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CORRUPTION ELECTIONS
Marine Le Pen's National Rally has been hit with a judicial investigation into suspicions of illicit financing of her presidential campaign in 2022.
NEWS
Sweden is to review policy regarding migrant family reunification, looking to implement more stringent procedures to lower the number of arrivals.
BUREAUCRACY INDUSTRIAL POLICY
Germany's second-largest automotive supplier, ZF Friedrichshafen, is planning to close plants in Europe and cut up to 12,000 jobs.
EU BUBBLE INDUSTRIAL POLICY
Their research indicated a substantial discrepancy between the EU's reported figures and the actual increase in munitions manufacturing capabilities.
DEFENCE EU BUBBLE
EU leaders have expressed annoyance over "peace trips" to Ukraine, Russia and China undertaken by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
ELECTIONS FROM THE CAPITALS
France will mobilise a massive police presence on election day amid fears of left-wing rioting. A force of 30.
ELECTIONS EU BUBBLE
Hungarian MEP Kinga Gál, called the new outfit "a true milestone", when speaking to Brussels Signal on July 3, adding she hoped the Right "will be able to create a new group…
EU BUBBLE
European parliamentary group the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), which appeared on the verge of disintegrating, has decided to stick together.
DEMOCRACY ELECTIONS
A French Government spokeswoman and an MP were attacked while putting up posters on public billboards in Hauts-de-Seine, located in the Île-de-France region.
FROM THE CAPITALS TRADE
Germany has banned car manufacturer Volkswagen from selling a firm possessing "sensitive technology" to China over security fears.
NEWS
Dick Schoof, the newly installed Prime Minister of the Netherlands, declared that solving the migration problem was a key issue.
ELECTIONS FROM THE CAPITALS
The decision to dissolve the French National Assembly for snap elections was not due to a poor showing by President Emmanual Macron in the European Parliament elections but…
CORRUPTION
Belgian media has alleged that Socialist MEP Marie Arena was a central character in the “Qatargate" scandal.
DEMOCRACY EU BUBBLE
Those with connections to Germany's Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party are not allowed to own firearms, according to a decision by a Düsseldorf Administrative Court.
ELECTIONS EU BUBBLE
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's new right-wing group in the European Parliament, Patriots for Europe, is in talks with a number of new potential members
TRADE
China's State Council announced the approval of new regulations on the management of rare earth materials, strengthening government control.
CORRUPTION ENERGY AND CLIMATE
Diederik Samsom, one of the architects of the European Green Deal, has raised eyebrows after joining the board of Gasunie, a Dutch gas company, as chairman.
CONSUMER RIGHTS EU BUBBLE
Cats and dogs in Europe look likely to be left purring and tail-wagging over enhanced care rules that would apply across the European Union.
DEMOCRACY
A study by a Dutch population expert shows declining birth rates could be connected to higher housing prices.
CORRUPTION EU BUBBLE
Newly elected MEP Petr Bystron, second on the German party Alternative für Deutschland's (AfD) candidate list for the European Parliament ballot of June 6-9, has again had…
LIVING IN BRUSSELS
A shooting at a bar in Saint-Gilles, Southern Brussels, left two dead and three injured, two of whom are currently fighting for their lives
EU BUBBLE FINANCE
Bulgaria, Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Sweden are not ready to join the euro currency, despite legal commitments to do so, according to the European Commission's latest…
ELECTIONS FROM THE CAPITALS
Brussels Commissioner Didier Reynders, who took a leave of absence without pay to look for a new job, has failed in his bid to become President of the Council of Europe.
ELECTIONS EU BUBBLE
Jimmie Åkesson, President of the hard-right Sweden Democrats (SD), has demanded representation in the government after the 2026 election.
EU BUBBLE
Rutger Groot Wassink, chairman of the asylum committee of the Association of Dutch Municipalities (VNG), resigned from his post, refusing to work with the new right-wing Dutch…
DEFENCE FROM THE CAPITALS
A fire at a factory in Berlin was possibly started by Russian saboteurs, according to security experts.
BUREAUCRACY
Alexander Dobrindt, Chairman of the Christian Social Union (CSU) parliamentary group in the German Bundestag, wants Ukrainians without work to return "to safe areas of western…
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Former Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz warned establishment parties against the tendency to dismissively judge anyone who does not agree with them.
EU BUBBLE FROM THE CAPITALS
Thirty MPs of the Liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) said they would withdraw their support from the German traffic-light coalition if the Socialists (SPD) rack up more debt.
DEMOCRACY ELECTIONS
A group of dark-clad individuals attacked 70-year-old National Rally (RN) candidate Hervé Breuil as he was handing out election flyers in the French city of Saint-Étienne.