Category: Europe

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his country’s weapons producers to step up their game. As he toured the Tula weapons plant Friday he said, not only does Russia’s military-industrial complex need to make sure troops on the frontline in Ukraine get what they need, at the shortest possible timeframes but the performance of those […]

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has slammed the eurozone’s rescue fund as “not very useful,” ahead of a parliamentary debate on whether to strengthen its role. The European Stability Mechanism (ESM) was created in 2012 to allow eurozone states in financial distress access to markets and facilitate loans at subsidized rates. In return, countries must […]

PARIS: A shooter killed two people and wounded four others in a gun attack near a Kurdish cultural centre in Paris on Friday, the prosecutor’s office said. Multiple gunshots were fired in the Rue d’Enghien, a street lined with small shops and cafes in the capital’s 10th arrondissement, sowing panic. Armed police guarded a security […]

A Greek MEP at the centre of a corruption scandal rocking the European Parliament has protested her innocence in a Belgian court, asking to be released from detention. Eva Kaili, 44, was “cooperating in an active manner” with the Belgian federal prosecutor’s investigation and was requesting to be released under electronic surveillance, her lawyer, Andre […]

BRUSSELS: A Belgian court will decide on Thursday whether to keep a Greek MEP in jail pending trial on corruption charges in a graft scandal linked to Qatar that has rocked the European Parliament. Eva Kaili, a 44-year-old former newsreader who was booted from her post as parliamentary vice president after police raids earlier this […]

A right-wing Danish lawmaker was acquitted on Wednesday of misusing European Union funds worth 98,835 kroner (€13,286) and falsifying documents. A Copenhagen court found Morten Messerschmidt, who heads the once-powerful Danish People’s Party, not guilty of making false statements about holding an EU conference in 2015 in order to receive EU funding. He maintained his […]

At a meeting with the leaders of the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) in Latvia Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urgently requested more military and defense support. “Russian aggression can and must fail. And our task now is to speed it up. Now — at this summit — I urge you to do everything to speed […]

The Netherlands looks set Monday to finally embark on a path leading to a formal apology for its tainted 250-year history of slavery. Prime Minister Mark Rutte is giving a speech on slavery in The Hague in what he has called a “meaningful moment” while Dutch ministers are travelling to seven former colonies in South […]

The High Court in London has today ruled the British government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is legal. In April, the UK struck a deal with Kigali, aiming to send tens of thousands of migrants arriving on its shores to Rwanda. However, no deportation has yet taken place because of legal challenges — […]

Russia has enough missiles to carry out yet more heavy strikes against Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said, following a wave of Russian attacks. Engineers are continuing work to restore electricity after Friday’s massive strikes using 76 missiles. The attacks have targeted civilian infrastructure, as temperatures drop below zero in many regions. Russia’s President Vladimir […]