France suspends secondary lessons as pupil revolt turns violent
Timetables are halted nationwide until at least the weekend after 215 pupils and 85 school staff were injured, with the French Government blaming La France Insoumise…
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French LFI MEP accused of throwing EU and Israeli flags on the ground at October 7 exhibition
Rima Hassan published a photograph of the two flags on the floor and called for her to be “sanctioned without delay”.
‘Nearly all women arriving on small boats have been raped,’ UK Home Secretary admits
Home Office statistics record the sex, age and nationality of those detected on arrival, not what happened to them before they embarked.
AfD moves to take first German state parliament presidency
Sahra Wagenknecht's party has pledged the votes that would put an AfD politician in the chair in Magdeburg, breaking the cordon sanitaire in a German State parliament…
Home Office hands out free hijabs to small-boat migrants
The British department says the law obliges it to provide religious clothing, while the opposition wants the practice stopped at once.
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Polish activists launch world’s first abortion pill delivery locker
The abortomat automatic locker was placed on October 1 opposite the Sejm, the lower house of the Polish parliament, in the capital Warsaw.
Son of a Congolese minister held over €100,000 bounty on a French judge
The suspect, named only as Floriano, was already in prison on the pimping case when he is said to have planned the attack.
UN rapporteur warns France after journalist fined for prison remarks on transgenderism
The judgment included a €1,000 fine, with damages to the civil parties and their legal costs making up the rest.
Former Prince Andrew asks High Court to quash the warrants behind his Epstein-files arrest
The warrants covered Marsh Farm on the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, eastern England, and Royal Lodge at Windsor, his former home west of London.
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…
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.
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.
Prisoners thank Burnham as first early releases begin
About 5,000 are due out in stages over the next year, down from 6,000 after ministers excluded rapists and the most serious child-sex offenders.
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.
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.
Italy keeps Schengen checks on Spain two months after Ceuta invasion
Rome says the risks left by the July invasion have not receded, while the European Commission has still not ruled on either set of controls.
State Department strips a quarter of a million visas under Trump
Ordinary European tourists mostly travel without one, though officials and regulators in Brussels have already been caught by Washington's widening net.
Passengers stop dramatic cockpit attack on Dubai–Tel Aviv flight
Flight FZ1073 left Dubai International in the morning with about 170 to 180 people on board, most of them Israelis, including children.
Vance says deporting illegal migrants would cut rents, house prices and violent crime
He added that there was a lot of economic evidence on the issue, both in the US and abroad.
Sharia4Belgium founder seeks Belgian asylum to block a return to Morocco
Belkacem was born in Rumst, in Antwerp province, northern Belgium, in 1982 but is of Moroccan descent.
Bardella’s Jewish ex-girlfriend rejects Mediapart anti-Semitism claims
He was accused by the left-wing investigative French outlet Mediapart on September 28 of having made anti-Semitic remarks in 2013.
Brussels plans Frontex rapid-reaction force after Ceuta crossings
The European Commission plans to enhance Frontex's capabilities, enabling rapid response to border crises within 24 hours as part of a new five-point package addressing…
Mamdani unveils anti-Semitism strategy days after Netanyahu clash at the UN
New York's first municipal plan against anti-Jewish hatred commits millions to security and education though it declines to define the term.
Portugal’s ruling parties move to charge non-resident foreigners for healthcare
A bill from the two parties backing Prime Minister Luís Montenegro would oblige illegal migrants and non-residents to pay for treatment, with an exception for emergencies.
Dutch prosecutors clear doctor in first child euthanasia case
The child, born at 26 weeks with severe brain damage, died at the end of 2025 in the first use of a regulation that exists nowhere else in the world.
Fidesz writes to every MEP after two Orbán-era ministers are detained
The Hungarian opposition has asked the European Parliament to look at what it calls the building of an 'authoritarian regime' in Budapest.
Pope Leo XIV sets out Europe’s moral foundations in Schuman’s Metz
The Pontiff closed his French visit with a defence of the family, the welcome of the stranger and human life at every stage, in the city of one of the European Union's…