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The Trump administration cancels a troop deployment to Poland after ordering five thousand troops out of Germany, drawing bipartisan criticism in Washington. All forty-six Council of Europe members — the UK included — sign a declaration endorsing third-country asylum hubs. Ukraine's former chief of staff Andriy Yermak is arrested on corruption charges as thirty-six countries approve a special trib...

Russia unleashes one of its largest combined drone and missile attacks on Kyiv, killing at least ten — Germany's chancellor says Putin is escalating, not seeking peace | Hungary's new PM Magyar lifts EU vetoes on Israel sanctions and the Ukraine loan within days of taking office | European carmakers retreat as Chinese rivals hunt for factory space | The UK joins a 46-nation Council of Europe push...

Hungary's new prime minister summons the Russian ambassador after Russia's largest daytime drone barrage of the war strikes deep into western Ukraine, forcing military responses from Poland and Slovakia. The Xi-Trump summit in Beijing puts European trade interests on the table without Europe in the room. The EU proposes single-ticket cross-border rail bookings. And a German court rules Milka's shr...

Russia resumes massive strikes across Ukraine as the three-day ceasefire expires, with EU foreign policy chief Kallas reading Putin's weakness as a potential opening. A hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship triggers a cross-border health response spanning Spain and France. Romania's judiciary faces its deepest crisis in years after corruption allegations reach the top. And new reports suggest a Rus...

Hungary's new PM Peter Magyar moves to purge Orbán loyalists as Poland demands the US extradite a former minister who fled via Budapest. Hantavirus passengers scatter across Europe with new cases confirmed. Starmer fights for his political life and pivots to a new EU agricultural deal. And Eurovision fractures as three countries boycott over Israel.

The US-brokered Ukraine ceasefire frays as Putin floats Schröder as mediator and Ukrainian drones breach Latvia's borders, forcing a defence minister out. A hantavirus-stricken cruise ship triggers a multinational evacuation from Tenerife — with 22 Britons now in quarantine on Merseyside. Poland's fugitive ex-justice minister flees Hungary for the US as Budapest's new PM breaks with the Orbán era....

A US-brokered ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine is tested by dozens of violations as Putin declares the war is 'coming to an end' and names Gerhard Schröder as his preferred negotiator. Péter Magyar is sworn in as Hungary's prime minister, ending 16 years of Orbán. An armed drone found off a Greek island points to Ukraine's covert Mediterranean operations. And a startup in the East Midlands des...

A three-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine begins on Victory Day with a thousand-prisoner swap — the most significant pause since the full-scale invasion. Hungary swears in Péter Magyar as prime minister, ending Viktor Orbán's sixteen-year rule. A hantavirus-affected cruise ship approaches Tenerife as Spain and the US scramble over quarantine. And Secretary of State Rubio visits Rome to mend...

Russia warns foreign diplomats to evacuate Kyiv ahead of Victory Day, while launching over 100 drones and missiles during Ukraine's unilateral ceasefire — with the British embassy among those directly threatened. Norway reopens North Sea gasfields closed for nearly three decades as Middle East conflict drives energy prices higher, a decision that matters enormously for British households given Nor...

Russian attacks kill dozens of Ukrainians hours before rival ceasefire proposals from Kyiv and Moscow take shape. Friedrich Merz marks one year as German chancellor with historic-low approval and a fragile coalition. Romania's parliament ousts Prime Minister Bolojan in a no-confidence vote. And a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship heads for the Canary Islands in a multi-country health emergency.

Putin and Zelenskyy trade competing ceasefire offers as a drone strikes central Moscow and Russia threatens a massive retaliatory strike on Kyiv. At the European Political Community summit in Armenia, Starmer backs a £78bn EU loan for Ukraine while Canada's Carney becomes the first non-European leader to attend. A car-ramming attack in Leipzig kills two and injures around twenty. And a new report...

Roughly 45 European leaders and Canada's PM converge on Yerevan for an EPC summit dominated by US troop withdrawals, Iran, and Ukraine — with Starmer's team there as part of the broader UK-EU reset. Ukrainian drones hit Russia's Primorsk oil port and shadow-fleet tankers on the Baltic, with Brent crude prices in the crosshairs. Trump threatens deeper troop cuts from Germany as Merz tries to hold t...

