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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to China's President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Johannesburg and highlighted concerns India has about border issues along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), India's foreign secretary said.

Poland’s main opposition group, centrist Civic Coalition (KO), has removed Yana Shostak, a human rights activist from Belarus, from its electoral list ahead of October’s parliamentary elections, citing her too-liberal views on abortion rights. Shostak, who became popular in Poland...

Portugal will always support the independence of Ukraine as it continues to fight a Russian invasion that began a year and a half ago, Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said at an event in Kyiv marking the 32nd anniversary...

The leader of the Democratic Party, Elly Schlein, has accused Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government of committing the crime of solidarity, a term used to denounce governments that criminalise actions that help refugees seek shelter, such as preventing NGO ships...

Luis Rubiales will resign on Friday as president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) after he faced widespread backlash for his behaviour after the Spanish women’s national team won the World Cup. The kiss – without consent – to...

The opposition Social Democrats want Sweden to send Jas Gripen fighter jets to Ukraine, party leader and former prime minister Magdalena Andersson told a press conference on Thursday after some EU countries and Norway announced they would send F-16 fighter...

The Netherlands will step up its aid to Ukraine by providing mine-hunter training to Ukrainian soldiers, outgoing Defence Minister Kajsa Ollongren (D66/Renew) announced during the Crimea Platform conference in Kyiv on Thursday. Ollongren’s announcement follows recent reports that Russia had...

Belgian Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke has contacted the Romanian authorities to find out how the country controls the authenticity of dental diplomas following reports of individuals with Romanian credentials who want to practise in Belgium but have limited knowledge of...

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev allegedly refused to meet with Belgian Foreign Minister Hadja Lahbib on Thursday because she made a statement over the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict earlier this week in Armenia. Lahbib embarked on a four-day trip to the South Caucasus...

Kicking off the second half of the European election year is the Raseinių-Kėdainių parliamentary by-election in constituency 42., where voters will go to the polls on 3 September to elect a new MP. This might be the last by-election before...

The European Union is assessing human and labour rights in Myanmar, a European Commission spokesperson said on Thursday (24 August), leaving the door open to a possible change to the trade preferences it accords to the country.

Latvia's minister for social protection, Evika Silina, was on Thursday (24 August) asked by the president Edgars Rinkēvičs to form a new government, following the surprise resignation of the prime minister earlier this month.

Bulgaria is starting negotiations with five of the world’s largest military production companies to purchase new radars for Bulgarian aviation, three of which are European, the Defence Ministry announced on Thursday. Bids for the delivery of the 3D radars were...

Incidents against Ukrainians are on the rise in the Czech Republic, with a recent analysis showing an increase between the start of the year and the end of July compared to the whole of last year. In Iustitia, which conducted...

The political amnesty demanded by Catalan pro-independence parties for those prosecuted over the failed illegal referendum on self-determination held in October 2017 is constitutional and can be granted, the spokesman for the left-wing bloc Sumar, Ernest Urtasun, said on Thursday....

The Party of the European Left calls for transnational unity as La France Insoumise leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Sumar President Yolanda Díaz argue that offering a solid social programme is the key to fighting the right-wing parties in the next...

Leading German policymakers dismissed fears over the BRICS expansion announced for 2024, pointing instead to Russia and China, the two giants they see as the real threat. Six more countries will join BRICS, a club of emerging economies including Brazil,...

The Dutch government will nominate outgoing Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra as an EU commissioner, caretaker Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on Thursday (24 August), confirming media reports.

So far this year, over 2,000 people died in the Mediterranean Sea trying to reach Europe. Most politicians in the EU say the situation is unacceptable, but Europe is facing a deadlock in which both possible ways out of the crisis are blocked by the other side.

Her first year in office has confounded expectations, as Giorgia Meloni blended Atlanticism and pragmatism towards the EU with right-wing populism on immigration, cultural issues and green policy, writes Luigi Scazzieri.