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Super Bowl: The NFL team Trump loves to hate

The president has left a breadcrumb trail suggesting nothing would make him happier than to see the Eagles get slaughtered in the Super Bowl.

February 9, 2025 12:20 pm CET

Baltic countries sever final power ties with Russia

Disconnecting from the Soviet-era grid faced an intimidation campaign — but it’s Moscow that could be left in a precarious position.

February 8, 2025 4:40 am CET

Britain’s handover of the Chagos Islands is pleasing nobody

Labour’s decision to grant the geopolitical archipelago to Mauritius has sparked criticism from all sides.

February 6, 2025 4:03 am CET

Farage offers Trump tips to take on the banks

Debanking went stateside in November, but has a well-trodden history in Britain after Farage was kicked out of Coutts bank.

February 5, 2025 1:01 pm CET

Trump says US will ‘take over the Gaza Strip’

He provided no details on how this was possible.

February 5, 2025 4:10 am CET

We need a Draghi report for banking, say EU’s 3 biggest countries

Report should include a list of “concrete” policy recommendations for the sector which the European Commission would then implement.

February 4, 2025 12:05 pm CET
Unpacked

Trump wants to tax the world

The U.S. president sees tariffs not just as a way to reverse trade deficits, but also as a means of reducing domestic income tax. He may find neither are likely to work according to plan.

February 3, 2025 5:10 pm CET

German far right may benefit most from Merz’s self-inflicted wound

Conservative leader’s gambit to weaken the postwar ‘firewall’ may be a boon for the AfD ahead of a national election.

February 3, 2025 4:03 am CET
Unpacked

Europe should have grown up a long time ago — now with Trump there’s no choice

Europe’s leaders had plenty of warnings about what the U.S. president’s second term might mean, but amid much eye-rolling, hand-wringing and wishful thinking, they failed to agree on a plan.

January 31, 2025 4:05 am CET

Musk’s ‘move on’ from the Holocaust plea challenges enduring German taboo

“Acknowledgement of the dark past of the country” is vital, says the chair of Israel’s Holocaust remembrance center.

January 28, 2025 4:00 am CET

Ultranationalist Algerian influencers wage war on France

Several online activists have been arrested over the past few weeks for inciting violence. Some have TikTok accounts with more than 400,000 followers.

January 27, 2025 4:43 am CET

Trump launches savage attack on bishop who asked for ‘mercy’ for minorities

U.S. president calls the clergywoman a “Radical Left hard line Trump hater,” “ungracious,” “nasty” and “not compelling or smart.”

January 22, 2025 11:35 am CET
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Trump announces $500B AI investment

AI development is a significant part of the Trump administration’s tech policy proposals.

January 22, 2025 8:44 am CET

Trump issues sweeping pardons for Jan. 6 rioters

The action laid waste to the Justice Department’s four-year drive to punish the first disruption of the transfer of power in American history.

January 21, 2025 4:13 am CET

Donald Trump sworn in, promising a ‘golden age of America’ after ‘betrayal’

Trump’s 30-minute speech includes a list of promises to enact “America first” agenda.

January 20, 2025 7:00 pm CET

Slovenes brace for ‘Melania effect’ as new Trump term begins

Slovenia has drawn global attention and its fair share of misinterpretation. Now its residents are saying enough is enough.

January 20, 2025 4:29 pm CET

‘Disgrace’: Pope Francis revives feud with Trump just before inauguration

“This is not the way to solve things,” the pontiff says about the U.S. president-elect’s planned immigration crackdown.

January 20, 2025 11:11 am CET

Want to butter up Donald Trump? Roll out King Charles

How Britain’s royals could smooth the U.K.’s relationship with a highly unpredictable White House.

January 20, 2025 4:00 am CET

‘If you compromise with totalitarian systems, you will pay a high price’

In a new book, Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner urges the U.S. and Europe to join together in a “Freedom Trade Alliance” against China, Russia and other autocracies.

January 18, 2025 4:45 pm CET

Who’s been invited? World’s far-right populists pack guest list for Trump’s inauguration

The U.S. president-elect lays down a clear ideological marker with his unusual invitees from across the globe.

January 16, 2025 4:01 am CET

Ukraine can join NATO — if allies are willing to be bold

Right now, Russia knows all it needs to do to prevent a country from joining is to invade and partially occupy it — and that needs to change.

January 13, 2025 4:00 am CET

Populist incumbent sails to victory in Croatia presidential election

Pro-Moscow candidate Zoran Milanović secures a second term after winning runoff by almost 3:1 margin.

January 12, 2025 7:29 pm CET

Serbia hit with double whammy on gas supply

New U.S. sanctions against Russia target Serbia’s main gas company, at the same time that Azerbaijan claims to not be able to deliver its supply.

January 11, 2025 7:29 pm CET
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Trump joins history’s long line of suitors coveting Greenland

America’s 20th and 19th century expansionists would have been delighted by the president-elect’s proposed land grab.

January 11, 2025 4:01 am CET
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