Politics

Bloomberg The leader of Sweden’s four-party opposition Alliance called an early end to his attempts to form a government as the Nordic nation struggles to find political stability more than a month after an inconclusive election. After meeting with the speaker of parliament on Sunday in Stockholm, Moderate Party leader Ulf Kristersson said he remains ready to be prime minister, ...

Bloomberg European Union leaders are considering holding a crisis summit in November to draw up contingency plans in case the UK crashes out of the bloc without a deal, EU diplomats said. If a meeting of EU chiefs in Brussels this week fails to make “decisive progress,” the bloc could switch to Brexit no-deal mode and turn a gathering penciled ...

Bloomberg China’s ambassador to the US said Beijing has no choice but to respond to what he described as a trade war started by the US. “We never wanted a trade war, but if somebody started a trade war against us, we have to respond and defend our own interests,” Ambassador Cui Tiankai said on “Fox News Sunday” in a ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump said migrant families may think twice about illegally crossing the US border from Mexico if they fear they’ll be separated by the US government, suggesting he’s rethinking a policy abandoned in July after widespread public condemnation. “We have people trying to come in like never before,” Trump told reporters as he departed the White House for ...

Bloomberg Anwar Ibrahim has emerged as the winner in a district by-election, clearing the way for the formerly jailed leader to become the nation’s eighth prime minister. Anwar, 71, leader of the largest party in the ruling coalition, is set to be inaugurated on Monday after winning 71 percent of votes against six other candidates for a parliament seat, the ...

Bloomberg Moderate Party Leader Ulf Kristersson has urged his center-right coalition allies to help end Sweden’s political gridlock by joining him in a minority government ahead of a Tuesday deadline. Writing in a Facebook post, Kristersson said he had given the other three members of the Alliance a few days to consider whether they “can and want to” join the ...

Bloomberg UK and European Union officials are discussing a new proposal to solve the last major hurdle in Brexit talks and soothe the concerns of Prime Minister Theresa May’s Northern Irish allies, according to diplomats familiar with the situation. Talks are stuck on the issue of the Irish border and a guarantee, or so-called backstop clause in the divorce treaty, ...

Bloomberg Way behind in the opinion polls and struggling to shore up second-round support from other political parties, Fernando Haddad’s presidential campaign has reached crunch point. His Workers’ Party, or PT, had hoped that support for the candidate would start flooding in shortly after the results came out on Sunday night. But their expectation of a broad “democratic front” has ...

Bloomberg Five months after a democratic “velvet revolution” that ousted Armenia’s former rulers, an ex-president with close ties to the Kremlin says he’s returning to politics to challenge the new government. Robert Kocharyan, who’s facing possible imprisonment over the deaths of protesters at the end of his presidency a decade ago, criticized the “revolutionary romanticism” of the authorities under Prime ...

Bloomberg Taiwanese leader Tsai Ing-wen cautioned China against any efforts to interfere in local elections next month, in a toughly worded speech that mirrored US Vice President Mike Pence’s own rebuke to Beijing. Tsai made the remarks during a National Day address in Taipei, in which she described China as a threat to the international order. The Taiwanese president used ...