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NATO sees Keir Starmer’s entrance on world stage

NATO sees Keir Starmer’s entrance on world stage

New U.K. prime minister will deliver a message of continuity on Ukraine and pledge support for the alliance.

July 8, 2024 11:32 pm CET
Defiant Biden tells donors: ‘We’re done talking about the debate’
Anxious about Biden, Democratic donors begin looking to bolster down-ballot candidates
How France voted: Charts and maps

How France voted: Charts and maps

July 8, 2024 4:34 pm CET
Kremlin mopes over French election results
X deletes official UK Conservatives account
Democracy’s at risk, it’s time politicians stopped fibbing
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The magnificent mind of Emmanuel Macron

The president is a lonely, tragic figure whose strange personality has inflicted chaos and carnage on French politics.

July 8, 2024 11:52 am CET

4 more senior Democrats call on Biden to stand down from reelection bid

Other Democrats also expressed concerns with the president’s prospects during a private Sunday call.

July 8, 2024 8:40 am CET

Who could be the next French PM?

The winning left-wing alliance has many options for Prime Minister. None of them will make everyone happy.

July 8, 2024 4:01 am CET

Britain’s new power list: 12 people you need to know in the UK Labour government

Prime Minister Keir Starmer is now in office. These are the people who really matter in his government.

July 8, 2024 4:00 am CET

Marine Le Pen vs. Jordan Bardella: France’s next power struggle

A budding rivalry could tear apart the French far right’s “winning ticket.”

July 8, 2024 4:00 am CET

6 things UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer wants to fix in his first month

Britain’s new leader already has an overflowing in-tray.

July 8, 2024 4:00 am CET

French election shocker: reaction and analysis

France has voted and the results are in — our POLITICO team in Paris discusses the surprising results of the final round of the parliamentary election in …

July 8, 2024 4:00 am CET

NATO needs to look toward Pacific because of current realities, Jens Stoltenberg says

“China is the main enabler of Russia’s war aggression against Ukraine,” he said.

July 7, 2024 8:31 pm CET

French left beats Le Pen’s far right in election shock

Macron’s snap election saddles France with a messy hung parliament as the price for stopping the far right.

July 7, 2024 8:04 pm CET

American allies fear Biden is finished and can’t beat Trump

“We’re not sure that, even if he wins, he can survive four years more,” said one official from a European NATO country.

July 7, 2024 12:29 pm CET

Biden tried to put his campaign crisis behind him. It isn’t working yet.

A defiant Joe Biden had laughed Friday at the idea that his top congressional allies would convince him to drop out of the presidential race. “They’re not …

July 7, 2024 12:05 pm CET

Secret meetings, private threats and a massive arms race: How the world is preparing for Trump

In 2016, no one in the world was ready for President Trump. America’s NATO allies aren’t making the same mistake this time.

July 7, 2024 11:31 am CET
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By the numbers

How Britain voted: Charts and maps

We analyze the results which radically changed the UK’s electoral map.

July 6, 2024 4:26 pm CET

Keir Starmer: I didn’t believe the exit poll

The U.K.’s new PM said he was getting used to being called by his new title — but was still happy to be addressed by his first name.

July 6, 2024 4:05 pm CET

How Taiwan conquered US politics — and showed Europe how it’s done

The island democracy off the coast of China has wooed friends in every U.S. faction and region — and that’s its greatest source of strength and protection.

July 6, 2024 3:59 pm CET

Labour’s top policy priorities

A deep dive into what Keir Starmer’s government will tackle in their first 100 days and then in their first year.

July 6, 2024 3:40 pm CET

Jeremy Hunt rules himself out of Tory leadership race

The race to replace Rishi Sunak as leader of the Conservative Party has already begun following its devastating election defeat.

July 6, 2024 12:32 pm CET

Dutch, Spanish far-right parties to join Orbán’s Patriots for Europe

Hungarian leader needs only one more national party for his right-wing alliance to qualify as an official grouping in the European Parliament.

July 6, 2024 11:39 am CET

Slovakia’s Fico laments not visiting Putin with Orbán

While blasting progressive ideology as “poison” and “cancer,” Slovak leader honors Slavic cultural forebears, in first public outing since attack.

July 6, 2024 9:47 am CET
Cartoon Carousel

World’s cartoonists on this week’s events

Drawing the top stories around the globe.

July 6, 2024 4:02 am CET

How the Tory campaign melted down in 6 disastrous weeks

Rishi Sunak played a bad hand appallingly — and paid a terrible price.

July 5, 2024 6:32 pm CET

14 hours that changed Britain

As Keir Starmer enters 10 Downing Street on the back of a landslide election victory, host Sascha O’Sullivan takes us inside the night power shifted in the …

July 5, 2024 5:39 pm CET

David Lammy appointed as UK foreign secretary

He will need to grapple with the war in Ukraine and the conflict in Gaza.

July 5, 2024 4:53 pm CET

Europe’s leaders welcome Starmer after ‘historic’ UK election

European Council President Charles Michel hails a “new cycle for the U.K.”

July 5, 2024 10:23 am CET
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