Russia ‘ready’ for nuclear war, Putin claims (www.politico.eu)
EU agrees US deal to launch satellites with Elon Musk’s SpaceX (www.politico.eu)
EU agrees US deal to launch satellites with Elon Musk’s SpaceX...
Putin ‘wins’ rigged Russian election with 88% of the vote, early results show (www.politico.eu)
Russian election: Alexei Navalny’s final plan to cause Vladimir Putin ‘maximum damage’ (www.politico.eu)
Before his death, the opposition leader laid out a strategy to challenge the Russian president....
Donald Trump won’t give ‘a penny’ to Ukraine if elected, Orbán says (www.politico.eu)
Hungarian leader praised Republican front-runner as a “man of peace.”...
Netanyahu vows to defy Biden’s ‘red line’ on Rafah (www.politico.eu)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he intends to press ahead with an invasion of the city of Rafah on the southern border of the Gaza Strip in defiance of United States President Joe Biden, who has warned such an offensive would be a “red line.”...
Netanyahu vows to defy Biden’s ‘red line’ on Rafah (www.politico.eu)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he intends to press ahead with an invasion of the city of Rafah on the southern border of the Gaza Strip in defiance of United States President Joe Biden, who has warned such an offensive would be a “red line.”...
Netanyahu denies Palestinians are starving (www.politico.eu)
Biden warns of ‘red line’ for Israel over Rafah (www.politico.eu)
Hungary blocks EU leaders’ statement pledging support for Ukraine (www.politico.eu)
Statement offering support was instead sent by Ursula von der Leyen, Charles Michel and Roberta Metsola....
Scholz and Macron feud over arms for Ukraine – POLITICO (www.politico.eu)
As Ukraine runs short on ammunition, the German and French leaders are at odds over military aid.
Stroking the ego: Hungary’s Orbán gives his nod to Sweden’s NATO bid (www.politico.eu)
Also helping was a deal to sell more Swedish jet fighters to Hungary....
Putin could attack NATO in ‘5 to 8 years,’ German defense minister warns – POLITICO (www.politico.eu)
Want to watch porn in Britain? Get your passport ready (www.politico.eu)
We need to be ready for war with Putin, Romania’s top general says (www.politico.eu)
Gheorghiță Vlad issued a stark warning about the state of the nation’s army, calling for immediate action....
Hydroxychloroquine could have caused almost 17,000 deaths in six countries during COVID, study finds (www.politico.eu)
China’s Xi goes full Stalin with purge (www.politico.eu)
Ukraine blows up main railway connection between Russia and China (www.politico.eu)
Ukraine’s security service blew up a railway connection linking Russia to China, in a clandestine strike carried out deep into enemy territory, with pro-Kremlin media reporting that investigators have opened a criminal case into a “terrorist attack.”...
Far-right leader Geert Wilders wins Dutch election: Exit poll (www.politico.eu)
The anti-Islam, euroskeptic radical Geert Wilders is projected to be the shock winner of the Dutch election....
No more ads on Elon’s X, EU Commission tells staff (www.politico.eu)
The European Commission has decided to stop advertising on social media platform X, owned by Elon Musk, over “widespread concerns relating to the spread of disinformation,” according to an internal note obtained by POLITICO’s Brussels Playbook....
Democracy in decline worldwide, new report says (www.politico.eu)
Donald Trump (still) can’t find Hungary on a map (www.politico.eu)
Less than a week after the former U.S. president confused Hungary and Turkey — calling Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán the leader of Turkey — Trump got Hungary’s borders all wrong....
Exit polls show Swiss anti-immigrant party on track for record election showing (www.politico.eu)
The Swiss People’s Party (SVP), which centered its campaign on anti-immigrant rhetoric, is projected to win 29 percent of the vote, up from 25.6 percent four years ago and higher than pre-election polls. It has been the country’s largest party since 2003.
West urges Israel to show restraint amid escalation fears (www.politico.eu)
Musk given 24 hours to address graphic images of Hamas attacks (www.politico.eu)
Elon Musk has until the end of Wednesday to respond to demands from Brussels to remove graphic images and disinformation linked to the violence in Israel from his social network X — or face the full force of Europe’s new social media rules....
