THIS WEEK offers a weekly snapshot of the key developments in Brussels and across Europe over the next seven days, published every Monday morning.

No EU leaders backed the US strike killing Ali Khamenei, except far-right allies of Donald Trump. Most urged de-escalation. Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez condemned Washington, while French president ...

Today, with Iran's supreme leader dead and the son of the CIA-installed shah coordinating with Washington on what comes next, Europe faces the question it has avoided for seven decades.

Far-left kills.” That’s how extreme-right protesters have described the death of Quentin Deranque. A formula also used by ...

We are not yet seeing the waves of redundancies that are feared', European Central Bank chief Christine Lagarde said, but ...

Four years after the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, here is a selection of our best stories, going beyond ...

In our regular digest of the week's news from the Hungarian campaign trail: conflicting opinion polls, soldiers on the streets (due to the Ukrainian 'threat'), and a simple 'how-to' guide to the ...

The EU Commission's decision to apply the Mercosur trade deal will be poorly received by some MEPs - and has already been attacked by France. This follows the ratification by the parliaments ...

Despite soaring trade imbalances and EU pressure, German chancellor Friedrich Merz stressed the need to fortify diplomatic ...

Poland isn’t just preparing for war — it’s rewriting the rulebook on how to get ready. Meanwhile, the rest of the EU is ...

At the start of last year, all 27 EU member states were signed up to the Ottawa Convention, banning the use, production, stockpiling and transfer of anti-personnel mines. Now Estonia, Latvia, ...

Four years since the invasion of Ukraine, a new report finds Russia's fossil-fuel revenue is down nearly a quarter since 2022 ...