Rubio lands in Iceland as US tightens its Arctic grip
The visit comes two weeks after Washington sealed a security pact on Greenland and five weeks after Icelanders voted against reopening European Union accession talks.
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UN rapporteur warns France after journalist fined for prison remarks on transgenderism
The judgment included a €1,000 fine, with damages to the civil parties and their legal costs making up the rest.
Brussels reservists struggle to get leave as EU preaches defence readiness
Two European Commission officials who serve in the French reserve forces say the EU executive's staff rules do not match its own calls for a war-ready Europe.
Former Prince Andrew asks High Court to quash the warrants behind his Epstein-files arrest
The warrants covered Marsh Farm on the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, eastern England, and Royal Lodge at Windsor, his former home west of London.
Latvian Right wins record mandate as Kulbergs takes 41 seats
Latvian Way's 36 seats in 1993 had been the previous high. Turnout was 51.8 per cent.
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Polish President Nawrocki backs down to Tusk over tax on fuel companies
he law applies a tax to any extraordinary profits earned from the sale of liquid fuels between March 1 and December 31.
Sánchez dissolves parliament and calls a November election
The Prime Minister has cut short a legislature with no budget and a run of judicial inquiries around him, blaming a parliamentary defeat his own party had spent…
US withdraws bombers from British base at centre of Iran plot inquiry
The aircraft left RAF Fairford a week after a security alert that Prime Minister Andy Burnham has linked to Iran.
France keeps up to 500 schools shut as pupil revolt enters third week
Lessons have been suspended in between 400 and 500 French secondary schools on October 5, among them more than a third of the lycées in the Paris region.
Russia and Ukraine vow deeper strikes
Moscow has promised to intensify attacks on the Ukrainian capital after Zelensky said Kyiv would hit Russian refineries harder, while Germany signed 15 agreements…
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Brussels moves closer to possible ban on ESN party
Six experts, selected by the EU institutions, are now set to examine whether the European political family led by Germany’s AfD is breaching the bloc’s fundamental…
Netanyahu pledges more submarines and warships as sea becomes ‘international battlefield’
Israel's naval expansion rests on German shipyards at a time when Berlin's arms exports to the country are running at record levels.
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Flávio Bolsonaro outpolls Lula in Brazil’s first round as the Right gains in Congress
The October 25 run-off opened a four-week contest over who negotiates for Brazil inside a Mercosur deal the European Union began applying only in May.
Nationalist parties tighten grip on Bosnia as Dodik claims victory off the ballot
Record-low turnout and the fall of the Croat presidency seat to HDZ BiH point to a hardening ethnic divide as Bosnia's EU bid stalls.
AfD MP denied the right to adopt a dog over party affiliation
Vanessa Behrendt, family-policy spokeswoman for the AfD group in the state parliament, contacted Fortuna Animali about a dog the association is offering for rehoming.
Violence spreads as French school blockades enter second week
The Union syndicale lycéenne, the main pupils' union, called for nationwide blockades on September 28.
ECB pushes cross-border bank mergers to close the gap with the US
Boris Vujčić said domestic takeovers had left euro area lenders without the scale to match American rivals, though fewer banks would also mean less choice for…
Eurozone inflation hits three-year high
The rate climbed to 3.
Merz plunges in poll to lowest chancellor support ever measured
Chancellor Friedrich Merz faces an unprecedented low approval rating of just 10 percent, marking the worst support ever measured for a German chancellor since 1997.
EU officials dismiss ‘absolute sh*t’ alternative to Microsoft Teams imposed by Brussels
Element Pro is described in the memo as an "internal back-up … that helps ensure our business continuity" if there is a disruption and the US-based service becomes…
UK borrowing costs rise to highest level since 1998
Five-year yields, which are more sensitive to the outlook for interest rates and inflation, reached their highest since July 2008.
US diesel export ban threat presses Europe to open emergency fuel stocks
Washington has asked the European Union to release 120 million barrels from emergency stocks, with member states meeting the European Commission on October 2 to…
Italy asks Brussels for more wiggle room in the budget rules
Higher inflation, she said, had to be taken into account when the permitted deficit was calculated.
Bukele and the ICC compete for the European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize
Six candidates are in the running for the European Union's top human rights award, among them an Israeli Jewish-Arab movement and a detained Gaza doctor.
Patriots.eu takes European Parliament to court over ‘double standard’ in party funding
The posters the Parliament refuses to pay for carried Marine Le Pen and Matteo Salvini, and the party says liberal campaigns did the same without penalty.
Zelensky asks EU again for money to strike deeper into Russia
The Ukrainian president pressed European ambassadors in Kyiv to release unspent defence loans, hours before announcing the first combat use of Ukraine's own ballistic…
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EU funding for me, but not for thee?
On Tuesday, judges at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) held hearings on a high-stakes financing dispute involving a controversial billboard and…
Ireland races to rescue EU capital markets overhaul
Dublin has a week left to bridge a decade-old split over who polices Europe's financial markets.
Prisoners thank Burnham as first early releases begin
About 5,000 are due out in stages over the next year, down from 6,000 after ministers excluded rapists and the most serious child-sex offenders.
German taxpayers’ association lists worst 100 cases of public waste
The black book is not an official audit but still offers a telling insight into the choices Berlin made.