Businessman found not guilty of Slovak journalist’s murder
A court has found businessman Marián Kočner not guilty of the murder of journalist Ján Kuciak. The 2018 murder of Kuciak and his finacée Martina Kušnírová sent shockwaves through the country, leading...
View ArticleIreland’s Phil Hogan mulls privacy complaint over ‘leak’ of driving offense
The European Union’s former Trade Commissioner Phil Hogan believes his right to privacy was breached during the events that led to his resignation last week and is considering a formal complaint to...
View Article‘Berlaymont bottleneck’ as senior EU vacancies stack up
Ursula von der Leyen and her cabinet chief have created a huge backlog of senior job vacancies in the European Commission by insisting on personal control over appointments, according to current and...
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Letter from the editor
Stephen Brown Dear Readers, We launched POLITICO Europe nearly six years ago promising to make the EU sexy. We’ll let you be the judges of whether we’ve succeeded or not, but meanwhile we’ve decided...
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Letter from the editors
Stephen Brown, Editor in Chief | Kate Day, Executive Editor, U.K. Dear Readers, We launched London Playbook just over three years ago, convinced there was an appetite for a different kind of political...
View ArticleHave we reached peak patriotism?
If patriotism is, as Samuel Johnson put it, “the last refuge of the scoundrel,” then there are a lot of unsavory characters in politics these days. So, is it time to declare peak patriotism? Maybe not....
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The Opinion article “France’s dangerous religion of secularism” published on Saturday has been withdrawn as it does not meet our editorial standards. Stephen Brown Editor in Chief, POLITICO Europe
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