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Brussels moves to Bari, and finds a different Italy
A holidaying POLITICO reporter encounters familiar faces and some unusual optimism in his home country.
Why the coronavirus lab leak theory won’t go away
The idea that the pandemic began in a laboratory has moved from fringe theory to mainstream.
Poland’s restitution law sparks row with Israel and the US
The new law will make it much harder to get back confiscated property — angering Washington and Jerusalem.
The climatologist who put climate science ‘on the offensive’
Friederike Otto has tailored her research to beat back doubt about the link between extreme events and climate change.
Campaigners wanted more transparency. Facebook threatened to sue.
Algorithm Watch, a nonprofit, shut down a digital tool after the tech giant threatened potential legal action.
Whatever happened to the pirates of politics?
While the anti-establishment movement has stagnated in many European countries, a few parties are making gains and adopting the traditional party structures others long eschewed.
Ethical concerns as Big Tobacco hustles into health care
Philip Morris International is buying a successful British company making inhaled treatments for lung disease.
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Brexit
EU faces Arctic cod war with Oslo over post-Brexit rights
Norway complains EU’s unilateral actions could have wider implications for exploitation of the Arctic.
Poll: Brits blame EU for Northern Ireland trade problems
45 percent of voters who are aware of trade frictions say the EU bears most responsibility for them.
UK prepares to climb down from ‘discriminatory’ France travel rules
Ministers were stung by criticism that they were slow to restrict travel from India.
France
Germany
Laschet’s campaign to lead Germany takes a pounding in the polls
Conservative insists he’s up for the fight as Greens and Social Democrats close in.
Armin Laschet wants to lead Europe. Not everyone thinks he’s up to it.
Frontrunner to succeed Merkel has EU experience but critics see a lack of boldness when it’s badly needed.
German chancellor candidate Laschet runs but can’t hide
Conservative is trying to bounce back from his flood zone gaffe.
Washington
Brussels
EU officials play down prospects of Afghan deportations as war rages
Six EU countries had warned Brussels against halting forced returns despite major Taliban advances.
Europe was the world’s great tech enforcer. Not anymore.
China and the US have stepped up the pressure on their biggest tech companies.
Austria digs in ahead of the EU’s deficit battle
Gernot Blümel is seeking support in bid to counter a push for easing fiscal rules.
The Continent
Britain
Crowded, dirty, more efficient? UK scraps COVID restrictions for MPs
House of Commons abandons virtual speeches and proxy voting as it returns to pre-pandemic ways.
Boris Johnson’s climate problem
Less than three months before the COP26 summit there’s worry the British prime minister has engaged too late.
Nottingham imagines the post-mall city
The question of what to do with the city’s half-demolished shopping center holds lessons for urban areas the world over.
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