Moldovaโs Russia-backed breakaway region strikes deal to end energy crisis
Separatist leaders said they will take a Russian loan to pay for supplies despite an EU aid offer.
Separatist leaders said they will take a Russian loan to pay for supplies despite an EU aid offer.
A European Commission spokesperson today said that the EU’s offer “is still on the table” but that Transnistrian authorities “have gone for another solution.”
Hungarian PM again makes performative threat about lifting the bloc’s tough measures against Moscow.
Relations between Robert Fico in Bratislava and Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv have become increasingly bitter over the month.
Kremlin whacks the U.S. with claim about vote-meddling.
This time around, Europe isnโt panicking about what America First will mean โ in part because it has prepared.ย
Polish PM makes bombshell accusation against Moscow.
Host Giada Santana interviews Euractiv’s Editor-in-Chief Matthew Karnitschnig to unpack Austriaโs political shift and implications for Europe.
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Salome Zourabichvili says she will continue to do her job, calling the inauguration of a new president “not valid.”
Europe needs to act united to remain โstrong and serious on the world stage,โ Kaja Kallas says.
Polish PM wants to protect its major broadcaster TVN from takeovers fueled by proxy capital.
The Kremlin will use tactics similar to its campaigns to influence the 2024 presidential vote and the referendum to join the EU, Alexandru Musteaศa warns MPs.
Romanian tax authorities are now investigating ultranationalist Cฤlin Georgescu and the TikTok activists who promoted his campaign.
The Hungarian and Russian leaders reportedly spoke about finding a diplomatic route to peace in Ukraine.
The leaders will discuss sending foreign troops to Ukraine after the war ends.
Warnings of a massive Russian hybrid attack distorting Romania’s democracy prompted the Constitutional Court to cancel the presidential election.
Far-right NATO-skeptic Calin Georgescu is on track to win the Romanian presidency, thanks to a Russia-influenced campaign.ย
The files, released by the outgoing liberal president, donโt specify the Kremlin tried to swing the election in Cฤlin Georgescu’s favor but strongly suggest it.
Ukraine is losing hope that the alliance will invite it to join anytime soon.
Being known as a country facing geopolitical threats has its drawbacks โ particularly when it comes to the economy.
โWalking away means more instability in Europe,โ he said on CBS.
The diplomat says the Hungarian prime minister treated the U.S. election like “a card game at a casino.”
Security services warned of efforts to disrupt and distort voting at overseas polling stations.
The top diplomat of Viktor Orbรกn attended a security conference in Belarus along with Russian FM Lavrov.
NATO diplomats based in Budapest wanted to chat with Hungary about its ambiguous policy toward the Atlantic alliance, but were ignored.
NATO allyship be damned, Viktor Orbรกn’s top diplomat will join senior Russian official at eastern rival to Munich Security Conference.
Hungarians and Poles traditionally see each other as brothers, but that relationship is collapsing as the capitals move in very different political directions.
Opposition leaders have decried the voting as rigged.
Opposition figure Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya called on “Belarusians and the international community to reject this farce.”
Hungarian leader urges Germany and France to start negotiations with Moscow instead of helping Ukraine.
The EU election dodged a bullet โ but it may not be so lucky next time, as AI tools continue to evolve.
Also in this newsletter: does Viktor Orbรกn have a point on EU-Russia relations?
But the end of the supply contract through Ukraine at the end of this year could prove costly for Austria, Slovakia and Hungary.
POLITICO has reviewed the declarations of interest of every European Commission nominee.
The drones were targeting Ukrainian civilian infrastructure close to Romania’s border, according to authorities in Bucharest.
But Petr Pavel, a strong supporter of Ukraine, reiterates that neither Moscow nor Kyiv can expect total victory.
A traditional Moscow ally, Armenia has pivoted to the West since the Ukraine war began, and its PM now says it could seek EU membership.
What the portfolios tell us about the EUโs power dynamics.
As the dust settles after weeks of wrangling, here are the key things you need to know.
The south of France has long been a safe space for Russians.
Ganz-Mรกvag Europe threatened broad legal action against Madrid over it vetoing a deal to purchase Spanish train-maker Talgo.
Spain says the bid by the Hungarian company โ formerly a Russian subsidiary โ poses a risk to national security.
Indian PM comes to Kyiv to demonstrate he stands for peace, while signing pharma and agri deals.
“Probably a fantasy” to expect Ukraine to regain control of Crimea and get compensation from Russia, Pavel said.
Nord Stream gas pipelines running from Russia to Germany blew up in September 2022.
The leaders of the U.S. and Germany navigated competing goals and dicey politics as they discussed an exchange for the Russian opposition leader.
The historic prisoner swap freed Vladimir Kara-Murza, Ilya Yashin, Andrei Pivovarov, and several other Putin critics from Russian penal colonies.
As chair of the National Space Council, Harris has been a leading advocate of getting astronauts back to the moon to build a lunar base.
Fallout from policy, which grants Russians and Belarusians fast-track access to European Union, could threaten Hungary’s Schengen membership.
Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened to deploy missiles within striking distance of the West should the U.S. move forward with its missile deployment in Germany.
Ukraine’s air force said three Russian Shahed kamikaze drones crossed the border.
โThis peace mission was nothing but an appeasement mission.โ
Brussels is annoyed with Budapest, but Hungary’s leader seems to know exactly how far he can go without drawing real consequences.
The prime ministerโs self-proclaimed โpeace mission 3.0โ resembles Mussoliniโs generous offers to arbitrate peace negotiations between Hitler โ his partner in the Pact of Steel โ and Britain and France.
