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Vladimir Putin wants to re-establish the old borders of the USSR. We know that. In 2014 he annexed Crimea. Next, he invaded Ukraine.
Turkey's parliament approved Sweden's NATO membership bid on Tuesday following more than four hours of debate, clearing a last major hurdle to expand the Western…
It’s a tough time to be a Brit - the state of the country is not good. It’s even tougher, though, to be a Conservative Brit.
The prospects of European Union presence and influence in the Sahel region of Western and North-central Africa seems grim to non-existent.
Polish prison authorities have decided to force-feed Mariusz Kamiński, one of two opposition MPs from the Conservative (PiS) on hunger strike in prison.
Europe's immigration and border control strategy is still "encouraging irregular migration", an MEP has claimed.
French regulator Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL) fined Amazon France Logistique €32 million for what the CNIL said was an "excessively…
Legal protections against online child-sex abuse (CSA) are facing a regulatory "cliff edge", NGOs have warned the European Union.
A Polish court has ruled that the decision by culture minister Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz to “liquidate” the country’s public television and radio stations is…
Last Thursday, in a worrying development for freedom of speech in Europe, the European Parliament voted to add hate speech and hate crime to the list of ‘EU Crimes’.
French farmers in tractors and trucks expanded their roadblocks, resulting in numerous traffic jams and a fatal accident, as unions urged the Government to address…
European Union foreign ministers have reached a decision "in principle" to launch a naval mission to help secure merchant shipping in the Red Sea, overcoming Spanish…
The Israeli and Palestinian foreign ministers are to meet their European Union counterparts on Monday as the EU considers potential steps toward a comprehensive…
Belgium has managed to break into the so-called "Club Med" - Mediterranean countries with higher government debt to GDP ratios - and has surpassed Portugal in such…
The leaders of Poland and Ukraine pledged to tackle a thorny political dispute that had hampered their critical wartime alliance and boost defence cooperation as…
The European Union will take the next step this week in its effort to recreate itself into a global power that can leverage its massive single market to rebuff coercive…
Germany's Government is examining the possibility of banning the populist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party from receiving State funding.
Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in Germany to demonstrate against the populist right-wing Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, seen by many…
French farmers declared a week of intensive protests targeting the European Green Deal, amid ongoing demonstrations against the plan across the continent.
The European Union is auditing Member States' military aid to Ukraine, with Germany complaining France is not pulling its weight, as others see things differently.
European Commissioner Didier Reynders has visited Warsaw as the EC once again eyes Poland’s rule-of-law dispute.
As European elections 2024 loom, Russia's “espionage tactics” targeting European Union politicians and EU military establishments, among others, are becoming…
Much of the media broadcasting from Poland want us to believe that the biggest challenge for the new liberal government in Warsaw is judicial reform.
Among the countries to keep an eye on in the next 12 months is Belgium.
MEPs and the European Council reached a final agreement over further measures to strengthen the European Union's arsenal against sanctions evasion, money laundering…
Louis Le Pensec, the distinguished former French minister, passed away on January 10, 2024, at the age of 87, leaving behind a legacy of political service and advocacy.
After vetoing reforms to the Eurozone bailout fund, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has challenged its managing director, Pierre Gramegna, to find a “better…
The centre-right European People's Party (EPP) is promising the creation of a European Union “Cyber Brigade”.
Gender policies have become a major dividing line in contemporary politics.
The European Commission has launched preliminary investigations into almost all Big Tech companies as designated under the European Union's new Digital Services…
