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Politico Europe

🇧🇪BE · digital · independent · politico.eu

Spectrum	Left Centre-left Centre Centre-right Right State / loyalist An estimate, not a score.
Founded	2015-04-21 — launch of Politico Europe (launch event in Brussels on 21 April 2015, attended by Donald Tusk and Martin Schulz; first print issue followed two days later on 23 April 2015) · source
Headquarters	Rue de la Loi 62, 1040 Brussels, Belgium · source
Funding	Self-describes as "a growing, profitable, and sustainable news organization"; revenue includes subscriptions (POLITICO Pro, launched 2011) alongside advertising/commercial revenue as a subsidiary of Axel Springer SE. No state funding or state ownership indicated in any source found.
Reach	The wider POLITICO organization (of which Politico Europe is the European operation) states "1,100+ publishing professionals across the world's key democratic capitals—Washington, Brussels, London, Paris, Berlin, Sacramento, and New York"; this figure is company-wide, not Europe-specific.
Identity	Wikipedia

Bias we have measured in their reporting

Actor named vaguely

The opponents are 'other capitals', with no country named — in 1 article

With no actor named accusation

The coup accusation is in the passive; the accuser is not named — in 1 article

Asserted vs attributed

The contradiction is stated as fact by the report, sourced only to unspecified official notes — in 1 article

Asserted vs attributed

the stall stated flat in the headline, with Athens named as the actor that rejected — in 1 article

From 1192 articles we hold, with the quote behind every tag.

Claims we checked that rest on their reporting: 5 misleading5 disputed11 unverified21 true
A verdict is on the sentence we checked, not on the outlet. An outlet that files a lot is checked a lot.

Ownership

Holder	Type	Stake	Control	Instrument	Since	Source
Axel Springer SE	company	not disclosed	yes	equity	—	link
Friede Springer and Mathias Döpfner (combined stake)	person	98%	yes	equity	—	link
Axel Sven Springer	person	2%	—	equity	—	link

Percentages appear only where a source states them. "Not disclosed" means nobody published a number, not that we did not look.

Editorial control

Jamil Anderlini

Regional Director, Europe

Leads POLITICO's strategy across its European business; previously Editor-in-Chief of POLITICO's European newsroom, and before that spent six years at the Financial Times including as Asia Editor and Beijing Bureau Chief.

Kate Day

Senior Executive Editor, Europe

Oversees POLITICO's European newsrooms in Brussels, London, Berlin, Paris and Madrid; with POLITICO's European operation since its 2015 founding, previously Deputy Editor-in-Chief for Europe.

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Aitor Hernández-Morales

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Diplomatic Reporter · diplomacy · European Council · EU foreign affairs · energy crisis

Brussels-based reporter leading POLITICO's coverage of the European Council and EU diplomacy; author of "Ashes of our Fathers: Inside the Fall of Nagorno-Karabakh" (Hurst / Oxford University Press, 2025).

Gerardo Fortuna

Brussels Playbook Author and Politics Reporter · European Commission · agriculture · health policy · food policy · EU institutions

Politics reporter at POLITICO covering EU institutions with a focus on the European Commission; previously Senior EU Policy Reporter at Euronews and a reporter at Euractiv.

Max Griera

EU Politics Reporter · European Parliament · EU institutions · rule of law · migration policy

European Parliament correspondent for POLITICO, author of the EU Transition Playbook; previously a politics reporter at Euractiv covering the 2024 EU election campaign.

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