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Energy chokehold and hacking fears
The best of POLITICO’s coverage selected by lead European editor Kate Day. Discover the most impactful stories in Europe and beyond. By KATE DAY Editor’s note: This is the last edition of this newsletter. It has been a privilege to be in your inboxes on Saturday mornings. Given we share so much of our European coverage via our Brussels, London, Paris and Berlin Playbooks, we have decided to end these roundups. If you are not already subscribed, please sign up here.
Economy on the brink
The best of POLITICO’s coverage selected by Senior Executive Editor Kate Day. Discover the most impactful stories in Europe and beyond. By KATE DAY EDITOR’S CHOICE Iran war threatens a global recession, Finland’s Stubb warns Exclusive: Finland’s President Alexander Stubb, one-time golf buddy of Donald Trump, is not hiding his unusually bleak assessment of the U.S. president’s second term. Read the story.
Meloni rolls the referendum dice
The best of POLITICO’s coverage selected by lead European editor Kate Day. Discover the most impactful stories in Europe and beyond. By KATE DAY EDITOR’S CHOICE EU leaders find themselves incapable of action despite wars so close to home European leaders met for a 12-hour summit in Brussels this week. Rarely has their inability to do anything much about international affairs been so obvious. Read the story.
Zelenskyy’s had enough
Presented by Neste By KATE DAY PRESENTED BY EDITOR’S CHOICE Zelenskyy to Trump: Put more pressure on Putin, ‘not on me‘ Exclusive: Our Gordon Repinski traveled to Kyiv to interview the Ukrainian president, who told him Europe must find a way around Hungary’s veto of a promised EU loan of €90 billion. Read the story.
Von der Leyen under pressure
Presented by Neste By KATE DAY PRESENTED BY EDITOR’S CHOICE Von der Leyen doubles down in face of energy crisis criticism With energy prices surging following U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, the European Commission president is trying to bolster support for her energy strategy, which includes replacing imported oil and gas with homegrown green energy. Read the story.
Can anyone save Starmer?
Presented by Neste By KATE DAY PRESENTED BY EDITOR’S CHOICE Starmer’s premiership is dying. Nobody knows how to save it. After one of the worst results in the U.K. Labour Party’s history in a by-election Thursday, it’s all unravelling for Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Read the story. The crisis corps running the EU Exclusive: Come inside the bunker where EU ambassadors, increasingly powerful in deciding the bloc’s response to crisis after crisis, meet to try to reach agreement.
Zelenskyy onstage at the POLITICO Pub
The best of POLITICO’s coverage selected by Senior Executive Editor Kate Day. Discover the most impactful stories in Europe and beyond. By KATE DAY NEW FROM POLITICO: We launched the Brussels Playbook Podcast this week! Hosted by the Chief EU Correspondent Zoya Sheftalovich, this is a short, crisp audio briefing on what is moving Brussels as you start your morning. Catch up on all this week’s episodes here.
Keir on the edge
The best of POLITICO’s coverage selected by Senior Executive Editor Kate Day. Discover the most impactful stories in Europe and beyond. By KATE DAY EDITOR’S CHOICE ‘It can be survivable:’ Inside Keir Starmer’s efforts to stop a coup The latest revelations about Peter Mandelson and his ties to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have prompted some pretty tough questions about Keir Starmer’s judgment.
Winter of malcontents
The best of POLITICO’s coverage selected by Senior Executive Editor Kate Day. By KATE DAY View in your browser EDITOR’S CHOICE European leader spoke of shock at Trump’s state of mind after Mar-a-Lago meeting The Slovak PM, a Trump ally, told leaders at last week’s EU summit he was concerned about the way the U.S. president spoke to him, European diplomats said. Read the story.
Dump Trump?
The best of POLITICO’s coverage selected by Senior Executive Editor Kate Day. Discover the most impactful stories in Europe and beyond. By KATE DAY EDITOR’S CHOICE Time to dump Trump? Europeans whisper last-resort options to save Greenland As Donald Trump threatens to use the U.S. military to seize Greenland, European officials and diplomats have started quietly airing a previously unsayable thought: What would it look like to fight back? Read the story.
Cold winds after Venezuela
The best of POLITICO’s coverage selected by Senior Executive Editor Kate Day. By KATE DAY View in your browser EDITOR’S CHOICE ‘I don’t need international law’: Trump’s Wild West doctrine freezes European brains Analysis: Donald Trump’s operation to remove Nicolás Maduro from the Venezuelan presidency has changed the diplomatic chatter in Europe. Voices urging the continent to wake up to how much it still needs America are getting louder. Read the story.
