EU agrees to widen accession talks with Ukraine and Moldova after Hungary lifts block
The decision followed a vote in Kyiv on minority-language schooling that Budapest had demanded, while Montenegro closed three more chapters and now has 12 left.
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Foreign nationals make up nearly 40 per cent of Germany’s long-term welfare recipients
This chronic demographic accounts for roughly two in five of all employable welfare beneficiaries nationwide.
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Crowd boos Sánchez and cheers the King at Spain’s national day parade
At Spain's national day parade, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez faced boos from the crowd while King Felipe VI received enthusiastic applause, highlighting political…
Spain’s Supreme Court bars ‘grandchildren law’ citizens from the November election
Judges threw out the Spanish Government's appeal on the day the electoral roll closed, leaving hundreds of thousands of new Spaniards abroad without a ballot.
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Audi and parent company Volkswagen see big drop in sales
Volkswagen Group deliveries there plunged 38.5 per cent in the third quarter and are down 30.2 per cent year-to-date.
Nobel economics prize rewards the theory behind ECB rate decisions
Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford have won for work that gave central banks their models for handling energy shocks and inflation.
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Pupil, 14, shoots school principal and teacher in southern France
The 53-year-old head and the 37-year-old teacher were hit in the lower body; the former in the hip, the latter in the thigh.
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Glucksmann wins social-democratic primary outright and names the ‘far right’ as his main opponent
“I am the candidate who can defeat our long-standing enemy, the far right,” he said, adding that Marine Le Pen would not be in the Élysée in 2027.
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Spain faces hunt for assets in US as renewables rulings mount
Thirteen American court decisions now back investors chasing compensation for Madrid's retroactive cuts to green energy subsidies, and creditors are moving from…
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German labour minister Bärbel Bas resigns from cabinet and SPD leadership
“After the death of my stepdaughter, I realised that I need time to come to terms with my grief. I want to take sufficient time for this,” she wrote.
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Tusk’s parliamentary majority moves to depose head of Polish central bank
Heads of the NBP in Poland are nominated by the head of state with that nomination having to be approved by parliament.
Communist network and unions latch on to France’s school revolt
Only 15 of the 50 organisations identified in the French protest movement are student or youth groups, an investigation has found.
Brussels tells capitals to clear airport queues before Christmas
Magnus Brunner has defended the EU's digital border system after travellers waited up to five hours at Brussels Airport, saying member states agreed to it and had…
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EU buys record volumes of Russian Arctic LNG in final year before import ban
Yamal cargoes reached EU terminals roughly every 1.6 days in the first nine months of 2026, at an estimated cost of €7.88 billion.
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Irish presidency proposes 8 per cent cut to Commission’s 2028-2034 EU budget plan
The proposal sets total commitments at roughly €1.62 trillion in 2025 prices, or about €1.83 trillion in current prices.
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German transport minister calls EU combustion-engine ban a ‘big mistake’
“The federal government is united in jointly advocating in Brussels for a reversal of the ban,” he said.
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German ex-chancellor Schröder lambasted for celebrating Putin’s birthday in Moscow
Schröder was already in the Russian capital on business when Putin learned of his presence from media reports on the morning of October 7.
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Crowd attacks Vlaams Belang politician at Antwerp city hall
Two people from the Belgian-Moroccan group have been detained by police following the incident.
Brazilian judge orders arrest of Eduardo Bolsonaro as runoff nears
He is currently in the United States, and the warrant takes effect if he returns.
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Left-wing Hungarian newspaper relaunches online
The new newsroom is built mainly on the staff of Népszava, another long-running left/social-democratic daily, together with many former Népszabadság journalists.
Russian Liberal politician jailed for four years over €37 in donations to Navalny foundation
The court ordered the 3,500 roubles confiscated, along with a mobile phone, Kommersant reported.
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BMW withdraws official-car offer to AfD state parliament president
The company gave no reason, though German media have linked the move to the vote in Magdeburg.
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Germany withdraws from joint next-generation tank project with France
Joint staff work over several years had clarified what a future main battle tank should look like, he said, and that effort “wasn’t a waste of time”.
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Deadly knife attacks in Polish schools used as political football by PM Tusk
The attacker has been detained and will appear before a family court as he is a minor.
European Parliament urges terrorist listing for Muslim Brotherhood networks
MEPs have asked capitals to hand over the evidence that would let the Council add Brotherhood figures and front groups to the EU terrorist list.
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Gas network operators warn of 15 per cent EU shortfall in a severe winter
EU storage stood at 72 per cent on October 1, against 83 per cent a year earlier.
France rushes thousands of substitute teachers into schools as student revolt grows
Unions have called fresh nationwide action for October 13 after a day of protests that left dozens of police officers injured and hundreds of people in custody.
Brussels rejects Italian and Greek calls to loosen EU fiscal rules
Economy Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis warned that piling new exemptions on to the budget framework would erode the credibility of the rules themselves.
Eurogroup opens race to replace Schnabel on ECB board
Eurozone finance ministers have set an end-of-October deadline for nominations, putting the first of three senior European Central Bank vacancies formally in play.
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BBC pays white staff less than ethnic-minority colleagues in most pay bands
In the lowest band, black, Asian, mixed and other ethnic-minority employees had median pay 13.2 per cent higher than white staff.