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DUBLIN — European energy officials highlighted handouts and tax cuts as the only viable ways to shield consumers from surging energy costs this winter — while hoping that U.S.

LIVERPOOL, England — Just a few days ago Andy Burnham tried to kill off chatter in his party about a general election, insisting he would serve out the existing mandate until 2029.

ATHENS — Greek opposition parties are pressing the government to clarify whether Donald Trump’s ambassador threatened a minister to cajole him into line with U.S. energy policies.

BERLIN — German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Tuesday Moscow had proven it was not ready for “serious talks” after Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov criticized a surprise meeting with his German counterpart.

LIVERPOOL, England — The U.K. faces threats against its energy infrastructure “all the time,” a government minister told the Labour Party annual conference.

LIVERPOOL, England — Andy Burnham pledged to undertake the most ambitious review of Brexit since Britain left the EU.

DUBLIN — Des hauts responsables de l’UE se sont montrés prudemment optimistes, mardi, quant à la possibilité que le président américain Donald Trump revienne sur sa menace d’interdire les exportations de diesel pendant quatre-vingt-dix jours, afin de lutt…

BRUSSELS — EU national governments want to weaken a European Commission proposal linking funding for the fishing industry to broader environmental objectives under the bloc’s next long-term budget.

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PARIS — “Certains considéreront peut-être que c’est une mesure symbolique, les autres, de l’autre côté, hurleront sans doute à la mesure droitière.”

PARIS — Jordan Bardella was meant to be the young, telegenic face of the far-right National Rally’s effort to clean up a reputation once stained by antisemitism and xenophobia.

The European Commission will continue to seek an international agreement on AI security, despite U.S. resistance, EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen said Tuesday.

LIVERPOOL, England — The U.K. should not follow the U.S. into a “binary” debate on climate policy, a government minister warned Tuesday.

LIVERPOOL — Scottish Labour’s new leader, Michael Marra, said he does not believe there is a “realistic prospect” of the U.K. rejoining the European Union because of “huge political instability” across the continent.

LIVERPOOL, England — Greater Manchester’s new progressive mayor Bev Craig is already getting on famously with Zohran Mamdani.

LIVERPOOL, England — Chancellor John Healey doesn’t have the cash to scrap employer national insurance contributions for young people, the U.K. government’s youth employment adviser Alan Milburn said Tuesday.

PARIS — French presidential candidate Edouard Philippe pitched gradually raising the country’s legal age of retirement from 64 to 65 for most workers in his much-anticipated pensions reform plan unveiled on Tuesday.

LIVERPOOL, England — The U.K.’s ability to take a global lead on AI safety is “not diminished in the slightest” by the Trump administration’s positioning on the technology, AI Minister Kanishka Narayan told the POLITICO Pub at the Labour Party Conference…

DUBLIN – Regierungsvertreter der EU und ihrer Mitgliedstaaten äußerten sich am Dienstag vorsichtig optimistisch, dass US-Präsident Donald Trump seine Drohung, Dieselexporte für 90 Tage auszusetzen, zurücknehmen werde.

PARIS — France accrued nearly €3.6 trillion in debt amounting to 119% of gross domestic product as of the end of June, national statistics agency Insee said Tuesday.

DUBLIN — Senior EU officials expressed cautious optimism Tuesday that U.S.

BRUSSELS — A coalition of wealthy EU nations is demanding that the next long-term budget be dramatically scaled back as diplomats and officials try to reach a deal by year-end.

BRUSSELS — The European Commission is considering major changes to its civil service exam board amid a budget squeeze and growing criticism — including possibly scrapping it, two EU officials told POLITICO Brussels Playbook.

PARIS — Pope Leo XIV urged France to embrace dialogue and diversity Friday, in a veiled swipe at populists as he arrived in Paris for a four-day visit.

KYIV — Ukraine needs to secure $27 billion to plug a hole in its defense budget in the next two months or risk being unable to buy weapons early next year, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told reporters in a WhatsApp chat Friday.

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The European Commission has failed to keep pace with AI developments, Axel Voss, a key German conservative lawmaker on tech policy, said in an interview.

BERLIN — Pope Leo XIV’s cardinal who heads the Vatican’s Commission on Artificial Intelligence has admitted he doesn’t use AI — despite being four months into a job intended to engage the Church with the AI revolution.

BRÜSSEL – Deutschland und Spanien heizen den Streit darüber an, wie die Made-in-Europe-Regeln im Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA) ausgelegt werden sollen.

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Voters in Switzerland will decide in a referendum Sunday whether to enshrine a stricter definition of the country’s centuries-old neutrality into the constitution.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who faces a critical election next month, emphasized his close ties with President Donald Trump during his speech to the United Nations on Thursday while trashing a long list of real and perceived enemies.

UNITED NATIONS — European nations that shunned the Board of Peace when it was announced a year ago are starting to work with it on humanitarian projects in the Gaza Strip.

BRUSSELS — The EU should focus less on winning the race to build artificial intelligence and more on how to deploy it to turn around the bloc’s sluggish productivity, the European Commission’s chief AI adviser told commissioners.

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PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday he told U.S.

Tech billionaire and artificial intelligence investor Peter Thiel criticized Pope Leo XIV on Thursday, accusing the pontiff of serving as a “useful idiot for the [Chinese Communist Party]” by calling on world leaders to regulate AI.

NEW YORK — The president of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, says Germany should seek a deal with the Trump administration to resolve their trade dispute over drug pricing.

PARIS — Trois candidats à l’élection présidentielle se sont succédé sur le plateau du premier sommet Playbook Paris Live de POLITICO, non sans s’interpeller et se donner quelques coups de griffe.

PARIS — Top contenders for the 2027 presidential election in France laid out their vision for Europe, Ukraine and relationships with fellow capitals at POLITICO’s first Playbook Paris Live summit on Thursday.

The White House has asked OpenAI and Anthropic not to share their new artificial intelligence models with the U.K. government’s testing agency until the models have gone through testing with the U.S. government, according to a person familiar with the mat…

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WINCHESTER, England — TotalEnergies refused fuel to helicopters evacuating civilians as Islamist militants overran the Mozambican town of Palma in 2021 and later denied British special forces use of its nearby construction site for a rescue mission, a Bri…

PARIS — Far-left presidential hopeful Jean-Luc Mélenchon wants to pull France from NATO — but that doesn’t mean Paris would stop protecting Europe’s external borders.

PARIS — French far-right leader and presidential frontrunner Marine Le Pen is on board with U.S.

PARIS — Bloquer les prix de l’énergie ne pose pas de risque de pénurie de carburants en France, a affirmé Jean-Luc Mélenchon lors d’un entretien à POLITICO.