Russia to expel UK diplomats in tit-for-tat over poison case
Russia will expel British diplomats in retaliation for the expulsion of 23 staff from Moscow’s Mission to London over the poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter on U.K. territory, the...
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Spanish court charges Catalan leaders with rebellion
Spain’s Supreme Court said on Friday it will try 13 Catalan independence leaders on charges of rebellion, including ousted regional President Carles Puigdemont and his top aides and allies. A judge...
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Catalonia’s Arrimadas takes no prisoners
Inés Arrimadas, whose election win in Catalonia helped her Ciudadanos party overtake Spain’s ruling conservatives in polls, dismisses talk that Catalan separatists have been jailed or exiled for their...
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Spanish Socialist’s survival strategy
MADRID — Pedro Sánchez is making up for lost time. After an internal power struggle steered his Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) to the left and kept it largely on the sidelines in the Catalan...
View ArticleSwedish far right at record high in pre-election poll
Support for the far-right Sweden Democrats is at a record high ahead of September’s election, putting them hot on the heels of the ruling Social Democrats and main opposition Moderates, according to a...
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Spanish opposition threatens Rajoy over corruption case
MADRID — Spain’s opposition Socialist Party called a vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s conservative government Friday in response to a corruption case engulfing the ruling Popular...
View ArticleJuncker prompts Italian ire with ‘more work’ jibe
The European Parliament’s Italian president demanded on Thursday that Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker deny or retract remarks that Italians should do “more work.” “Italians have to take care of...
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Sweden freaks out
STOCKHOLM — In some respects, the far-right Sweden Democrats have already won September’s election. It’s not just their spectacular rise in opinion polls, which has politicians no longer just...
View ArticleSwedish PM to arsonists: ‘What the hell are you up to?’
Cars were set alight across Sweden overnight in what police believe was a coordinated attack orchestrated on social media. About 80 cars were set on fire in western Sweden, in and around Gothenburg,...
View ArticleSwedish Prime Minister Löfven loses confidence vote
Sweden’s prime minister, Stefan Löfven, lost a confidence vote in parliament on Tuesday after the far-right Sweden Democrats backed the center-right Alliance’s bid to oust the Social Democrats....
View ArticleSweden’s Löfven takes turn at forming new government
Sweden’s caretaker Prime Minister Stefan Löfven has two weeks to try to form a governing coalition after the center right failed to win support in the wake of September’s indecisive election....
View ArticleDon’t treat Italy like Greece, Spain’s Borrell tells Brussels
The European Commission should not respond to the budget spat with Italy the same way as it treated Greece, Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell said today. “It would be a big mistake for the...
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German CDU chief: Europe must adapt to survive
Europe must change to prosper in a “contest of systems” with China and the United States, according to Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, the new leader of Germany’s ruling Christian Democrats. In an...
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The man imposing ‘Order!’ Swedish-style
Sweden’s Andreas Norlén confesses that one day he’d love to let rip like John Bercow in Westminster. While the speaker of the House of Commons has been entertaining the world with his raucous attempts...
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How not to remember Ján Kuciak
BRATISLAVA — A young journalist and his fiancée are shot dead; tens of thousands of people take to the streets in solidarity; the ensuing investigation topples a prime minister. What’s the logical...
View ArticleMartin Selmayr: Populist wave has been ‘contained’
Martin Selmayr’s day-after take on the European election is that “the so-called populist wave, I think it was contained.” The European Commission’s powerful secretary-general was speaking at POLITICO’s...
View ArticleJuncker on Trump: I like him but don’t read his tweets
Jean-Claude Juncker said he took Donald Trump’s description of him as “a brutal killer” to be a “compliment.” Speaking at a POLITICO event in Brussels, the European Commission president said of the...
View ArticleBoris Johnson tells a porky
As a former London mayor, it’s a fair bet Boris Johnson has heard of Cockney rhyming slang, but the Eton-educated Tory leader clearly didn’t spend long enough in the East End to master the local lingo....
View ArticlePortugal chooses Elisa Ferreira as European Commission candidate
Portugal has chosen deputy central bank Governor Elisa Ferreira as its nominee for the European Commission, Lusa news agency reported Tuesday. The news was confirmed by Portuguese diplomats. Prime...
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India sees Kashmir restrictions easing in ‘coming days’
India’s foreign minister on Friday predicted that security restrictions across Kashmir would be eased in the “coming days,” but rejected Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s call for talks over the...
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