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Poland's populist, nationalist government is increasingly taking an anti-German, anti-European Union stance in the run-up to the 15 October legislative elections in the hope of mobilising its most loyal followers, analysts say.

The EU has delivered Ukraine 223,800 shells under the first part of a plan to provide a million artillery rounds to aid Kyiv's fight against Russia, a spokesman said on Friday (11 August).

The Spanish government has put forward its finance minister, Nadia Calviño, as a candidate to lead the European Union's lending arm, the European Investment Bank (EIB), a Spanish government official told Reuters on Friday (11 August).

After a slow 2022, Germany, Italy and France are starting to see a major boost to their trade balance as energy prices are going down and imports from China dwindle.

The number of corporate insolvencies in Germany rose significantly in July, with almost a quarter more filings by companies than in the same month of the previous year, the Federal Statistical Office announced on Friday (11 August).

It’s become cliché to talk about inventions that can ‘change the world’, but when it comes to transversal technologies – cross-cutting tools with the potential to transform multiple industries – the moniker feels like an understatement, writes Andrew Chakhoyan.

The alliance of Dutch centre-left PvdA (S&D Group) and GroenLinks (Greens) parties has taken the lead in polls in the Netherlands after joining forces ahead of the upcoming November national parliament snap election, according to Europe Elects' latest analysis.

France “fully supports” the Economic Community of West African States’ (ECOWAS) decision to action a standby military force on the borders of Niger, the Foreign Affairs ministry announced late on Thursday (10 August).

The months ahead could finally see a frontrunner emerge to lead the conservative CDU/CSU in the German general election of 2025, as Friedrich Merz, who currently spearheads the opposition, comes under increasing pressure from his regional contenders.

Maui's wildfires have killed at least 53 people, a toll expected to rise, and unleashed destruction on the resort town of Lahaina that will take many years and billions of dollars to rebuild, Hawaiian officials said on Thursday (10 August).

Russia launched its first moon-landing spacecraft in 47 years on 11 August in a bid to be the first nation to make a soft landing on the lunar south pole, a region believed to hold coveted pockets of water ice.

A Russian missile struck a hotel in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia on Thursday evening (10 August), leaving one dead and 16 injured, Ukrainian officials said.

Ukraine announced a "humanitarian corridor" in the Black Sea to release cargo ships trapped in its ports since the outbreak of war, a new test of Russia's de facto blockade since Moscow abandoned a deal last month to let Kyiv export grain.

Italy defended Thursday (10 August) plans to limit prices on flights to and from its islands, saying it complied with European Union rules, after low-cost carrier Ryanair condemned it as "illegal".

On Greece's popular island of Paros, a protest by residents demanding space and free access to its sandy beaches has led to a growing nationwide movement against the expansion of pricey sunbeds rented out by private companies.

Ecuador declared a state of emergency Thursday and asked the FBI to help probe the assassination of a popular presidential candidate, whose death has highlighted the once-peaceful nation's decline into a violent hotbed of drug trafficking and organized crime.

After its brutal invasion of sovereign Ukraine, Russia cannot be a choice for Serbia - because support for crimes cannot be a choice for any nation and its leadership, writes Orhan Dragaš.

Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturer TSMC’s €10 billion investment in a new chips factory in Germany marks the “culmination” of the EU’s industrial strategy of the past few years, EU’s Single Market Commissioner Thierry Breton said.

Forty-one migrants including three children are feared dead after being shipwrecked last week in the Mediterranean, UN agencies said, citing four survivors brought to the Italian island of Lampedusa Wednesday (9 August).

Germany’s Rhine region got a foretaste of things to come during the 2018 summer drought. And it doesn’t look good.