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The foreign minister of the Czech Republic, current holder of the presidency of the Council of the EU, called for a “special international tribunal” after evidence of torture on civilians emerged from a mass burial site in Izyum in northeastern Ukraine. “Russia left behind mass graves of hundreds of shot and tortured people in the […]

The European Commission on Sunday proposed suspending about €7.5 billion of funds allocated to Hungary over rule-of-law concerns, but the EU executive also laid the ground for a possible compromise that would allow Budapest to keep the money. “Today’s decision is a clear demonstration of the Commission’s resolve to protect the EU budget, and to […]

Andrew Duff is a former member of the European Parliament. His latest book, “Constitutional Change in the European Union,” was just published by Palgrave Pivot.   The European Union is in a constitutional muddle — and it’s making everything worse.   The Treaty of Lisbon, which forms the constitutional foundation of the EU, requires the […]

Douglas Morrey is an associate professor in French at the University of Warwick. He is the author of the books “Jean-Luc Godard” and “The Legacy of the New Wave in French Cinema.”  One of the forebears of modern cinema, writer and director Jean-Luc Godard, who died on Tuesday aged 91, transformed the way in which […]

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Ukraine has stopped publicly asking for high-end U.S. weapons such as Patriot air defense systems, F-16 fighter jets and Gray Eagle drones. But behind the scenes, the push hasn’t stopped for weapons that could turn the tide of the war. Kyiv’s just getting savvier about its requests. Both sides are discussing whether to send all […]

The Justice Department has asked a federal appeals court to lift a judge’s order blocking criminal investigators from accessing about 100 documents with national security classification markings recovered from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago compound last month. In a filing with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta Friday night, prosecutors said the government is facing […]

The Turkish Foreign Ministry on Saturday “strongly” condemned the U.S.’s announcement that it will widen the scope of its 2020 decision to lift its arms embargo on Cyprus. The move is “in contradiction to the principle of equality of the two sides on the island,” the ministry said in a statement. The development will “further […]

Pedro Serrano de Haro, chief of staff to EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, has been appointed the bloc’s new ambassador to the U.K. Serrano de Haro, a Spaniard, will succeed João Vale de Almeida, who is leaving the post at the end of the year. Prior to being Borrell’s chief of staff, Serrano de […]