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Polish President Nawrocki backs down to Tusk over tax on fuel companies
he law applies a tax to any extraordinary profits earned from the sale of liquid fuels between March 1 and December 31.
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Sánchez dissolves parliament and calls a November election
The Prime Minister has cut short a legislature with no budget and a run of judicial inquiries around him, blaming a parliamentary defeat his own party had spent…
France keeps up to 500 schools shut as pupil revolt enters third week
Lessons have been suspended in between 400 and 500 French secondary schools on October 5, among them more than a third of the lycées in the Paris region.
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Brussels moves closer to possible ban on ESN party
Six experts, selected by the EU institutions, are now set to examine whether the European political family led by Germany’s AfD is breaching the bloc’s fundamental…
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Flávio Bolsonaro outpolls Lula in Brazil’s first round as the Right gains in Congress
The October 25 run-off opened a four-week contest over who negotiates for Brazil inside a Mercosur deal the European Union began applying only in May.
Nationalist parties tighten grip on Bosnia as Dodik claims victory off the ballot
Record-low turnout and the fall of the Croat presidency seat to HDZ BiH point to a hardening ethnic divide as Bosnia's EU bid stalls.
AfD MP denied the right to adopt a dog over party affiliation
Vanessa Behrendt, family-policy spokeswoman for the AfD group in the state parliament, contacted Fortuna Animali about a dog the association is offering for rehoming.
Violence spreads as French school blockades enter second week
The Union syndicale lycéenne, the main pupils' union, called for nationwide blockades on September 28.
ECB pushes cross-border bank mergers to close the gap with the US
Boris Vujčić said domestic takeovers had left euro area lenders without the scale to match American rivals, though fewer banks would also mean less choice for…
Eurozone inflation hits three-year high
The rate climbed to 3.
Merz plunges in poll to lowest chancellor support ever measured
Chancellor Friedrich Merz faces an unprecedented low approval rating of just 10 percent, marking the worst support ever measured for a German chancellor since 1997.
EU officials dismiss ‘absolute sh*t’ alternative to Microsoft Teams imposed by Brussels
Element Pro is described in the memo as an "internal back-up … that helps ensure our business continuity" if there is a disruption and the US-based service becomes…
Italy asks Brussels for more wiggle room in the budget rules
Higher inflation, she said, had to be taken into account when the permitted deficit was calculated.
Bukele and the ICC compete for the European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize
Six candidates are in the running for the European Union's top human rights award, among them an Israeli Jewish-Arab movement and a detained Gaza doctor.
Patriots.eu takes European Parliament to court over ‘double standard’ in party funding
The posters the Parliament refuses to pay for carried Marine Le Pen and Matteo Salvini, and the party says liberal campaigns did the same without penalty.
Zelensky asks EU again for money to strike deeper into Russia
The Ukrainian president pressed European ambassadors in Kyiv to release unspent defence loans, hours before announcing the first combat use of Ukraine's own ballistic…
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EU funding for me, but not for thee?
On Tuesday, judges at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) held hearings on a high-stakes financing dispute involving a controversial billboard and…
Ireland races to rescue EU capital markets overhaul
Dublin has a week left to bridge a decade-old split over who polices Europe's financial markets.
German taxpayers’ association lists worst 100 cases of public waste
The black book is not an official audit but still offers a telling insight into the choices Berlin made.
Berlin Left invites investors out and backs expropriation of 220,000 flats
"We have no problem at all if private capital, the housing corporations and the investors finally go home and leave us Berliners, our flats, in peace".
Brussels threatens Spain with court action over consumer credit delay
The European Commission has given Madrid two months to adopt the bloc's new credit rules before asking judges to impose financial penalties.
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Brussels admits energy costs are ‘extremely high’ as it rules out shortages for now
The European Commission said oil, gas and diesel were trading well above their historical averages, though it insisted supply to the bloc remained secure.
Denmark calls out Home Guard volunteers in largest exercise since the Cold War
Exercise Blåtand puts armed volunteers into more than 40 Danish towns a week after the country's military intelligence service warned that Russia would step up…
Violent high school protests spread around France
Police detained 625 people, after 440 the previous day and 164 on September 28, most of them minors.
Spanish King sets date for first visit to Ceuta and Melilla since the invasion
Felipe VI and Queen Letizia will travel to the two Spanish cities on October 13 and 14, nearly 19 years after the last visit by a Spanish monarch.
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Tusk government rejects court ruling granting safe passage to PiS MP Romanowski
Żurek has announced that prosecutors will appeal the court's decision, which he claims was issued by an illegitimately appointed judge and in violation of regulations.
EU halts millions in budget support to Sierra Leone over fugitive Dutch drug lord
The Netherlands hopes a further €20.5 million in 2027 can also be blocked; talks among member states on that sum are still open.
Brussels tightens its offensive against legal tobacco as illicit trade grows
Almost one in ten cigarettes consumed in the EU now comes from the illegal market or is smuggled, while Brussels presses on with new taxes and restrictions.
Commission proposes cross-border network to keep emergency services talking
Magnus Brunner says a firefighter who crosses an internal border today loses radio contact, though the new system would not start operating until 2030.
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Kazakh President Tokayev calls Putin ‘most acceptable’ political figure for Europe and the world
Merz responded by reaffirming Germany’s support for Ukraine and calling for serious Russian peace negotiations.