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If approved by parliament, Tofan will be tasked with driving Moldova closer to realising its EU membership goal and reviving an economy that has experienced years-long decline.

The Orsec plan is an emergency response and relief mechanism for exceptional events, and has generally been activated in the case of natural disasters such as floods.

Ukraine opened a criminal investigation on Thursday after crowds of people in the western city of Lviv surrounded and overturned an army conscription vehicle the night before. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The incident drew a swift backlash from Ukrainian officials, some of whom called on citizens to direct their anger at Russia and not the army. The unrest erupted after officers detained a man suspected of evading military service and took him to a draft centre, authorities said. “An investigation has been launched into the circumstances of an incident that occurred in Lviv involving servicemen of the Ukrainian armed forces, police officers,…

The general feeling in the European Parliament is that the longstanding far-right leader has a better chance of becoming France’s president than her younger successor.

German defence giant Rheinmetall is to produce missiles designed by US aerospace firm Lockheed Martin, the two firms announced on Tuesday, marking the first time the weapons will be produced in Europe.

The European Commission is renewing its push to open Serbia’s accession clusters, arguing that Belgrade has made sufficient progress on a range of reforms to justify advancing its EU membership bid. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Ahead of a discussion among EU ambassadors on Wednesday, the Commission has presented member states with an information note outlining why it believes Cluster 3 should be opened after Serbia reversed controversial judicial reforms and made what Brussels describes as progress on media freedom, electoral reforms and alignment with the bloc’s foreign and security policy. The opening of Cluster 3 has been blocked since the Commission first…

This week, a Paris court will rule on whether Marine Le Pen can run in the 2027 presidential election. Ahead of the verdict, Le Pen and the party’s president Jordan Bardella pledged to work as a duo.

Published on 04/07/2026 – 15:07 GMT+2 Outgoing British Prime Minister Keir Starmer called his decision to step down from office “intensely personal” in his first interview since he resigned last month. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “It was tough. I’m not going to pretend otherwise,” Starmer, who will remain in office until his Labour Party appoints a successor, told the BBC. “I grappled with what was the best thing to do for me, for the country, for the government,” he said. “In the end, it became an intensely personal decision”. Starmer also had some words of warning for his likely successor, the former…

“The security of the Baltic states is also Germany’s security,” Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) said as he welcomed the leaders of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to Berlin. He was referring to a plaque on Vilnius Town Hall which reads: ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “The security of Lithuania is our security. The defence of Vilnius is the defence of Berlin.” The quote comes from a speech he delivered at the formation ceremony of the 45th Armoured Brigade in Lithuania in May last year. Preparations for next week’s NATO summit in the Turkish capital, Ankara, were high on the agenda. At a joint press…

EU Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi is facing renewed scrutiny after a leaked European Commission document indicated that Hungary’s Permanent Representation operated a spy ring during his tenure as Hungary’s permanent representative. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Last October, several media outlets reported that Hungary’s Permanent Representation to the EU in Brussels had allegedly run a network of intelligence officers posing as diplomats, who targeted Hungarian nationals working at the Commission between 2012 and 2018. Várhelyi was drawn into the investigation because he served as Hungary’s ambassador to the EU between 2015 and 2019, which overlapped with part of the period under scrutiny. He was…