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Published on 03/07/2026 – 15:02 GMT+2•Updated 3:03 p.m The Ukraine front line remained largely frozen in June, extending a longer-term trend of stalled Russian momentum, an analysis of data from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) carried out by the AFP news agency showed on Friday. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING The June data showed a […]

Published on 03/07/2026 – 14:52 GMT+2 European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde is weighing the possibility of playing a role in the upcoming French elections, which could lead her to leave her post early, she told French newspaper Les Echos on Thursday. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING Lagarde did not specify the role she has in mind, but […]

Authorities across Europe were hunting on Friday for a Ukrainian woman suspected of planting a bomb in Monaco that wounded three people, including a Ukrainian-born tycoon and his teenage son. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING Identified as Anastasiia Berezovska, 39, the suspect is wanted in Monaco for attempted murder, placing an explosive device on a public road with […]

Ukraine and Moldova notched another milestone in their EU accession bids at a technical meeting on Friday, as member states unanimously agreed to advance the opening of another cluster of negotiations. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING The move to unlock cluster six (“External Relations”) marks a further step in the two candidates’ accession process, reflecting Hungary’s gradual shift […]

Published on 03/07/2026 – 13:16 GMT+2•Updated 2:00 p.m German MEP Bernd Lange (S&D), chair of the European Parliament’s trade committee, said on Friday that the October deadline set by the European Commission to achieve “tangible results” in trade talks with China is “not realistic at all” if the EU wants a binding agreement. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING […]

Published on 03/07/2026 – 13:02 GMT+2•Updated 1:07 p.m Moldovan prime minister Alexandru Munteanu announced his resignation on Friday, offering little explanation other than that he felt he could no longer govern in line with his “principles and convictions”. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING “I accepted the responsibility of serving as Prime Minister with a deep sense of duty […]

US Democrats are urging the European Commission to resist mounting commercial pressure and the Trump administration’s demands that the bloc scrap its methane rules, despite warnings that transatlantic energy exports, which are now the bloc’s second-largest providercould decline if the rules remain in place. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING “At a time when the EU’s methane rules are […]

Published on 03/07/2026 – 10:56 GMT+2 Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said the Baltic country’s top political leaders had agreed that a constitutional ban on the domestic deployment of nuclear weapons should be removed. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING Nauseda said Article 137 of Lithuania’s constitution, which explicitly prohibits the deployment of weapons of mass destruction and the establishment […]

Hundreds of shoppers queued outside Lidl supermarkets across France on Thursday after the retailer announced the sale of 200,000 fans and portable air conditioners, triggering long lines, scuffles and police intervention at several stores. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING Outside a Lidl store in Paris’s 19th arrondissement, around 200 people waited for up to two hours before opening, […]

United Nations Development Program (UNDP) administrator Alexander De Croo said on Thursday that the European Union’s long-term budget can balance defense and aid spending to ensure that Europe’s neighborhoods are safe, as they are “two sides of the same coin.” ADVERTISING ADVERTISING “We see more military spending, and we totally understand that in the current […]