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Putin personally ordered Salisbury poisoning, UK believes
LONDON — Vladimir Putin personally authorized the Salisbury poisoning of a former Russian spy on U.K. soil, the British government’s top Russia official said Thursday. Jonathan Allen, who is the...
View ArticleParliamentary election will test how far Romania is veering to the hard right
BUCHAREST — Was the shock victory of nationalist Călin Georgescu in the first round of Romania’s presidential election last Sunday an anomaly, or is the EU and NATO country experiencing a deeper tilt...
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How to become Europe’s next TikTok politician
Welcome to Declassified, a weekly humor column. Are you a (relatively) young man — with just a hint of toxic masculinity — trying to launch your political career but you don’t know where to start? All...
View ArticleTop Ukrainian MP to Merkel: Enough already
KYIV — Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel needs to stop trying to justify her decisions in office which emboldened Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin and led to disastrous consequences for Ukraine, a top...
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7 weeks until Trump: Russia and Ukraine fight for advantage before peace...
LONDON — There may be only seven weeks left for meaningful fighting in Russia’s war on Ukraine, and both sides are gritting their teeth for what could be the last big push. Donald Trump has vowed to...
View ArticleZelenskyy says NATO guarantees could end ‘hot phase’ of Ukraine war
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on NATO to offer guaranteed protections to the parts of Ukraine not occupied by Russia in order to “stop the hot phase of the war.” In an interview with...
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Belgium’s Romanians poised to propel the far right into power
BRUSSELS — They may barely know him, but Călin Georgescu is betting hard on their votes. Long disillusioned with Romania’s political class and bitter at being forced to leave home, Belgium’s...
View ArticleElection annulment risks pouring fuel on Romania’s political blaze
BUCHAREST — If you think that annulling the first round of Romania’s disputed election — won by a far-right, NATO-skeptic firebrand — and holding it again in mid-December will soothe the country’s...
View ArticleZelenskyy’s diplomatic play for Trump
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Keith Kellogg, a former national security adviser and decorated retired U.S. general, to be his special envoy to Ukraine and Russia has reassured a...
View ArticlePutin approves new budget with record defense spending
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed off the country’s new budget on Sunday, which includes record spending on military needs amid Moscow’s ongoing assault against Ukraine. Around 32.5 percent of...
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Germany’s next chancellor likely to be its weakest
BERLIN ― Friedrich Merz, Germany’s likely next chancellor, is campaigning on his own version of MAGA, vowing to restore his country’s lost sense of greatness in profoundly insecure times. But given...
View ArticleGermany’s Scholz announces arms worth €650M for Kyiv during surprise visit
BERLIN — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrived in Ukraine Monday for a surprise visit during which he is set to announce arms deliveries worth hundreds of millions, due to arrive in Kyiv before...
View ArticleBaltic countries sanction Georgian officials after violence against protestors
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania imposed sanctions on Georgia’s ruling officials following the violent crackdown on anti-government protesters in Tbilisi. Oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili is included on the...
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Ukraine peace plans galore: Lots of ideas to end the fighting but the sides...
KYIV — Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has lasted more than 1,000 days and killed and wounded over a million people — and neither side is close to reaching its war goals. With Donald Trump...
View ArticlePro-Moscow nationalist heads to Romania presidential runoff after court...
BUCHAREST — Romania’s Constitutional Court decided on Monday to certify the country’s first round of presidential elections, allowing the Dec. 8 runoff to proceed as scheduled. Romania has been...
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Romania’s Trump sets his sights on foreign companies
IZVORANI, Romania — In his bid to Make Romania Great Again, ultranationalist presidential hopeful Călin Georgescu is planning a national self-sufficiency drive that targets big foreign companies with...
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Europe’s Russian energy sanctions have run out of steam. Can Poland fire them...
BRUSSELS — Nearly three years since Russian missiles began raining down across Ukraine, Europe is still buying vast quantities of Moscow’s oil and gas, helping fill the Kremlin’s war chest. Now,...
View ArticleTucker Carlson returns to Russia for interview with Foreign Minister Lavrov
Tucker Carlson is in Moscow again. The conservative American pundit and former Fox News anchor announced in a post on X late Tuesday that he’d returned to Russia to interview its Foreign Minister...
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Germany’s cybersecurity and infrastructure under attack by Russia, chancellor...
BERLIN — Cybersecurity and infrastructure in Germany are under “severe threat” by foreign adversaries such as Russia and China, said Chancellor Olaf Scholz in the Bundestag on Wednesday. “As we all...
View ArticleChina won’t step in to end the war in Ukraine, warns Lithuanian FM
BRUSSELS — European countries hoping China will rein in Russia and bolster security on the continent are courting disaster, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis told POLITICO. “Can you...
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