the far right into power
Frustrated with mainstream parties and unable to return home, Romanians abroad are emerging as staunch supporters of ultranationalist presidential hopeful Călin Georgescu.
Defenders of the Romanian nation and all Europeans
A strong European Union is built on protecting each of its members’ interests equally. The AUR is ready to collaborate.
Biden inks billion-dollar climate deals to foil Trump rollbacks
The administration is accelerating the approval of large loans for clean technologies that the president-elect attacked on the campaign trail.
Trump picks Lee Zeldin to lead EPA
If confirmed, Zeldin would lead the Republican effort to roll back Biden’s key climate change regulations — including rules tightening the pollution from power plants and tailpipes.