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Criminals are increasingly targeting highly valued health data, risking harm to patients.

In Kent, the so-called Garden of England, Nigel Farage's Reform UK is mounting a populist bid to slash state “waste.” Two months in, the bureaucracy is getting very real.

Trillions of euros, almost as many priorities — and just over two years to agree. The European Commission has unveiled its sweeping new seven-year budget proposal, and the fight over where the money goes is already heating up. Host Sarah Wheaton is joined by POLITICO’s Gregorio Sorgi and Bartosz Brzeziński to break down the big […]

Mid-July marks the start of Brussels' seasonal shutdown, but fear not: Democracy will resume. Eventually.

Threats by U.S. President Donald Trump to annex Greenland and a looming EU-U.S. trade war hang over Iceland's EU membership debate.

Ukraine, research, defense and digital technologies are up. Farmers, tobacco and nature are down.

Hołownia's party is key to Tusk's majority but he is having to hit back at suggestions he is flirting with the right-wing opposition.

By staking out such a maximalist position on the budget, the French PM may be giving himself room to negotiate a fall deal.

The bloc must finally decide whether to finally adopt robust anti-corruption laws or continue with business as usual.

“There is no indication that Putin wants peace,” Baiba Braže cautioned on the sidelines of the Aspen Security Forum.

EU "must basically make do with the money it has available,” German chancellor says.

Local and regional leaders say the European Commission's new budget proposal could sever a vital financial lifeline to their communities.

German chancellor suggests capability could be operational in Ukraine within weeks.

Georgian PM Irakli Kobakhidze yawns at EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas.

You’ll get great value for money at this Chinese noodle spot.

Two French conservative heavyweights may face off to represent a plush Paris district in parliament.

Olha Stefanishyna was Kyiv's former point person on EU accession.

Pact — signed in London Thursday — names Russian aggression as the “most significant and direct threat” to the two countries' security.

Warning comes as European Commission pushes for more bank mergers to boost European financial sector's fire power.

As the EU runs out of goods to target, it’s looking at broadening its response to Washington’s tariff punishment.

The new role for the former deputy prime minister and close ally of Andriy Yermak marks the beginning of a major government reshuffle.

The prime minister has suspended four Labour MPs for “persistent breaches of discipline” as the fallout from the welfare reforms continues. Sky News’ Sam Coates and Politico’s Anne McElvoy discuss who they are, why now and what was the point, as the government attempts to restore order on the backbenches. Sir Keir Starmer also welcomes […]

The Bank of England faces a dilemma at its meeting next month: inflation is accelerating again but the labor market is showing increasingly clear signs that the economy needs support. New data from the Office for National Statistics Thursday showed the unemployment rate rose to 4.7 percent of the workforce in May, while the number […]

Die Richterwahl-Krise ist zur CDU-internen Machtfrage geworden: Jens Spahn taumelt nach dem Desaster – und plötzlich rückt Carsten Linnemann ins Zentrum der Spekulationen. Ist der Generalsekretär bereit für mehr? Oder bleibt die Union beim angeschlagenen Fraktionschef? Gordon Repinski analysiert das.  Im 200-Sekunden-Interview erklärt Katharina Beck (Grüne), warum Lars Klingbeils Reise zum G20-Finanzgipfel in Durban trotz […]

"Fundamentally flawed" and "insane" were some of the words used to describe the Commission's possible plan.