EU Confidential

EU's sweaty summer — what you missed (and what matters)

Escape the EU Bubble: Expert Summer Book Picks

The €2 trillion question: Inside the battle over the EU's budget

No-confidence vote: Is the EU Parliament about to break?

Boiling in Brussels: Climate fights and Orbán vs. Pride

Of Daddies and Queens — from Trump to von der Leyen — and who’s really in charge in Europe

What’s really behind Europe’s 5% defense push

All about the €€€: How Bulgaria’s euro dreams could become a nightmare

Can Europe’s Trump counterpunch work? Sanctions, tariffs and a MAGA twist.

Between a smack and a hard place — Poland votes, Orbán provokes, and Brussels shows its teeth

The crown slips: How queen Ursula failed her transparency test

Populist currents and fragile coalitions: Trump’s shadow over Europe

How Trump transformed Europe in just 100 days

A divorce and a birthday: Five years of Brexit, 10 years of POLITICO

Holiday special: Driving toward a trade war with China

Trump blinks on tariffs. Can Europe exhale?

Beautiful beef: Le Pen, Varoufakis and the horseshoe theory of politics

Erdoğan, not Trump, is Europe's new best friend on security

Dirty games in Brussels and war games in Europe

Can EU leaders handle a world on fire?

The US-EU breakup—what does it mean for Ukraine, and for peace?

Can Germany’s next chancellor help Europe deal with Trump?

Germany votes, Trump attacks, Europe reacts

Europe’s future, brought to you by Putin and Trump

How political is your pizza? The Mediterranean Diet and Europe's food battles

Your guide to Trump’s Europe envoys

In Trump's new era: does Europe still matter?

Who’s in charge? What von der Leyen’s absence reveals about the EU

Elon Musk: Europe’s Bloviator-in-Chief

Holiday special: Meet JD Vance’s surprising European support network

Holiday special: Brussels vs Moscow — the EU risks losing its eastern neighbors

Farewell to the EU’s sharpest in-house critic

Inside the POLITICO 28 gala: Europe’s most powerful players (and hangover)

Can Brussels’ new power trio take on Trump?

Romania’s TikTok upset boosts Putin

Scholz on the brink, Rubio in the wings: Europe faces the new Trump era

The challenges to energy security in Europe

What the Commissioner hearings revealed about the EU

How Trump is already breaking Europe

Faith, fear and freedom: European eyes are on the US vote

Brussels vs Moscow: The EU risks losing its eastern neighbors

The world is in crisis and the EU is doing ... nothing?

Driving toward a trade war with China

From 'Fortress Austria' to 'Fortress Europe'?

Ukraine’s 4-month countdown

The EU's new power pyramid and migration escalation

Does Europe’s economy need Mountain Dew?

Brussels’ back-to-school blues

Anne Applebaum on dictators big and small

This burger could kill the EU