Voters who feel “everything is going to hell” may be flocking to AfD, but a senior economist in Saxony-Anhalt warns that Germany’s greenest, fastest-ageing region could end up poorer and more isolated under their rule.
As the EU pushes to simplify its labyrinth of departments as well as its next budget, the directorate for urban and regional development is set to face severe restructuring – possibly jeopardising Brussels’ ties to local governments across the bloc.
At a minimum, the EU should ensure that its member states do not negotiate blindly and separately for the same Chinese factories, each offering more public support without knowing what the others have put on the table, warns Judith Arnal.
Palantir’s software is now used by French intelligence, German police, the Dutch defence bodies and the Spanish military. They’ve just opened an office in Brussels – yet their global effective tax rate was just 1.4 percent.
What should Europeans really fear from Russia? European intelligence services see no evidence that Russia is preparing to attack an EU country, but warn of growing hybrid threats, including drones, cyberattacks and disinformation.
Sánchez and the EU have decided that Morocco relations are too big to failMorocco appears to have turned Europe’s summer migration crisis into a strategic victory. As European leaders, including Pedro Sánchez, downplay Rabat’s alleged role in the Ceuta crossing, Morocco is tightening its grip on Europe’s trade, migration and Western Sahara policies — while simultaneously drawing closer to Trump’s America.
Credit ratings of AI tech giants may be based on “assumptions on future revenue growth and leverage which may not stand the test of time”, creating a risk of “mispricing of credit risk,” the ECB’s financial experts found.
Four referendums, different questions, and a common issue of democratic consent and popular sovereignty.
Ukrainians again stored ammunition among civilians: 38 people killed in explosion (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,649)The decision to stash ammunition beside homes and a care facility outside Kyiv has left an entire village shattered, with dozens of civilians dead and injured even as Russian forces press their attacks along key eastern frontlines.
While overstating hybrid threats against the Baltics, commentators often understate what Russia is doing right now. It commits daily war crimes against civilian targets in Ukraine. Sabotage, arson and cyber-attacks on European allies are deadly serious, and getting worse, writes Edward Lucas.
Europe wants to mobilise €30bn for data centres to compete in the global AI race. But across the continent, local communities are pushing back over environmental concerns. Can Europe build technological sovereignty while keeping Big Tech’s power in check?
Casting the EU as the only real counterweight to a world split between Trump-style nationalism, Russian imperialism and Chinese expansionism, Wałęsa insists Europe must leap from nation-state thinking to continental power if it wants to survive.
The proportion of reef surface covered by living coral has fallen by 9.5 percent, compared with just the 1980–2009 average.
Iceland’s No to EU was poetic, but decadent in a hard-power eraI’m not surprised that Iceland voted No to resuming EU accession talks, but the romance of the old man of the sea is a luxury that may soon pass its sell-by date.
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Barry Andrews said his visit to the West Bank convinced him that what he calls Israeli “apartheid” can only be tackled by EU economic pressure.
Imagine an EU public-service chatbot gives the eligibility rule in French but drops a condition in Romanian. If both are folded into one aggregate score, the system may appear compliant. For the citizen who receives the incomplete answer, the failure is not cosmetic. It is unequal access to a public service
The EU is lagging behind the United States and China when it comes to investing in satellite technology. Can the bloc close the gap?
Donbas defence taken over by elite officers with radical pasts (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,646)The appointment of Biletskyi and Prokopenko to lead more than 100,000 troops could decide whether eastern cities like Sloviansk, Kramatorsk and Dobropillia hold—or fall—under intensifying Russian assaults and long‑range missile strikes.
Ambassador Bill White had previously threatened to suspend all US relations with Ghent university and accused the institution of “scapegoating mob behavior” after its rector suspended Nathan Cofnas for his role in events that led to the death of Cambridge academic Jason Arday.
In an article published on 26 August 2026, professor Thorvaldur Gylfason is quoted as contending that I am “known to have worked for the Putin regime in Moscow”, that I am “known to have represented a Russian oligarch who was trying to escape EU-imposed sanctions following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine” and that I was “brought to Iceland” by the No side. All these claims are false, and the facts are a matter of public record.