The European Union is preparing for new security challenges, with Brussels advising households on Wednesday to stockpile three daysโ worth of emergency supplies โ including food, medicine and other essentials โ as part of a strategy to help the bloc p…
Blocโs first preparedness strategy urges people to prepare for floods, fires, pandemics or military strikesPeople in the EU are being advised to stockpile enough food, water and essentials for 72 hours as part of a European strategy that aims to increa…
Governments should also crisis-proof their national services, such as healthcare, water supplies and telecommunications, in the event of conflict or disaster.
โEurope cannot afford to remain reactive,โ the European Commission will warn in strategy to be unveiled on Wednesday.
The fire’s impact raised concerns about the resilience of Britain’s energy system to accident, natural disaster or attack.
France is planning to dispatch a โsurvival manualโ to every household, which gives out instructions on how to prepare for a crisis such as an armed conflict or natural disaster. The decision is still pending approval from the prime minister, but the F…
With France about to advise its citizens on how to survive an โimminent threatโ, itโs time to wise up to what the real essentials areItโs a fairly strong indication that your US presidency is not going well when, within three months of you taking offic…
Dmytro Orlov, the exiled mayor of Enerhodar, gives an update on the safety of the occupied nuclear power plant in Zaporizhia, Europe’s largest, in an interview with Le Monde. The fate of the plant was to be discussed between Donald Trump and Vladimir P…
Coastguard rescues 10 people and search resumes after half-sunken dinghy spotted near isletSix people have died and 40 are missing after a boat disaster off the Italian island of Lampedusa.The wreck occurred on Tuesday afternoon. A half-sunken dinghy w…
A week after the tanker crash off the English coast, officials are trying to work out the damage done โ and who is going to pick up the bill.
Booklet to give guidance on preparing for โimminent threatsโ including armed conflict and natural disasterThe French government is reportedly planning to send a โsurvival manualโ to every household in the country with instructions on how to prepare for…
People in Kocani blame corruption after 59 people – many of them teenagers – died in a nightclub inferno.
People in Kocani blame corruption after 59 people – many of them teenagers – died in a nightclub inferno.
Fifty-nine people have been killed following a fire at a nightclub in North Macedonia.
Fifty-nine people have been killed following a fire at a nightclub in North Macedonia.
Fifty-nine people have been killed following a fire at a nightclub in North Macedonia.
Government declares seven-day period of mourning after fire in eastern town of Koฤani kills at least 59North Macedonia has declared a seven-day period of mourning after a fire in a nightclub that left at least 59 dead and scores injured, as authorities…
A flurry of crucial policy reviews on areas that could define the U.K. prime minister’s government are coming due. POLITICO has you covered.
Itโs the accounting maneuver that could break the Senate, upend the federal budget process and explode the national debt. Thatโs according to critics of a fiscal tactic that congressional Republicans are now seriously considering as they struggle to figure out how to deliver on all of President Donald Trumpโs policy demands. Adopting the โcurrent policy [โฆ]
A crew member is missing and the cargo ship that crashed into a tanker is still on fire. Police are questioning a man in his 50s.
Fires were still raging on Tuesday after a cargo ship laden with toxic chemicals slammed into a tanker carrying flammable jet fuel in the North Sea, triggering fears of an environmental disaster.
White House events for St. Patrick’s Day are normally a diplomatic dream for Dublin. This year is completely different โ and dangerous for Irelandโs America-fueled economy.
Ongoing fallout from Spainโs deadly floods could tarnish a gathering of center-right luminaries, but moving it would drown the party in fees.ย
The former central banker used his leadership victory speech to warn Canadians that Donald Trump wants to โdestroy our way of life.โ
Kyriakos Mitsotakis survives vote of confidence but sense of a cover-up grows two years after 57 died in head-on collisionUntil recently, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the Greek prime minister, appeared unassailable. He was the poster boy of the European centre…
Mark Carney, Canadaโs likely next prime minister, continues to be held in high regard across the Atlantic, where he spent the better part of the last decade.
Protesters launched burning projectiles and fireworks in clashes with police outside Greece’s parliament on 7 March in renewed nationwide protests calling for politicians to be held accountable for a 2023 rail disaster that claimed 57 lives. The protes…
Kyriakos Mitsotakis will face down calls to quit over his governmentโs handling of the countryโs worst train crash
Have you ever wondered about COBRA? Not the snake or the yoga pose โ but Cabinet Office Briefing Room A, the place at the heart of Whitehall where a highly sensitive, critical government committee meets when a crisis hits the U.K. This week, host Patrick Baker takes you inside these mysterious meetings to find out [โฆ]
Charges of hypocrisy do not land if the supposed hypocrite is not committed to any kind of consistency in the first placeHistorians and psychologists will study when exactly the meeting between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy started to descend in…
Kyriakos Mitsotakis says protests over train disaster emphasise the need for โsafe and modernโ transport system The Greek prime minister has vowed to upgrade the countryโs railways as his embattled government braces for a vote of no confidence after hu…
The US president has no interest in countering aggressors. His short-termist game plan will cost America dearThe White House meeting between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy will be remembered as far more than just a diplomatic disaster. It marked …
Ukraineโs supporters defend Kyiv against the U.S. presidentโs in-person attack, while detractors say he got what he deserved.
Fifty-seven people died in the disaster and protests are being held across Greece and beyond.
Fifty-seven people died in the disaster and protests are being held across Greece and beyond.
On the two-year anniversary of a train crash that killed 57 people, national protests reflect despair over its handling.
Hundreds of thousands demonstrate amid outpouring of anger over stateโs handling of Tempe tragedyTwo years to the day since 57 people died and dozens were injured in Greeceโs worst train crash in history, hundreds of thousands of protesters filled plaz…
Trump lauded Britainโs leader but gave little ground, a day ahead of his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Medics fear his tough stance on immigration could push vital international health workers to leave the country.
President Donald Trump has attacked nearly every aspect of the U.S. effort to confront rising temperatures.
Neglecting animals in emergency plans heightens mental health distress, disrupts evacuations, and amplifies trauma for those affected. The EU has the tools to address this but doesnโt.
We now have the technology to ensure people can stay connected no matter where they are โ but we need the EUโs backing for it to become ubiquitous
Ideological purity and cultural disconnect cost the party the last election.
Zelenskyy says attack caused โsignificantโ damage to site of 1986 disaster but radiation levels remain stable
If U.S. president can convince Moscow to negotiate an end to hostilities with Kyiv, Ukraine leader is ready to talk business on occupied territories.
Mowi to give fishers ยฃ36 per fish after loss from farm in what campaigners say is a โdisaster for wild salmonโThe global seafood company Mowi is offering a bounty to fishers who catch escaped salmon after an estimated 27,000 fish went missing from a fa…
This intense tale of lives connected to the Scandinavian Star ferry disaster in 1990 is hardly conventional, but undoubtedly excitingInto the narrow field of Scandinavian multi-decker novels โ populated by Jon Fosse and Karl Ove Knausgรฅrd โ strides a n…
More than 100,000 people hit the streets Friday across Slovakia and elsewhere in Europe to defend the country’s Western orientation.
The emergency support package is expected to be unveiled on 19 February, coinciding with the presentation of the ‘Vision for agriculture and food’.
