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German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer warned on the weekend that Europe could be facing an even larger wave of migration than in 2015. During visits to Ankara and Athens together with EU Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos he promised support in dealing with refugees and protecting the countries' borders. Commentators stress the need for new solutions in refugee policy.

Although many have called for improvements to the German climate package, the government wants to impose a weaker formulation of the core climate protection goals. EURACTIV's partner Der Tagesspiegel reports.

Found virtually everywhere, vending machines are a convenient point of sale equivalent in size to a shop of 1m².  While most machines are located in companies and offices, the rest are placed in public locations such as transport hubs, hospitals...

Belgium has just 30 or so counter-intelligence officers to protect the EU and Nato from Russia and other hostile states - and both of its chief spy-catchers face allegations of misconduct.

Maria Kolsut will be thinking about her financial security when she votes for Poland's ruling right-wing party in Sunday's parliamentary election.

Parliament’s public hearings assessing candidate commissioners enter their second week, while MEPs are also set to discuss Brexit and vote on a resolution on the EU’s 2021-2027 budget.

Source : © European Union, 2019 - EP

Parliament’s public hearings assessing candidate commissioners enter their second week, while MEPs are also set to discuss Brexit and vote on a resolution on the EU’s 2021-2027 budget.

Source : © European Union, 2019 - EP

The United States and Baltic states on Sunday (6 October) agreed to beef up cooperation to protect the Baltic energy grid from cyber-attacks as they disconnect from the Russian electricity grid.

The US has given Turkey a green light to send its forces into northern Syria, posing a threat to the West's Kurdish allies in the region.

Britain’s Boris Johnson urged French President Emanuel Macron on Sunday (6 October) to “push forward” to secure a Brexit deal and told him the EU should not be lured into the mistaken belief that the UK would stay in the...

The interim chief of HSBC bank, Noel Quinn, is drafting a plan to cut 10,000 jobs for immediate savings from across the banking group, according to the Financial Times. The plan would mainly target European employees, the most expensive. The reorganisation comes on top of a recently-announced plan to cut 4,700 jobs. HSBC has a total of 238,000 employees worldwide. Deutsche Bank announced in August a cut of 18,000 jobs.

The EU commission has asked Facebook to provide information about their new cryptocurrency Libra, including the risks to financial stability and data privacy, as well as the project's ability to comply with anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing rules, according to the Financial Times. The questioning will help the EU to establish if and how Libra should be regulated. PayPal announced on Friday that it was withdrawing from Libra Association.

Portuguese prime minister António Costa's Socialist Party (PS) won Sunday's parliamentary election - increasing from 85 to 106 lawmakers in the 230-seat parliament, but short of an outright majority.

French president Emmanuel Macron has given British prime minister Boris Johnson until the end of this week to improve the UK plan on the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The UK proposed to reinstall a customs border without border checks. The EU said it was not satisfied, making an agreement on a Brexit deal at the EU summit on 17 October less probable.

Two opposition parties, the leftist-nationalist Self-Determination and the centre-right Democratic League for Kosovo, would have a respective tally of 26 and 25 percent of the votes in Kosovo's parliamentary elections of Sunday, Deutsche Welle reports. With a quarter of the votes still to be counted, it is clear that the alliance of prime minister Ramush Haradinaj lost support. He increased tensions with Serbia, imposing 100 percent tariffs on Serbian products.

The opposition leftist Vetevendosje party was set to come in first in Kosovo’s parliamentary poll on Sunday (6 October), but it will have to negotiate a coalition to form a government.