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Endorsement in Brussels is major boost to new prime minister after 2025 budget toppled his predecessor.

Strangers’ Bar — at the center of a report of drink-spiking in UK parliament — will close while ‘security and safety arrangements are reviewed.”

The European Union and Mexico link arms to fend off the impact of tariffs threatened by incoming U.S. President Donald Trump.

The call occurred just hours before the Supreme Court upheld a law set to ban TikTok in the U.S.

European Commission president is in Berlin for her first public appearance since she was admitted to hospital.

The prime minister wants talks with the new U.S. president’s team to start in the weeks ahead, he told POLITICO.

Country is expected to leave the European Commission’s over-spending surveillance regime in 2026.

Russian representatives “should not be welcomed on to the parliamentary estate” after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, British MPs and peers are reminded.

The U.K. delayed its implementation of global banking rules by one year due to uncertainty over what U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will do.

Monterey County officials ordered evacuations after Vistra’s battery facility at the Moss Landing Power Plant caught fire Thursday.

The prime minister wants talks with the new U.S. president’s team to start in the weeks ahead, he told POLITICO.

After Elon Musk’s call for him to be ousted, Britain’s prime minister reveals his thinking on the next election date and vows to complete a full second term in No. 10.

“Germany as a whole isn’t currently seen as a driving force for peace policy in Europe, and honestly that pains me,” Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock told POLITICO.

Mateusz Morawiecki insists that efforts to charge him for improperly organizing a presidential election in 2020 are politically motivated.

British PM looks ahead to Donald Trump’s second term, telling POLITICO the U.K. will “play a full part” in any future peacekeeping initiative in Ukraine.