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POLITICO’s Westminster Insider podcast spoke to experts on both sides of the Atlantic to harvest a few tips for Britain’s new man about town. Find the billionaires Rather than spending all of your energy building connections with Trump’s White House staff, Kim Darroch, who served as U.K. ambassador to the U.S. from 2017 to 2019, highlighted the “very wealthy businessman” — what he termed “the billionaires’ club” — whom Trump talks to regularly. “It’s interesting when he is trying to form a view on things,” Darroch reflected. “I suspect he listens far more to his businessman friends who he will…

The shootings took place in the days after the ascension to power of Belgium’s new national government, which included in its coalition agreement a “zero-tolerance” policy for drugs in and near stations, and a merger of Brussels’ six police zones into a single department. “In recent years, it has again become clear that the security policy in Brussels is too fragmented. That’s causing criminal phenomena and nuisances to not be dealt with in the most efficient way possible,” the deal read. While the country finally has a government, Brussels is also struggling with the lack of a regional administration, which…

US President Donald Trump accused the International Criminal Court of “illegitimate and baseless actions targeting America and our close ally Israel.” US President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court over investigations of Israel, a close U.S. ally. Neither the U.S. nor Israel are members of or recognize the court. Israel is a close U.S. ally and the court recently issued an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his actions toward Palestinians in Gaza after the Hamas attack against Israel in October 2023. Trump’s order says the ICC’s actions…

POLITICO Pro est différent. Il s’agit d’un service d’abonnement professionnel utilisé par des entreprises, des organisations et, oui, certaines agences gouvernementales. Elles s’y abonnent parce qu’il leur permet de mieux faire leur travail, en les aidant à suivre la politique, la législation et les réglementations en temps réel grâce à des informations, des renseignements et des outils de veille de données. La transparence et la responsabilité sont au coeur de POLITICO Pro : ce service d’information met en lumière le travail des agences, des régulateurs et des décideurs politiques au sein de nos gouvernements. Les entreprises et les entités au…

The clearest sign of escalation is on Musk’s X platform, formerly Twitter. The report, reviewed by POLITICO, shows a sharp increase in posts from ghost accounts, with activity spiking beyond 3,000 posts in a single day in late January. For much of November and December, activity remained relatively low, rarely exceeding 50 posts a day. But in early January, coordinated disinformation posts began appearing at a much higher frequency. This “overload” technique — flooding social media with rapid waves of posts to manufacture the illusion of viral traction — is characteristic of Russian disinformation campaigns. The issue is particularly sensitive…

Following the Israel-Hamas ceasefire, 22-year-old Palestinian Mohammed made the long journey to Gaza’s north on foot with his family after 15 months of displacement. There, he found his home destroyed, he told Euronews. One week ago, 22-year-old Mohammed returned to his home in northern Gaza for the first time since the start of the 15-month war between Israel and Hamas.He and his family were among the over half a million Palestinians who made the long journey north along the Netzarim corridor, which Israel recently reopened as part of a ceasefire deal with Hamas.Like many others, Mohammed made the journey on…

“Audio erotica apps cannot have the word ‘desire’ in their names [if they want] to be visible on the store,” while developers of apps like those for controlling sex toys “have a hard time having the apps approved on the store, which puts their entire product in jeopardy,” said Ana Ornelas, erotic author, sex educator and advocacy officer for the Digital Intimacy Coalition. According to Alessandro Polidoro, a lawyer and coordinator of the Digital Intimacy Coalition, “other apps that host adult content — like X and Reddit — are still allowed on the official App Store, so Apple’s moral argument…

The economy minister and Green Party chancellor candidate says Germany could follow Austria’s far-right path, as the CDU signals willingness to erode its firewall against the AfD ahead of a pivotal election. Jan 26 3 mins read

Un système bien établi permet aux riches amis de Vladimir Poutine de maintenir leur style de vie et d’éviter les conséquences de la guerre, relatent les professionnels du tourisme de la région. Sep 16 9 mins read

President Trump has hit Canada, China and Mexico with threatened tariffs in the last week. The EU is waiting its turn and mulling its potential response. Anti-coercion, antitrust, and targeted tariffs are among deployments that the EU could unleash in a response to a keenly anticipated tranche of tariffs from the Trump White House, but defence budgets might also come into play, experts Euronews spoke to have suggested.Having hit Mexico, Canada and China, the EU now appears in Donald Trump’s sights with the bloc and its trade surplus described as “an atrocity” by the US president last week.While repeating that…