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Jared Kushner's overseas luxury resort project faces anti-corruption investigation amid violent protests
Albanian anti-corruption prosecutors are investigating changes to the protected status of a coastal wetland where a luxury resort project linked to Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of U.S. President Donald Trump, has drawn environmental opposition and protests, according to Politico. SPAK, Albania’s special anti-corruption prosecution office, has opened a probe into changes made to the status of the Vjosa-Narta protected landscape in Zvërnec, Politico reported. The coastal wetland area is home...
Jared Kushner's overseas luxury resort project faces anti-corruption investigation amid violent protests
Albanian anti-corruption prosecutors are investigating changes to the protected status of a coastal wetland where a luxury resort project linked to Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of U.S. President Donald Trump, has drawn environmental opposition and protests, according to Politico. SPAK, Albania’s special anti-corruption prosecution office, has opened a probe into changes made to the status of the Vjosa-Narta protected landscape in Zvërnec, Politico reported. The coastal wetland area is home...
NATO allies weigh new €70B military aid pledge for Ukraine
BRUSSELS — NATO countries are considering a new €70 billion military funding commitment for Ukraine that would be unveiled during the alliance’s summit in Ankara next month, four NATO diplomats told POLITICO. The proposal — circulated by Germany last month — would include a new mechanism to increase transparency around funding for Ukraine, the diplomats said. That comes as some countries complain that they are disproportionately bearing the cost of supporting Kyiv.
Why the US is detaining a senior Afghan diplomat expelled by Spain
Previously sealed court documents are shedding light for the first time on the reasons behind the arrest of a senior Afghan diplomat in the United States. Raheem Peerzada, who also goes by the name Mohammed Rahim Wahidi, was detained by U.S. immigration officers on March 30, 2025, at Washington Dulles International Airport. WELT, a publication owned by Axel Springer, POLITICO’s parent company, had previously revealed that several women, including an Afghan woman living in Germany, accuse...
Europe’s business advantage: Rule of law
Elisabeth Braw is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, author of the award-winning “Goodbye Globalization” and a regular columnist for POLITICO. Her new book, “The Undersea War,” is out later this year. The ship crews trapped in the Persian Gulf, unable to pass the Strait of Hormuz, have no doubt: Geopolitics is back.
Ministers defend government-backed energy company against forced labor claims
LONDON — The U.K. government has defended its publicly-owned energy company, days after POLITICO revealed Great British Energy was still funding firms that could not rule out exposure to slave-made goods. “We are tackling forced labor where we find it in global supply chains, and we want to go further,” Energy Minister Michael Shanks told MPs when questioned in the House of Commons Tuesday. The Department for Energy Security and Net...
The truth about Trump’s Truths
U.S. President Donald Trump’s May was dominated by the war in Iran and his continued pursuit to bring the entirety of the GOP to heel. But the president had other things on his mind, too. A POLITICO analysis of every single post Trump made last month on Truth Social, the social media site that he owns — totaling well over 800 posts or reposts — revealed a president focused as much on foreign policy as the beautification of the nation’s capital.
Trump administration in ‘active dialogue’ on strategic petroleum reserve in California
SANTA BARBARA, California — The Trump administration is in “active dialogue” on creating a petroleum reserve in California, Energy Secretary Chris Wright told POLITICO on Friday, a move that would boost oil infrastructure in the state and undermine Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s bid to shrink the state’s fossil fuel footprint. A June 2 document that lawyers for Sable Offshore Corp., which owns a trio of oil platforms off the California coast, sent to the Energy Department and seen by...
Top UK minister’s Mandelson messages missing after second reported phone theft
LONDON — Messages between Peter Mandelson and a second high-ranking British government figure are missing from the public disclosures forced by the Jeffrey Epstein scandal because of another reported phone theft, according to documents seen by POLITICO. Nick Thomas-Symonds, the Cabinet minister overseeing the U.K.’s “reset” in relations with the EU, held a formal meeting with Mandelson in January last year about how the then-ambassador might support the ambition from D.C., official...
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...