Category: 3. Europe

Die Union kämpft um ihre Mehrheit beim Rentenpaket. In der Fraktion wurde am Dienstag deutlich, wie brüchig die Unterstützung in der Fraktion ist. Gordon Repinski und Rasmus Buchsteiner ordnen ein, wie viele Abweichler sich in der Union abzeichnen, wie man sie umstimmen will…

Indonesia and the Netherlands have signed a deal to return two elderly Dutch nationals jailed in Indonesia for drug offences – one on death row and the other serving a life sentence.

The Dutch government had requested their repatriation “on humanitarian grounds”, it said in a statement on…

‘Fair to all generations’

Lawmakers in France are sparring this week over a highly contentious plan to freeze inflation adjustments on pension payments next year, part of a wide-ranging effort to trim billions of euros from the budget and get the deficit below 5 percent of gross…

I met Seán again in 2021 and 2023, both times outside the courthouse in Mytilene on Lesvos. In 2023, the lesser misdemeanor charges against him and the other foreign defendants — forgery, espionage and the unlawful use of radio frequencies — were dropped. Then, in 2024, the rest of the…

“The credibility of our institutions is at stake,” said Manon Aubry, co-chair of The Left in the European Parliament.

If proven, the allegations would set in motion the biggest scandal to engulf Brussels since the mass resignation of the Jacques Santer Commission in 1999 over…

According to Ushakov, Putin flagged “the destructive actions of the European side” — an indication he may try to pin the blame for any failure to reach a peace deal on the EU, which was notably left out of the meeting.

Trump’s latest push to inject new momentum into a ceasefire…

“The pharmaceutical industry in the U.K. has now gained planning security. Such an agreement is still pending for the EU. …The risk of customs duties remains high and uncertainty persists,” he said in a statement.

Trump has repeatedly blamed European pharmaceutical companies for…

Chloé Ridel, a Socialist lawmaker working on the file, said the law also includes specific definitions for many corruption offenses that all EU countries now will share, such as “bribery in the public and private sector, misappropriation in the public and private sector, trading and…