European farmers are set to return to the streets of Brussels, nearly a year after their major demonstrations. Their main concern: the future of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and the risk of a fragmented, “27-speed” agriculture system across the…
The makeup of Columbiaโs campus leaves it more exposed in an expensive dispute with the White House.
Two pro-Palestinian protesters try to rush on stage as Yuval Raphael sings New Day Will Rise in BaselEurovision song contest 2025 โ live!A Eurovision song contest crew member was hit with paint after two people tried to rush on stage to disrupt Israeli…
Voting in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest came down to the wire on Sunday with Austria edging ahead of Israel to clinch the highest number of votes in the country’s first victory since bearded drag performer Conchita Wurst’s 2014 win. Austria’s JJ…
Romaniaโs 2024 presidential election was controversially canceled for suspected foreign interference. Horaศiu Potra, an ally of banned candidate Cฤlin Georgescu, is accused of plotting an insurrection.
Joakim Medin was in Turkey toย cover protests over the detention of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem ฤฐmamoฤlu.
Thirteen candidates making their last pitches before โSuper Sundayโ with votes also due in Portugal and Romania. This live blog is closedPolandโs presidential elections on Sunday are a โhistoric, groundbreakingโ chance for Donald Tuskโs centrist party …
Israel’s Yuval Raphael makes it to the final, alongside acts from Austria and Malta.
Israel’s Yuval Raphael makes it to the final, alongside acts from Austria and Malta.
The Eurovision Grand Final will hit screens Saturday. The long-adored Song Contest is known for its fun and often ridiculous performances but is often marked by protests, boycotts and controversy. This year’s event in the Swiss city of Basel has been …
The second semi-finals of the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) delivered few surprises Thursday as the bookmakersโ favourites โ including Israelโs Yuval Raphael and Franceโs Louane โ sailed through to the finals of the worldโs biggest live music event. R…
European Commissioner for the economy Valdis Dombrovskis said the plans to simplify environmental requirements for farmers, following massive protests in 2024, will allow them to focus on ‘farming, not forms.’
Zelenskyy schedules Turkey trip, challenging Putin to attend, with US president saying he might go too; UN body blames Russia for MH17. What we know on day 1,175Donald Trump suggested he might fly on from the Middle East to Turkey to join prospective U…
Itโs ingrained in his background in real estate and branding.
The first American to preside over the church spent much of his career as a missionary abroad.
The account posted criticism of the administration on social media.
Proposals to slash red tape risk clashing with earlier recommendations to make farming more resilient.
Musk’s platform is challenging the government order to block Istanbul Mayor Ekrem ฤฐmamoฤlu’s account.
Almost a quarter of Brits thought the U.S. president is the biggest risk to national security โ second only to Russia.
The student movement in Serbia, which has been protesting for months against Aleksandar Vuฤiฤ’s government, has now made early parliamentary elections one of their demands.
Merz takes charge this week, as German industry buckles and social fractures deepen. He will struggle to bring a wary public with himA few weeks before Germanyโs federal election in late February, Friedrich Merz was forced to backpedal after a daring g…
The nationalist chief vociferously supports Donald Trump and Giorgia Meloni โ and he leads the presidential race ahead of May 18’s critical second round.
Aleksandar Vuฤiฤ has faced down months-long, widespread protests over alleged corruption and democratic backsliding.
Press freedom is at threat in Serbia as President Aleksandar Vucicโs government is increasingly targeting independent journalists and “anti-Serbian” media. The country is swept by mass protests for the last six months with demonstrators accusing Vucic…
In this week’s edition of Brussels, my love?, panelists debate the power of the European People’s Party inside the European Union.
With the dust settling on the EPP congress, we take a look at who’s up and who’s down in the EU’s most powerful grouping.
Serbia’s unions have called on workers to join a student-led rally on Thursday, throwing their weight behind a mass movement that has staged six months of protests over corruption in the wake of a deadly roof collapse at a train station in Novi Sad.
The presidential election day is almost upon us. This is what you need to know.
Two U.K. Labour MPs are drawing up amendments on the issue that will likely be considered by the House of Commons this summer.
Joakim Medin given suspended sentence over photos on his articles, but remains in jail awaiting trial on terror chargeA Turkish court has handed a Swedish journalist an 11-month suspended sentence for insulting the president, Recep Tayyip Erdoฤan, but …
Dulled by energy deals and geopolitical caution, Europe’s response to Azerbaijanโs aggression has been tepid for too long.
Also in this newsletter: How to stop drug traffickers from port hopping in Europe
Six months on from the fatal disaster, Europeโs largest political party is meeting in the eye of the storm.
Several hundred supporters walked peacefully through the center of London, from Parliament to the headquarters of oil and gas giant Shell. The environmental group announced in March it would halt its headline-grabbing protests.
