European Parliament urges terrorist listing for Muslim Brotherhood networks
MEPs have asked capitals to hand over the evidence that would let the Council add Brotherhood figures and front groups to the EU terrorist list.
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Gas network operators warn of 15 per cent EU shortfall in a severe winter
EU storage stood at 72 per cent on October 1, against 83 per cent a year earlier.
France rushes thousands of substitute teachers into schools as student revolt grows
Unions have called fresh nationwide action for October 13 after a day of protests that left dozens of police officers injured and hundreds of people in custody.
Brussels rejects Italian and Greek calls to loosen EU fiscal rules
Economy Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis warned that piling new exemptions on to the budget framework would erode the credibility of the rules themselves.
Eurogroup opens race to replace Schnabel on ECB board
Eurozone finance ministers have set an end-of-October deadline for nominations, putting the first of three senior European Central Bank vacancies formally in play.
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BBC pays white staff less than ethnic-minority colleagues in most pay bands
In the lowest band, black, Asian, mixed and other ethnic-minority employees had median pay 13.2 per cent higher than white staff.
Four in five people convicted of theft in Switzerland hold a foreign passport
Algerian and Romanian nationals were the most frequently recorded. About two-thirds of those convicted were not part of the permanent resident population.
Dutch PM misinforms parliament over AI use
Researchers at the universities of Chicago and Maryland found Pangram wrongly flags about one in 10,000 human texts.
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Britain turns to Berlin to ease its way back towards Brussels
The UK is courting Germany before a summit with the European Union that will test how far London is prepared to go.
EU budget errors climb for a second year
On spending they issued an adverse opinion for the seventh year in a row, meaning the errors were material and pervasive.
Anne Carson wins Nobel literature prize for her reworking of the Greek classics
The Swedish Academy has given the 2026 award to the Canadian poet and classicist, a perennial favourite who becomes the first Canadian laureate since Alice Munro.
Italy adopts electoral law handing bonus seats to the winning coalition
The Chamber of Deputies cleared the final parliamentary hurdle in a secret ballot, less than a year before the country returns to the polls.
Britain charges serving Royal Navy sailor with spying for foreign power
Teddy Young, 24, faces two counts under the National Security Act after an investigation by counter-terrorism detectives in London.
French court sharply increases sentences over Trèbes and Carcassonne attacks
Two associates of the gunman who murdered four people in 2018 have been convicted of terrorist conspiracy on appeal, after a first trial that largely rejected the…
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Antifa behind violent student riots in Belgium, interior minister says
"Adults who manipulate children in order to put across violent political messages. That is totally unacceptable".
Trump insists on talking of Iranian missiles hitting Los Angeles and San Diego
The US President told a Texas rally his administration would never allow such a strike, two days after the same remarks drew condemnation from California's Democrat…
Noelia’s euthanasia case returns to Strasbourg six months after her death
The European court allowed the procedure to go ahead in March.
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Guardia Civil confirms Socialist network contacted drug clan to ‘eliminate’ judge in Sánchez brother case
A Guardia Civil report filed two days before her appearance sets out testimony on surveillance, threats and contacts with a drug clan in Badajoz.
Iran summons French ambassador over policing of school protests
Tehran accuses Paris of double standards as France hits back by summoning the Iranian ambassador over an alleged disinformation campaign.
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Tusk government mulls challenging Paramount’s takeover of Polish commercial broadcaster
TVN is a commercial operation that for over 20 years has been supportive of Tusk and his Civic Coalition (KO) and was hostile to the last conservative government.
Bulgaria ends search for crew of ship sunk by drones off its coast
Sofia says the strike inside its Black Sea economic zone does not trigger NATO consultations, as Brussels offers solidarity but no protection for merchant shipping.
Brussels population stagnates for the first time in 30 years
The natural balance is still positive. There were 5,103 more births than deaths, unlike Flanders and Wallonia, where deaths outnumber births.
UN says most child migrants reaching Europe now travel alone
The concentration is sharpest in Italy and Spain, where 86 per cent of the children arrived alone.
Former German spy chief arrested over alleged Azerbaijani link
Investigators are examining whether some of the material smuggled out of Germany’s intelligence services was prepared for a foreign intelligence service.
Brussels presses Beijing for import curbs as its own deadline falls due
Maroš Šefčovič lands in China on October 8 with the trade gap widening by about €1 billion a day and no public concession to show for four months of dialogue.
Russia must be ready to use nuclear weapons, Putin adviser says
Karaganov tied the argument to President Vladimir Putin's remarks at the Valdai forum on October 1.
Brussels moves to speed up EU product standards and make them free to read
The European Commission wants to cut standard-setting from six years to four, though it took court rulings to force it to open texts that already carry the force…
German finance minister spends €188,000 of taxpayers’ money on photos, hair and make-up
Most of the sum, €165,035, went on external photographers and €22,656 on visagists, stylists and make-up artists.
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Brussels seeks power to suspend new members’ voting rights for 15 years
Marta Kos presented a package of institutional changes designed to shrink national vetoes and the size of the College of Commissioners before the bloc admits anyone…
French AI flagship Mistral announces new model
Firms and states, it said, should not have to rely on a closed-model vendor that could "arbitrarily turn off their cyber defence capabilities".