UK and Belgium sign first post-Brexit police pact to target Channel smugglers
Belgian officers would be allowed to carry weapons on some Eurostar trains and join the UK-France intelligence cell in northern France under the deal.
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Investigators search Berlin SPD lead candidate’s home in bribery inquiry
As regional president, he chaired the supervisory board of the municipal hospital chain, which owns 10 clinics.
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EU enlargement commissioner warns EU candidates: Cut ties with MAGA
"We should not risk our future members developing dependencies on others that would run counter to our long-term interests," she said.
Ceuta president asks Brussels to confront Morocco over ‘harassment’ of the city
Juan Jesús Vivas has broken with Madrid's line that Rabat remains a reliable partner on migration.
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EPP backs sustainable finance compromise it says it would not have written
The deal is about who may sit in a fund allowed to call itself "transition" or "sustainable" if they meet tests on capital spending and emissions.
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Protests against surrogacy fair organised in Poland by Ukrainian firm
Surrogacy remains a highly emotive topic in Poland, particularly given the plight of women participating in such procedures and the children separated from their…
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Brussels procurement plan reopens EU split over ‘European preference’
The overhaul would let public buyers turn away bids carrying too little European content, a power free-trading capitals warned against.
Ukraine’s prosecutor general resigns after office raid in call-centre protection racket case
Kravchenko, appointed in June 2025, said the step was a "political decision" taken so that the post would not become "a tool for political confrontation".
Norway lays King Harald V to rest as European royals gather in Oslo
Seven reigning houses, Volodymyr Zelensky and the largest security operation in Norwegian history have converged on a capital brought to a standstill.
Bardella presses France to shut ‘radical’ mosques as Brussels holds back
The National Rally leader wants the Muslim Brotherhood banned outright, while the European Commission has left any EU terrorist listing to member states.
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Dutch government to pull plug on right-wing broadcaster
The channel will not be taken off air immediately; ON! has the right to respond to the proposal and to appeal any final decision.
Moroccan man held with Kalashnikov at Brussels station has Spanish residence permit
Belgian prosecutors suspect the 23-year-old of belonging to a criminal organisation as investigators examine links to the drug war in the capital.
EU carbon rules raise costs at Spain’s biggest port as an EU-backed Moroccan port prepares to open
Tanger Med now handles more than twice as many containers as Algeciras, and a second Moroccan hub part-financed by the EBRD is due to start operating this year.
Spanish Government withholds satellite images of Ceuta convoy from judge
Police sources say the pictures show hire cars moving in formation towards the border, and that ministers blocked their inclusion in the report sent to the National…
European Parliament blocks Patriots exhibition on South Africa
The Parliament's third-largest group says the ban followed pressure from South African officials and amounts to political censorship.
Turkish community chief says asylum seekers should be free to leave Saxony-Anhalt after AfD win
"People with a migration background in Saxony-Anhalt no longer have time for theoretical security debates," Sofuoğlu said.
Trump hails AfD landslide and blames Germany’s immigration rules
The US President called the winners "the Populist Party" and signed off with MGGA, a German version of his own campaign slogan.
EU not up to the task of fighting illicit tobacco trade, auditors find
The Commission and Member States have taken measures, the auditors say, but the response remains fragmented and is not robust enough.
German police arrest climate activist over power-grid sabotage
A Europe-wide alert had been in force after officers searched his flat and found explosive material.
Iceland summons US ambassador over Trump map showing island under American flag
Reykjavík called in Billy Long hours after the European Commission unveiled a new investment package for Greenland.
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German state premier Wüst breaks CDU ranks over AfD ban
Critics warn that the push could amount to an attempt to suppress a political rival that the CDU has failed to defeat at the ballot box.
Moscow accuses EU of weaponising human rights against Russia
Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Brussels was in no position to lecture, pointing to statelessness in the Baltic states and what she called…
Thieves steal four Renoir works from French museum in €9 million raid
The pair were identified on the town's video-surveillance cameras as they escaped, dropping one painting during their flight, mayor Bryan Masson said.
German police widen hunt for grid saboteur as more devices found at coal plant
A fresh letter claiming responsibility has been recovered near the Weisweiler power station, while the number of devices defused in Saxony has risen to 21.
Spain’s Interior Ministry admits secret ideological files on dozens of journalists
The Spanish Government says the dossier was for internal use only and denies it amounted to a blacklist.
Meloni says Schengen holds only if member states defend EU borders
The Italian Prime Minister received Bart De Wever in Rome a day after the Alternative for Germany won in Saxony-Anhalt, with border checks between Italy and Spain…
Majority of Spaniards fault Sánchez over Ceuta crisis
Some 14.2 per cent rated it positively. Two-thirds said the government's reaction was too slow, with 47.7 per cent calling its speed "very bad".
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Little enthusiasm for AfD’s Saxony-Anhalt victory on Poland’s Right
President Nawrocki's senior aide Paweł Szefernaker said that the AfD's views on history and Russia were "unacceptable".
Latvia bans Russian and Belarusian books over ‘war propaganda’
Riga has gone beyond EU sanctions with a national import ban, though the books already on its shelves can still be sold.
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Bardella and Farage put returns in writing while their critics change the subject
The two leaders committed a future French government to taking back migrants intercepted in British waters, and almost every rival party in France reached for the…