Rama says ‘science’, not ‘ideology’, will decide fate of Kushner project
Albania's Prime Minister used a Brussels platform to defend the Adriatic resort scheme that has brought protesters onto the streets since late May.
Mohammed VI makes El Mansouri Morocco’s first woman head of government
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.
Brussels plans to bypass national vetoes in enlarged EU
Leaked drafts show Brussels intends to drop unanimity at most stages of accession and to cut nine countries out of the College of Commissioners.
Spanish Government approves housing decrees it lacks the votes to pass
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.
Portugal’s ruling parties move to charge non-resident foreigners for healthcare
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.
Dutch prosecutors clear doctor in first child euthanasia case
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.
Milei gives Britain two weeks to halt Falklands oil project
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.
Fidesz writes to every MEP after two Orbán-era ministers are detained
The Hungarian opposition has asked the European Parliament to look at what it calls the building of an 'authoritarian regime' in Budapest.
Orbán denounces ‘neo-communist tactics’ as Fidesz rallies behind detained ministers
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…
Pope Leo XIV sets out Europe’s moral foundations in Schuman’s Metz
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…
French charity accused of ‘trafficking’ after children carried to Channel boats
Footage from a beach near Boulogne-sur-Mer shows volunteers in charity tabards leading migrant children towards dinghies bound for Britain.
Former Sevilla and Porto striker Luís Fabiano runs for Brazil’s Congress
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.
US investigates whether Spain’s Indra passed Pentagon technology to China
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…
Britain’s defence secretary tells Milei that Argentina cannot take the Falklands
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.
Vučić quits Serbian presidency to run for prime minister
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.
British police arrest five near air base and evacuate Gloucestershire village
Officers have given no indication of a motive and have not linked the five men to any country, group or cause.
Pope Leo XIV tells UNESCO artificial intelligence cannot answer the search for meaning
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.
Brussels insists EU gas supply is ‘stable’ despite depleted reserves
The European Commission has said households are protected even though storage sites are far emptier than usual ahead of winter.
Pope Leo XIV tells Macron right to life is foundation of all other rights
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.
Socialist-run Lleida bans burqa and niqab in public with Junts and Vox votes
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.
Firefighters find migrant camp in tunnels under Ceuta university campus
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.
Macron warns of Leipzig-style Russian attack on France despite unproven Moscow role
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.
Meloni government bans burqa and niqab in schools and caps foreign pupils per class
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.
EU industry ministers still split over where ‘Made in Europe’ ends
France wants public money kept for factories inside the bloc while Germany, Italy and Spain would let trusted partners such as Britain and Canada in.
Mitsotakis rules out British Museum ‘loan’ as Parthenon Marbles talks stall
Athens has refused any deal that would recognise the London museum’s ownership of the sculptures after reports that five years of negotiations had broken down.
Starbucks orders second wave of North American closures in barely a year
The US coffee chain is to shut some 250 outlets in the US and Canada as its chief executive presses on with a costly overhaul of the business.
German NGO asks European Parliament to seek probe of Greens over anti-Semitism
A citizens' dossier of 41 cases from Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands accuses the European Green Party of failing to act against anti-Jewish rhetoric in its ranks.
Trump rolls out red carpet for Xi as US and China extend trade truce
A senior Republican senator has criticised the "lavish welcome" given to the Chinese leader, who is on his first state visit to the US since 2015.
Swiss voters set to reject bid to lock strict neutrality into constitution
Final polls show a clear majority against a right-wing initiative that would stop Bern from imposing sanctions without a UN mandate, including those on Russia.
Croatia’s wartime grievances threaten Montenegro’s EU accession timetable
Zagreb has kept blocking key negotiating chapters as Podgorica races to wrap up membership talks with Brussels by the end of the year.