Thank you for reading
The best of POLITICO’s coverage selected by Senior Executive Editor, Europe Kate Day. Discover the most impactful stories in Europe and beyond. By KATE DAY Dear readers, You don’t need me to tell you this year’s been eventful. Goodness knows this week has — and we could have said that for most of the year. This week’s European Council summit was a fitting end.
Can Europe stay competitive?
The best of POLITICO’s coverage selected by lead European editor Kate Day. Discover the most impactful stories in Europe and beyond. By KATE DAY Dear readers, POLITICO’s Dasha Burns sat down with U.S. President Donald Trump (as we may have mentioned once or twice on our pages!) You can watch the full episode of Dasha’s show, The Conversation, here.
Freeloading vs. blackmail
The best of POLITICO’s coverage selected by Senior Executive Editor Kate Day. By KATE DAY View in your browser Dear readers, In a year of broadsides against Europe from across the Atlantic, U.S. President Donald Trump just upped the ante.
Europe’s bind
The best of POLITICO’s coverage selected by Senior Executive Editor Kate Day. By KATE DAY View in your browser Dear readers, Happy Thanksgiving weekend to all our American readers and colleagues! You won’t find turkeys on our list, though.
Blot out the sun
The best of POLITICO’s coverage selected by lead European editor Kate Day. Discover the most impactful stories in Europe and beyond. By KATE DAY Dear readers, It’s ten years this week since I arrived in Brussels and joined POLITICO. Politics across Europe is pretty unrecognizable, remade by financial crisis, prolonged economic stuttering, a fracturing transatlantic alliance, a global pandemic and now war.
Doors that go to nowhere
The best of POLITICO’s coverage selected by lead European editor Kate Day. Discover the most impactful stories in Europe and beyond. By KATE DAY Dear readers, There’s a wonderful quote in this piece about just how much of a nightmare the physical space inside No. 10 Downing Street is if you’re trying to run a county. “The building is the perfect metaphor for the state of Britain,” said a former No. 10 official under Rishi Sunak.
Politicking in the Berlaymont
The best of POLITICO’s coverage selected by lead European editor Kate Day. Discover the most impactful stories in Europe and beyond. By KATE DAY Dear readers, Politics is a brutal game.
Things that go boo
The best of POLITICO’s coverage selected by Senior Executive Editor Kate Day. By KATE DAY View in your browser Dear readers, It’s a spooky time to be in politics. So Europe’s centrists might take heart from the Dutch elections this week, where the optimistic Rob Jetten and his D66 party landed themselves in prime position to form the next government.
Centrist dilemma
The best of POLITICO’s coverage selected by Senior Executive Editor, Europe Kate Day. Discover the most impactful stories in Europe and beyond. By KATE DAY Dear readers, Another week when the political center’s conventional case for competent government seems to be met by voters with their fingers in their ears.
POLITICO Confidential: Ready for war?
The best of POLITICO’s coverage selected by Senior Executive Editor Kate Day. By KATE DAY View in your browser Dear readers, One of those weeks in which Monday feels like a lifetime ago. It was, of course, a day of extraordinary political theater as U.S. President Donald Trump celebrated his historic achievement in bringing a fragile peace to the Middle East. As Jamie Dettmer notes, all sorts of political forces, kept at bay by the war, will now be unleashed on all sides.
Whirligig in Paris
The best of POLITICO’s coverage selected by Senior Executive Editor Kate Day. By KATE DAY View in your browser Dear readers, President Emmanuel Macron spent much of the week walking up and down the Seine River making calls and proving that French politics is so much moodier than anyone else’s. He ends the week, of course, right back where he started, when on Friday evening he reappointed Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister still with no government around him.
I’ll be in the pub
The best of POLITICO’s coverage selected by lead European editor Kate Day. Discover the most impactful stories in Europe and beyond. By KATE DAY Dear readers, A week of firsts for POLITICO in Europe. On Sunday we opened the doors to the POLITICO Pub at Labour Party Conference, surprisingly, the first pub inside a U.K. political party’s secure zone and the first time we’ve hosted an all-day events space at these annual jamborees.
See you in the POLITICO pub
The best of POLITICO’s coverage selected by Senior Executive Editor Kate Day. By KATE DAY View in your browser Dear readers, Tomorrow I’m off to Liverpool for the annual jamboree that is the Labour Party annual conference.
Royal pomp and POLITICO splendor
The best of POLITICO’s coverage selected by Senior Executive Editor Kate Day. By KATE DAY View in your browser Dear readers, It wasn’t just Keir Starmer who turned up the pomp this week. While the British Royal family welcomed U.S. President Donald Trump to Windsor Castle on an historic second state visit, POLITICO celebrated ten years since we launched the publication in Europe with a party of more than 1,200 guests and (almost) as much splendor.
