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Despite attempts by the European Commission to tackle fraud in its €650 billion Covid recovery fund, the current situation still has too many gaps and shows "systemic…
An Afghan man sentenced to seven years in a German prison for alleged rape and battery has been released from custody after a judge at a Berlin court failed to write…
French President Emmanuel Macron has attributed the major blackout that hit the Iberian Peninsula in April 2025 to Spain's heavy dependence on renewable energy sources,…
The Council of Europe today lifted diplomatic immunity for its former secretary general, Thorbjorn Jagland, who is being investigated for his ties to US sex offender…
The new minority Dutch Government has a passage in its coalition agreement which says it wants to take away funds and voting power of countries perceived as Eurosceptic,…
France's foreign minister has requested a probe after the name of a French diplomat on leave appeared in numerous emails to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Politicians in the German town of Great-Gerau near Frankfurt have refused plans by a US company to build one of Europe’s biggest data centres.
Prosecutors in Poland have submitted a request for a European Arrest Warrant against a former Polish justice minister who is facing multiple charges in his home…
In Italy and across Europe, debate is intensifying over possible funding by the Trump administration of movements and think tanks aligned with the MAGA movement—what…
A large majority of Germans think their country’s welfare state cannot be upheld financially in its current form.
The European Parliament has voted for a tightening of asylum regulations in Europe regarding safe countries, making it more difficult for people to get into the…
A song produced by Austria’s right-wing Freedom Party (FPÖ) has entered the Austrian single charts at number 20. The composition titled Immer vorwärts FPÖ!
A Polish nationalist activist connected with the opposition Conservatives (PiS) has been indicted for incitement to murder Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and…
French people are increasingly turning their back on French politicians, having a very negative view on both politics and the government.
France’s opposition has accused President Emmanuel Macron of deliberately locking down key state institutions as the country edges closer to the 2027 presidential…
Poland plans to establish a major force of reservists in its efforts to build an army of 500,000 potentially combat ready personnel.
Prominent US Republicans are considering legislation to strip sovereign immunity from European Union officials enforcing content moderation rules under the Digital…
The small picture is of an ailing British government heading for existential meltdown.
French President Emmanuel Macron Monday has distanced the counntry from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, saying it "mainly concerns" the US.
Austria is set to join other European Union countries in banning young people from accessing social media.
The EU executive told Meta to give rival chatbots access to WhatsApp after an antitrust probe found the US giant to be in breach of the bloc's competition rules.
Spain's ruling Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) suffered a crushing setback in the snap regional elections in Aragón.
Japanese shares rose to record highs Monday after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's conservatives won a historic election landslide with a projected two-thirds majority.
Centre-left candidate António José Seguro has been elected President of Portugal in a decisive second-round victory
A Warsaw court has sanctioned the pre-trial detention of Zbigniew Ziobro, a former Polish justice minister in the last Conservative (PiS) government.
Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has slammed the country’s Constitutional Court after it ruled that the party – the second-biggest in parliament…
The US ambassador to Poland has said he is suspending all contacts with Poland’s parliament Speaker.
Environmental network Greenpeace is turning to the Dutch courts in an attempt to have a multimillion-dollar fine imposed in a US lawsuit set aside.
Pressure is mounting on France’s former Socialist Party culture minister Jack Lang to resign as President of the Arab World Institute (IMA) after his name appeared…
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has annulled the European Parliament's 2021 decision to waive the parliamentary immunity of three Catalan pro-independence…
