Le Pen pledges to bring back oil exploration in France
The National Rally candidate has said she would scrap a 2017 ban on new oil and gas permits as fuel prices across the EU remain high.
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Italian Government brands release of alleged Milan riot organiser ‘shameful’
A Milan judge found no serious evidence that Youssef Siher incited violence, reopening the clash between Rome and the judiciary.
EU military helicopter crash in Bosnia kills Italian personnel
A Chinook flying for the European Union's peacekeeping mission came down near Brčko with 15 people on board.
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EU and Canada meet in Montreal as capitals rein in von der Leyen’s ‘associate membership’ plan
Member states led by Germany stripped the label from the summit declaration, replacing it with a pledge of “ever closer association” short of membership.
Greek precedent piles pressure on Spanish Government after second deadly rail crash
Greece's transport minister resigned within a day of the Tempi disaster in 2023, while Spain's has refused to go after two high-speed crashes in nine months.
ECB holds rates despite inflation alarm as Lagarde prepares early exit
The pause came hours after Christine Lagarde announced she would leave the bank in February, three months after vowing to stay at the helm through the storm.
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Italy approves 2027 budget with tax rises on banks, insurers and energy firms
This is the last full budget under Meloni, and her fifth, before national elections due next year.
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Outgoing EPPO chief Kövesi accuses Greece of ‘most blatant’ attempt to intimidate EU prosecutors
She singled out a dispute over the renewal of the mandates of three Greek European Delegated Prosecutors as the clearest example of pressure on the independent body.
Lagarde announces early ECB exit as succession race opens
The former IMF chief is to leave the European Central Bank on February 7, 2027, nearly nine months before her eight-year term was due to end.
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Die Linke’s Berlin mayoral candidate admits fear of Hamas-linked figures in leaked notes
She wrote that she could not “endanger myself and my family for Der Spiegel” and asked: “What do we do now? Can we cancel the whole interview?”
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Kaczyński says Poland could threaten EU with leaving to get change
“We have a clause in the EU treaty which determines the process of leaving the EU. It begins with a process of negotiation which could be started”.
Airbus open to joining British-Italian-Japanese fighter jet programme
The European plane maker, which represented Germany and Spain in the collapsed Franco-German project, says a tie-up with GCAP is one of several options on the table.
India and Europe accelerate trade ties but investment remains the big unknown
One year after the EFTA agreement came into force, India is attracting new European business projects while Brussels prepares its own free trade deal.
Bolsonaro draws a blank in more than a hundred Brazilian ballot boxes
An analysis of the official count shows the defeated candidate took no votes at all in 106 polling sections where Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva gathered almost 15,000,…
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Spain tops world toll for high-speed rail deaths after Urda crash
The collision near Urda, added to January's Adamuz disaster, pushed Spain past the toll of Germany's 1998 Eschede derailment on a network that was until this year…
Flávio Bolsonaro flees to US alleging Brazil election was stolen
The candidate says he left for Brazil, not from it, and has vowed to lead an opposition in exile against what he calls a dictatorial regime under Lula.
Spain funds foreign railways as its own network suffers a second fatal crash
The largest individual allocation involves a €754.3 million credit package cleared for Morocco’s state rail company ONCF.
Former Spanish employment minister dies in high-speed rail disaster
The architect of Spain's 2012 labour reform was travelling in the rear carriage of the Iryo service struck from behind near Urda, in Toledo province.
Spanish Government insists railways are ‘safe’ as Toledo crash toll climbs
Ministers have defended the network hours after a high-speed train ran into the back of a stopped service near Urda, the second mass-casualty crash on the Madrid-Seville…
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German billion-euro online retailer warns EU is regulating itself out of competitiveness
The company, which reports more than €1 billion in annual revenue, around 10 million customers and a catalogue of more than 250,000 products.
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Almost 30 per cent of machines in Belgian factories sit idle amid industrial malaise
The figures mean 27 per cent of all production equipment across the country is currently inactive, a level not recorded since April 2020.
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Switzerland freezes Médecins Sans Frontières funding over Chad abuse allegations
Staff members were alleged to have conditioned the provision of humanitarian relief, jobs and financial assistance on sexual acts with displaced women and girls.
European leaders rally behind Spain after Toledo rail disaster
Messages of condolence arrived from capitals across the European Union as the death toll climbed at Urda, nine months after a similar disaster on the same corridor.
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US chooses Poland over Germans and Dutch to host Patriot servicing hub
According to the Pentagon statement the service centre will also help European NATO countries to “undertake primary responsibility for their own conventional defence”.
Spain suffers second high-speed rail disaster this year
A Renfe AVE ran into the back of an Iryo service near Urda, in Toledo province, nine months after the Adamuz disaster on the same route.
Israeli Left pushes for an Arab-backed government
Democrats chairman Yair Golan has urged the opposition to govern with Israel's Arab parties, arguing that the anti-Netanyahu camp holds 65 of the Knesset's 120 seats.
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Netanyahu rules out the 18 seats that would hand him a majority
Arab-led parties won their best result on record, and each of the three combinations that reaches 61 required somebody to abandon a position taken in public during…
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Brussels unveils plan to transform Frontex into central deportation hub with 30,000-strong corps
It was presented by European Commission Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen and Magnus Brunner, Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration.
Israel heads for coalition deadlock as both blocs claim victory
Partial counts put Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing camp ahead of Gadi Eisenkot's opposition, though neither is within reach of the 61 seats needed to govern.
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French student unions reject government concessions as Macron hardens the security response
French education minister Édouard Geffray unveiled a package on October 26, alongside higher education minister Philippe Baptiste.