Moldova to change laws to produce arms for itself, parliament head says
Moldova's pro-European government intends to press for changes in legislation to allow for the production of weapons, but needs them for its own defence
October 10, 2026Moldova's pro-European government intends to press for changes in legislation to allow for the production of weapons, but needs them for its own defence
October 10, 2026European Union rules setting guardrails on AI use adopted by the bloc two years ago are more than capable of tackling rogue agents, EU tech chief Henna
October 09, 2026The European Union and China have agreed to halve Chinese exports of hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles to the EU, improve EU access to China's market and ease Chinese
October 09, 2026Italian industrial output unexpectedly fell 1.3% in August from the previous month after a 0.6% rise in July, national statistics bureau ISTAT reported on Friday, a far weaker
October 09, 2026U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has flatly refused to comment on a new report alleging that U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle engaged in improper and possibly illegal conduct before taking up her post
October 08, 2026Greece has agreed to spend up to $4 billion upgrading more of its F-16 fighter jets and buying advanced missiles from the US, two senior sources told
October 08, 2026China pushed back against foreign criticism of its exchange-rate policy on Thursday, saying it has never pursued competitive depreciation, as
October 08, 2026Andy Burnham needs to win over voters like tech worker Dani Arbid in a by-election on Thursday if he is to fend off a national threat to his
October 07, 2026Italy's antitrust authority said on Thursday it had launched a probe into several Microsoft-owned video-game makers over their use of virtual currencies.
October 08, 2026The European Union is bracing for a confrontation with China as a trade deficit exceeding $1 billion a day heightens anxiety over potential job losses and pushes the bloc’s political leaders to take a more aggressive approach toward its second-largest trading partner
October 07, 2026European Union authorities should take rising inflation into account when assessing government deviation from budget goals, Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti said, arguing
October 07, 2026European Trade Commissioner Maros Sefcovic heads to Beijing on Wednesday for key talks designed to reduce the European Union's growing trade deficit
October 07, 2026President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday that the latest intelligence suggested Russia was preparing a "massive attack" on Ukraine.
October 06, 2026The European Commission proposed measures on Tuesday to prepare the EU to take in countries such as Montenegro, Albania, Ukraine and Moldova in coming years while trying to
October 06, 2026French presidential frontrunner Marine Le Pen, of the far-right National Rally, on Tuesday presented her main budget proposals ahead of next year's election.
October 06, 2026Aragon, a sparsely populated region of northeast Spain, has become one of Europe's fastest-growing digital
October 06, 2026Kryvyi Rih, the hometown of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, is struggling to survive.
October 05, 2026Latvian Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs was set to retain power and form a pro-Ukrainian coalition after his centrist United List secured the biggest
October 04, 2026Ukraine will double down on attacking Russian oil refineries in response to a new policy of airstrikes by Moscow designed to force people to
October 03, 2026Bosnia holds national elections on Sunday which could impact its bid to join the European Union but also the influence that the United
October 01, 2026Russia will expel an unspecified number of Hungarian diplomats in a retaliatory move, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday, after Budapest last month expelled 10
October 01, 2026Before drought took hold, Koroneia Lake in northern Greece was a protected wetland, a refuge for thousands of migratory and water birds
October 01, 2026Latvian Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs' centrist United List is expected to win the largest share of seats in Saturday's parliamentary election but is
September 30, 2026A Hungarian appeals court on Wednesday reduced the prison sentence of a German citizen convicted for assaulting suspected far-right sympathisers in Budapest in 2023 to
September 30, 2026China will start collecting an additional 55% tariff on Brazil's beef shipments on October 1 after the South American country reached its
September 30, 2026China has vowed a "resolute response" to safeguard its industries if the European Union goes ahead with restrictions against Chinese companies or products, according to
September 30, 2026European countries should have shown more solidarity and offered more support to Spain after the mass arrival in Ceuta of tens of thousands of migrants, Spanish King Felipe
September 30, 2026The White House has urged the European Union to draw down emergency diesel inventories in an effort to lower global prices, as President Donald Trump and his
September 29, 2026A junior party in Slovakia's leftist-nationalist coalition voted with the parliamentary opposition to dismiss a minister on Tuesday, raising the possibility that pro-Russian Prime
September 30, 2026Prime Minister Andy Burnham risked reopening the bitter division over Britain's departure from the European Union on Tuesday by vowing to seek a consensus on
September 29, 2026Europe's mobile telecoms operators could get more time to phase out equipment from suppliers deemed high risk, according to a proposal by EU governments
September 29, 2026Russia's imperialism is the greatest threat to Europe and to question that is irresponsible, Germany's foreign minister said on Tuesday in Slovakia, where the prime minister has
September 29, 2026Russia has singled out European firms in its latest drive to strip foreign owners of the right to manage their Russian assets, government and company sources said, with the
September 29, 2026A prominent safety group on Tuesday urged European Union member states to reject approval of US automaker Tesla's Full Self-Driving (FSD) system, citing
September 29, 2026Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has held an hourlong meeting with the leader of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, during a secret weekend visit to the UAE capital of Abu Dhabi
September 28, 2026What have we learned about Pope Leo during his visit to France
September 28, 2026Pope Leo said on Monday that negotiators seeking to end conflict in Europe must be willing to sacrifice some
September 28, 2026French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that Europe was built on a "Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian foundation", invoking the continent's religious
September 28, 2026Spain's representative in its North African enclave of Ceuta resigned on Monday, citing personal reasons after weeks of intense scrutiny over the handling of a border rush
September 28, 2026A surge in diesel prices linked to this year's Iran conflict has helped make electric trucks cheaper to own and operate than diesel models in six major European Union
September 28, 2026Swiss voters have overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to strengthen the country’s neutrality
September 27, 2026The Labour Party has opened its annual conference, the first with Prime Minister Andy Burnham in charge
September 27, 2026Senior European officials sought to play down fears that potential election victories by Ukraine-sceptic parties in France and
September 25, 2026Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Friday his leftist-nationalist government could lose its narrow majority in parliament because of a dispute in a junior ruling party that
September 25, 2026The European Union says it's ready to defend a 120 million euro fine issued to social media platform X
September 25, 2026Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday that the European Union and the International Monetary Fund understood the importance of helping Kyiv finance its
September 25, 2026Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the United Nations General Assembly, calling his decision to attack Iran as “one of the easiest” he's ever made and allegations of genocide in Gaza “the biggest lie of the century.”
