On Sunday, Berliners will vote to elect a new state parliament, the Abgeordnetenhaus, alongside the regional vote in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The race is wide open: the Left party and the CDU…
Published on 19/09/2026 – 19:01 GMT+2 General Carsten Breuer, Germany’s chief of defence, was selected on Saturday as the next head of NATO’s military committee, the alliance’s supreme military…
Around 150 metres below the water’s surface, west of the Norwegian island of Fedje, a fragment of German wartime history lies on the seabed. A submarine called U-864 has been resting there for more…
Published on 19/09/2026 – 14:48 GMT+2 More than 2,000 migrants in Ceuta had to return to the beaches after there was not enough space to accommodate them at a new facility located in the autonomous…
Published on 19/09/2026 – 15:12 GMT+2•Updated 15:21 By late morning, it was clear: the Wiesn was back. Decorated horse-drawn carriages, brass bands and festival hosts made their way towards the…
Published on 19/09/2026 – 13:10 GMT+2 Russian strikes on Ukraine killed at least 11 people and injured dozens more over the past day, according to local authorities. In Kharkiv Oblast in northeastern…
Published on 19/09/2026 – 8:46 GMT+2 Flights were temporarily suspended at Luxembourg airport overnight due to “unauthorised” drone activity. “Flight operations at Luxembourg Airport (ELLX) have…
It’s the head-turning, eye-popping announcement of the week: Ursula von der Leyen has invited Canada to make history by becoming the first-ever “associate member” of the European Union. “We want to…
Taunted, scorned, belittled, pushed aside, ditched – it is fair to say that the European Union and Canada each know how the other feels. For the past 20 months, the two have been relentlessly…
Irish Finance Minister Simon Harris says details of the new associate membership with Canada “are yet to be determined”, but believes it is “good news” that the European Union has signalled its…
Andrew Caruana Galizia, Head of Europe and Eurasia at the World Economic Forum, believes there are certain areas where Europe “will never be able to be self-sufficient, like critical raw materials”…
In comments to Euronews, the Australian government has responded to European Parliament President Roberta Mestola’s hint that Australia and New Zealand could also be invited to be “associate members”…
In her State of the Union address, Ursula von der Leyen warned of a “battle of narratives” seeking to weaken confidence in Europe. A new study, ‘Future Nostalgia: Europe’s Unfinished Song’, published…
Published on 18/09/2026 – 13:38 GMT+2•Updated 13:51 Luxembourg has deepened the deadlock over the EU’s sanction list renewal, tying a French demand to delist Russian businessman Alisher Usmanov to…
Sweden’s parliamentary speaker has formally asked Social Democrat leader Magdalena Andersson to try to form a government after her centre-left alliance won a narrow majority in Sunday’s election. In…
Published on 18/09/2026 – 14:52 GMT+2•Updated 14:57 Canada is seeking to join the European Union’s €90 billion support loan for Ukraine, the European Commission said on Friday. “I can confirm that…
The race to develop the energy source of the future is gathering pace. Who will win? The US and China? Or Europe? German start-up Focused Energy, based in Darmstadt, aims to become the global leader…
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz and Trump’s war with Iran are causes behind the turmoil in the energy markets, not Ukraine’s attacks on Russian diesel refineries. That is the message Irish…
Police moved hundreds of migrants from the beaches of Ceuta to a temporary camp in the port area on Friday. During the transfer, crowds of migrants rushed towards the site, with police struggling to…
Published on 18/09/2026 – 20:14 GMT+2 Russia has launched attacks on several areas of Ukraine, with two killed in Balakliia in Kharkiv and missiles launched at the capita, Kyiv. In a post on…
