Turkey and Pakistan send troops to Saudi Arabia as Mecca defence pact is invoked
The first activation of the August alliance comes while Brussels is still asking member states for a handful of extra frigates to keep Red Sea shipping moving.
Brussels sends Moldova more growth plan cash as two reform targets go unmet
The third payment under the €1.9 billion facility takes the total made available to Chișinău to €661 million, with around two-thirds of the package still to come.
Hungary set to lift block on next stage of Ukraine and Moldova EU talks
Budapest would let two more negotiating clusters move forward if Kyiv passes a minority schools law, though Péter Magyar's veto on membership itself has not gone away.
Rubio lands in Iceland as US tightens its Arctic grip
The visit comes two weeks after Washington sealed a security pact on Greenland and five weeks after Icelanders voted against reopening European Union accession talks.
Brussels reservists struggle to get leave as EU preaches defence readiness
Two European Commission officials who serve in the French reserve forces say the EU executive's staff rules do not match its own calls for a war-ready Europe.
US withdraws bombers from British base at centre of Iran plot inquiry
The aircraft left RAF Fairford a week after a security alert that Prime Minister Andy Burnham has linked to Iran.
France keeps up to 500 schools shut as pupil revolt enters third week
Lessons have been suspended in between 400 and 500 French secondary schools on October 5, among them more than a third of the lycées in the Paris region.
Russia and Ukraine vow deeper strikes
Moscow has promised to intensify attacks on the Ukrainian capital after Zelensky said Kyiv would hit Russian refineries harder, while Germany signed 15 agreements worth more…
Netanyahu pledges more submarines and warships as sea becomes ‘international battlefield’
Israel's naval expansion rests on German shipyards at a time when Berlin's arms exports to the country are running at record levels.
Nationalist parties tighten grip on Bosnia as Dodik claims victory off the ballot
Record-low turnout and the fall of the Croat presidency seat to HDZ BiH point to a hardening ethnic divide as Bosnia's EU bid stalls.
ECB pushes cross-border bank mergers to close the gap with the US
Boris Vujčić said domestic takeovers had left euro area lenders without the scale to match American rivals, though fewer banks would also mean less choice for customers.
Eurozone inflation hits three-year high
The rate climbed to 3.8 per cent in September, almost double the European Central Bank's target, with the war between the United States and Iran still driving up fuel bills.
US diesel export ban threat presses Europe to open emergency fuel stocks
Washington has asked the European Union to release 120 million barrels from emergency stocks, with member states meeting the European Commission on October 2 to agree a common…
Bukele and the ICC compete for the European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize
Six candidates are in the running for the European Union's top human rights award, among them an Israeli Jewish-Arab movement and a detained Gaza doctor.
Patriots.eu takes European Parliament to court over ‘double standard’ in party funding
The posters the Parliament refuses to pay for carried Marine Le Pen and Matteo Salvini, and the party says liberal campaigns did the same without penalty.
Zelensky asks EU again for money to strike deeper into Russia
The Ukrainian president pressed European ambassadors in Kyiv to release unspent defence loans, hours before announcing the first combat use of Ukraine's own ballistic missile.
Ireland races to rescue EU capital markets overhaul
Dublin has a week left to bridge a decade-old split over who polices Europe's financial markets.
Brussels threatens Spain with court action over consumer credit delay
The European Commission has given Madrid two months to adopt the bloc's new credit rules before asking judges to impose financial penalties.
Denmark calls out Home Guard volunteers in largest exercise since the Cold War
Exercise Blåtand puts armed volunteers into more than 40 Danish towns a week after the country's military intelligence service warned that Russia would step up its hybrid…
Spanish King sets date for first visit to Ceuta and Melilla since the invasion
Felipe VI and Queen Letizia will travel to the two Spanish cities on October 13 and 14, nearly 19 years after the last visit by a Spanish monarch.
Commission proposes cross-border network to keep emergency services talking
Magnus Brunner says a firefighter who crosses an internal border today loses radio contact, though the new system would not start operating until 2030.
Italy keeps Schengen checks on Spain two months after Ceuta invasion
Rome says the risks left by the July invasion have not receded, while the European Commission has still not ruled on either set of controls.
Romania lodges final EU recovery claim hours after another cabinet falls
Bucharest met the deadline with minutes to spare, though five months without a government have already cost the country hundreds of millions of euros.
State Department strips a quarter of a million visas under Trump
Ordinary European tourists mostly travel without one, though officials and regulators in Brussels have already been caught by Washington's widening net.
Drug clan leader says she was asked to ‘eliminate’ judge who investigated Sánchez’s brother
Guardia Civil officers travelled in secret to Badajoz to question two members of drug clans approached by Leire Díez's network.
Member states back near-zero residue limits for banned pesticides in imported food
The Council has agreed a negotiating mandate that tightens import rules while handing longer approvals to pesticides still used inside the EU.
Burnham stakes next election on scrapping first past the post
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.
Russian billionaire Andrey Melnichenko calls for new Russia-West coexistence model
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.
Dutch police arrest alleged ShinyHunters leader suspected of plotting murders abroad
The 24-year-old was seized in Amsterdam six days before the hacking group claimed to have broken into an FBI recruitment site.
Mamdani unveils anti-Semitism strategy days after Netanyahu clash at the UN
New York's first municipal plan against anti-Jewish hatred commits millions to security and education though it declines to define the term.