‘US troops remain in Poland!’ states minister over Washington’s redeployment plan
Poland has downplayed the significance of a US decision to pull its troops out of a key Polish base supplying military aid to Ukraine.
Germany’s CDU youth question leader Merz as SPD coalition deal nears
Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz and the centre-left Social Democratic Party have prepared to finalise their government coalition deal.
Luxembourg decries ‘absurd’ German border controls on shared frontier
Germany's border controls on its frontier with Luxembourg, which Berlin said had been designed for security and migration, were "absurd", according to Luxembourg.
Calls for Bulgarian minister to resign for allegedly ‘turning blind eye’ to €6m smuggling ring
Bulgaria’s interior minister faced calls to resign after WhatsApp messages revealed officials had allegedly turned a blind eye to a €6 million smuggling operation that…
100,000 march in Rome against EU rearmament plans
As many as 100,000 protestors have marched in Rome against European Union rearmament plans, which polls have indicated were unusually unpopular in Italy.
Romania finds it has hundreds of soldiers working as mercenaries in DRC
Romania’s defence ministry has discovered it has hundreds of soldiers on parental leave and army reservists currently working as highly paid mercenaries in the Democratic…
European Commission pushes for encryption ‘backdoors’
The European Commission has announced new plans for extending the powers of European Union security agencies and expanding Europol into “a truly operational police agency”.
Norway reopens debate on EU membership
Norway has reopened a long-standing and controversial debate on European Union membership after its Conservative Party leader Erna Solberg said: "We are by definition in favour…
Portugal latest debt-ridden country to reject Frederiksen’s call to ‘spend, spend, spend’ on defence
Danish PM Mette Frederiksen's call on other EU leaders to “spend, spend, spend” on defence and deterrence has seen new resistance from countries like Portugal, which faces…
EU sharply trims DMA fines on Apple and Meta, fearing extra US tariffs
The European Commission has indicated it would limit its Digital Markets Act (DMA) fines due in the week starting April 1 on Apple and Meta and drop a separate case against…
Germany’s economy minister says ‘we will not back down’ over new US 25% car tariffs
Germany's economy minister Robert Habeck has said "it must be clear that we will not back down in the face of the USA" after Washington announced new 25 per cent tariffs on…
EU visitors applying for new UK visit requirement complain app does not work
European Union-based travellers have faced a new requirement to pay £16 (€19) for an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) to visit the UK from April — but early users…
New EU digital driving licence ‘will erode personal freedoms’
"A digital EU driving licence is on its way!" the European Commission has trumpeted - but experts said national variations in licence rules would cause confusion.
Michelin CEO tells Brussels Signal: ‘EU overregulation strangling economy and industry’
Overregulation in the European Union is "strangling the economy and industry," Michelin CEO Florent Menegaux has told Brussels Signal.
Greenland PM attacks ‘highly aggressive’ visit of US VP Vance’s wife and security chief
Leading Danish politicians have said there will be “no compromise” on Greenland in response to a high-profile visit by US Vice President JD Vance's wife Usha Vance and…
Germany, UK issue new travel warnings for citizens headed to US
Both Germany and the UK have released new travel warnings for their citizens heading to the US.
Germany’s Greens successfully write ‘net zero’ commitment into Constitution
Germany's Greens party has written a "net zero" commitment into the country’s constitution, which legal experts say could be used in court to make governments enforce carbon…
Heathrow Airport fire throws air travel into disarray across Europe and beyond
Air passengers have reported "carnage" as a fire closed London's Heathrow Airport, cancelling at least 1,351 flights due to take off or land from Europe's busiest airport.
EU dusts off capital markets proposal but small countries fear regulatory power grab
The European Commission has published a new plan to revive its capital markets union proposal which stalled back in 2015 — but smaller members have expressed fear about…
Military chiefs gather in London to discuss UK-French ‘coalition of the willing’ for Ukraine
Senior military leaders from the UK and French-led "coalition of the willing" have been preparing to gather in London.
Italy PM Meloni says commission ‘not wise’ to impose 50% tariffs on US goods
Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has said the European Commission was "not wise" to impose retaliatory tariffs of up to 50 per cent on US goods from April 1 and instead…
Europol: ‘EU crime groups increasingly working with Russia’
Organised crime groups in the European Union have been increasingly working with Russia to attack critical infrastructure and public institutions in the bloc, according to…
Syrian foreign minister: ‘EU has not lived up to our expectations’
Brussels has held a donor conference pledging €5.8 billion to Syria reconstruction - but only €720.
Irish politicians’ anger as Trump meets martial arts champ McGregor on St Patrick’s Day
Irish mixed martial arts champion Conor McGregor has drawn praise from US President Donald Trump on a St Patrick's Day visit to the Oval Office, when the Irishman criticised…
Irish family ejected from Washington event after protest over ‘transgender ideology’
Three members of a well-known Irish evangelical Christian family were forcibly ejected from a St Patrick's Day gala dinner in Washington, which Ireland's Taoiseach, or Prime…
‘EU building too many data centres on vastly overestimated AI economy,’ says report
European Union countries have been building too many data centres because the scale of the artificial intelligence (AI) economy has been vastly inflated, according to a new…
Bulgarian prosecutors open probe into European Prosecutor’s office in Sofia
Prosecutors in Sofia have announced they will open an anti-corruption investigation into the European Prosecutor's Office representative in Bulgaria.
Russian-linked group ‘behind attack on X’, cybersecurity expert tells Brussels Signal
The large-scale cyberattack that brought down Elon Musk's X platform was carried out by Dark Storm, a Russian-linked hacker group whose "targets are high-profile pieces of…
Canada’s new PM Carney to renounce his UK and Irish passports
Canada's incoming Prime Minister Mark Carney, a citizen of both the UK and Ireland, has said he would now renounce both nationalities.
Outrage over Bavaria’s ‘secret list of 200 clearly Nazi-looted artworks’
Bavaria's State Painting Collections has kept an internal list of 200 artworks in its possession that it "clearly" believed were Nazi-looted works, German media has revealed.