[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. LONDON — Britain was rebuffed by the Biden administration after multiple requests to develop an advanced trade and technology dialogue similar to structures the U.S. set up with the European Union. On visits to Washington as a CabinetContinue Reading
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. LONDON — Joe Biden’s “protectionist” Inflation Reduction Act won’t help the U.S. counter the rise of China and could create a “single point of failure” in key supply chains, Britain’s trade chief Kemi Badenoch warned. Speaking at aContinue Reading
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Kaja Kallas had been dreading the call. “I woke at 5 o’clock,” the Estonian prime minister recalled recently. The phone was ringing. Her Lithuanian counterpart was on the line. “Oh my God, it’s really happening,” came the ominousContinue Reading
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS — The images tell the story. In the packed meeting rooms and hallways of Munich’s Hotel Bayerischer Hof last weekend, back-slapping allies pushed an agenda with the kind of forward-looking determination NATO had long sought to portray butContinue Reading
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. LONDON — Boris Johnson may have coined the phrase, but Rishi Sunak hopes he’s the man who can finally claim to have “got Brexit done.” The British prime minister will on Monday host European Commission President Ursula vonContinue Reading
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. LONDON — It was clear when Boris Johnson was forced from Downing Street that British politics had changed forever. But few could have predicted that less than six months later, all angry talk of a cross-Channel trade warContinue Reading
[ad_1] KYIV — Just days before the one-year anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the streets of the capital were suddenly locked down on Monday morning. Then videos of a mysterious procession of vehicles with blacked-out windows began being posted online. Who, wondered many ordinary Ukrainians — trying to go aboutContinue Reading
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Joe Biden’s European friends may be miffed about his climate law. But the U.S. president’s America-first, subsidy-heavy approach has actually gained some grudging — and for a Democrat unlikely — admirers on the Continent: Europe’s conservatives. Within theContinue Reading
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. MUNICH — NATO’s eastern flank has found its voice — but Joe Biden’s visit is a reminder that Western capitals still have the weight. After Russia bombed its way into Ukraine, the military alliance’s eastern members won praise forContinue Reading
[ad_1] “Attention. The air alert is over. May the force be with you.” That voice reading that message, heard on the English version of an app signaling the end of Russian air raids over Ukraine, belongs to Luke Skywalker (well, the actor Mark Hamill). The app received a Star Wars-themed updateContinue Reading