“Everybody understands that it’s been with them for a long time,” U.S. president says in Time interiew.
The rallies in Bratislava and five other cities are part of a wave of protests that was fuelled by Prime Minister Robert Fico’s trip to Moscow in December for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The rallies in Bratislava and five other cities are part of a wave of protests that was fuelled by Prime Minister Robert Fico’s trip to Moscow in December for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Authoritarians’ early popularity can delay resistance โ but thatโs when the real damage gets done.
Reza Pahlavi, the son of the last shah, tells POLITICO the West must create a โstrike fundโ to support civil resistance and paralyze the government.
Joakim Medin “is a journalist who has done journalism,โ his employer argues.
Even the EUโs most protectionist countries are realizing that they need new friends to trade with as their oldest ally goes rogue.
The Trump administration has threatened to withhold up to $9 billion in grants to the university over the treatment of Jewish students that it says violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
Massive, sustained protests led to the 2021 downfall of billionaire oligarch Andrej Babiลก, dubbed โthe Czech TrumpโA former cold war communist dictatorship and component part of the Habsburg empire seems an unlikely source of hope for Donald Trumpโs op…
Kremlinโs most prized spies were sent in to Czechoslovakia to whip up the 1960s reform protests in a move then replicated across the eastern blocDuring the spring of 1968, as revolutionary sentiment began to grow in communist Czechoslovakia, a group of…
Ninety-nine defendants in one case appeared in court on Friday in Istanbul’s รaglayan neighborhood to face charges of participating in unauthorized demonstrations organized to protest the arrest of the city’s mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu.
The ruling party, Georgian Dream, has increased intimidation and legislative measures to undermine the movement and to ban opposition parties.
A trial of almost 200 people, including journalists, arrested during anti-government protests following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu launched on Friday.
Nearly 200 peopleย detainedย in a government crackdown on protests went on trial on Friday in Istanbul. Suspects include several students and journalists who were arrested while demonstrating againstย the March 19 detention and subsequent jailing of Ekre…
A Brussels-backed project to develop the lithium reserves needed to power electric vehicles is fueling political instability on the European Unionโs doorstep.
After protests and threats, the government offers olive branch to farmers.
Europeโs รฉmigrรฉs built Americaโs skylines, suburbs and strip malls. Will the U.S. brain drain do the same for the EU?
Robert Fico’s government gets a narrow win as Bratislava parliament green-lights new crackdown.
Protesters mobilized since the arrest of Istanbul’s mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, are showcasing immense creativity, humor and subversion to express their anger at President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Close to Moscow but aiming to join the EU, Aleksandar Vucic appointed Duro Macut, a doctor with no political experience, as prime minister. Meanwhile, students blockaded the Radio-Television Serbia headquarters, demanding more impartial coverage.
They accuse the national broadcaster of ignoring their movement and their protests. They have pitched tents in front of the RTS and the RTV and have promised to continue their blockade.
Republican Peopleโs Party head รzgรผr รzel outlines strategy after arrest of star campaigner triggered mass protests
Labour MP Tulip Siddiq says Bangladeshi authorities are “trying to harass me” as she hits back at corruption allegation.
Siddiq is a member of a Bangladeshi political dynasty being scrutinized for corruption.
The leader of the Republican People’s Party, the main opposition force in the country, relentlessly denounces the authoritarian drift of Recep Tayyip Erdogan. New anti-government protests are planned for Sunday.
Algeria protested on Saturday after France indicted three officials, including an Algerian consular official, over the April 2024 kidnapping of Amir Boukhors. The latter is an Algerian influencer and opponent of the Algerian regime, with nine internat…
Government lawyers paint a very different picture in court filings from the one Trump and his allies do on TV and social media.
The mayor of Istanbul has been imprisoned on corruption and terrorism charges, prompting mass protests.
The mayor of Istanbul has been imprisoned on corruption and terrorism charges, prompting mass protests.
It was a week when penguins, bonds, the new German coalition, Louisiana soybeans, fossil fuels, the EU’s Digital Markets Act, France’s creaking politics and American bourbon all became one news story. POLITICO explains what got us all yippy.
Steve Bray, who regularly protests by playing music outside parliament, is in court after allegedly flouting a police banOn a traffic island in Westminster, he played a song titled โBrexit Tragedyโ to the tune of The Beatlesโ Yellow Submarine, serenadi…
Over the past five months, Serbia has been inundated with a massive wave of student-led protests. Since November, what began as a grassroots student movement has grown into a nationwide revolution. Little by little, Serbian students have united thousa…
Friedrich Merz’s new administration promises tax cuts, energy price reductions and a blitz of public-private investment funds.
