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WORLD MIGRATION
Ordinary European tourists mostly travel without one, though officials and regulators in Brussels have already been caught by Washington's widening net.
FROM THE CAPITALS CORRUPTION
Guardia Civil officers travelled in secret to Badajoz to question two members of drug clans approached by Leire Díez's network.
EU BUBBLE TRADE
The Council has agreed a negotiating mandate that tightens import rules while handing longer approvals to pesticides still used inside the EU.
ELECTIONS WORLD
The Prime Minister used his first Labour conference speech to promise a manifesto pledge to replace Britain's voting system, without once naming Nigel Farage.
POLITICS WORLD
The EuroChem founder says Russia and Europe will ultimately have to find a way to coexist and trade, and that the question is what rules will govern them.
FROM THE CAPITALS TECH
The 24-year-old was seized in Amsterdam six days before the hacking group claimed to have broken into an FBI recruitment site.
CULTURE WAR WORLD
New York's first municipal plan against anti-Jewish hatred commits millions to security and education though it declines to define the term.
BUREAUCRACY TRADE
Albania's Prime Minister used a Brussels platform to defend the Adriatic resort scheme that has brought protesters onto the streets since late May.
POLITICS WORLD
The PAM leader takes charge of a government Brussels relies on to police the EU's southern border, six days after an election in which fewer than four in 10 voters took part.
EU BUBBLE BUREAUCRACY
Leaked drafts show Brussels intends to drop unanimity at most stages of accession and to cut nine countries out of the College of Commissioners.
FROM THE CAPITALS BUREAUCRACY
Two royal decree-laws extend eviction protection and freeze thousands of tenancies, though both depend on parties that have already walked away from the table.
FROM THE CAPITALS MIGRATION
A bill from the two parties backing Prime Minister Luís Montenegro would oblige illegal migrants and non-residents to pay for treatment, with an exception for emergencies.
FROM THE CAPITALS CULTURE WAR
The child, born at 26 weeks with severe brain damage, died at the end of 2025 in the first use of a regulation that exists nowhere else in the world.
ENERGY AND CLIMATE WORLD
Buenos Aires has threatened to take the Sea Lion development to a United Nations maritime tribunal in a dispute that also touches EU trade policy.
EU BUBBLE DEMOCRACY
The Hungarian opposition has asked the European Parliament to look at what it calls the building of an 'authoritarian regime' in Budapest.
FROM THE CAPITALS CORRUPTION
Fidesz MEPs and the party's leadership have compared the cases against Balázs Hankó and Miklós Seszták to communist-era show trials and to the prosecutions of Poland's…
FROM THE CAPITALS CULTURE WAR
The Pontiff closed his French visit with a defence of the family, the welcome of the stranger and human life at every stage, in the city of one of the European Union's founding…
FROM THE CAPITALS MIGRATION
Footage from a beach near Boulogne-sur-Mer shows volunteers in charity tabards leading migrant children towards dinghies bound for Britain.
ELECTIONS WORLD
The Brazilian forward will be on the ballot in São Paulo on October 4, at an election that renews the whole of a parliament Brussels now has to deal with.
FROM THE CAPITALS DEFENCE
American defence businessmen have told the US Department of Commerce that the state-backed Spanish contractor resold their technology through China, with Spain's consulate…
WORLD DEFENCE
Wes Streeting said the question was settled in 1982, while Brussels keeps out of a dispute that now runs through its trade ties with Buenos Aires.
ELECTIONS WORLD
The Serbian leader has stepped down seven months early, clearing the way for a return as head of government if his party wins the October 25 election.
WORLD DEFENCE
Officers have given no indication of a motive and have not linked the five men to any country, group or cause.
CULTURE WAR TECH
The first papal address to the UN body in 46 years came as the European Commission moved to loosen parts of its own AI rulebook.
EU BUBBLE ENERGY AND CLIMATE
The European Commission has said households are protected even though storage sites are far emptier than usual ahead of winter.
FROM THE CAPITALS CULTURE WAR
In his first speech on French soil, the Pontiff condemned surrogacy and assisted death in the palace where France's end-of-life law was signed in August.
FROM THE CAPITALS CULTURE WAR
The Spanish city has returned to a veto on full-face veils that Supreme Court struck down in 2013, this time framed as a matter of women's rights rather than security.
FROM THE CAPITALS INSECURITY
Residents had suspected for weeks that people who entered during the July invasion were hiding underground as numbers on the city's beaches kept rising.
FROM THE CAPITALS TERRORISM
The French President said the German airport drone marked a shift from hybrid warfare to war, though no one has been charged and Berlin has not published its evidence.
FROM THE CAPITALS CULTURE WAR
Parents whose children struggle with Italian will also be ordered to attend free language courses, with fines of up to €1,000 for those who refuse.