VOTER WINNER
Iran war threatens global collapse, Finland’s Stubb warns
Unique: Finnish President Alexander Stubb, a one-time golfing buddy of Donald Trump, does not hide his unusually dismal assessment of the American president’s second term. Read the story.
Text messages by czar Šefčovič reveal early concerns about the EU’s deal with the US
Unique: The EU trade chief has conveyed concerns from European businesses, heads and lawmakers to senior Trump administration officials in the fall that Washington’s increased tariffs are at risk of violating the trade agreement reached a few weeks earlier. Read the story.
Orbán’s spies were on the hunt, says Hungarian journalist accused of espionage
Unique: Szabolcs Panyi tells POLITICO that the Budapest allegations are “intended to blackmail me and destroy my credibility.” Read the story.
$500 and a trip abroad: Employers end up in Russian training camps
Unique: Moldovan court cases reveal Russia’s international network of recruiting, training and sending spies and attackers. Read the story.
Brexit Britain’s farmers are eyeing EU-Australia trade with envy
Under a trade deal that comes into effect just 12 months after the UK officially leaves the EU in 2021, Australian meat will finally be allowed into the UK duty-free, raising fears that more cheap meat could be sold. Read the story.
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Carney’s mega anti-Trump movement begins to seek to save world trade
About 40 countries of the EU and the Indo-Pacific CPTPP blocs are in line to save the World Trade Organization in an important meeting in the African country of Cameroon. Read the story.
Negotiations on the EU’s €1.8 trillion budget depend on Hungary’s vote
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s victory in the upcoming Hungarian elections could damage the EU’s hopes of reaching an agreement on its next budget by the end of 2026. Read the story.
YOUR PROGRAM FOR THE WEEK
EU Secret: Number of European centers left
The far right took small hits to its seemingly impossible arsenal this week, as people in Denmark, Italy, France and Slovenia head to the polls.
But those election results also told another, broader story: the slow collapse of the EU’s leftist core.
To unravel what’s ailing left-wing parties across the bloc, host Sarah Wheaton is joined by a team of POLITICO colleagues: Clea Caulcutt from Paris, James Angelos from Berlin, and Iberian writer Aitor Hernández-Morales. Listen to the episode.
Westminster Insider: How to fix British politics – with help from around the world
As Westminster goes into recess, host Sascha O’Sullivan looks at some of the problems that bedevil SW1 is facing from withdrawing from the electorate to permanent reform to find out if political systems from Australia to Italy have a solution.
Sascha talks to Australian Labor MP Lauren Edwards about the mandatory voting process here in Britain and how it makes Australians more involved in the democratic processes that run their country. Listen to the episode.
CONFIRMED
Read this week’s Declassified column.
Word competition
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“Yes, it’s amazing how life-like it is and almost speaks in complete sentences.
Oh, you meant robot, not Donald!”
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“I thought I was asking for Big Macs, not veggies!”
by Silas Kennedy
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