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14  may     21h16
Hegseth again stuns Pentagon with Poland troop withdrawal
Paul McLeary, Jack Detsch    It wasn’t clear why the Defense secretary issued the order not to send troops on a routine mission to a country the administration refers to as a...
    19h11
Bessent discusses investment board, expanding US-China trade with Trump in Beijing
Gregory Svirnovskiy    President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping met on Thursday and discussed topics ranging from market access for U.S. businesses in China...
    10h49
Taiwan emerges as flash point in Trump-Xi talks
Alex Gangitano    A Chinese summary of the meeting stressed the self-ruling island was the most important issue in bilateral relations between Washington and Beijing.
    02h00
The POLITICO Poll: Starmer has failed to deliver the change’ he promised
Tim Ross    Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is seen as more credible than Labour on the Iran war and the economy and much more likely to win the next general election.
13  may     21h47
Iran war is fueling China’s clean energy surge ahead of Trump-Xi talks
Scott Waldman, Sara Schonhardt    The Iran war is driving countries toward Chinese EVs, solar and batteries strengthening China’s hand as Trump seeks trade wins in Beijing.
    14h10
The lame duck prime minister’s survival guide
Dan Bloom, Patrick Baker    Keir Starmer intends to carry on in the top U.K. job, despite a mounting Labour backlash. POLITICO spoke to battle-scarred veterans to ask how prime...
    10h00
Trump has a weak hand to play in summit with Xi
Phelim Kine, Megan Messerly, Ari Hawkins    President Donald Trump’s ambitions for his summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping have shrunk from grand bargain’ to a plea for help in reopening the...
    09h30
Business jet use soars while jet fuel worries grow
Tommaso Lecca    Green activists are urging actors and filmmakers to avoid luxury jets, but the industry says private planes are only a small part of the problem.
    02h00
Britain’s embattled prime minister is still in office. No one knows how long that will last.
Dan Bloom, Sam Blewett, Esther Webber, Sam Francis    King Charles heads to Parliament Wednesday to lay out Keir Starmer’s legislative agenda for the new session. After that all bets are off.
12  may     18h20
Pahlavi criticizes Trump for sending mixed signals on Iran
Nahal Toosi    Reza Pahlavi urged Trump to finish the job in Iran at the POLITICO Security Summit.
    17h52
Pentagon’s estimate for Iran war grows to 29B
Connor O'Brien    The latest increase comes even as the U.S. says the fighting has largely stopped.
    16h25
Spain to Trump: You can’t use our air bases for Iran war
Zoya Sheftalovich    Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares tells POLITICO that Madrid is committed to the transatlantic relationship, but won’t be pushed to renounce our...
    15h53
UK pledges drone boats to help secure Strait of Hormuz
Esther Webber    Defence Secretary John Healey made the pledge at a meeting of defense ministers in London on Tuesday.
    15h36
Trump’s Beijing trip should make Taiwan nervous,’ Slotkin says
Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing    The Senate Armed Services member and former Pentagon official warned the president could easily fall into a trap due to his eagerness to strike a...
    13h21
Top ECB official warns oil shock may force interest rate hikes
Johanna Treeck    Even a resolution of the war before the ECB’s June 11 meeting may not cool energy prices enough for policymakers to stay put, Alexander Demarco...
    02h00
Merz’s comeback tour descends into shambles
James Angelos    The chancellor’s attempts to revive his flagging popularity are backfiring.
11  may     17h11
Ceasefire with Iran on life support,’ Trump says
Riya Misra    The president’s comments come after Trump publicly rejected an offer from Iranian leadership.
    14h54
Finland’s Stubb tells Europe to calm down’ over US troop pullback
Milena Wälde    If Finland can defend itself, NATO can do it too, the Finnish president said.
    02h00
Football finally has the only 2 teams that matter in America
Sophia Cai, Ry Rivard    The World Cup, swept into Washington’s partisan vortex, splits into red and blue.
10  may     17h09
Netanyahu: War with Iran accomplished a great deal, but it’s not over’
Cheyanne M. Daniels    The Israeli prime minister sat for an interview with 60 Minutes, which will air Sunday evening.
    14h51
Trump calls Iran’s response to US peace proposal totally unacceptable’
Jordyn Dahl    Washington and Tehran have exchanged multiple peace proposals since Pakistan brokered a ceasefire between the two sides in early April.
    13h47
Iran reportedly demands assurances for World Cup
Jordyn Dahl    Tehran insists that its players and coaches receive visas for the tournament and also is demanding enhanced security and assurances that the Iranian...
    13h36
NATO backs renewables as solution to energy security, despite US skepticism
Ben Makuch    Military alliance sees clean power as a logical replacement for fossil fuels.
09  may     17h48
US escalates trade row with China over Iran war ahead of Trump-Xi summit
Gregory Svirnovskiy, Phelim Kine    Trump will depart for Beijing in just under a week, alongside a delegation of American CEOs primed to stake out deals with the country’s geopolitical...
    11h42
US strikes Iranian oil tankers while awaiting Tehran response on peace plan
Leonie Cater    The attacks on the ships near the Strait of Hormuz cast more doubt on a tenuous ceasefire that the Trump administration insists is still holding.
    10h57
Trump says he might’ move US troops to Poland from Germany
Leonie Cater    Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has warned that Warsaw should not poach troops from allies.
08  may     07h33
The man trying to make Trump’s tariffs go on forever
Daniel Desrochers    The fate of the president’s economic agenda rests with this trade nerd.
    02h01
Greece bets big on MAGA, as other EU countries turn away from Trump
Nektaria Stamouli, Eliza Gkritsi    While the U.S. president’s relations with other European countries sour, he is hailing Greece as terrific
    01h13
US and Iran launch attacks amid tenuous ceasefire
Aaron Pellish    The U.S. said it was responding to Iranian forces attacking Navy ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
07  may     17h31
Under US pressure, EU moves to soften rules for fighting climate superpollutant
Zia Weise, Ben Munster    The Commission is poised to weaken enforcement of its methane regulation.
    16h26
Fertilizer time bomb threatens to drive up Europe’s food prices
Bartosz BrzeziÅ„ski, Ketrin Jochecová    Fertilizer and fuel prices are surging. Europe’s political response has been muted. Consumers’ real pain is set to arrive with next year’s harvest.
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