September 24, 2026France will send troops and defence systems to Saudi Arabia to help protect the Red Sea port city of Yanbu, which is key for energy transport, French President Emmanuel
September 25, 2026Russia is likely to intensify its hybrid war against the West in the coming months, Denmark's defence intelligence service said in a new threat
September 24, 2026The European Union is not rearming quickly or effectively enough to meet its goal of being ready to defend against Russia by 2030, according to the
September 24, 2026Tesla’s FSD automated-driving system frequently exceeded speed limits and attempted to overtake cyclists on streets where it's prohibited, a road-
September 24, 2026Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday he had signed a "drone deal" with Finland's president, another in a series of agreements offering to combine Kyiv's
September 24, 2026The Hungarian central bank's move to lower its inflation target has sent a fresh signal to investors that the new government in
September 23, 2026The European Union could close a third of its productivity gap with the United States if it had as many large companies, the European Central Bank said on Wednesday,
September 23, 2026Italy plans to confirm a commitment to bring its budget deficit below the European Union's 3% of gross domestic product ceiling this year
September 23, 2026France should explain itself after it pushed for the lifting of EU sanctions on Russian-Uzbek billionaire Alisher Usmanov, Estonia's foreign minister
September 23, 2026British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has had a strong start with U.S. President Donald Trump at their first meeting
September 22, 2026European Union envoys agreed to drop two high-profile billionaires, Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman, from the EU's Russian sanctions list in a
September 22, 2026The European Union and the Philippines have reached substantial agreement on a new free trade deal
September 22, 2026The European Union's naval mission to protect shipping in the Red Sea would need to boost its numbers to more than 10 warships, its foreign policy chief
September 22, 2026Moldova's pro-European leaders said on Monday that they were asking parliament to declare a state of emergency for energy and water supply in
September 22, 2026European Union countries are continuing deliberations on a proposed deal what would lift sanctions on Russia-linked billionaires Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman but
September 22, 2026European Union envoys will try again on Tuesday to reach a deal that could lift sanctions on Russia-linked billionaires Alisher
September 21, 2026Britain's Prime Minister Andy Burnham is set to meet U.S. President Donald Trump for the first time
September 21, 2026Romanian prosecutors said on Monday they were investigating Calin Georgescu, the pro-Russian former frontrunner in the country's 2024 canceled presidential election, in
September 21, 2026US President Donald Trump's administration is preparing sanctions against the International Criminal Court as part of a
September 21, 2026Elections in two German states on Sunday resulted in severe losses for the country's leading Christian Democrats, whose Chancellor Friedrich Merz is facing
September 21, 2026Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is moving to reduce his country's dependence on the United States as President Donald Trump applies tariffs and other economic pressure to the U.S. longtime ally
September 21, 2026The European Commissioner for the Mediterranean said on Sunday that she discussed the European Union's relationship with Israel, regional stability and Gaza recovery
September 20, 2026The leaders of France and Canada on Sunday pledged closer ties to grapple with rising geopolitical tensions, climate change and the erosion of democratic values,
September 20, 2026Russia's parliamentary election has triggered a diplomatic row with Moldova over its objections to the Kremlin's plan to open 15 polling stations for Russian nationals in
September 19, 2026Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has returned from Europe and cast Canada as moving quickly beyond its historic reliance on the United States
September 19, 2026Poland has joined an anti-ballistic missile coalition with Ukraine and other allies, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Friday.
September 18, 2026Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has welcomed leaders from seven regional countries for talks on deepening cooperation
September 18, 2026