Europe
Welcome back, this newsletter comes to you from a train departing Luxembourg to Brussels, with very dodgy internet, wrapping two days of meetings. For those who don’t know, I started my career in politics covering Eurogroup meetings, doing more doorsteps in the cold than I can remember. And still get a kick out of it after all these years, even if that means a three-hour train ride. What’s new this week? Negotiations around the next European common budget are underway, and that means one thing: not a cent will go down without a fight. Personally, I find these discussions uninspiring…
The EU’s cohesion funds, the bloc’s financial instrument for reducing territorial disparities in its poorest…
Published on 27/05/2026 – 12:10 GMT+2•Updated 12:17 One week after EU diplomats and lawmakers agreed…
Published on 27/05/2026 – 13:26 GMT+2 Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said on Wednesday there…
Published on 27/05/2026 – 13:29 GMT+2•Updated 13:43 European lawmakers are pressuring the European Commission to…
A German far-left militant arrested in Berlin after decades on the run was sentenced to…
Published on 27/05/2026 – 17:18 GMT+2 Former president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, will face…
A Nordic coalition of financial institutions, trade unions and climate scientists issued a stark warning…
The Hungarian National Assembly has voted overwhelmingly in favour of reversing the country’s withdrawal from…
Published on 27/05/2026 – 21:01 GMT+2 In this special edition from the Imperial Fora in…
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has ramped up her criticism of Brussels in recent days,…
UK and Poland sign ‘major’ defence treaty
Published on 27/05/2026 – 15:12 GMT+2 Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and his British counterpart…
Published on 27/05/2026 – 15:41 GMT+2•Updated 15:53 European countries have roundly rejected Russia’s threat against…
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