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Opposition, ruling party both claim victory in Macedonia election
Macedonia’s ruling VMRO party and the opposition Social Democrats were in a virtual dead heat after national elections Sunday, according to preliminary results, with both claiming victory. With 99.7...
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France extends state of emergency to cover elections
The French parliament on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to extend for the fifth time a national state of emergency until July 15, AFP reported. The security measures, which give police extra powers of...
View ArticleTop lawyer: EU citizens should keep proof they live in UK
EU citizens who have lived in the U.K. since before the country voted to leave the bloc need to keep an evidence file, the chair of a House of Lords committee told the Guardian in an interview...
View ArticleBrexit added to Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary, the self-professed definitive record of the English language, added the word “Brexit” to its annals in its December quarterly update, released Thursday. Defined as...
View ArticleHouse of Lords: Britain will be less safe after Brexit
Without access to tools and agencies such as the European arrest warrant, Europol and Eurojust or equivalent replacements, Britain’s ability to fight crime and keep citizens safe will be compromised...
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Erdoğan: Turkey has a Plan B if EU reneges on visa-free travel
Turkey has plenty of options if the EU continues to stonewall its attempts to gain visa-free travel to the bloc, President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄan said Thursday, AFP reported. The EU promised in March...
View ArticleItaly’s 5Stars cancel bank flash mob over top aide’s arrest
Italian police have arrested a key adviser to Rome’s 5Star Movement mayor in a corruption investigation, prompting the populist party to cancel a flash mob in support of the embattled Monte dei...
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Ireland says EU exceeded powers in Apple case
Dublin has accused the European Commission of overstepping its powers, infringing on national sovereignty and misunderstanding the law by ordering Ireland to claw back taxes from Apple of up to...
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Commission publishes Apple tax decision
The European Commission Monday released the non-confidential details behind its ruling in August that Ireland gave illegal tax benefits to Apple worth up to â¬13 billion. Dublin, in advance of the...
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Deutsche Bank agrees on $7.2bn settlement with US regulator
German’s Deutsche Bank has agreed to pay $7.2 billion to settle the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) investigation into alleged mis-selling of toxic mortgage-backed securities in the lead-up to the...
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POLITICO’s most read stories of 2016
In the space of a year, Donald Trump went from late-night TV punchline to U.S. president-elect; Brexit from Nigel Farage’s pipe-dream to reality; and France, Belgium and Germany were shaken by...
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Trump aide told countries to use Brexit to steal trade
The man Donald Trump has appointed as his incoming commerce secretary believes Britain’s âperiod of confusionâ provides the perfect opportunity for countries to poach business from the U.K., the...
View ArticleJuncker calls for action on fake news
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has called on social media firms to do more to combat fake news spread via their platforms in an interview with Germany’s Funke Mediengruppe,...
View ArticleEx-BoE governor: Staying in single market ‘doesn’t make sense’
Britain should view its impending exit from the European Union “in a much more self-confident way than either side is approaching it at present,” Mervyn King, the former governor of the Bank of...
View ArticleMonte dei Paschi says ECB wants it to raise €8.8bn
The European Central Bank has ordered Italy’s Monte dei Paschi di Sienna to raise â¬8.8 billion, up from the â¬5 billion previously indicated, the lender said in a statement Monday. Monte dei...
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UK anti-extremism program records 7,500 tip-offs in one year
Organizations such as schools have reported more than 20 cases per day related to people they suspected were vulnerable to radicalization, according to new figures cited by local media Tuesday....
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Russia recovers crashed plane’s black box
Divers have found the flight data recorder of the Russian military plane that crashed into the Black Sea on its way to Syria, local media reported Tuesday. The defense ministry confirmed the...
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Turkish court gags media on ambassador slaying
An Ankara court has banned all media from publishing news related to last week’s assassination of Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov, according to the state-run Anadolu news agency. The banÂ...
View ArticleMoscow: US defense policy ‘direct threat’ to Russia
Russia considers the U.S. decision to supply arms to anti-government rebels in Syria a “hostile” act, the country’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement released...
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Lib Dems, top economist slam £24 billion Brexit saving claim
Claims by a pro-Brexit group that leaving the EU single market and the customs union would boost Britain’s economy by as much as £24 billion a year have been dismissed as fantasy by the Liberal...
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