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EU BUBBLE FINANCE
Ministers did agree the outline of several new instruments, including a single national and regional plan for each country.
EU BUBBLE FROM THE CAPITALS
A French-led push to reform the EU's foreign service has exposed a growing power struggle between them.
ELECTIONS EU BUBBLE
For the first time, the EU is negotiating membership with a country under invasion and a neighbour living in the war's shadow.
CORRUPTION
The move follows the discovery of a cache of jewels in a safe at Zapatero's Madrid office.
EU BUBBLE TECH AND AI
The company behind ChatGPT said the new hub would open in the second half of 2026.
IMMIGRATION
Under the new framework, anyone arriving irregularly must now pass through a common screening before being formally admitted.
EU BUBBLE INDUSTRIAL POLICY
The companies said prolonged uncertainty threatened not only their own expertise and resources but also the stability of their partners and supply chains.
EU BUBBLE IMMIGRATION
The EU's fundamental rights watchdog has warned that surging housing costs are eroding the basic right to a home.
CONSUMER RIGHTS CORRUPTION
Football's world governing body FIFA has come under investigation by several authorities in the United States over the ticket-pricing practices behind the 2026 World Cup,…
CULTURE WAR IMMIGRATION
A knife attack have again drawn in established political actors in both Ireland and the UK, in a sequence that has repeated itself from Dublin to Southport.
ENERGY AND CLIMATE EU BUBBLE
This year's programme has placed affordable housing and what the Commission calls democratic engagement at its centre.
FROM THE CAPITALS
The message landed in a deeply divided chamber, where the Pontiff reserved some of his sharpest words for Spain's combative politics.
CORRUPTION
An investigating judge has raised the prospect of prosecuting the ruling party itself, a step that could in theory end in its dissolution.
EU BUBBLE
Police sealed off the Paseo de la Castellana as the Corpus Christi mass drew a crowd far beyond forecasts on the first papal visit to Spain in 15 years.
CORRUPTION
Figaredo said Sánchez continued to receive support from the European Commission, trade unions and employers' organisations.
EU BUBBLE
The critical phase of the special security plan would be activated from midnight on June 6 and run until the visit ends on June 12.
CORRUPTION
The Guardia Civil's investigative unit told the National Court that money routed through the party paid for an effort to derail cases reaching the prime minister's circle.
EU BUBBLE FROM THE CAPITALS
The shift came during a meeting of ambassadors in Brussels, where the Hungarian representative signalled the withdrawal of objections.
IMMIGRATION
The report, published by the Danube Institute, defines a migrant plotter as anyone born outside Europe who spent their childhood in a non-European country.
ELECTIONS IMMIGRATION
The kirpan symbolises a duty to defend the faith and protect the weak, and is usually a small, sheathed dagger worn out of sight.
CORRUPTION
The text was signed by the Council's standing committee, chaired by Isabel Perelló, who has presided over both the CGPJ and the Supreme Court since September 2024.
EU BUBBLE IMMIGRATION
The regulation would also raise the maximum detention period for those awaiting return from six months to 24 months.
EU BUBBLE IMMIGRATION
EU governments are weighing how to handle the bloc's temporary protection scheme when it next comes up for renewal.
ELECTIONS
With most of the conservative vote now consolidating behind him, the right-wing lawyer enters the June 21 run-off as favourite against a divided left led by Petro's chosen…
EU BUBBLE
"Only a few weeks have passed, but we can already feel a strong wind of change across Hungary," von der Leyen said.
EU BUBBLE WAR
"Russia's war of aggression has crossed yet another line," von der Leyen said in a post on social media.
US WAR
The emerging memorandum of understanding would pause the fighting while both sides negotiate over Iran's nuclear programme, sanctions relief and regional security.
CORRUPTION
A judge at Spain's National Court (Audiencia Nacional) has linked the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) to an alleged scheme set up to "systematically and continuously…
EU BUBBLE FINANCE
The European Central Bank holds close to 40 per cent of some governments' debt.
FROM THE CAPITALS
The 45-minute meeting on May 27, 2026, has unfolded as agents of the Guardia Civil have been searching the Madrid headquarters of his Spanish Socialist Workers' Party.