Madrid wants the EU to mutualise sovereign debt issuance, while Germany opposes expanding the bloc’s budget and NATO is calling for sustained European rearmament.
The announced technical advance will not overcome the political, budgetary and institutional hurdles of bringing Ukraine into the European club.
The NATO summit was meant to confirm Europe’s rearmament and the new burden-sharing arrangement within the alliance, but it ended up marked by Trump’s threats.
In Madrid, 70% of ‘unaccompanied minors’ subjected to age tests in 2024 turned out to be adults as the cost per place turns reception into a lucrative public spending scheme.
New Delhi is accelerating implementation of the trade agreement with Brussels as the EU needs to prove that it can deliver on what it promises as a bloc.
The Alliance gathers in Turkey under pressure to convert its 5% defence pledge into weapons, industrial capacity, and a clearer answer to Washington’s demands.
MEP Jorge Buxadé accused the European Parliament of applying the rule of law selectively after years of pressure against Viktor Orbán.
Brussels frames the digital euro, age verification, and Chat Control as separate solutions to real issues, but together they highlight who controls the digital infrastructure shaping everyday life in Europe.
Ireland begins its EU Council presidency with security at the top of the agenda, while its longstanding military neutrality highlights the limits of its leadership role.
A completely tone-deaf Crown Prosecution Service guidance will require prosecutors to review their decisions involving ethnic minority defendants, as a two-tier, anti-white justice system is increasingly exposed in the UK.
NGO-Files aims to map how public money flows to civil society groups, prompting debate over transparency, political influence, and state funding.
Strasbourg ordered Poland to pay €5,000 in damages after finding a child was left in legal uncertainty because of the registration refusal.
