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Russia’s Ambassador to Poland Sergei Andreev has defied a summons to a meeting with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Warsaw at which he was to receive a diplomatic…
Moldova's Parliament on Thursday endorsed an appeal to press on with a drive to join the European Union, but the opposition walked out of the vote and separatists…
The collective flight of reason triggered by Emmanuel Macron’s bombshell suggestion last month about a possible Western military intervention in Ukraine is only…
2024 is set to be a tumultuous year in Belgian politics.
In the end, there were no palace coups, no visible pressure to quit.
Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo, whose country holds the six-month presidency of the Council of the European Union, said Europe's proposed Nature Restoration…
Adam Glapiński, the head of Poland’s central bank (NBP), is in line to be indicted by Parliament and tried by the country’s Tribunal of State, the body responsible…
With what seem a shrewd series of telephone calls to US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and visits alongside European Commission President Ursula…
Differences between French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz are too deep to vanish easily, warn observers of their recent 'fence-mending'…
On the unsurprising re-election of Russian President Vladimir Putin there was an apparently eerie silence in place of what have previously been relatively fulsome…
June's European Parliament elections will be an important test for Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's Fratelli d'Italia party -- one that will most likely confirm…
The Spanish Parliament has approved a controversial amnesty bill for Catalan separatists.
According to a leaked secret poll commissioned by Les Républicains, Marine Le Pen's National Rally party could obtain a possible majority in the French Parliament.
French President Emmanuel Macron warned that the European Union would face an “existential” threat of a Russian invasion unless Vladimir Putin’s forces are…
Irish Government ministers faced widespread criticism after jetting-off for St Patrick's Day celebrations in the US and elsewhere, just a week after a botched referendum…
Despite, according to some, Germany possibly having endangered allied soldiers after an embarrassing security leak, the country's UK Ambassador Miguel Berger said…
The Dutch Parliament passed a move to build four new nuclear-power plants, doubling the planned two major installations originally envisaged.
A proposed European Union crackdown on goods made with forced labour could cut the number of Chinese solar panels imported into the bloc, the European Commission…
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord must have been the world’s greatest political survival artist.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said he wanted the Government to open an account on TikTok, apparently amid concerns about the hard-right Alternative für Deutschland…
A worsening German-French spat over Ukraine appears to risk a crippling of the European Union's Ukraine arms fund.
President Vladimir Putin warned Western countries there was a "genuine risk" of nuclear war if they sent their own troops to fight in Ukraine.
An announced partnership between Microsoft and a major French Artificial Intelligence firm has prompted outrage within the European Union, with some MEPs fearing…
The Hungarian Parliament has voted overwhelmingly in favour of Sweden joining NATO, which will see the Nordic country ending a 200-year policy of neutrality.
Angry farmers stormed Paris's annual agricultural fair during President Emmanuel Macron's visit February 24.
PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński has demanded the resignation of his party’s top brass MEPs, in order to substitute them ahead of this year's European elections.
Galicia, Spain Is Spain about to be pulled apart by its regional identities? Recent events in the country appear to suggest that this could be the case.
Russia has been accused of spreading fake reports of a possible attempt to assassinate French President Emmanuel Macron in Ukraine.
A Russian pilot who defected to Ukraine with his helicopter last year was found dead in an underground garage in Spain last week, his body riddled with bullets,…
US President Joe Biden has invited both Poland’s Liberal Prime Minister Donald Tusk and its Conservative President Andrzej Duda to visit the White House.
