Berlin failed to win a non-permanent seat at the UN Security Council for the first time.
The statue of the kneeling soldier, left, at the Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park, in Berlin, Germany, on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. In stark contrast to former outposts of the Soviet Union dismantling memorials in protest over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Germany's more than 1,000 Soviet monuments are mostly on solid ground, despite opposition to the war and widespread public support for sanctions against Moscow in the country. Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg
The French president has been an early advocate, touting his country’s tech talent and nuclear power.
Emmanuel Macron, France's president, waves as he welcomes Peter Magyar, Hungary's prime minister, to the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, on Wednesday, June 3, 2026. Magyar said he hoped to close “technical” talks with Kyiv this week over a minority rights issue that is holding up the start of Ukraine’s formal negotiations to join the European Union. Photographer: Nathan Laine/Bloomberg
Ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair has weighed in on the state of the UK with a 5,600-word essay.
Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, left , speaks with Tony Blair, center, the Prime Minister of Britain, and Andrus Ansip, the Prime Minister of Estonia, following a photo opportunity during the European Council summit meeting in Brussels, Belgium, Thursday, March 8, 2007. European Union governments set binding targets for the use of renewable energies such as solar and wind power, overcoming an East-West rift, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt said. Photographer:Paul O'Driscoll/Bloomberg News
Workers demand a bigger share of the profit from artificial intelligence.
Samsung Electronics workers attend a rally ahead of a strike in front of the company's P5 semiconductor plant in Pyeongtaek on April 23. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg
Governments are already conducting probes of AI’s energy use.
Golden shovels and a hardhat in the dirt following a groundbreaking ceremony at the Portsmouth Site in Piketon, Ohio, US, on Friday, March 20, 2026. SoftBank Group Corp. is working to deliver a data center-focused infrastructure project in Ohio so massive that Chief Executive Officer Masayoshi Son said it would channel $500 billion into a single campus. Photographer: Brian Kaiser/Bloomberg
Russia and NATO are facing off in an echo of Cold War-era anti-submarine warfare.
The tunnel entrance to the Norwegian Joint Headquarters at Reitan in Bod on Monday March 2, 2026. The Norwegian Joint Headquarters is a fortified command complex built within a mountain that coordinates with NATO allies and monitors regional security and military operations in the High North.
NATO is fighting back against Russia's submarine threat in cat-and-mouse games reminiscent of the Cold War
Putin attends a flag-raising ceremony in Severodvinsk in this photo supplied by Russian state media on July 24, 2025. Photographer: Alexander Kazakov/Sputnik/AFP/Getty Images
The beleaguered chancellor just can’t seem to catch a break.
Friedrich Merz, Germany's chancellor, during a news conference at the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) headquarters in Berlin, Germany, on Monday, March 23, 2026. Merz's party dislodged the Social Democrats from power after 35 years in a southwestern German state, notching a win for a conservative leader struggling to gain nationwide traction among voters. Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg
Such a clear rejection hasn’t been witnessed since Europe refused to bow to demands for control of Greenland.
A demonstrator carries Israeli and Iranian lion and sun flags near the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Saturday, March 7, 2026. President Donald Trump said the US will consider striking areas and groups of people in Iran that were not previously considered targets, escalating a week-long war that's upended energy markets and reverberated worldwide. Photographer: Alex Wroblewski/Bloomberg
Marc Rubio offered a hand of partnership to Europe, but on US terms.
Police officers in front of the Hotel Bayrischer Hof on the final day of the 62nd Munich Security Conference Photographer: Kay Nietfeld/picture alliance/Getty Images
If there was one moment on day one that captured the essence of this year’s Munich Security Conference, it came from Mike Waltz, US ambassador to the United Nations.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the Munich Security Conference on Feb. 13.
Four years on from Russia’s full-scale invasion, the economic, political and security fallout is reverberating far beyond Ukraine’s borders.
Rescue services search for victims under wreckage after an air strike on a residential building in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Tuesday, June 17, 2025. Russian air assaults on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure have intensified in recent weeks � this is the most deadly since at least April.
Investors and the voting public can only guess at the scale of the disruption ahead.
SHANGHAI, CHINA - JULY 05: Visitors view AI digital anchor Guan Xiaofang at Kuaishou booth during the 2024 World AI Conference & High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance at Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center on July 5, 2024 in Shanghai, China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images) Photographer: VCG/Visual China Group
As the US president takes a wrecking ball to the world order, EU leaders hope to dissuade him in Switzerland.
US President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House before boarding Marine One in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. Trump signed an executive order Tuesday seeking to advance his effort to ban large institutional investors from buying single-family homes, before a trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos where he’s expected to lay out his efforts to address affordability concerns. Photographer: Aaron Schwartz/CNP/Bloomberg
While Reform UK soars at Starmer’s expense, Scots and Welsh voters are backing left-wing nationalists.
Keir Starmer, UK prime minister, delivers a speech in London, UK, on Monday, Dec. 1, 2025. Starmer said he’ll make a renewed push to curb UK welfare spending, as he vies to revive his ailing premiership and sell a budget which was poorly received by voters. Photographer: Tolga Akmen/EPA/Bloomberg
The EU pulled back on an effective ban on combustion engines.
Electric vehicles on the assembly line at the BYD Co. factory in Zhengzhou, Henan province, China, on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025. BYD is building a lead over Tesla Inc. in the UK and is now neck-and-neck with the Elon Musk-led company in Germany, two of Europe's biggest markets for plug-in cars. Photographer: Bloomberg/Bloomberg
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