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Ammunition warehouses of the Bulgarian arms company EMKO exploded early on Sunday near Karnobat, a few days after Bulgaria announced it would join the coalition to supply shells to Ukraine. The warehouses that exploded Sunday were targeted a year ago...

The Wagner paramilitary group engaging in a brief mutiny against Russian President Vladimir Putin shows that a change of leadership is on the way, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský (Pirates, Greens/EFA) said after a crisis staff meeting Sunday. On Friday,...

The clash between the leader of the Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, and Vladimir Putin’s generals has left many fearing the worst, but Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani stated Italy is not at war with Russia and will not intervene...

The AfD’s Robert Sesselmann was elected district administrator of Sonneberg in the federal region of Thuringia in a run-off election on Sunday, making it the first time a far-right party candidate takes a high-ranking local office in Germany. Sesselmann achieved...

The unprecedented challenge to Vladimir Putin by Wagner fighters has exposed fresh "cracks" in the strength of his leadership that may take weeks or months to play out, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Sunday (25 June).

In this week’s edition: EU summit week preview, enlargement update and Belgrade-Pristina woes.

Muscovites on 24 June expressed unease or dismissed as political theatre a standoff pitting the Kremlin against Wagner mercenaries who had vowed to descend on the capital in a "march of justice" denouncing the conduct of the war in Ukraine.

Heavily armed Russian mercenaries who advanced most of the way to Moscow halted their approach, de-escalating a major challenge to President Vladimir Putin's grip on power, in a move that their leader said would avoid bloodshed.

Mutinous Russian mercenary fighters headed towards Moscow on Saturday (24 June) after seizing a southern city overnight, with Russia's military firing on them from the air but seemingly incapable of slowing their lightning advance.

Europeans were on high alert and 'monitoring the situation closely' on Saturday (24 June) as the biggest threat to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s leadership continued to unfold in the form of an armed mutiny by Wagner mercenaries.

Russian military helicopters opened fire on Saturday afternoon (24 June) a convoy of rebel mercenaries already more than half way towards Moscow in a lightning advance after seizing a southern city overnight. President Vladimir Putin vowed to crush an armed...

Russian mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin said on 23 June his Wagner fighters had crossed the border into Russia from Ukraine and were prepared to go "all the way" against Moscow's military, hours after the Kremlin accused him of armed mutiny.

The US Senate has introduced a resolution which proposes that the actions of Russia, Belarus "or proxy of Russia" be considered as an attack on NATO, if their actions lead to radioactive contamination of the allies' territory.

Heads of states and civil society representatives agreed a joint way forward to “fundamentally reform” the international development framework on Friday (23 June) in Paris, but failed to make hoped-for headways on international taxation.

The Bundestag passed groundbreaking legislation on Friday (23 June) that will revamp Germany's migration law to tackle an acute shortage of skilled workers. 

Scotland has taken a £3 billion annual hit to its public revenues because of the UK’s exit from the European Union, the Scottish government stated in a report published on Friday (23 June). 

The EU delivered two patrol boats to Libya in a ceremony on Thursday (22 June) in the Sicilian city of Messina in the presence of European Commission officials, the Italian authorities, and the Libyan coastguard, according to a press statement...

The German government is spending heavily to attract promising industries onto its soil, pledging to match subsidies to entice solar panel supply chain companies to build their factories in economically weaker regions of the country.

Few things get EU lawmakers more agitated than debates over how many of them should sit in Parliament and from which country. This bunfight crops up every few years, but this time, there is more room for haggling than usual....

A working trip to escape Brussels’ hot weather – and even hotter political debates – ended up with the discovery of the bitter truth: it ain’t easy to get rid of what we are discussing pretty much every day here.