LONDON — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is set to face a grilling by the country’s official COVID-19 inquiry next week. Sunak, who was chancellor during the pandemic, will appear on Monday morning for a ...
LONDON — Everyone knew the British state had problems. This week revealed just how deep the rot goes. Britain’s public inquiry into the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic stepped up a gear this week, with ...
LONDON — British police are investigating fresh claims of coronavirus lockdown-breaching gatherings in Westminster, in the latest twist in the Partygate scandal. The Metropolitan Police announced Tuesday that it is opening one new investigation — ...
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. LONDON — The Scottish government has been told to hand over WhatsApp messages and other communications between its top decision-makers to the country’s coronavirus ...
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. LONDON — Boris Johnson severed ties with the government-appointed lawyers who were set to represent him in the U.K.’s coronavirus inquiry, in the wake ...
The EU’s climate policy chief Frans Timmermans has postponed a planned trip to China after testing positive for COVID-19, a member of his Cabinet said today. “We are looking to get [the trip] back on ...
Others are calling for the White House to hold classified briefings on what they knew about Covid-19’s origins, when they knew it, and what led to the latest agency assessment. And still more hope to ...
Johan Van Overtveldt is chair of the Committee on Budgets and the Recovery and Resilience Facility Working Group in the European Parliament. The COVID-19 pandemic had a huge impact on our economies, and it put ...
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. PARIS — France’s Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire’s Elysée palace ambitions have long been an open secret in Paris’ political circles, but his recent ...
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Here we go again. From London to Berlin, Rome to Paris, security agencies are on edge, ...