Trump orders five thousand US troops out of Germany, scrapping a Biden-era Tomahawk missile deployment and forcing NATO allies to confront their own defence shortfalls. On the battlefield, Russian forces press toward Ukraine's eastern fortress belt as advanced Ukrainian drones reshape the front. Trump hikes EU car tariffs to twenty-five percent, threatening Germany's industrial core and Europe-wid...

Trump blindsides Brussels by hiking EU car tariffs to twenty-five percent, tearing up last summer's deal. The Pentagon pulls five thousand troops from Germany as Trump threatens Italy and Spain over the Strait of Hormuz. Ukraine strikes a Russian oil hub for the fourth time while Zelenskyy announces sweeping army reforms. And Octopus Energy's boss asks whether some customers might accept blackouts...

Trump threatens to pull US troops from Germany as his feud with Chancellor Merz deepens over Iran. Israel intercepts a Gaza-bound flotilla near Crete, detaining a hundred and seventy-five activists. Belgium reverses course and moves to nationalise its nuclear power plants. And the entire Venice Biennale jury resigns over Russia's participation.

Donald Trump announces the US is studying a possible reduction of troops in Germany after Chancellor Merz said America was being 'humiliated' by Iran — a move that would land squarely on Britain's own defence calculations. Hungary's incoming PM Péter Magyar visits Brussels saying frozen EU funds will be released soon. Experts call for sharply higher taxes on alcohol and junk food to combat 284,000...

King Charles invokes the spirit of 9/11 to press Congress on Ukraine as Hungary's new leader seeks a reset with Kyiv and Germany deepens defence ties. The European Parliament votes for a common consent-based definition of rape. An aviation fuel shortage threatens summer flights. And a US-backed gas pipeline in Bosnia collides with EU accession hopes.

Lithuanian authorities arrest suspects linked to Russian military intelligence over assassination plots targeting Ukraine fundraisers. A Channel rescue of more than a hundred migrants stress-tests the new £650m UK-France deal within days of signing. Brussels weighs handing citizen data to Washington to preserve visa-free travel. And China's record trade surplus with the EU raises existential quest...

Orbán's inner circle scrambles to move wealth abroad as Hungary's new era begins. China threatens retaliation over the EU's 'Made in Europe' industrial shield. British business leaders demand an EU-style 'trade bazooka' against Trump's tariffs. And Ryanair pulls out of Berlin, blaming Germany's aviation tax — reshaping flight routes right across the continent.

A Russian drone crashes inside Romania, causing material damage for the first time, as massive strikes on Ukraine kill ten. Viktor Orbán steps down from the Hungarian parliament after a landslide defeat. Macron declares the EU's mutual defence clause operational — citing the response to a drone attack on a British base in Cyprus. And forty years after Chernobyl, reporters return to Pripyat as war...

A leaked Pentagon email sets out how Washington could punish European countries for refusing to back the Iran war — threatening to suspend Spain from NATO and to withdraw US support for British sovereignty over the Falklands. Plus: Germany shapes Ukraine's EU path as Hungary's veto lifts, Peter Mandelson faces an EU anti-fraud investigation, and a Kosovo court delivers landmark sentences over the...

EU leaders break a weeks-long deadlock to approve a ninety-billion-euro loan for Ukraine and a twentieth Russia sanctions package, after Hungary lifts its vetoes at a Cyprus summit. Britain and France lead a thirty-nation push to secure the Strait of Hormuz. Three countries boycott Eurovision over Israel. And French police investigate whether someone used a hairdryer to rig weather bets.

Hungary drops its veto on a €90bn EU loan for Ukraine after the Druzhba pipeline reopens. Britain and France strike a performance-linked deal on Channel crossings. The British Army ferries 1,400 troops to the continent for a NATO exercise. And the G7 drops climate from its Paris agenda to avoid a clash with Washington.

Ukraine reopens the Druzhba pipeline to unlock a €90bn EU loan — while GCHQ's cyber chief, speaking in Glasgow, warns of escalating Russian hybrid attacks hitting infrastructure from Scandinavia to Britain. The EU's top court strikes down Hungary's anti-LGBTQ law in the bloc's largest ever human rights case. Russia's Shoigu uses ominously familiar language about 'threatened' Russians in Moldova's...

Hungary's political earthquake unlocks a ninety-billion-euro EU loan for Ukraine and begins reshaping the bloc's foreign policy — with direct implications for Britain's own bilateral support for Kyiv. France investigates X over AI-generated child abuse material as Elon Musk snubs a Paris summons, raising questions Ofcom will be watching closely. Spain opens Europe's largest migrant legalisation pr...