Category: 3. Europe

Published on
04/12/2025 – 6:00 GMT+1

European countries should step up efforts to combat bird flu threats amid an “unprecedented” number of outbreaks this autumn, health authorities have…

“It’s been demonstrated the last few years, time and time again, that Europe is dirty and needs to be cleaned up,” said O’Brien, as waiters in bowties served coffee to attendees.

The latest embarrassment for the EU — the detention on Tuesday of former Commission Vice President…

At the center of that inquiry is an accusation that, three months before the container killings, the company abandoned contractors who were building its gas plant to a devastating ISIS attack in March 2021 on the adjacent town of Palma.

A house-to-house survey carried out by POLITICO found…

Spooking the horses 

According to several of those close to the discussions, the reparations loan proposal started to hit trouble when tension began to build between De Wever and his neighbor, the new German chancellor, Friedrich Merz.

A Flemish nationalist, De Wever came to power just this…

But there’s another reason for the chaotic scenes we’ve witnessed over the past few months — of summits announced then called off, deadlines declared then abandoned, plans set in stone then amended, all with an ever-rotating cast of characters leading negotiations — and that’s…

Helpfully for von der Leyen, Sannino fell on his sword Wednesday, with the Commission announcing he was gone from the helm of its Middle East, North Africa and the Gulf department (DG MENA).

Three Commission officials forcefully argued the investigation launched Tuesday — into…

It emboldened Starmer and his lieutenants. Rachel Reeves, the U.K.’s chief finance minister, used her speech at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool to talk up the benefits of improved cross-border mobility for the economy.  

Ahead of last week’s difficult budget stuffed with…

“La crédibilité de nos institutions est en jeu”, a estimé Manon Aubry, coprésidente du groupe La Gauche au Parlement européen.

Si elles venaient à être prouvées, ces accusations déclencheraient le plus grand scandale à Bruxelles depuis la démission de la Commission Jacques…