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When the political timing is right, Ukraine will go into Nato as swiftly as Finland and Sweden are doing, Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg has said.

The ECB keeps rates high despite flagging economy, citing expected wage growth as a potential inflation driver.

The global struggle against unfair and fraudulent elections, evident in Azerbaijan's recent snap presidential election, is missing from the Munich Security Report released this week, ahead of the international security conference.

When EU climate commissioner Hoekstra defends the 2040 climate-targets in Brussels on Thursday, will he remember the geothermal energy option?

MEPs have agreed on new rules to level the playing field between banks and non-banks, and to make payments more user-friendly, cheaper and safer — including measures to make online platforms liable for payment fraud that occurs through their services.

An independent Greek authority probing the deadly Pylos shipwreck is posing questions eight months later on whether the Greek coast guard had even been tasked to carry out a search and rescue.

Malta is one of the few European countries where abortion remains illegal in almost all circumstances, including rape and incest, making it one of the strictest in the world. Consequently, Maltese women are forced to seek unsafe procedures abroad.

The EU is putting Belarusian child-abductors on its Russia blacklist, boosting calls for ICC action against Lukashenko. North Korean defence minister also being added.

Ireland and Spain have called for an "urgent review" of the EU's trade agreement with Israel, voicing deep concerns over possible violations of human rights law by Israel in Gaza.

Strategic autonomy, Trump's belligerent Nato remarks and the consequences for EU. Also, our own Andrew Rettman on EU top jobs and the role of the radical right. Finally, third-country migration deals. Listen.

Recent farmer's protests have put food production on the political agenda. Yet until now, policy-makers and regulators have largely ignored the forces that direct global food trade: Big Agri and their monopolies.

France has joined the UK and Belgium in banning violent Israeli settlers, but it might take an Israeli attack on Rafah before EU-level action.

The European Parliament discussed the future of the single market and taxation — what are the different ideas to raise revenue and finance the transition to a sustainable economy?

By plunging Russia into his nefarious campaign against neighbouring Ukraine, not only did Putin wreak havoc on the Ukrainian nation, he also inflicted a historical wound on Russia itself — a wound whose repercussions will echo through generations of Russians.

The commitment and, even more so, the ability of Warsaw's new government to restore the rule of law in Poland has yet to be put to the test, warns the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH).

Minutes from EU coreper meetings obtained by Investigate Europe expose how a host of governments secretly worked to influence and harden the proposals in the EU Migration and Asylum Pact.

Hungary's paedophile scandal could further delay Sweden's Nato entry, while weakening Orbán on the EU stage.

Bulgaria's national security agency wants to deport Abdulrahman al-Khalidi, a detained Saudi dissident, back to Riyadh — despite a court demanding his immediate release.

The circulation of the Atlantic Ocean is heading towards a breakdown that will dramatically alter the climate system.

The EU Commission has so far chosen an alarming, if not collusive, stance on the legality of the Italy-Albania migration deal, writes Amnesty International's researcher on migration in Europe.