The messages, seen by EUobserver and published here in full, now form evidence in a Belgian police investigation into Reynders on money-laundering charges, which paints them in a potentially criminal light.
The EU’s border force Frontex is getting overhauled next Tuesday by a European Commission determined to give the Warsaw-based agency a larger role in deportations, more resources, and more agility to deploy.
It’s comforting to imagine an Israeli government formed by anyone left of Benjamin Netanyahu will steer instinctively towards international expectations. But a more centrist Israeli government, like any elected government anywhere, will operate within the political space created by the policy priorities and the empathetic capacity of its voters. There isn’t much room for Palestinians.
The UN food agency helping Palestinians and others in need across the world has come under scrutiny for its contract with Palantir – the controversial US tech and AI company used by various international border police and militaries to sort data and better identify targets.
Bulgaria holds its presidential election on Sunday. A moment to decide whether to consolidate power around the current prime minister – prioritising stability over institutional balance.
Beth Oppenheim, fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, explains how a shift in Israeli society will shape voting on 27 October. Her analysis groups Israeli political forces into liberal Zionists, nationalists, religious nationalists, and ultra-Orthodox factions.
Moscow elites pleased with US envoy Witkoff and far from agreeing to peace (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,702)Starshield, the defense version of Starlink, seems to remain slow despite US assurances that it was fully back. And journalists from Russia reveal what is being discussed by Kremlin and US officials as they seek a deal on Ukraine.
An Egyptian national who sought protection in Italy after arriving on the island of Lampedusa in August may end up dealing a constitutional blow to the EU’s asylum laws after seeking legal counsel.
Katharina von Schnurbein caused controversy in May 2025 when she briefed EU ambassadors in Tel Aviv that proposed EU trade sanctions on Israel were based on “rumours about Jews, as opposed to facts”.
Prosecutors are circling Orbán’s ex‑bank chief, as Magyar rewrites Hungary’s budget.
On Sunday, Europeans will once again turn their clocks back by one hour. The familiar ritual will again raise the same question: did the European Union not decide years ago to end seasonal clock changes?
France needs spending cuts, but its politics can’t deliver them. Former Macron adviser and economist Shahin Vallée on the protests, Le Pen and Mélenchon’s debt plans, and the dilemma holding back ECB intervention.
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EU’s Arctic oil-and-gas pledge leaves a Norway-sized loopholeIf there is no offtake market in continental Europe, no-ne is going to take the risk.
The thing is, EU buyers already buy plenty of gas (and oil) from the Arctic.
The parliament overwhelmingly supported an increased budget and scope for the Erasmus+ programme under the new EU budget on Thursday.
Drones buzz overhead and enemy wi-fi everywhere: Ukrainian veterans describe how they survived in Russia’s ‘kill zone’ (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,701)The kill zone’s constant drone buzz, mined roads and invisible Russian networks are making basic things, such as a phone call, into life-or-death gambles for exhausted Ukrainian troops.
The European Parliament has voted to delay EU methane rules for oil and gas importers by three years, two more than the commission proposed. The vote also extends the delay to European producers and opens the door to reopening the law in 2029.
The ICC has received the EU’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. The court’s president judge thanked lawmakers for the recognition and said “there is no peace without justice and no security without law”.
An Italian MEP has gone on hunger strike over the besieged Ukrainian town’s lack of access to food, medicine, clean water and basic care. The only route to escape is tapped with mines and rife with attack drones.
Five Brussels municipalities, home to nearly one-in-three of the city’s residents, have now voted to drive fossil-fuel advertising off their streets. In the city where Europe’s climate laws are written, the industry’s grip on billboards and on lawmakers has to be broken together.
