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PARIS — Face à l’envolée des prix des carburants et la perspective que le “seuil symbolique” des 2,50 euros le litre soit dépassé, il faut envisager une suspension des certificats d’économies d’énergie (CEE), a de nouveau appelé Thierry Cotillard, le prés…

PARIS — Après plusieurs mois où la France fut frappée de plein fouet par les conséquences du dérèglement climatique, Marine Le Pen est revenue sur ses propos relativisant la crédibilité des scénarios du Giec, la référence scientifique mondiale sur le clim…

PARIS — Far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen still wants to take France out of NATO’s integrated command — but won’t do so while Russia’s war in Ukraine still rages on.

A U.S. plan to ban diesel exports would have “incalculable” consequences for French people, warned Marine Le Pen, the far-right candidate in the French presidential elections, at the POLITICO Playbook Paris Live event Thursday.

BRUSSELS — Germany and Spain have pitched competing views on the scope of a “Made in Europe” push to favor European companies in public procurement, setting the stage for more hard bargaining over a flagship EU industry bill.

PARIS — La France n’a plus les moyens de continuer à apporter une aide financière à l’Ukraine, a déclaré Marine Le Pen, candidate à l’élection présidentielle du Rassemblement national, lors du Playbook Paris Live de POLITICO, ce jeudi.

PARIS — Pour la candidate du Rassemblement national, “une crise obligataire peut se déclencher du jour au lendemain”, au vu de l’état des finances publiques françaises.

PARIS — Une interdiction des exportations américaines de diesel aurait des conséquences “absolument incalculables” pour les consommateurs français, a déclaré Marine Le Pen lors d’un entretien à POLITICO.

PARIS — Lors d’un grand entretien au sommet Playbook Paris de POLITICO, Gabriel Attal a décliné jeudi les grandes orientations de son plan budgétaire à court et moyen terme.

ATHENS — The latest round of talks on the return of the Parthenon Marbles to Athens have stalled, as Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has rejected the British Museum’s proposed arrangement.

PARIS — French presidential candidates Gabriel Attal, Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon will all take the stage Thursday for interviews at POLITICO’s first-ever Playbook Paris event.

The fire at a Starlink ground station near Warsaw on Wednesday night was an act of sabotage and part of hybrid warfare against Poland, Digital Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski said Thursday morning.

BRUSSELS — EU officials warned Thursday that a U.S. plan to ban diesel exports for 90 days could have a significant impact on European markets and said the bloc was in talks with the Trump administration to wave it off the ban.

BRUSSELS — European authorities have downplayed threats that the United States could temporarily ban all exports of U.S. diesel, despite warnings that such a ban would have “very serious” consequences for the continent’s energy supply.

FRANKFURT ― Germany’s leading economic institutes have significantly raised their growth forecasts for Europe’s largest economy, providing an unexpected bit of good news for embattled Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

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Global governments are struggling to find a path forward on AI without buy-in from the United States.

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Europe faces major challenges to its competitiveness, including low productivity growth, labour shortages, demographic decline and technological gaps.

BRUSSELS — Amid fears that AI models could destroy humanity, top European tech leaders and cybersecurity experts have an increasingly loud response: Ignore the hype, and get on with the hard work of keeping the digital world safe.

PARIS — French presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon says he wants to set France’s debt “on fire.”

PIDDINGTON, England — Few would suspect this sedate village north of Oxford, population 350, is on the front line of Britain’s immigration battles.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday evening that the U.S. and China have agreed to extend their trade truce, shortly after Chinese leader Xi Jinping arrived in Washington for two days of meetings.

OpenAI’s artificial intelligence models breached several Australian government websites earlier this year, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese disclosed Wednesday.

Top officials from the U.S. and China on Wednesday promoted starkly conflicting visions for international AI safety, with the Americans arguing against expanded regulation while Beijing signaled an openness to restrictions on the technology.

LONDON — Britain should seek to rejoin a reformed European Union within the next decade, ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair said in a report published Thursday.

A Russian Mi-8 helicopter briefly violated Polish airspace near the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad on Wednesday, prompting Warsaw to scramble its fighter jets.

The Trump administration is preparing a plan to ban exports of diesel for 90 days, despite splits inside the administration and with the oil industry, in a bid to bring down energy prices weighing on Republicans leading into the midterms, five people fami…

LONDON — The U.K. risks blowing up its Brexit reset if it ties it to guarantees on Made in Europe.

Dans les bureaux sécurisés du 35, rue de la Fédération, à Paris, où les étagères croulent sous les piles de factures et de documents de campagne, l’atmosphère a changé.

European Commission Executive Vice President Teresa Ribera on Wednesday signaled support for a woman becoming the next U.N. secretary-general for the first time in the organization’s history.

LONDON — Britain’s new Prime Minister Andy Burnham is planning to attend a high-stakes Commonwealth summit presided over by King Charles III, three people with knowledge of the conversations told POLITICO.

German police official Jürgen Ebner has been selected to become the next executive director of Europol, putting the longtime agency insider on track to lead Europe’s increasingly powerful law enforcement body.

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KYIV — Russia’s armed forces bombarded Kyiv from early Wednesday morning with different types of drones, killing at least two people and injuring 24 more, according to Ukrainian authorities.

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BRUSSELS — Canada’s man in Brussels wants to rework how the European Union’s landmark anti-deforestation law applies to Canadian businesses as the two sides explore ways to deepen their relationship.

The European Commission on Wednesday proposed unblocking €4.2 billion in cohesion funding for Hungary, frozen in 2022 over rule-of-law violations under former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government.

Elina Valtonen is Finland’s foreign minister.

BERLIN — Germany is keen for one of the main missiles used by the U.S.

LONDON — The long-delayed deal over the future of the Chagos Islands is being reviewed by the British government after Donald Trump criticized it as “terrible.”

French citizen Martin Ryan is being released from Azerbaijani prison, one day after Paris successfully lobbied Brussels to lift sanctions on Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov.

LONDON — The U.K.’s online safety regulator Ofcom on Wednesday launched an investigation into PornHub’s parent company Aylo over its reliance on Apple’s device-based age checks to keep kids off its platform.

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President Donald Trump is asking federal courts to let him pick and choose which media outlets get White House access and launching a legal drive to overturn a decades-old precedent that provides broad protections for journalists who work in the West Wing.

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President Donald Trump was again the center of attention at the United Nations on Tuesday, as world leaders scrambled to stay in his good graces.