Top generals told lawmakers under oath on Tuesday that they advised President Biden early this year to keep several thousand troops in Afghanistan — directly contradicting the president’s comments in Read More
On a rainy day in early May, weeks after President Joe Biden announced the U.S. exit from Afghanistan, senior leaders from across the government gathered in the basement of the Read More
Mujtaba Rahman is the head of Eurasia Group’s Europe practice and the author of POLITICO’s Beyond the Bubble column. He tweets at @Mij_Europe. Although Germany’s election results leave Europe’s largest Read More
BERLIN — Slowly but surely, Armin Laschet began on Monday to acknowledge the obvious: He lost. After a brutal morning of recriminations behind closed doors, the leader of Germany’s ruling Read More
The European Medicines Agency is evaluating using a booster shot of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for anyone over 12 years old. The booster would be given six months after the first Read More
London Mayor Sadiq Khan on Monday called for getting the army “as soon as possible” to help with the fuel crisis caused by a lack of truck drivers in the Read More
The SPD won the 2021 German election with 25.7 percent of the vote, slightly ahead of the CDU which got 24.1 percent, according to official preliminary results published early Monday Read More
Germans took to the polls en masse on Sunday, charged with, among other things, finding a new chancellor. But as the clock ticked over from Sunday night into the wee Read More
Negotiations among Germany’s parties have just begun. But one election outcome seems clear: The next government will be a centrist one once again — there’s just the small outstanding question Read More
Paul Taylor, a contributing editor at POLITICO, writes the “Europe At Large” column. PARIS — Dear Bundeskanzler, We don’t yet know who you are. But Germany’s partners have a message for Read More