All eyes on France
The best of POLITICO’s coverage selected by Senior Executive Editor Kate Day. Discover the most impactful stories in Europe and beyond. By KATE DAY Dear readers, Today we launch a new cousin of this newsletter, Le Weekly, the week’s news as it looks from Paris, written by our Executive Editor for France Nicholas Barré. You can sign up here. I’d love to say we timed it to launch just ahead of one of the most dramatic showdowns in French politics.
Disbelief in France, eyes to the right in London
The best of POLITICO’s coverage selected by lead European editor Kate Day. Discover the most impactful stories in Europe and beyond. By KATE DAY Dear readers, The news lull of August officially never came and here we are back to school once more. Below is a selection to catch you up on some of the themes we expect to be among the drumbeats of the autumn.
Warheads and wildfires
The best of POLITICO’s coverage selected by lead European editor Kate Day. Discover the most impactful stories in Europe and beyond. By KATE DAY Dear readers, I hope you had a restful summer, not that the news slowed up. Please enjoy the excellent selection below, which includes Flamingo, the cruise missile with a warhead weighing a ton, AI friends over indexing on flattery, and deep reporting into the identity crisis gripping the French far right.
Golf and talks
The best of POLITICO’s coverage selected by lead European editor Kate Day. Discover the most impactful stories in Europe and beyond. By KATE DAY Dear readers, Next up, golf. U.S. President Donald Trump touched down in Scotland last night, with Brussels holding its breath for a trade deal. Trump says the odds are 50-50, and the EU readied countermeasures. I imagine several of you are in for a rather anxious weekend. No golf for me, though I am off to Crete this week for a lie down.
Not such a bazooka
Presented by BMW Group By KATE DAY PRESENTED BY Dear readers, It’s all about the money in Europe this week — or lack of it. In Brussels, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s messy, muddled unveiling of the EU’s next long-term budget laid bare the fault lines in her political support.
Money isn’t everything
Presented by Equinor By KATE DAY PRESENTED BY Dear readers, We were honored this week to receive the Ischia International Journalism Award, one of the most important Italian prizes for journalism. When we began POLITICO Europe 10 years ago, we were convinced there was space in Brussels for our kind of fast-paced journalism that lifts the curtain of what really drives conversations among professional politicos and that launched our publication in Washington.
What will Donald do?
Presented by Equinor By KATE DAY PRESENTED BY Dear readers, Not much sign of progress from Geneva where European foreign ministers met their Iranian counterpart Friday, just over a week since Israel targeted Iran with deadly strikes amid Israeli fears that Iran was accelerating toward building a nuclear weapon. We assess Europe’s chances of stopping the war.
Welcome Carrie Budoff Brown
Presented by Equinor By KATE DAY PRESENTED BY Dear readers, It’s been a big week for POLITICO as we appointed Carrie Budoff Brown to run our newsroom in Brussels. Brussels holds a special place for POLITICO, as the city where we proved our distinctive kind of political journalism — faster, exclusive reporting on the subjects driving conversations among those obsessed with policy and politics — could work beyond Washington.
Can’t live without them
Presented by Instagram By KATE DAY PRESENTED BY Dear readers, What could be more bracing than a week in Connemara? A week watching politics, of course. I’m back from the white sands of Renvyle, pretty much as far west as you can go in Europe, to a spectacular bust up between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk. “Reminds me of the Cold War: mutual assured destruction,” one Trump ally told our Washington colleagues.
EU-turn if you want to
Presented by European Biodiesel Board By KATE DAY PRESENTED BY Dear readers, Plenty to tuck into this week as our team chased stories about a plan to slash the European External Action Service, another to block children from social media, and what happens to the mansions of sanctioned oligarchs that fall into disrepair and upset the neighbors.
How to watch like a pro
Presented by Instagram By KATE DAY PRESENTED BY Dear readers, A big week for Brussels, though when is it not. However “nasty” Trump thinks the European Union is, his administration did at least finally engage with proposed concessions Brussels has offered Washington following their wave of retaliatory tariffs, as we scooped Wednesday.
Pictures we won’t forget
The best of POLITICO’s coverage selected by lead European editor Kate Day. Discover the most impactful stories in Europe and beyond. By KATE DAY Dear readers, So striking was the image of U.S. President Donald Trump sitting with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Vatican, I’ve not been able to shake it. The American president’s knack for anticipating a news moment is extraordinary, especially since the photo dominated media coverage across every platform imaginable.
POLITICO Europe turns 10
The best of POLITICO’s coverage selected by lead European editor Kate Day. Discover the most impactful stories in Europe and beyond. By KATE DAY Dear readers, Ten years ago next week, POLITICO arrived in Brussels. As my father likes to remind me, we have lived through some sort of permacrisis ever since.
