Category: Europe

Ursula von der Leyen’s European Commission faces yet another parliamentary reckoning next week, as right-wing lawmakers force a fourth no-confidence vote within six months, this time targeting her controversial trade pact with South American nations, according to APA. European Parliament President Roberta Metsola confirmed Tuesday that debate and balloting will proceed during next week’s Strasbourg […]

PARIS — Marine Le Pen returned to court this week with her political future hanging in the balance, as France’s far-right leader launched a high stakes appeal against a ruling that bars her from running for public office for five years; a decision that could derail her 2027 presidential ambitions, according to BBC News. Le […]

BRUSSELS — Hungary’s decision to grant political asylum to Poland’s former justice minister, Zbigniew Ziobro, has intensified strains within the European Union at a moment when the bloc is already grappling with internal backlash over Germany’s controversial move to allow visa-free transit for Indian nationals, according to BBC News. Ziobro, a key figure in Poland’s […]

COPENHAGEN — Denmark’s prime minister warned that her country is facing a “decisive moment” in an escalating diplomatic standoff with the United States over Greenland, after President Donald Trump once again suggested the use of force to take control of the vast Arctic territory, according to Hurriyet Daily News. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said the […]

Tractors rumbled through the streets of Athlone on Saturday as thousands of Irish farmers mounted a defiant stand against the European Union’s newly approved trade agreement with South America’s Mercosur bloc, a pact they warn could dismantle the very fabric of Ireland’s agricultural heartland. The protest erupted one day after EU member states granted provisional […]

France delivered an extraordinary rebuke to its oldest ally Friday, with Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot warning that Europe’s political order stands imperiled as the United States under Donald Trump abandons decades of transatlantic consensus, according to The Nation. Speaking at his annual address to French ambassadors, Barrot rejected American assertions that Europe faces “civilisational erasure”, […]

The Kremlin delivered a stark ultimatum Thursday, declaring any European peacekeeping forces deployed to Ukraine would constitute “legitimate military targets” effectively torpedoing nascent Western efforts to establish post-ceasefire security arrangements as the war approaches its fourth devastating year, according to “Hurriyet Daily News”. Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova branded Ukraine and its European supporters […]

European Union Home Affairs Commissioner Magnus Brunner has called on Germany to terminate its comprehensive border controls, warning that temporary measures must remain genuinely time-limited. Since May 2025, Berlin has maintained intensified inspections across all nine land borders with neighboring states, a policy Brunner characterizes as fundamentally incompatible with the European project’s core achievements. “These […]

Paris — Ukrainian and U.S. negotiators are confronting what President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described as the “most difficult issues” in efforts to end the war with Russia, as high-stakes peace talks entered a second day in the French capital, according to Euro News. Zelenskyy said discussions on Wednesday would focus on the fate of the Russian-occupied […]

Fresh snow and wind warnings have been issued across the United Kingdom as Storm Goretti bears down on the region, intensifying a cold snap that has already disrupted travel and strained emergency services, according to BBC News. The UK’s Met Office has placed amber alerts for strong winds along exposed coastal areas of Cornwall and […]