Spanish Government approves housing decrees it lacks the votes to pass
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Portugal’s ruling parties move to charge non-resident foreigners for healthcare
A bill from the two parties backing Prime Minister Luís Montenegro would oblige illegal migrants and non-residents to pay for treatment, with an exception for emergencies.
Dutch prosecutors clear doctor in first child euthanasia case
The child, born at 26 weeks with severe brain damage, died at the end of 2025 in the first use of a regulation that exists nowhere else in the world.
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Magyar’s Hungary is prosecuting Orbán’s ministers without a prosecutor general
Parliament turned down the president's nominee for the vacant post hours before it stripped two former ministers of their immunity.
Orbán denounces ‘neo-communist tactics’ as Fidesz rallies behind detained ministers
Fidesz MEPs and the party's leadership have compared the cases against Balázs Hankó and Miklós Seszták to communist-era show trials and to the prosecutions of…
Sweden’s centre-left fails to form a government after Left Party breaks ranks
The Social Democrat leader told a press conference on Monday that there was “currently no possibility” for her to put a cabinet together.
Pope Leo XIV sets out Europe’s moral foundations in Schuman’s Metz
The Pontiff closed his French visit with a defence of the family, the welcome of the stranger and human life at every stage, in the city of one of the European Union's…
Brussels prosecutor says regional MP asked him to free a prisoner
Under the criminal code, using an elected position to pressure a magistrate constitutes trading in influence, an offense that escalates to obstruction of justice…
French charity accused of ‘trafficking’ after children carried to Channel boats
Footage from a beach near Boulogne-sur-Mer shows volunteers in charity tabards leading migrant children towards dinghies bound for Britain.
National Rally wins ‘historic victory’ in French Senate elections
The party had three senators whose terms were not up. Nine RN names were added on Sunday, and two UDR seats in the Alpes-Maritimes.
Spanish army intelligence identifies 72 Moroccan military personnel inside Ceuta
Some are said to watch Spanish patrols. They stay in private homes, train in groups and receive money from across the border.
US investigates whether Spain’s Indra passed Pentagon technology to China
American defence businessmen have told the US Department of Commerce that the state-backed Spanish contractor resold their technology through China, with Spain's…
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Polish prosecutors drop case against Lech Wałęsa on grounds of his lack of literacy
The former president enjoys good relations with the current ruling coalition led by Tusk and very bad relations with the opposition.
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Daughter of AfD-adjacent intellectual Götz Kubitschek barred from becoming teacher over links to her father
Alruna Hauser had completed her studies in German and school music in Dresden, in the eastern German state of Saxony.
Pope Leo XIV tells Macron right to life is foundation of all other rights
In his first speech on French soil, the Pontiff condemned surrogacy and assisted death in the palace where France's end-of-life law was signed in August.
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Pope Leo XIV’s four-day visit tests France’s secular consensus
The pontiff arrives in Paris for a journey that takes in the Élysée Palace, Lourdes and Metz, the first official papal trip to France in 18 years.
Socialist-run Lleida bans burqa and niqab in public with Junts and Vox votes
The Spanish city has returned to a veto on full-face veils that Supreme Court struck down in 2013, this time framed as a matter of women's rights rather than security.
Peter Thiel calls much of the media a ‘left-wing hate factory’ as Axel Springer honours him in Berlin
The media landscape, he said, was “very, very one-sided” and “nowhere near as free as we would like it to be.”
Firefighters find migrant camp in tunnels under Ceuta university campus
Residents had suspected for weeks that people who entered during the July invasion were hiding underground as numbers on the city's beaches kept rising.
German industry calls for stricter China policy
“Systemic competition with China’s economy is increasingly challenging the open social market economy and requires an appropriate industrial and trade policy…
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To kill a priest: Death in Ukrainian knife rampage at Polish abbey
Police have detained a 31-year-old Ukrainian, identified by prosecutors as Ihor M.
Macron warns of Leipzig-style Russian attack on France despite unproven Moscow role
The French President said the German airport drone marked a shift from hybrid warfare to war, though no one has been charged and Berlin has not published its evidence.
Meloni government bans burqa and niqab in schools and caps foreign pupils per class
Parents whose children struggle with Italian will also be ordered to attend free language courses, with fines of up to €1,000 for those who refuse.
Italy returns to nuclear power after almost four decades
The law gives Giorgia Meloni's government 12 months to write the rules for a new generation of plants.
Mitsotakis rules out British Museum ‘loan’ as Parthenon Marbles talks stall
Athens has refused any deal that would recognise the London museum’s ownership of the sculptures after reports that five years of negotiations had broken down.
Eight far-left activists arrested over the killing of Quentin Deranque in Lyon
Prosecutor Thierry Dran said at least six people took part in the beating.
Starlink ground station hit by suspected arson in Poland
Firefighters have said their preliminary findings point to deliberate ignition, but an electrical fault has not been ruled out.
AfD leads North Rhine-Westphalia on a federal ballot for the first time
The governing CDU-Green coalition would still have a majority. No other two-party deal without AfD would work.
Die Linke MP in Remmo clan row sought operational detail on anti-clan raids
They asked which operations had taken place, at which places, on which days and at which hours.
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‘Fort Trump’ is confirmed, says Polish President Nawrocki
Poland, which borders Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave, Belarus and Ukraine, sees a permanent US presence as an important deterrent against Russia.