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Fratelli d’Italia senator revives run-off plan for new electoral law
Around 697 amendments have been filed in the Senate committee, with a final vote set for September 15.
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Von der Leyen and Rutte meet in Brussels over ‘Russian hybrid attacks’
Talks at the Berlaymont come a day after Berlin said Moscow was behind the explosive-laden drone found at Leipzig/Halle airport.
Sánchez turns on the Spanish King over Ceuta hours before meeting him
The Spanish Prime Minister said Felipe VI had never set foot in the city, in a reign he overstated by eight years.
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Iceland joins Norway: Fish and sovereignty keep the Nordic outsiders beyond Brussels’s reach
Rural constituencies delivered the majorities in both electorates, and left governments defending an arrangement they never chose.
A sovereign nation: Iceland rejects reopening EU accession talks
Fishing communities overturned an early lead for the "Yes" camp in Reykjavík, denying Brussels the enlargement success story it had hoped for.
French Greens split over rallying behind Mélenchon for presidency
Calls to drop the party's own candidate and back the left-wing veteran are growing louder, though its 2022 standard-bearer Yannick Jadot has defected to rival Raphaël Glucksmann…
Norway’s King Harald, Europe’s oldest reigning monarch, dies at 89
Harald V's death after 35 years on the throne passes the crown automatically to his son, King Haakon VIII, and makes his granddaughter Ingrid Alexandra heir to a monarchy…
National emergency: Gun violence in Brussels outpaces the institutions meant to contain it
Federal and regional authorities agreed on 40 extra police officers, 20 mobile cameras and an additional infantry platoon at a security council.
Spanish police shield Ceuta migrant camp from residents
Officers fired warning shots on El Trampolín beach as demonstrators pulled down tents at a settlement the city government has asked Madrid to clear.
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Kelin’s exit predates the drone row used to explain Moscow’s London vacancy
Retirement, a thin bench of candidates and a pattern already seen in Brussels and Vilnius may explain more than retaliation.
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Ireland moves to tighten citizenship after five years above 100,000 arrivals
Some 110,600 people came to the State in the 12 months to April 2026, and 24,059 became Irish citizens in 2024, the highest annual figure in a decade.
Spain’s intelligence services warned before the Ceuta assault
The CNI picked up a call to cross on July 29 and passed what it had to the security forces and the Government Delegation.
Mohammed VI pardons 634 as Moroccan offender numbers increase in Europe
The King used a religious holiday to release extremism convicts by decree, days after tens of thousands crossed into Ceuta
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US Supreme Court clears path for Trump mail-voting curbs before midterms
The 6-3 ruling lifted a lower-court injunction but left the legality of the executive order itself undecided.
Zelensky blocks Ukrainian elections again, calling a wartime vote a ‘tsunami’
The President, whose mandate ran out in 2024, has once more ruled out the ballot his ousted defence minister is demanding.
Ceuta emergency calls rise tenfold to 200 a day after invasion
Officers in the city were working shifts of up to 16 hours and sleeping in army barracks, the union said.
Meloni admits relationship with Trump ‘would be easier’
The Italian Prime Minister says she has not spoken to the US President for weeks and that Rome's strategy does not turn on personal ties.
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Hungarian public television resumes news after government-ordered blackout
Weeks earlier the Prime Minister overturned an editorial appointment at the broadcaster with a comment on Facebook.
Member states split over Brussels’s ‘Buy European’ procurement plan
Governments and MEPs remained at odds over how much of the EU's public spending should be reserved for home-made goods.
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European banks raid Wall Street to close the investment banking gap
Barclays recruited Bank of America's Mike Joo to co-lead its investment bank, the latest senior hire from a US rival by a European lender that has been losing ground in dealmaking.
Portugal bans face coverings in public as President signs Chega bill
The Socialist head of state has approved a measure first tabled by the party of the man he defeated in February's presidential run-off.
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How the Danish migration model works, from the border to the doorstep
Denmark built its migration system on four pillars over a decade, and reduced asylum approvals to the lowest level in 40 years.
Spanish business group plans Hispanidad theme park in Pizarro’s home town
The promoters of Ciudad Hispánica put the cost at €700 million and say it would create more than 700 direct jobs in one of Spain's poorest regions.
Brussels urges immediate return of Ceuta’s unaccompanied minors to Morocco
The European Commission said EU law covered the removal of children as well as adults, while it welcomed Madrid's pledge that nobody would be moved to the Spanish mainland.
Spanish police check more than 5,000 arrivals from Italy in Sánchez’s row with Meloni
Spanish police have identified 5,080 arrivals on 462 flights since the retaliatory controls began on August 8, with no sign that Rome will drop its own measures.
Guardia Civil confirms 15 rapes in Ceuta and detains man wanted by Interpol
The man was held during reinforced checks at the frontier and remains in the enclave while his extradition is processed.
Coal falls to a record low in EU electricity as grid costs and taxes keep bills high
Eurostat figures show the fuel now generates less than a tenth of the bloc's power, though the retreat has not delivered cheaper electricity for consumers.
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Austria denies meeting Hungarian water official sent abroad during Danube crisis
Fidesz has accused a minister in Péter Magyar's Government of lying about why the state secretary for water management left the country at the height of the energy emergency.
Brussels targets social media over Ceuta as Morocco has been offered more EU support
The European Commission has brought the 27 member states into its campaign against online disinformation, while Morocco stays off the agenda.
Spain records Europe’s steepest fall in young people living independently
Fewer than a third of Spaniards aged 18 to 34 now live without financial help from their parents, against roughly half across the European Union.