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Smart Legals Emerges From Property Investment Consultancy Rebrand

  • Business
  • James Mitchell
  • Mar 3, 2026
  • GB

Property Investment Consultancy has rebranded as Smart Legals, signalling an expanded focus on tax-efficient property investment strategies alongside its established portfolio of UK development opport...

US or Russia should not dictate EU’s enlargement timeline, says French minister

  • Politics
  • Nicholas Vinocur
  • Mar 3, 2026

Ukraine's membership is a bargaining chip in ongoing U.S.-led peace talks. But Brussels shouldn't be pressured, France's Europe minister says.

Rahm accuses DP World Tour of 'extorting players'

  • Sports
  • Mar 3, 2026

Jon Rahm claims the DP World Tour is "extorting players" as he outlined why he is not among a group of LIV Golf competitors to have signed a settlement enabling them to play in both organisations' tou...

Investing in cancer innovation

  • Politics
  • Gilles Marrache, senior vice president, regional general manager, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, Africa and Canada, Amgen
  • Mar 3, 2026

Funding oncology research is not just a moral imperative, but also a strategic choice that can drive competitiveness and productivity

Q&A: Families shouldn’t have to coordinate Sweden’s rare disease care

  • Politics
  • POLITICO Studio
  • Mar 3, 2026

A Q&A with Zozan Sewger Kvist, CEO of rare disease competence center Ågrenska, on stalled reform, uneven access to care in Europe and the limits of regulation.

Why Khamenei’s killing hit Putin where it hurts

  • Politics
  • Eva Hartog
  • Mar 3, 2026

U.S. strikes on Iran will have deepened the Russian president’s paranoia, and his desire to win in Ukraine.

Trump’s Iran gamble risks leaving Ukraine as forgotten war 

  • Politics
  • Tim Ross, Veronika Melkozerova, Esther Webber, Zoya Sheftalovich
  • Mar 3, 2026

Europeans fear a distracted U.S. will lose interest in pushing Putin toward peace — as America depletes stocks of the missiles that Ukraine desperately needs. 

Furious graduates give UK’s Starmer another reason to be fearful

  • Politics
  • Noah Keate
  • Mar 3, 2026

Vast student debts have left Britain's Gen Z in despair. Labour MPs are worried, and their political opponents are circling.

Iran crisis puts EU foreign policy turf war back in spotlight

  • Politics
  • Gerardo Fortuna, Gabriel Gavin, Max Griera, Zoya Sheftalovich
  • Mar 3, 2026

The EU's top leadership is responding in parallel rather than tandem — as the bloc scrambles to find a united front.

David and Goliath in Brussels

  • Politics
  • Michael Jäger, president, Taxpayers Association of Europe
  • Mar 3, 2026

​​​Why Europe’s taxpayers are drawing a line.

Germany’s Merz aims to sweet talk Trump on Ukraine and tariffs

  • Politics
  • James Angelos, Nette Nöstlinger, Eli Stokols
  • Mar 2, 2026

In an Oval Office meeting Tuesday, the chancellor will tell the president what he wants to hear on Iran to keep Washington aligned with Europe on Ukraine.

Hungary’s Orbán leverages oil price shock from Iran war in his election battle

  • Politics
  • Max Griera, Gabriel Gavin, Ben Munster
  • Mar 2, 2026

The prime minister's party accuses the opposition of conspiring with the EU and Kyiv to deprive Hungary of access to cheap Russian oil — a cushion against price spikes.