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Germany’s conservative opposition is urging Chancellor Olaf Scholz to pressure the EU Commission to step up the protection of the EU’s external borders regarding funding and infrastructure. Seeking a solution across party lines on the migration file, Scholz invited opposition...

Russia reversing its position from calling for a ceasefire to not explicitly condemning Hamas and even sending messages of support has been criticised by The Élysée, which calls Russia’s behaviour a way to destabilise the West further. Since the attack...

This series of articles from Amazon Web Services (AWS) focuses on guiding public sector organisations through successful digital transformations. This first instalment outlines the key steps in kickstarting the process and driving a positive change in mindset toward digital services.

Ahead of a meeting of EU environment ministers on Monday (16 October), an Italian-led coalition of nations has formed to push for synthetic fuels and biofuels to be counted towards heavy-duty vehicle (HDV) carbon standards – a move welcomed by...

A victorious President Ilham Aliyev said he had achieved a decades-long "Azerbaijani dream" by retaking Nagorno-Karabakh from ethnic Armenian separatists, as he raised his country's flag in the region's main city on Sunday (15 October).

The world can withstand two wars simultaneously but with “very high costs”, especially for the poorest, Portugal’s President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said on Sunday. “Can the world cope? It can, but that means very high costs, especially very high...

Former EU chief Donald Tusk, leader of the Polish opposition that is tipped to have won a majority in Sunday's elections (15 October), is a football-mad historian with roots in the anti-communist movement.

The French Communist Party is calling for a ‘new type of union’ between fellow left-wing parties in France, after radical left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s La France Insoumise (LFI) found itself in hot water over its response to the recent Hamas...

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó have reacted strongly to Bulgaria’s decision to introduce new, huge transit fees of €10.2 per MW/h of natural gas passing through the Bulgarian extension of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline...

The Abu Dhabi-based consultancy company that will be paid €200,000 a month to transition the set-to-close Air Malta to a new carrier was previously and unsuccessfully engaged in restructuring and saving the airline. Meanwhile, their fees raise questions over EU...

Exit polls from Sunday’s election in Poland suggest that the three opposition parties have a strong chance of forming a coalition government, although the conservative ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party came out on top, in a result that could...

In this week’s edition: Israel-Hamas war fallout, NATO readout and more.

The EU had its worst foreign policy week since Russia’s war of aggression on Ukraine started. The European Commission went from geopolitical to geo-damaged in seven days and the worst may be yet to come,  writes Ricardo Borges de Castro.

Poles vote on 15 October in a parliamentary election the nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) hopes will earn it an unprecedented third term in office, while the opposition warns it could put the country on a path towards leaving the EU.

European Council President Charles Michel said on Saturday (14 October) that he had convened a video conference summit of European Union leaders on Tuesday to discuss the Hamas attacks on Israelis and Israel’s response. Michel said the bloc stood in...

A 20-year-old man fatally stabbed a teacher and gravely wounded two other people in an attack at a school in the northern France city of Arras on Friday (13 October) that President Emmanuel Macron condemned as "barbaric Islamic terrorism."

More than 1 million Palestinians in northern Gaza faced an Israeli deadline on Saturday (14 October) to flee south, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel had only just begun to retaliate for last week's Hamas rampage across southern Israel.

Calls for a humanitarian corridor or an escape route for Palestinians from Gaza as a conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas has escalated have drawn a blunt reaction from Arab neighbours.

Each month, hundreds of technical processes slip quietly under the radar, decided behind closed doors committee meetings in a process shrouded in mystery known as comitology.

The EU’s action to improve the lives of people with disabilities has made little difference in recent years, as getting a job and fighting poverty remain a struggle, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) has found.