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For the first time since Brexit, Britain’s international development minister will attend an EU summit as the U.K. and EU ramp up cooperation on aid.
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In tonight's London Playbook PM:
🗳️ Andy Burnham ruled out an election before 2029.
☀️ The PM said he won’t give “special interviews” to the Sun due to its Hillsborough coverage.
🛶 Reform defended a man charged with slashing a migrant boat.
Dig in 👇
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After four years in opposition, Sweden’s former PM Magdalena Andersson is about to retake power.
She aims to use it to fortify Europe’s place in an unstable world.
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ArcelorMittal’s plant in Kryvyi Rih, the largest steelmaking facility in Ukraine, is halting operations due to security concerns amid persistent Russian strikes.
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British PM Andy Burnham flew to New York this week with a dream: the U.K. would set itself up on the world stage as a leading light in AI safety.
He didn’t bank on Donald Trump immediately tearing that idea to shreds.
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The largest opposition party in the Netherlands has chosen to join the European Socialists rather than the Greens in an internal vote, the results of which were announced today.
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Swiss voters will soon decide whether to make the country’s historic neutrality even more legally binding.
A “yes” vote would effectively prevent Switzerland from imposing sanctions on Russia.
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Pope Leo XIV has arrived in the French capital today with a potentially uncomfortable message for Catholics tempted to cast ballots for Marine Le Pen:
Examine your conscience.
Brussels Playbook Capitals has more👇
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EU officials fear growing dependence on American fossil fuels in candidate countries could undermine the bloc’s climate goals.
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Pope Leo XIV has urged France to embrace dialogue and diversity, in a veiled swipe at populists as he arrived in Paris for a four-day visit. politico.eu/article/pope-leo…
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Ukraine needs to secure $27 billion to plug a hole in its defense budget in the next two months or risk being unable to buy weapons early next year, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has told reporters. politico.eu/article/if-ukrai…
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U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham is preparing to travel to Berlin in early October for talks with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, according to two people familiar with preparations for the visit.
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EXCLUSIVE: The EU’s new AI envoy wants Brussels to focus on using artificial intelligence to lift productivity, rather than chasing U.S. and Chinese models.
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France’s far-left leader @JLMelenchon doesn’t want massive foreign-owned data centers built on French soil, he told us at #POLITICOPlaybookLive.
“You also have to realize that the consumption of water and resources is just terrible,” he added.
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The United Nations General Assembly is like Christmas with the extended family:
Hours of extreme tedium, punctuated by the occasional offensive outburst or fistfight.
In his Declassified column, @pdallisonesque revisits the explosive moments at UNGA 👇
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MEPs want American companies held liable for the risks their frontier AI poses to humanity.
How much sway does Europe have in a U.S.-China-dominated race?
@annemcelvoy unpacks it with @jesuitczerny, MEP Axel Voss + @pieter_haeck on #BrusselsPlaybookPod:
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US and Poland near deal for American base with 10,000 troops dlvr.it/TVdPcH
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Pope Leo XIV’s cardinal who heads the Vatican’s Commission on Artificial Intelligence has admitted he doesn’t use AI — despite being four months into a job intended to engage the Church with the AI revolution.
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EXCLUSIVE: A deal between Washington and Berlin is needed to avoid an “impossible” race on drugs, Roberta Metsola has told POLITICO.
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NATO’s top commander has asked allies to share more information about Russian hybrid attacks as the alliance grapples with escalating threats across Europe.
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