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A band-aid for the 17-year itch

We’re off to an early constructive start as we speak:& a 5-year ceasefire on a 17-year dispute over subsidies to aircraft makers& might be announced, a number of officers informed POLITICO. The dispute has dogged three U.S. presidents and...

Mike Pompeo builds national profile with new political group

WASHINGTON — Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is launching a corporation to help Republican candidates in the 2022 midterm elections and build his national political profile, as the GOP ponders its future after the Trump administration. Po...

Why AIDS history is repeating in COVID-19

This can be a POLITICO case research, a take a look at what works — and what doesn’t — in the struggle towards HIV. The article is a part of Telescope: The New AIDS Epidemic, a deep-dive investigation into the fashionable face of a disease that rew...

AstraZeneca’s antibody cocktail fails to protect against coronavirus: Study

A medical trial taking a look at an antibody therapy towards COVID-19 developed by British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca yielded destructive outcomes, the corporate announced on Tuesday. AZD7442 — a mixture of two totally different monoclona...

EU and US agree 5-year ceasefire on Airbus-Boeing

Brussels and Washington on Tuesday struck a five-year ceasefire to their 17 year-long commerce struggle over subsidies for the aircraft makers Airbus and Boeing, a number of officers advised POLITICO. The deal will probably be announced at a sum...

UK, Australia agree post-Brexit trade deal

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison on Monday night agreed the broad phrases of a free-trade deal. Johnson and Morrison, who reached the in-principle settlement over dinner on Monday, are set to fo...

Biden calls Putin ‘a worthy adversary’ ahead of meeting

BRUSSELS — Two days before he talks to Russia’s leader, President Joe Biden on Monday sought to tamp down expectations of the long-anticipated assembly by acknowledging that Vladimir Putin is a “worthy adversary.” “I have met with him. He’s shi...

Ukrainian tweet scrambles Biden’s press conference

BRUSSELS — Just earlier than President Joe Biden began his news convention Monday, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky tweeted that NATO agreed that his nation might be a part of the alliance. “Commend @NATO companions’ understandi...

How Trump empowered Iran’s hardliners

Sohail Jannessari is an adjunct professor of political science at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. When Iranian President Hassan Rouhani agreed to the Joint Complete Plan of Action, he was betting the way forward for his government, his cou...

Bulgaria sinks under wave of pre-election scandals

Bulgarians are dropping rely of the scandals. There’s a Watergate-style wiretapping scandal. There’s an agricultural tycoon accusing the government of former Prime Minister Boyko Borissov of extortion. And there’s a state-own...

Boris Johnson’s Scotland headache is only going to get bigger

Mujtaba Rahman is the top of Eurasia Group’s Europe follow and the writer of POLITICO’s Past the Bubble column. He tweets at @Mij_Europe.& Overlook today’s Scottish election. The actual battle continues to be to return. British Prime Mi...

7 takeaways from Michel Barnier’s Brexit book

Michel Barnier’s new guide (all 541 pages of it) takes a detailed take a look at the Brexit negotiations& from the point of view of the EU chief negotiator himself. It might& additionally present a marketing campaign platform if& B...

The Italian influencers who gatecrashed the country’s political scene

ROME — Together, they’re referred to as the Ferragnez —& Italy’s most potent influencer power couple. Increasingly, nevertheless, they could just be Italy’s most potent political influencers. And politicians are determined to share their lime...

Why Brexit is a double-edged sword for the Scottish National Party

LONDON — It’s arduous to consider now, however U.Okay. politics wasn’t all the time dominated by massive constitutional questions. If Scotland’s 2014 independence referendum brought these debates to the fore, Brexit despatched...

How Scotland has changed since the independence referendum

Scotland in the present day is sort of totally different from the nation that voted to remain in the United Kingdom in 2014 — but that doesn’t essentially mean it’s any nearer to independence. What has modified? Scotland is not a m...