EuropeSlovenian PM Golob admits he cannot form a government, opening door for Janša
Caretaker Prime Minister Robert Golob of Slovenia admitted on Monday that his liberal Freedom Movement party is unable to assemble a governing coalition despite narrowly winning last month's election with 29 of 90 parlia...
EuropeLe Pen and Bardella pledge to slash red tape in pitch to French business leaders
Far-right National Rally leaders Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella published a joint letter pledging to 'liberate' the French economy by dramatically cutting regulations and bureaucracy. They argued accumulated rules imp...
EuropeFrench conservative Retailleau wins Les Républicains backing for 2027 presidential race
Bruno Retailleau, leader of the French centre-right party Les Républicains, has secured his party's official endorsement for next year's presidential election. Members opted to back Retailleau directly rather than hold ...
EuropeUkraine drone strike kills one in Russian Black Sea port city of Tuapse
Russian authorities reported that one man was killed in a Ukrainian drone attack on the Black Sea port city of Tuapse. Separately, Russia announced the arrest of a German woman in connection with an alleged bomb plot....
EuropeKeir Starmer's Leadership Under Pressure Amid Mounting Political Crisis
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is facing a deepening leadership crisis less than two years after Labour's landslide election victory, according to Politico Europe. A prolonged controversy over his appointment of Peter Ma...
EuropeOLAF Chief Warns EU Parliament Access Dispute Threatens Both Institutions' Reputations
The new head of the EU's anti-fraud body OLAF, Petr Klement, has warned that an ongoing dispute over investigators' access to the European Parliament is putting the reputations of both institutions at risk. Klement said ...
EuropeImmunization Should Be Treated as Strategic Pillar of European Resilience, Expert Argues
A vaccination policy expert writing in Politico Europe argues that immunization must be reframed beyond childhood disease prevention and recognized as a strategic element of Europe's broader health resilience. The piece ...
EuropeRadev's Progressive Bulgaria Party Takes Strong Lead in Parliamentary Election
Former Bulgarian President Rumen Radev's Progressive Bulgaria coalition has taken a commanding lead in the country's parliamentary election, its eighth in five years. BBC and Al Jazeera report he leads with roughly doubl...
EuropeHundreds Protest in Berlin Against Wars in Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Berlin, defying rain, to protest against what they described as US-Israeli aggression on Iran and Israeli military attacks on Gaza and Lebanon....
EuropePro-Russian Radev wins Bulgaria's eighth election in five years, exit polls show
Exit polls indicate Rumen Radev's newly created Progressive Bulgaria movement secured around 40 percent of the vote in Bulgaria's parliamentary election, more than double any rival party. The left-leaning, Russia-aligned...
EuropeUAE says Iran fired over 2,800 missiles and drones, targeting mostly civilian infrastructure
UAE Minister of State Reem Al Hashimy said Iran struck the country with more than 2,800 missiles and drones in the first 40 days of the US-Israel war with Iran. She stated that over 90% of the targets were civilian infra...
EuropeLife under fire in Donbas as Russian forces advance on Kostiantynivka
Russian forces are pressing their advance on the Ukrainian town of Kostiantynivka with the goal of seizing the entire Donbas region. Despite the ongoing threat, civilians and fighters continue to hold their ground, accor...
EuropeThousands evacuated in Paris as WWII bomb safely detonated
Thousands of Paris residents were evacuated from a 450-metre radius around a discovered World War Two bomb. The device was successfully neutralised by authorities....
EuropeOrbán signals he will lift veto on €90B EU Ukraine loan if Druzhba oil pipeline resumes
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said he is prepared to drop his veto on a €90 billion EU loan to Ukraine, contingent on Kyiv restoring oil flows through the Druzhba pipeline. Orbán suggested the pipeline repair...
EuropeTrump's open support for Orbán contrasts with decades of covert US electoral interference
A Politico Europe analysis examines how Trump's vocal backing of Hungary's Viktor Orbán contrasts sharply with the historically covert methods the US has used to influence foreign elections, citing examples dating back ...
EuropeSánchez Champions Progressive Unity, Calls for End to EU-Israel Agreement
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez led rallies over the weekend promoting democracy and progressive solidarity, attending events in both Barcelona and Andalusia while far-right leaders held a rival gathering in Milan....
EuropeGerman Man Slaps Neighbor Over Loud Schnitzel Pounding
Police in southern Germany were called to mediate a noise dispute that turned violent after a man slapped his neighbor for pounding schnitzel too loudly....
EuropeIran Blocks Strait of Hormuz; US-Iran Talks Set to Resume in Pakistan
Iranian gunboats fired on vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, halting naval traffic after Tehran reversed an earlier decision to reopen the waterway in response to a US naval blockade of Iranian ports. The Iranian governmen...
EuropeBattleground Republicans Grow Anxious Over US Senate Majority
GOP operatives, strategists, and party officials in key US battleground states are expressing growing concern that the prolonged Iran war and a sputtering economy could threaten the Republican Senate majority in the midt...
EuropeFrench Billionaire Bolloré Defiant After 170 Authors Quit Grasset Publisher
Vincent Bolloré has pledged to find new authors for French publisher Grasset after 170 writers departed, citing political interference in editorial decisions. French President Macron has publicly weighed in on the contr...