Listen on Spotify Apple Music Amazon Music Sky News Sky News’ deputy political editor Sam Coates and Politico’s Jack Blanchard are here with their guide to the election day ahead. On day 13 of the campaign, Jack and Sam discuss how the Tories want to put immigration on the agenda, a day after Reform leader Nigel Farage confirmed he’s standing as a candidate in Clacton. They also preview the first of the TV debates and another day where Labour selections will make headlines. Email Jack and Sam: jackandsam@sky.uk ? Tap here to follow Politics at Jack at Sam’s wherever you get your podcasts ..read more

Ah, Roland-Garros ! Ses terres battues orangées, ses Français éliminés, mais aussi ses cigarettiers. Philip Morris, le leader mondial de la cigarette, organise cette semaine une opération séduction destinée aux journalistes, a appris POLITICO. Une soixantaine de plumes de la presse nationale et spécialisée est invitée aux frais de la multinationale pour assister aux plus belles affiches du tournoi cette semaine. Pour ces rencontres, les formules tout compris, dites “offres hospitalités”, dépassent aisément le millier d’euros. Avant d’admirer les fulgurances de Jannik Sinner, Novak Djokovic ou ..read more

Listen on Spotify Apple Music Acast Amazon Music Der Messerangriff in Mannheim, bei dem ein Polizist getötet wurde, prägt plötzlich den Wahlkampf-Endspurt. Die Diskussion darüber, was sich auf Deutschlands Straßen, aber auch in der Asylpolitik ändern muss, beginnt. Abschiebungen auch in nicht sichere Staaten werden genauso diskutiert, wie erweiterte Messerverbotszonen.  Was die Politik wirklich tun kann, wo sie hilflos bleiben wird, sagt der nordrhein-westfälische Innenminister Herbert Reul bei uns im 200 Sekunden-Interview.  Außerdem hört ihr, welche neuen Namen für die EU-Komm ..read more

As the European Parliament elections approach, a growing sense of fear stemming from multiple — yet mutually reinforcing — sources seems to be the decisive force shaping electoral behaviour. Citizens of the EU experience uncertainty in the face of broad economic and cultural changes occurring at an unprecedented pace, coupled by unforeseen crises, such as Covid and the climate crisis, and the re-emergence of war conflicts, on a continent accustomed to peace for over half a century. The survey Last month, more than 10,800 European voters took a stand on the pressing issues and running challenge ..read more

Hello and welcome to Europe 101, your handy guide to politics across the Atlantic Ocean. We know you have a lot on your mind. A judge has found your former president guilty on 34 felony charges. Your current president isn’t totally sure what year it is. And these two paragons of democracy are gearing up for a clash of the titans in November, which understandably is sucking up all the oxygen on planet Earth.  But how about some pre-game entertainment? Because Europe is also having an election. Remember World II? And World War I for that matter? Both of those wars started in Europe, where i ..read more

LONDON — In the space of an hour, Rishi Sunak’s fragile hopes for salvaging his party’s fortunes in the U.K. general election came crashing down around him.  Nigel Farage, the Conservatives’ perennial nemesis, summoned journalists Monday for an “emergency” press conference at which he announced he was reversing his earlier pledge to stay out of the general election and would be standing for parliament after all.  The decision threatens not just Sunak’s prospects in the election the prime minister called for July 4, but also the very survival of the Conservative Party, until now one o ..read more

VÕRU, Estonia — The signs of a creeping militarization are easy to detect.  In this small town 23 miles from the European Union’s border with Russia, trucks painted army green trundle over the cobbles of the main street. In a bar near the central square, off-duty U.S. servicemen watch basketball and soccer on dueling TV screens. Across a placid lake, a patch of forest is being cleared for the expansion of a military training area. “When the training ground is operating, you know about it,” said Kratmar Muursepp, a waiter working the counter at the central Mantelahi Cafe. “It’s all boom, b ..read more

Brussels is abuzz with talk that European Council President Charles Michel is trying to take down his nemesis, Ursula von der Leyen, the powerful European Commission chief.   Eight EU diplomats, officials and national government officials told POLITICO they fear Michel is out to get von der Leyen at the tail-end of their dueling presidencies and years-long rivalry by attempting to thwart a potential second term for the Commission chief. “It is driving everyone crazy, because his game is so obvious: making von der Leyen stumble and dreaming of his own top job,” said one EU official. T ..read more

U.S. President Joe Biden will not attend the upcoming Ukraine Peace Summit in Switzerland, a decision that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has described as a gift to Russia. Instead, Vice President Kamala Harris and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan will represent the U.S. during the two-day event in Lucerne starting June 15, the White House said in a statement Monday. The Ukrainians had hoped that Biden would put in an appearance, given his plans to attend France’s D-Day anniversary celebrations and a meeting of G7 leaders in Italy in the days leading up to the summit. Instead ..read more

A Belgian judge has ordered Meta to pay more than €27,000 in damages to a Belgian far-right MEP. Meta had imposed a “shadowban,” which lowers a user’s organic reach on their platforms, on the page of Tom Vandendriessche, MEP for the Belgian far-right party Vlaams Belang, in February 2021. A Belgian judge ruled on Monday, however, that in imposing the shadowban Meta had not acted “in good faith” regarding its agreements. It also said that users had “insufficient procedural guarantees” when Meta imposed such measures. Meta’s decision also violated the EU’s data protection regime, the GDPR. “A fi ..read more