*Nicolas Guillou said the Trump administrationâs use of sanctions undermines European democracy and called for Europe to curb reliance on American tech.*
About one in five residents in Lithuania lives in poverty, the State Data Agency (VDA) reported, with the most affected groups including people struggling to enter the labour market, pensioners and those with disabilities.
Instead of discarding stock, companies are encouraged to manage their stock more effectively, handle returns, and explore alternatives such as resale, remanufacturing, donations, or reuse.
After years of wrangling, France has set out a new energy law that slashes its wind and solar power targets and drops a mandate for state-run energy provider EDF to shut down nuclear plants.
More than 980 knife-related offenses and some 2,200 sex crimes were registered at train stations and in trains across Germany in 2025, according to a report from the weekly Bild am Sonntag newspaper that cites federal police figures.
Defence Minister David McGuinty says Canada has now officially joined the European Unionâs Security Action for Europe (SAFE) program, which offers loans to member states to invest in defence capabilities.
Switzerland is to hold a landmark vote on a right-wing partyâs proposal to restrict the nationâs population to 10 million, amid divisions over immigration.
At the Munich Security Conference on February 14, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered a wide-ranging speech focused on security guarantees, battlefield realities, Western responsibility, and what he described as the fundamental nature of Russiaâs leadership.
Italy plans to participate in US President Donald Trumpâs Board of Peace as an observer country, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Saturday during a visit to the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa.
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) â The real threat facing Hungary is not Russia but the European Union, Prime Minister Viktor OrbĂĄn said in a speech to supporters on Saturday, as his nationalist party ramps up an anti-EU campaign ahead of national elections.
French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday told the Munich Security Conference that it is time for Europe to become a geopolitical power that can provide its own security by rearticulating its nuclear deterrent in the face of an aggressive Russia. âEveryone should take their cue from us,â he said.
The Company is a network of experts tasked with orchestrating disinformation campaigns around the world on Russiaâs behalf. Thanks to an unprecedented data leak, Forbidden Stories reveals what goes on behind the scenes of this organization. Backed by significant financial resources and directed by Russiaâs Foreign Intelligence Service, the SVR, these operations extend from Mali to Bolivia, via South Africa. Each of them aims to shape public opinion and consolidate Moscowâs interests abroad.
More than a dozen food companies have urged the European Commission not to ban the use of words such as âsausageâ and âburgerâ for non-meat products.
Stuff like this makes me think maybe my country (the UK) would be better off back in the EU. Europe together can create great technology like rockets. The UK alone canât.
LONDON (AP) â Britainâs High Court ruled Friday that the governmentâs decision to outlaw the protest group Palestine Action as a terrorist organization was unlawful, but it kept the ban in place pending an appeal.
The Epstein files show not only how he abused women and girls while mixing with powerful people, but also how he tried to influence politics in Europe.
BELGRADE, Feb 13 (Reuters) - The European Union could withhold funds from a 1.6 billion euro allocation of loans and grants to Serbia, after Belgrade passed laws that are âeroding trustâ in its commitment to the rule of law, the blocâs enlargement commissioner said.
MUNICH (AP) â An annual gathering of top international security figures that last year set the tone for a growing rift between the United States and Europe opens Friday, bringing together many top European officials with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and others.
The plans - which are subject to a 12-week public consultation - seek to prevent smoking, vaping and the use of heated tobacco in these settings across England.
After 26 years of negotiations, the EUâs Partnership Agreement with the South American bloc Mercosur (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay) was expected to be a geopolitical win for the European Commission. Instead, it turned out to be a test to overcome the EUâs institutional complexity, while exposing deep political divisions and hindering the EUâs trade agenda.
ANTWERP, Belgium, Feb 11 (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday advocated for a single European energy market and for the construction of an integrated electricity grid.
The Belgian federal police raided several European Commission buildings on Thursday as they probe suspected irregularities in property transactions carried out in 2024.
Departure boards for Frankfurt and Munich, Lufthansaâs hubs in Germany, showed most flights were cancelled for the day, including to overseas destinations.
From 1 April, young people with eating disorders in Belgium will be able to attend 38 free dietitian consultations or receive up to 20 hours of care annually.
Some 58% of respondents said they would rather or strongly support such talks, a survey conducted by the YouGov institute on behalf of dpa found. Just 26% opposed the idea.
The companyâs German locations will be most heavily affected by the cuts, with a couple hundred jobs to go at its semiconductor plant in Regensburg, chief executive Aldo Kamper said.
Within the space of two years, 101 industrial sites in Europe had closed, 25 million tons of chemical capacity had left Europe, and more than 75,000 people had lost their jobs, Ratcliffe said.
In search of new ways to push the EUâs border control well beyond its territory, a Council presidency paper to the 13 November 2025 meeting of the EU Councilâs Working Party on External Aspects of Asylum and Migration (pdf) explores âplace of safety arrangementsâ. In short, these are agreements with third countries to have them intercept and detain irregular migrants before they arrive in Europe.
Franceâs parliament on Wednesday debates a petition against the Duplomb agriculture law, which would reauthorise the use of a pesticide banned in 2018. The issue has become a flashpoint between farming unions, scientists and environmental groups â with concerns for biodiversity and human health.
Spain has fallen for the fifth consecutive year in the corruption perception index compiled by international experts, down one point from 2024 (from a score of 56 to 55 in the world ranking) and once again placing it below countries such as Rwanda (58) and Saudi Arabia (57), which are authoritarian regimes.
The European Parliament has given the green light to the first list of âsafe countries of originâ whose citizens will no longer be able to seek asylum in the EU.
Heineken currently has a global workforce of 87,000 and said last October that it would reorganise its Amsterdam headquarters with the loss of 400 jobs.
This is how âdivide and conquerâ works in Europe right now, in practice. If the Greeks stick with Europe, they risk their security by leaving Erdogan as the only interlocutor of Trump in the East Mediterannean.
One of Spainâs most respected memory associations on Monday accused the leftist government of flouting its own much-vaunted policy to remove public symbols inherited from Francisco Francoâs brutal dictatorship.
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