Swedish Defence Minister Pal Jonson attends the Defence Contact Group meeting on February 12, 2026 at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images) Sweden announced a total ...

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Migrant deaths more than doubled in the Central and East Mediterranean in the first four months of 2026 even as crossings halved, a new report from the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) ...

More than a year after the deadline, several EU governments still lack the structures needed to protect citizens from potentially dangerous uses of AI. The EU has forbidden uses of AI it considers too ...

France has opened disciplinary proceedings against its ambassador to the Central African Republic over allegations of misconduct, following claims that he brought dozens of women into his official ...

Bulgaria’s long-delayed National Children’s Hospital is facing renewed uncertainty after parliament rejected a proposal to guarantee state funding for its construction, highlighting the persistent ...

US President Donald Trump at Davos in January 2026 during the EU-US Greenland crisis. [Photo by Harun Ozalp/Anadolu via Getty Images] Since US President Donald Trump’s return to the White House in ...

Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, the BfV, is also set to receive significantly broader powers. The draft legislation states the BfV would be permitted to install its own sensors inside a ...

Latvia, a longstanding advocate of curbing food imports from Russia, once again decided to go it alone as Brussels struggles to widen restrictions on Moscow. The Baltic country first imposed ...

The Minister for Foreign Affairs, the European Union and Cooperation, Jose Manuel Albares, meets with the President of the Autonomous City of Ceuta, Juan Jesus Vivas Lara, at the Assembly Palace on 11 ...

A campaigner for the pro-Kremlin United Russia party hands out a leaflet to a passerby urging them to vote for their party candidate in the State Duma elections, 2026. (Contributor/) When 18-year-old ...

US oil operator Greenland Energy will not obtain the approvals needed to begin drilling in eastern Greenland this year, local authorities said, contradicting the company’s public timetable.