Bloomberg Britain is edging closer to a general election after parliament rejected Theresa May’s Brexit deal for a third time, deepening the political crisis that has overtaken the country’s bitter divorce from the European Union. Speaking after the result of the vote was announced, the prime minister gave a veiled warning that an election could be necessary to end the ...

Bloomberg Slovaks are voting in a presidential runoff that will probably lift a liberal pro-European Union lawyer to the nation’s highest office in a rebuke of the populism that’s sweeping parts of the bloc’s ex-communist wing. Zuzana Caputova, a 45-year-old, captured a strong lead in support before the ballot. Poised to become Slovakia’s first woman president, she swept up more ...

Russian claims this week that they’ve been exonerated by Robert Mueller’s final report make my skin crawl. But they highlight the critical question of how the US and Russia can begin to move back towards a saner relationship. Frankly speaking (as Russians like to say), the first step is for Russia to stop pretending that it didn’t meddle in the ...