YouGov puts CDU/CSU at record low as talk of replacing Merz grows
The AfD took 43.8 per cent there on September 6, a record for the party in any state election, against 17.2 per cent for the CDU.
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Suspected sabotage on the rails halt Dutch trains on Budget Day
Police have opened an investigation, but no group has claimed responsibility.
Von der Leyen is ‘not up to the challenge’, says Charles Michel
A day before the Commission president delivers her annual State of the Union address.
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Bad EU regulation could cost €159 bn per year and 419,000 jobs
According to the study, non-economic priorities can override industrial competitiveness, driving up costs, delaying investment and undermining confidence in EU policymaking.
Member states back cuts to EU staff pay in next long-term budget
Salaries and buildings emerged as the likeliest target for savings as the Irish presidency prepared a fresh offer to national capitals.
Trump announces Russia-Ukraine energy truce that neither side confirms
The US president said Kyiv and Moscow had agreed to spare each other's energy sites, though Ukraine set conditions and the Kremlin would not promise reciprocal restraint.
Russian frigate fires flares at Danish military helicopter over the Baltic
Copenhagen has summoned Russia's ambassador after one of the flares passed close to the aircraft during a routine patrol off the Danish coast.
NATO jets shoot down drone over central Lithuania
Italian Eurofighters on Baltic Air Policing duty destroyed the aircraft near Kaunas in what Lithuanian officials have called the first interception of its kind over…
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Poland’s Braun hammers monument to Ukrainian partisans
Braun claims local residents are "afraid they would be set on fire" if they attempted to remove the memorial themselves.
Ovechkin appears in Putin party campaign video days before Russian elections
The Washington Capitals captain was filmed among Kremlin figures placed under European Union sanctions over the war in Ukraine.
Celtic nationalist leaders tie the break-up of the UK
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Turkish authorities launch crackdown on LGBTQ+ support groups
Justice minister Akın Gürlek said prosecutors in Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Aydın and Mersin were conducting investigations against 162 suspects, nine associations…
Two women die in Brussels after knife incident
Officers found one woman seriously wounded inside the house and a second woman holding a knife. Back-up was requested.
Latvia sacks welfare minister caught driving at six times the alcohol limit
Driving with more than 1.5 per mille has been a criminal offence in Latvia since November 2022, not merely an administrative one.
Olympic athletes turn on Sydney Sweeney over nude betting advert
A campaign for an American betting platform has reopened the argument over how women's sport is sold, two months after European broadcasters agreed rules on the…
Zelensky asks lawmakers to support removal of prosecutor general
"Ukraine has seen all the reasons. If he considers this political pressure, let him call it that. I ask lawmakers to support this dismissal without delay".
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Meloni rules out alliance with parties opposed to Ukraine support
The move poses a major challenge to the unity of the Italian right, whose parties are increasingly divided over the issue.
Russian drone strikes Kyiv-Warsaw train during attack on Ukraine
The Ukrainian railways also confirmed that trains carrying diplomats had been present in the area.
France apologises for human rights criticism that sparked US walkout
The Geneva mission now says the July message “called into question the U.S. commitment to human rights”.
Canada seeks ‘unique alliance’ with EU, rules out membership
Speaking to reporters at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 13, Carney rejected the idea of full membership.
Le Pen puts housing and ‘national priority’ at centre of campaign launch
The National Rally leader used her first major speech of the 2027 race to promise French citizens preferential access to social housing and a cut in energy VAT.
Saudi Arabia turns to stored oil as pipeline shutdown threatens European supplies
Riyadh has set no restart date for the East-West line, leaving deliveries to Europe and Asia dependent on how long the stoppage lasts.
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Poland’s PiS has its man chosen as leader of ECR
Adam Bielan, a close ally of Jarosław Kaczyński, replaces Mateusz Morawiecki at the head of Europe's conservative party family, keeping the post in Law and Justice…
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Irish, Scottish and Welsh leaders sign Cardiff pact demanding votes on leaving the UK
The three attended as party leaders rather than heads of government, two days after Donald Trump said he would like to see Ireland united.
Trump pledges to remove US tariff on Irish whiskey at end of Ireland visit
The US President made the promise at a golf prize-giving on a course he owns, giving no date for carving one member state's flagship export out of an EU-wide duty.
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Swedish deadlock lays bare a voting divide spreading across Europe
Statistics Sweden put the two blocs level among voters of Swedish background and 37 percentage points apart among voters of foreign background.
Swedish opposition takes narrow lead as Sweden Democrats lose ground
Magdalena Andersson's bloc is three seats ahead in the preliminary count, though ballots cast abroad and tallied from September 16 could still overturn it.
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Brussels warns Swiss neutrality vote could strain ties over Russia
Brussels fears the vote could see Bern break with its stance towards Moscow and put its sanctions regime against the Kremlin into question.
Trump drops US neutrality and says Irish unification will happen
Washington has kept out of the question for decades, but the president repeated his call a day after Downing Street ruled out a border poll.
Irregular EU border crossings fall across all major routes, except Spain
The eastern and central Mediterranean remained the busiest routes and still accounted for nearly 60 per cent of all detections.