The draft summit statement says allies will never recognize Russiaโs annexations of parts of Ukraine and denounces Chinaโs partnership with Moscow.
Ukrainian officials want the U.S. to let them use long-range ATACMS to hit inside Russia.
Two key Russia allies claim to be responding to the “aggressive foreign policy” of Western countries.
“We should seek to maintain and strengthen cooperation with as many countries and market players around the world as possible,” Hungaryโs Ambassador to the EU, Bรกlint รdor, told Euractiv in an interview.
After causing a diplomatic storm with his surprise visit to Moscow, Hungary’s PM has now gone to Beijing to meet President Xi Jinping.
Berlin criticized the “surprising and uncoordinated trip” of the Hungarian leader to Moscow.
While Trump advisers mull pushing Ukraine to give up land for peace, the alliance chief pointed at Russia’s refusal to abide by previous cease-fire pledges.
โI am at your disposal,” Russian president says, as European leaders castigate Hungarian prime minister.
Putin was going to do whatever he wanted regardless of what NATO and the EU did or didnโt do โ he would have just come up with another excuse to make war, another great lie.
This isn’t the first time the mother of key Putin ally Ramzan Kadyrov has been faced international travel ban and financial penalties.
The money will be used for direct purchases of kit like ammunition and aerial defense systems.
The now-deleted documents proposed a closer “alliance” with Russia and exiting NATO.
โI think this would elicit laughs if not outright scorn from many Americans,โ Elbridge Colby wrote.
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“Macron and Scholz are clinging on to power with their last remaining strength,” says head of Russia’s State Duma.
Currently in Brussels, a new set of sanctions against Russia is being considered – the 14th round of sanctions since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began in early 2022. There are no good ideas for new economic measures against the Kremlin, but this do…
One thing is clear: We fear for the future of Europe and our place in it as a minority, no matter how we vote and no matter who wins.
Prepare for postelection negotiations changing the European Parliament just as much as voter choices.
The Freedom Party’s Herbert Kickl is likely to become the country’s next chancellor.
Der Kanzler hingegen versucht weiter im Vagen zu bleiben. Wir analysieren die Worte des Kanzlers und die neuerlichen Diskussionen in Deutschland, der EU und der NATO.ย Im 200 Sekunden-Interview sprechen wir mit Roderich Kiesewetter von der CDU. Der Oberst a.D. war selbst bei der NATO eingesetzt und verlangt vom Kanzler diese rote Linie aufzugeben.ย ย Mit [โฆ]
Lindner gegen Heil โ das Rentenpaket II ist heute im Kabinett: Aber die FDP ist nach wie vor nicht einverstanden und wartet nur darauf, im Parlament Verรคnderungen zu erkรคmpfen.ย Eines der wichtigsten Projekte der Ampel-Regierung hat erst lange auf sich warten lassen. Heute ist das Rentenpaket im Kabinett im Juli im Bundesrat, dann folgt der [โฆ]
EU demands Russia explain its unilateral demarcation of the Narva River on the Estonian-Russian border.
Intelligence officials suspect Wirecard COO Jan Marsalek of colluding with the far-right Freedom Party on Moscowโs behalf.ย
As the two-year war enters a critical phase, Ukraineโs second city Kharkiv is in Putinโs sights.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says the country faces a “hybrid war” in illegal migration.
Russia’s autocrat leader kills his opponents and demands absolute loyalty. But he still has critics โ and they feel heโs stolen their history.
Moscow said it shot down 50 Ukrainian drones overnight.
The Westโs failure to send weapons to Kyiv is putting Putin on course for victory.ย
The incident comes after the EU told the South Caucasus country to withdraw a controversial foreign agent bill.
Ukrainian leader draws a parallel between Tehranโs tactics in Israel and those employed by Russia against Ukraine.
Ukraine’s leader says the chancellor wants the missiles to defend Germany โ which is not the version of events given to the German public.
If EU lawmakers or candidate have taken money from Russia, “They must be exposed,โ says Renew chief.
With official results showing he won nine out of 10 votes, has the Russian autocrat overplayed his hand?
Preliminary results indicate huge victory for Vladimir Putin but thousands protest at polling stations and Russian embassies worldwide.
The “Noon Against Putin” protest action caused a long queue for people to cast their ballots in the capital of the EU.
Russia’s presidential contest won’t deliver a surprise winner, but day one of the vote was surprisingly action-packed.
Despite the risk of persecution, thousands publicly paid their last respects to the opposition leader in cities across Russia.ย
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says it’s ‘considering all options to hold Russia and Putin to account’ over opposition leader’s death.
Some Navalny allies had warned that his relatives had not been informed of his death, giving them reason to hold out a glimmer of hope.ย
I call on Russians to demonstrate their resistance by writing the name โAlexei Navalnyโ on their ballot papers on March 17, in tribute to the regimeโs latest and most prominent victim.
NATO chief Stoltenberg says the Kremlin has “serious questions to answer.”
Dutch Foreign Minister Hanke Bruins Slot described the detentions as โvery concerning.โ
“We are convinced that ลฝdanoka is not an isolated case,” three MEPs wrote in letter about espionage obtained by Brussels Playbook.
Europhile premier Milojko Spajiฤ says his country is “low-hanging fruit” for an EU eager to show enlargement isn’t just an empty slogan.
Swedenโs first new submarines inย decades will have advanced weapons, stealthy propulsion and sonar-evading hulls to counter Russia under the Baltic Sea.