Key witness in Bardella anti-Semitism case says Mediapart manipulated his words
"Mr Bardella never told me that he admired Adolf Hitler, at any moment, and it is not something I sensed either".
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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…
Trump to look at a US military base in Lithuania
Vilnius has offered to pay for a permanent American presence, while Warsaw is still waiting for Washington to name the site of its own base.
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AfD backs away from Dexit pledge, calls for radical EU and euro reforms
The party is shifting from an immediate exit from the euro and the EU towards a strategy of radical reform first, with a referendum on Germany’s future European…
Deepfake pornography sites target dozens of MEPs
European Parliament President Roberta Metsola told the Strasbourg plenary that around 60 members, most of them women, had been targeted by websites carrying AI-generated…
Hackers access records of 8.8 million people in Denmark’s population register
The register holds about 11 million entries, including the dead and those who have left the country.
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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.
Brussels sends Moldova more growth plan cash as two reform targets go unmet
The third payment under the €1.
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.
Hungary set to lift block on next stage of Ukraine and Moldova EU talks
Budapest would let two more negotiating clusters move forward if Kyiv passes a minority schools law, though Péter Magyar's veto on membership itself has not gone…
Anonymous staff accuse EESC leadership of contract-rigging cover-up and a hunt for whistleblowers
The latest letter, signed "All United Against Corruption" and circulated to members and staff, was reported by Rapporteur on October 2.
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Abascal warns Spaniards not to trust the polls and to vote in person
The Vox leader questioned postal ballots and set out why he expects November 29 to be closer than the surveys suggest.
France charges five over alleged Hamas fundraising through charities
Two are the presidents of French humanitarian associations. They deny any link to the group.
Brussels reservists struggle to get leave as EU preaches defence readiness
Two European Commission officials who serve in the French reserve forces say the EU executive's staff rules do not match its own calls for a war-ready Europe.
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.
Latvian Right wins record mandate as Kulbergs takes 41 seats
Latvian Way's 36 seats in 1993 had been the previous high. Turnout was 51.8 per cent.
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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.
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.