Category: Europe

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 […]

PARIS — Ukraine’s allies gathered in the French capital on Tuesday in a high-stakes effort to transform broad political assurances into concrete security guarantees for Kyiv, as diplomacy to end the war with Russia enters a more urgent and uncertain phase, according to Reuters. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy joined more than 27 world leaders, alongside […]

ATHENS — Greece’s airspace was effectively shut down on Sunday after a major telecommunications failure crippled the country’s air traffic control systems, bringing nearly all flights to a halt and causing widespread disruption at airports nationwide. The outage affected every airport in Greece, including the country’s busiest international hubs in Athens and Thessaloniki, according to […]

A key party in Germany’s ruling coalition has proposed tightening deportation policies, calling for the return of migrants to countries including Afghanistan, Syria, and Ukraine, a move that has sparked sharp debate among migrant rights advocates, according to TOLOnews. The Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavarian sister party of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats’ coalition […]

Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank, earns substantially more than the ECB publicly acknowledges, making her the highest-paid official in the European Union, according to a report by the Financial Times that has reignited debate over transparency at Europe’s most powerful financial institution. Central bank chiefs worldwide are generally well compensated, though their […]