Trade war bites
Presented by Equinor By KATE DAY PRESENTED BY Dear readers, As you sip your Saturday coffee, spare a thought for newsletter writers stuck in a doom loop: just as you get to the end, your reporting gems and pearls of wisdom beautifully arranged before you, *bam* a Truth Social post SHOUTS out from your laptop and you must begin all over again.
The divorce takes shape
The best of POLITICO’s coverage selected by Senior Executive Editor Kate Day. Discover the most impactful stories in Europe and beyond. By KATE DAY Dear readers, Welcome to the end of another extraordinary news week as the shape of the great divorce between the U.S. and many of its closest allies takes shape. We’re expecting Europe’s leaders to spend much of their weekends hitting the phones to call each other as they try to work out how to respond to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff plan.
Marmalade droppers and divided dynasties
Presented by eBay By KATE DAY PRESENTED BY Dear readers, Have you lifted your jaw off the floor yet? Monday’s revelation by Atlantic Editor in Chief Jeffrey Goldberg, who was accidentally added to a group chat in which U.S. national-security leaders shared details of upcoming military strikes in Yemen, was, to use an excellent Briticism, a marmalade dropper.
Remembering Stephen Brown
The best of POLITICO’s coverage selected by lead European editor Kate Day. Discover the most impactful stories in Europe and beyond. By KATE DAY Dear readers, I have spent much of the week thinking about Stephen Brown. Tuesday marked the fourth anniversary of the sudden death of this publication’s former Editor in Chief in Europe. And in so many ways, this is still the newsroom that Stephen built.
Britain’s back?
The best of POLITICO’s coverage selected by lead European editor Kate Day. Discover the most impactful stories in Europe and beyond. By KATE DAY Dear readers, In this era of political characters from seasons past making a comeback, you would be forgiven if you didn’t have Tony Blair’s Chief of Staff and Northern Ireland negotiator Jonathan Powell down as a likely candidate for a reappearance.
On the menu
The best of POLITICO’s coverage selected by lead European editor Kate Day. Discover the most impactful stories in Europe and beyond. By KATE DAY Dear readers, “It’s usually the case that if you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu,” said Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever, as European leaders met in Brussels on Thursday. Europe certainly spent much of the week assuming it was about to find itself dangling off U.S. President Donald Trump’s fork.
Dealing with Trump
The best of POLITICO’s coverage selected by our Senior Executive Editor in Europe Kate Day. Discover the most impactful stories in Europe and beyond. By KATE DAY Dear readers, This email was going to be about bromance. About holding hands, and joking and invitations from kings. But as you will no doubt know by now, this week, which at times looked like a pretty successful one for French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, ended with a plot twist.
Reeling from the reset
The best of POLITICO’s coverage selected by lead European editor Kate Day. Discover the most impactful stories in Europe and beyond. By KATE DAY Dear readers, This week was something of a cold shower for those of us in Europe. As we reported in a terrific piece, U.S. President Donald Trump blindsided European leaders, gave Putin a ring, called for peace talks over Ukraine with an apparent basket of concessions — and surprised just about everyone.
A not-so-happy weekend for Friedrich Merz and Ursula von der Leyen
Presented by Real Deal By KATE DAY PRESENTED BY Dear readers, Well, we almost made it to February without US President Donald Trump turning up the heat on Europe. But last night he confirmed what, in fairness, he has long made clear — he would “absolutely, absolutely” impose tariffs on goods from the EU. As we’ve long reported, both the EU and the UK have contingency plans ready to roll so presumably officials somewhere are spending the weekend dusting them off.
POLITICO Confidential: Anyone seen a dealmaker?
Presented by REAL DEAL By KATE DAY PRESENTED BY Dear readers, I hope you have survived a bracing week in politics. At the end of week one of President Donald Trump back in the White House at least one thing is clear: oh yes, he meant it.
Making the cut as Trump assumes power
The best of POLITICO’s coverage selected by Deputy Editor-in-Chief Kate Day. By KATE DAY View in your browser Dear readers, Sometimes it matters who has a seat at the table. Sometimes the weather intervenes and even those who might have thought they made the cut end up disappointed. Our reporters across Europe this week dug into the guest list for President Donald Trump’s upcoming inauguration and discovered a fascinating who’s who of right-wing populists.
Democracy in the age of social media influencers
The best of POLITICO’s coverage selected by Deputy Editor in Chief Kate Day. Discover the most impactful stories in Europe and beyond. By KATE DAY Dear readers, Happy new year! For me, the turn of the year marks a new chapter as I take over from Jamil Anderlini overseeing POLITICO’s four newsrooms in Europe. So, I’m afraid that means you’ll be hearing more regularly from me in this newsletter. For those of you I’ve not yet met, I joined POLITICO back when we were just launching in Brussels in 2015.
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