Spain rescues 262 migrants in Canary Islands as EU mulls migration
Spanish coast guards rescued 262 migrants in three boats trying to reach the Canary Islands in the early hours of Friday amid a surge in crossings, just as European…
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The ‘rules-based international order’ is a myth – and the sooner the West wakes up to this the safer we will be
There is an old quip by Voltaire about the Holy Roman Empire, pointing out that it was nothing of the sort: neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.
Most EU Member States not on target to reach Paris Agreement goals, says WWF
Seventeen European Union Member States are not putting enough wind farms in place to reach the goals of the Paris Agreement, nature conservation organisation World…
Germany to fire up ‘brown coal’ power plants over energy shortage fears
Germany will reactivate a number of its "brown coal" power plants in the hopes of staving off winter energy shortages, media in the country is reporting.
MEPs push for ban on European airline hand-luggage charges
Airlines operating within the European Union should not be allowed to charge extra for passengers' hand luggage, MEPs have said.
EU debt now Euro 344 billion: auditors
In its latest report, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) said that errors in the spending of funds taken from the European Union budget "increased significantly…
Poland’s economy has been a remarkable and underreported success story over the last 30 years – now both main parties appear ready to squander it
The economy is the big absentee from the Polish election campaign.
European Parliament demands EU suspends agreements with Azerbaijan
MEPs are demanding that the European Union drop its agreements with Azerbaijan following the tragic events in Nagorno-Karabakh, the majority-Armenian enclave within…
Rifle training for Ukrainian soldiers is not ‘lethal aid’, Irish deputy PM insists
Giving rifle training to Ukrainian soldiers does not constitute a form of "lethal aid", the deputy Prime Minister of Ireland has insisted.
Former EC chief Juncker opposes speedy Ukrainian EU accession
Jean-Claude Juncker has warned the European Union against admitting Ukraine to the bloc too fast, claiming the country is "corrupt at all levels of society".
AfD leader in intensive care after alleged campaign-trail assault
A leader of the German populist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) is in intensive care after he was allegedly attacked on the campaign trail.
European Council strikes initial deal on Migration Pact
European Union Members States have agreed on how to handle illegal migrants and asylum seekers.
The feud intensifies: EC furious after Michel attack on von der Leyen
Council President Charles Michel and EC President Ursula von der Leyen enjoy tearing strips off each other in the public sphere.
Pope Francis’s Laudate Deum is a political exhortation, not a religious treatise
Eight years after the encyclical Laudato Si, Pope Francis published another document, called an apostolic exhortation, to say what has been done - and what has not…
Sacré bleu: ‘No English in adverts!’ demand defenders of the French language
A campaign is underway in France against the use of English in advertisements.
NATO urges arms production boost as warehouses ‘half full’
The arms industry needs to ramp up weapons and ammunition production as "the bottom of the barrel is now visible" due to the war in Ukraine, NATO Military Committee…
French Socialists bury left-wing unity list for European Parliament elections
The head of the French Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, said he does not want to be part of a united left-wing list ahead of the European Parliament elections in…
France approves sending military gear to Armenia
France is to deliver military aid to Armenia after the surrender of the de facto republic in Nagorno-Karabach to Azerbaijan.
Fico: I’d rather my party be thrown out of S&D than back Ukraine
Robert Fico, the leader of Slovakia's left-wing Smer party, has said that he would rather see his outfit thrown out of the European Parliament's Socialist (S&D)…
Michel slams von der Leyen over ‘disastrous’ Russia sanctions
"Most of the time, the division of labour between us works well," Michel told Der Spiegel.
EPP upset by grillings as Šefčovič and Hoekstra get committee majority
European People's Party, the European Parliament's largest group, expressed dissatisfaction with the pre-appointment hearings of European Commission nominees Maroš…
Birds of a feather? Putin praises Che Guevara and Fidel Castro
Russian President Vladimir Putin has honoured controversial Latin American Socialist political figures from the past at an International Parliamentary Conference…
European Socialists are ‘cowards’
European Socialists are cowards, former French Prime Minister Manuel Valls told a Brussels soirée last week.
Poland’s elections matter way beyond the country’s borders – they could presage a realignment in European politics
2024 EU Elections polls suggest that the national conservatives of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) will be the biggest overall winner, establishing…
EU Formally Opens Anti-Subsidies Probe Into EVs Made in China
The European Union has formally launched an anti-subsidies probe into electric vehicles manufactured in China, setting in motion a one-year investigation that could…
Poland: Tusk’s chances buoyed by Confederation fall in polls
Poll ratings for the Polish right-wing Confederation party have slipped to around 10 per cent in most surveys from about 15 per cent in the summer.
Russia says it held talks with U.S. and EU on Nagorno-Karabakh ahead of crisis
Russia exchanged views with the United States and the European Union on the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh ahead of the lightning military operation by Azerbaijan…
AfD MEP denounces ‘schizophrenic’ German media allegations
A senior MEP within Germany's Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party has denounced one of the country's major media outlets as acting in a "schizophrenic" manner…
Germany’s AfD leader under state protection after ‘threats against her family’
Alice Weidel, who heads up the party in Germany's Federal Parliament, is said to have been escorted along with her family from their home by authorities last month.
Charles Michel: ‘Ukraine can be part of the EU in 2030’
President of the European Council Charles Michel is optimistic about Ukraine's European Union prospects and said it could join the bloc in seven years.