New doubts over digital-euro plan after ECB outage
European lawmakers have voiced fresh doubt about the European Central Bank’s digital-euro project after an outage in the ECB’s existing payment system caused…
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Polish anti-migrant protesters block bridge on border with Germany
Protesters in Poland including politicians from the Conservatives (PiS) blocked a bridge on the border to voice their opposition against the transfer of migrants…
Sikorski tells Musk Poland will provide Ukraine with alternative to Starlink
Poland’s foreign minister Radosław Sikorski reminded Elon Musk that Poland has ordered and paid for Ukraine's Starlink internet services and that if it was…
‘Boycott USA’ : Consumer revolt spreads across Europe
French and Danish consumers have been turning their backs on US products, launching a growing boycott movement in protest against Washington's foreign and economic…
Germany’s Merz seeks French, UK nuclear weapons sharing
German chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz has said he would like talks with France and Britain about sharing their nuclear weapons, but not as a substitute for…
Poland seeks nuclear weapons cover and wants military training for all its men
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has announced that the government wanted to introduce military training for all adult males and that his country would seek to…
‘Increased defence spending couldn’t come at worse time,’ says ING think-tank
ING Economics, the think-tank of international lender ING Bank, has warned that the planned €800 billion spending spree on defence announced by the European Commission…
Belgian defence minister eyes Brussels-based Audi factory as military production site
Belgium’s recently closed Audi Brussels factory could soon be transformed into a military defence production site, the country's Minister of Defence Theo Francken…
Austria to stay neutral amid EU arms build-up, says new foreign minister
Austria’s new foreign minister has confirmed that the country will adhere to its constitutional neutrality following the newly announced European Union defence…
No more ‘Strong Gods’ in Europe: what men will volunteer to fight now?
Imagine being a frontline Ukrainian soldier on February 28th, having survived another nightmarish day of trench warfare with satellite enabled battlefield transparency,…
Hungary PM Orbán says financing Ukraine’s war effort would ‘ruin Europe’
The European Union cannot afford to finance Ukraine's military efforts as US financial aid is no longer guaranteed, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said.
Poland’s opposition claims EC plans ‘Romania style’ intervention in election
Jarosław Kaczyński, the leader of the Polish opposition Conservatives (PiS), has accused the European Commission of planning to intervene in the country’s presidential…
Europe’s top human rights court rejects Georgescu’s Romanian election annulment challenge
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has rejected Călin Georgescu’s bid to overturn the annulment of Romania’s November 2024 presidential election, declaring…
A friendly letter from the American heartland to our European allies
Hello Europe, I’d like to introduce you to America. No, not the America you know.
‘I don’t regret telling Trump to F** off’ over Greenland, says Danish MEP Vistisen
Danish MEP Anders Vistisen has defended his blunt response to US President Donald Trump’s claims on Greenland, telling Brussels Signal Denmark had every right…
French opposition slams Macron for ‘fear-mongering’
French President Emmanuel Macron has been left facing criticism from both the Left and Right following his 13-minute speech on Russian threats and new geopolitical…
EU rearmament plan is just ‘announcement politics’
Former president of the European Council, Charles Michel, has derided European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's Rearm Europe plan, saying it was "insufficient"…
EU-friendly Moldova insists it has not violated diplomatic norms over Russia’s ambassador
Moldova's foreign ministry has rejected allegations by Russia that it had violated diplomatic conventions by declining to formally accept the credentials of Moscow's…
Former French PM Fillon: ‘Radical islamism is bigger threat than stagnant Russia’
Former French prime minister François Fillon has said that after three years of war, Russia was "an infinitely less threat" than the "pernicious Islamist ideology"…
Courage lies in seeking peace, not in prolonging this war
As soon as Trump took the first steps toward fulfilling his campaign promise to end the war in Ukraine, proponents of confrontation with Russia rose as one across…
‘Not a single NATO army is ready to resist the cascade of drones’, Ukraine commander warns
NATO armed forces are not ready for a modern drone war, the military commander in charge of Ukraine's unmanned systems warned three years into a conflict with…
Belgian medical universities to include war-victim training
Belgian doctors in training will receive extra education to prepare them for war victims, according to senior staff at Ghent University.
‘Childish and petulant’ Green MEP urges commission to stop funding Musk-linked companies
Left-wing German Green MEP Daniel Freund has submitted a written question to the European Commission demanding a full breakdown of European Union funds allocated…
Likely German coalition government agrees almost €1tn debt-fuelled spending spree
Parties negotiating the formation of a new German government have agreed to authorise €500 billion in new debt for infrastructure projects.
Germany to end aid to Rwanda amid DRC conflict while EC continues raw materials deal
Germany has decided to stop new development aid to Rwanda because of the African nation's role in the conflict in the neighbouring country, the Democratic Republic…
German National Bank proposes letting go of strict fiscal policy
Germany's Bundesbank proposed a reform of the country's debt brake, allowing Berlin to borrow an additional €220 billion by 2030, a break from its traditional…
Austria announces “immediate halt” of family reunification for asylum seekers
Austria’s incoming government has announced a stop to all family reunification procedures for asylum seekers effective immediately.
US VP climbs down on France-UK ‘insults’, with Zelensky ready to sign minerals deal
US Vice President JD Vance has denied disrespecting France and the UK by describing a planned peacekeeping force in Ukraine as 20,000 troops from some "random country…
Qatargate: Italian Socialist MEPs hit with parliamentary immunity waiver requests
The Belgian Federal Prosecutor's Office has asked the European Parliament to waive the parliamentary immunity of two MEPs in connection with the Qatargate scandal.
France’s National Rally says EU’s €800bn defence ‘rearm’ plan is a power grab
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has been accused of attempting to grab more power for Brussels after unveiling a "rearm Europe" plan based on…