Category: 3. Europe

But NGOs say that these hubs risk becoming lawless offshore detention centers. The lack of detail on where the hubs will be placed and who will monitor them “risks leaving the door open to abuses of power, human rights violations, and even more disorder at Europe’s borders,” said Imogen…

The big shots and the thinkers

Burnham is no stranger to the Cabinet either. Two of his biggest supporters around Starmer’s top table are Miliband, the energy secretary, and Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy.

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander is “pally” with Burnham, too, as the friend…

“We received early information from Latvia about a drone that had strayed off course, and Estonia tracked the drone until Romanian fighter jets participating in the Baltic air policing mission shot it down,” the Estonian defence ministry said in a statement.

PARIS — Former French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe will cooperate fully with investigators after financial prosecutors ordered a judicial inquiry into allegations of embezzlement, a local official linked to Philippe said Tuesday.

Philippe, one of the leading candidates…

Keir Starmer’s leadership has been dealt a severe blow over the past fortnight as almost 100 MPs said that he should set out his timetable to step down as prime minister. Several of his ministers, including Health Secretary Wes Streeting, have resigned to trigger a contest to replace…

“The process of redeploying U.S. military forces and assets in Europe is ongoing, but no decision has been made to reduce U.S. military capabilities in Poland,” Kosiniak-Kamysz said in a post on X. “The decisions being made are in no way directed against our strategic partnership. The…

Tuesday’s drone entered Estonian airspace at noon local time, the Estonian Defense Forces wrote on X. Soon after, a Romanian F-16 training with NATO’s Baltic Air Policing mission downed the drone with an air-to-air missile, under the leadership of the Latvian Control and Reporting…