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Former Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte handing Prime Minister Mario Draghi the cabinet bell after new government sworn in Saturday.
February 16, 2021
On Saturday, a new Italian government, headed by Mario Draghi, the former president of the European Central Bank, was sworn in by President Sergio Mattarella. The sighs of...
Josep Borrell, the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, and Sergei Lavrov, Russia's Foreign Minister, Friday in Moscow.
February 8, 2021
On January 17, Alexei Navalny returned to Moscow from Berlin, where he had been treated after having been poisoned with Novichok, a deadly chemical nerve agent, while...
Alexei Navalny in court yesterday.
February 3, 2021
On January 17, Alexei Navalny, the foremost opposition activist in Russia and perpetual thorn in the side of President Vladimir Putin, returned to Moscow from Berlin after...
Markus Söder, leader of the Bavarian CSU (on screen), and Armin Laschet, recently-elected leader of the German CDU.
January 22, 2021
On Saturday, the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) elected a new leader, Armin Laschet, the minister president of North Rhine-Westphalia. Whether he will be the...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson signing the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement as Lord David Frost, UK chief negotiator, and Sir Tim Barrow, UK ambassador to the EU, look on, December 30.
January 5, 2021
With time running out for an agreement on their future relationship that could be approved in time for it to take effect at midnight in Brussels—11 p.m. in London—on December...
December 22, 2020
At midnight on December 31, the UK will leave the EU’s internal market and customs union, with or without an agreement regarding their future relationship. If an agreement is...
Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief negotiator, updating the European Parliament today on the EU-UK negotiation.
December 18, 2020
On Sunday morning, after the EU and UK had made some progress in resolving one of the most difficult issues in the negotiation of their future relationship—how to maintain a...