Pope Francis’s Laudate Deum is a political exhortation, not a religious treatise
Eight years after the encyclical Laudato Si, Pope Francis published another document, called an apostolic exhortation, to say what has been done - and what has not…
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French Socialists bury left-wing unity list for European Parliament elections
The head of the French Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, said he does not want to be part of a united left-wing list ahead of the European Parliament elections in…
France approves sending military gear to Armenia
France is to deliver military aid to Armenia after the surrender of the de facto republic in Nagorno-Karabach to Azerbaijan.
Fico: I’d rather my party be thrown out of S&D than back Ukraine
Robert Fico, the leader of Slovakia's left-wing Smer party, has said that he would rather see his outfit thrown out of the European Parliament's Socialist (S&D)…
Michel slams von der Leyen over ‘disastrous’ Russia sanctions
"Most of the time, the division of labour between us works well," Michel told Der Spiegel.
EPP upset by grillings as Šefčovič and Hoekstra get committee majority
European People's Party, the European Parliament's largest group, expressed dissatisfaction with the pre-appointment hearings of European Commission nominees Maroš…
Birds of a feather? Putin praises Che Guevara and Fidel Castro
Russian President Vladimir Putin has honoured controversial Latin American Socialist political figures from the past at an International Parliamentary Conference…
Poland’s elections matter way beyond the country’s borders – they could presage a realignment in European politics
2024 EU Elections polls suggest that the national conservatives of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) will be the biggest overall winner, establishing…
Poland: Tusk’s chances buoyed by Confederation fall in polls
Poll ratings for the Polish right-wing Confederation party have slipped to around 10 per cent in most surveys from about 15 per cent in the summer.
Russia says it held talks with U.S. and EU on Nagorno-Karabakh ahead of crisis
Russia exchanged views with the United States and the European Union on the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh ahead of the lightning military operation by Azerbaijan…
AfD MEP denounces ‘schizophrenic’ German media allegations
A senior MEP within Germany's Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party has denounced one of the country's major media outlets as acting in a "schizophrenic" manner…
Germany’s AfD leader under state protection after ‘threats against her family’
Alice Weidel, who heads up the party in Germany's Federal Parliament, is said to have been escorted along with her family from their home by authorities last month.
Charles Michel: ‘Ukraine can be part of the EU in 2030’
President of the European Council Charles Michel is optimistic about Ukraine's European Union prospects and said it could join the bloc in seven years.
Facial recognition technology now available to Western states could make China look like amateurs in mass surveillance
For me, the moment the surveillance society really began to hit home was as far back as 2010, when primary schools in the UK started fingerprinting their pupils…
Don’t panic! French minister urges calm as bedbug plague bites Paris and Brussels
France's health minister has urged the public not to panic as both France and Belgium succumb to a plague of blood-sucking bedbugs.
German minister proposes giving 18-year-olds €20,000 for free
Germany should start handing out €20,000 in cash to citizens when they turn 18 years of age, a government minister has argued.
EU Media Freedom Act ‘violates founding treaty’, Polish MEP claims
"The European Media Freedom Act tries to bring in provisions that violate the Treaties," Elżbieta Kruk told Parliament.
No deal! Tunisia rejects EU money
European plans to curb the mass influx of migrants coming from Tunisia have suffered a major setback as Tunisian President Kais Saied rejected financial support…
EU could review Azerbaijan ties if crisis worsens according to service paper
The European Union could review ties, including financial aid, with Azerbaijan and sanction individuals if the situation worsens following Baku's military…
Billions in frozen funds for Hungary on table as EU seeks Ukraine support
The EU is considering unlocking billions of euros for Hungary that were frozen over rule-of-law concerns as it seeks to win Budapest's approval for aid to Ukraine,…
Mr U-turn: Climate Commissioner hopeful Hoekstra becomes a born-again environmentalist
The Dutch Candidate for EU Climate Commissioner, Wopke Hoekstra, performed a series of U-turns on October 2 as he auditioned for the job in front of Euro MPs.
Is the EU becoming more depressed? And are the lockdowns to blame?
Is the European Union becoming increasingly depressed? Evidence suggests it might be.
Portugal joining the euro was a mistake, MEP says
Portugal's decision to adopt the euro was the "wrong step", a left-wing MEP has said.
Incoming EU carbon tax will raise cost of a car by €580
A new European Union carbon border tax starting its trial period in the week beginning October 1 and will raise the price of an average car by almost €600, said…
British Conservatives push to leave European Convention on Human Rights
Several voices in the UK Conservative Party are campaigning for the country to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
Tunisia ‘expected’ to respect human rights with EU migrant deal, EC says
Tunisia is "expected" to respect human rights as part of its deal with the European Union to curb illegal migration, the European Commission has said.
Furious Erdoğan says Turkey ‘no longer expects anything from EU’
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the President of Turkey, lambasted the European Union on October 1 over what he sees as European inaction preventing his country from joining…
Merkel cannot ‘understand’ how Germans could vote AfD
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she cannot "understand" how people could vote for the country's populist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party.
Irish Deputy PM still has eye on EU top job, party insiders say
Micheál Martin, Ireland's Deputy Prime Minister, still has his eye on the position of European Commission President, insiders have claimed.
Playing geopolitical chess in central Europe: Pawns, knights, and kings in a high-stakes game
The tempo in the Central Eastern European (CEE) region is quickening, fueled by a concatenation of events that seem more like the complex choreography of a ballet…