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New privacy frontier: Europe eyes crackdown on smart glasses
BRUSSELS — Europe is ramping up its warnings over the surveillance risks of smart glasses, in what is seen as the next big fight over people’s physical privacy. The technology, which integrates cameras into glasses, is facing increased scrutiny from lawmakers and regulators, who are ramping up discussions on whether it goes against Europe’s privacy regulations. Privacy activists are warning the glasses violate key principles like consent, since people captured in the built-in...
Brussels’ nightmare French election scenario risks coming true: Bardella vs. Mélenchon
PARIS — Brussels’ nightmare scenario is no longer looking far-fetched: a French presidential election next year in which both candidates in the runoff hail from the political extremes and hold a deeply skeptical outlook on the EU and NATO. Jordan Bardella of the far-right National Rally — the nationalist, anti-immigration party of Marine Le Pen — has long been the favorite to win the 2027 race, but mainstream centrist parties have been hoping they can find a unifying challenger to beat...
Czech MEP’s undeclared think-tank role raises conflict-of-interest questions
BRUSSELS — Alexandr Vondra, a Czech member of the European Parliament, did not disclose his role as honorary chair of an influential think tank in the Czech Republic, despite negotiating files affecting the companies funding the organization. Transparency International argues that Vondra’s failure to disclose his relationship with the Prague Center of Transatlantic Relations may violate the European Parliament’s code of...
Kosovo’s path toward NATO and the EU at risk in this Sunday’s elections, ex-president warns
Ahead of this Sunday’s snap parliamentary elections in Kosovo, the country’s ex-president is warning that the results could determine whether Pristina will remain on course to join NATO and the EU. In an interview with POLITICO, Vjosa Osmani took aim at incumbent Prime Minister Albin Kurti, whose reelection she said could jeopardize the country’s trajectory. Osmani served as Kosovo’s president between 2021 and last April, when the national parliament failed to elect...
European companies flee Cuba as US sanctions go into effect
European companies from Spanish hotels to German shipping lines are ending their Cuban operations as Washington on Friday moved to intensify its decades-old embargo, expanding its focus from the regime in Havana to EU business ties to the island. Among the hardest hit are Spain’s Meliá and Iberostar hotel groups. For decades, the lush resorts they operated on Cuba’s most idyllic beaches were the crown jewels of their global portfolios. But over the past few weeks, the hospitality...
Macron weighs his options for wooing Trump at G7: Dinner at Versailles, or maybe golf
PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron is considering one of the grandest displays of French statecraft in his diplomatic arsenal: a private dinner with U.S. President Donald Trump at the Palace of Versailles. The Elysée Palace is preparing a dinner for two in the opulent residence of the Sun King Louis XIV to coincide with the summit of the Group of Seven leading economies later this month, according to two French officials familiar with the preparations. The big idea would be to play on...
How Trump supercharged the EU’s tech independence push
BRUSSELS — Donald Trump may have finally done what years of warnings from Paris and Brussels could not: Convince Europe’s free-market holdouts that relying on American technology is a vulnerability. With his threats toward Greenland, sanctions against international officials and willingness to weaponize Europe’s dependence on American firms, the U.S. president has broken down the final bits of resistance to a French-led push to promote European tech companies at the expense of American...
EU capitals boost plans for migrant ‘return hubs’
BRUSSELS — EU plans to send failed asylum seekers to deportation hubs outside the bloc look set to gain momentum, as national capitals are poised to back new rules on migrant returns. Ambassadors are expected on Wednesday to approve rules allowing individuals who have been ordered to leave EU territory to be sent to “return hubs” outside the bloc — an option several EU countries are already exploring, but which civil society groups warn could open the door to abuse and human rights...
The Brexit referendum: 10 years on
LONDON — 10 years (and six prime ministers) ago, Britain was on the brink of deciding whether to leave the European Union. POLITICO’s Westminster Insider podcast went back to the people who lived through that campaign up close for a special episode. It revealed that much of British politics today — the targeted digital campaigning, the collapsing party loyalties, the distrust of institutions — was there in embryonic form during the Brexit referendum. For Matthew Elliott, the...
The woman helping Europe’s far right crack Brussels
BRUSSELS — Marieke Ehlers has one of the most important jobs in Europe’s far right: Turning a movement built on opposing Brussels into one capable of shaping its laws. She’s the chief whip of the Patriots for Europe, the third-largest group in the European Parliament, at a time when the far right is playing a much larger and more influential role both in Brussels and across the continent. Ehlers takes on her new role as the so-called cordon sanitaire — in which centrist...