Category: Europe

EU interior ministers gathered in Luxembourg on Monday with one goal in sight: to make deportations swifter and more enforceable. Yet as discussions began, two of the bloc’s most divisive issues, online surveillance and migration policy cast long shadows over the meeting, according to ORF News. The long-debated “chat control” law, intended to combat the […]

PARIS — Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been ordered to begin serving his prison sentence on October 21, according to sources close to the case cited by Agence France-Presse (AFP). The 70-year-old conservative leader will be incarcerated at Paris’s La Santé prison, where he was informed of his detention conditions by France’s financial prosecutor’s […]

Macron Unveils New Government to Steer France Out of Political Crisis PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron unveiled a new government on Sunday, in a high-stakes attempt to restore political stability and prevent the country from sinking deeper into crisis, according to Hurriyet Daily News. The reshuffle comes after days of intense negotiations and mounting […]

CATALONIA, Spain — Torrential rains pounding Spain’s northeastern coast have unleashed severe flooding, trapping motorists in submerged vehicles and prompting a red alert across Catalonia’s Tarragona province, according to BBC News. The deluge driven by Storm Alice sweeping across the western Mediterranean turned streets into rivers overnight. Videos posted online show walls of muddy water […]

ATHENS — Greece is coming under growing pressure from its European partners to drop objections to Türkiye’s participation in the European Union’s new 150 billion-euro ($175 billion) Security Action for Europe (SAFE) program, according to Greek daily Kathimerini. Germany is reportedly leading the push, with Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul expected to raise the issue directly […]

Several Wounded in Shooting at Giessen Market in Central Germany GIESSEN, Germany — Several people were injured Saturday afternoon after gunfire erupted at a bustling market square in the central German city of Giessen, authorities said. The incident occurred shortly after 3 p.m. local time, according to Mehr News Agency. A police spokesperson confirmed that […]

French President Emmanuel Macron is racing against the clock to appoint a new prime minister, as the political crisis engulfing his presidency deepens and allies drift away, according to “Hurriyet Daily News”. The urgency comes after the resignation of Premier Sébastien Lecornu on October 6, less than a month into his tenure. Macron granted him […]

On his 73rd birthday, Russian President Vladimir Putin told senior military commanders that Moscow’s forces had seized nearly 5,000 square kilometers of Ukrainian territory this year, a gain he said cements Russia’s strategic initiative in the nearly four-year-old war, according to “Reuters”. Speaking at a meeting near St. Petersburg, Putin claimed Ukrainian troops were retreating […]

BRUSSELS — The European Union is considering a proposal that would restrict the movements of Russian diplomats within its territory, marking the bloc’s most direct attempt yet to curb Moscow’s influence operations, according to Euro News. According to a document seen by Euronews, the plan would require members of Russia’s diplomatic and consular missions — […]

France’s political crisis deepened this week as former prime minister Édouard Philippe urged President Emmanuel Macron to prepare an “orderly and dignified” exit from office by calling early presidential elections. Philippe, who served as Macron’s first prime minister from 2017 to 2020 and now leads the centrist Horizons party, stopped short of demanding his immediate […]