If the bloc hopes to influence the aspiring autocrats in candidate countries, it must establish a strong culture of independent media within its own borders.
Aleksandar Vuฤiฤ’s visit comes amid unprecedented nationwide protests against his government.
The scrutiny will apply to foreign students, people applying for green cards โ or seeking any other kind of immigration benefit.
Four of us have received letters from the state telling us to leave or be removed. This is a terrifying illustration of Germanyโs lurch to the rightIn the first week of January, I received a letter from the Berlin Immigration Office, informing me that …
The eligibility ban on presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen and the market-wrecking tariffs of U.S. President Trump are just the latest challenges roiling Emmanuel Macron’s second term.
Tensions are rising in the Western Balkans, Europe’s ‘other hotspot.’ Britain’s foreign affairs chief David Lammy sees the ‘long hand of Russian interference.’
Wolfgang Porsche, 81, plans to build an underground route to access the villa of writer Stefan Zweig, which he acquired in 2020. The discreetly prepared project has sparked protests from many Salzburg residents.
Topflight football clubs have been aggressively lobbying to get a new regulator watered down โ as ministers insist it will be “light touch.”
The head of Turkey’s main opposition party has demanded that elections be heldย “at the latest in November” following the country’s most widespread unrest in a decade.ย The protests came on the heels of last month’s arrest of President Recep Tayyip Erdo…
Trump spent the day in Florida, playing a round of golf at his Jupiter club before returning to his Mar-a-Lago estate in the afternoon.
A group of Serbian students has embarked on a bike journey towards Strasbourg, France, to start a protest. Their goal is to seek EU support in their quest for justice following the tragic collapse of a train station in Serbia last November, which resu…
A new generation is finding brilliant and creative ways to object to the arrest of mayor Ekrem ฤฐmamoฤlu
Yasin Akrul says his arrest was a warning to stop others taking pictures of the demonstrations in Turkey.
Critics say the bill would discredit NGOs that receive any kind of foreign funding.
Sara Campanella and Ilaria Sula were found within 48 hours of each other, bringing the number of femicides in 2025 to 11There have been calls in Italy for a โcultural rebellionโ amid outrage and protests over the murders of two female students found wi…
The U.K. government’s AI copyright plans can’t seem to please anyone.
The draft law drew sharp criticism from NGOs who label it a โPutin-style legislation,โ ahead of protests already planned in response.
Ministers hope they can find a technical solution that keeps everyone happy.
Dreadful sales numbers are just the latest sign of the EV manufacturerโs โcrisis tornado.โ
State agency warns that new higher out-of-pocket prices will affect patients and pharmacies, increasing the risk of low-income patients being unable to afford long-term medication.
There was a sea of humanity out in the streets last Saturday to protest the jailing of Turkey’s popular presidential contender Ekrem Imamoglu, but now the country’s on a week-long post-Ramadan break. Will it be long enough to dull the momentum of Turk…
Turkish authorities are cracking down on online speech amid massive civil unrest.
Irish, Polish and US activists appeal rulings based on events at university sit-in against Israeli offensive in Gaza
The French far-right leader declared that the National Rally would ‘not let the French people have the presidential election stolen from them’ after a court verdict effectively banned her from running in the 2027 presidential race. Marine Le Pen compar…
FRANCE 24’s Sharon Gaffney speaks to Aslฤฑ Aydฤฑntaลbaล, Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, about the mass protests in Turkey. She says that Turkish authorities understand that there won’t be much of a pushback from the West against the crack…
Several hundred thousand demonstrators gathered again in Istanbul on Saturday. Some figures from the ruling Islamo-conservative party have denounced the regime’s repressive drift, as more than 2,000 people have been arrested since the protests began.
The lessons we can take from how easily institutions have folded to Trumpโs remarkable revenge campaign.
With all the injustice and suffering in the world right now, millions more people should be joining demonstrations, says Mehmet OnurI have been on a few anti-war, free Palestine protests in central London. I stopped going to Starbucks, I stopped drinki…
The journalist’s incarceration comes in the context of huge protests in Istanbul against the arrest of opposition leader Ekrem ฤฐmamoฤlu.
Joakim Medin, who works for the Dagens ETC newspaper, was arrested on Thursday when his plane landed A Swedish journalist who was detained on his arrival in Turkey to cover protests over the jailing of Istanbulโs mayor has been arrested on terror-relat…
Popular student demonstrator Berkay Gezgin, 21, snatched off street by police outside office of detained Istanbul mayorWhen 21-year-old Berkay Gezgin left the interior of Istanbul city hall, a squad of police was waiting for him outside. Protests that …
Brussels this week urged Ankara to ‘uphold democratic values.’
Opposition figure Ekrem Imamoglu’s arrest has sparked the country’s biggest street protests in over a decade.
