The European Commission has dismissed an interpreter hired by the European Union to attend major summits alongside world leaders over concerns of a potential security breach.

The EU’s attempt to coordinate a plan to stem the flow of migrants from North Africa descended into a blame game yesterday after a top Brussels official was thrown out of Libya by a Russia-backed warlord.

A section of the Brussels metro was shut down this afternoon after a corpse was discovered in a tunnel, according to the city’s transport operator STIB.

🚨🚨This bleak news from #Hungary on their new bill, "On the Transparency of Public Life"- which allows the Sovereignty Protection Office to blacklist organizations receiving foreign funding if it deems them a “threat” to national sovereignty- has been under-reported.🧵 www.politico.eu/article/vikt...

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#Dengue and #chikungunya risk becoming #endemic in #Europe ... | #virus | #infections | #pathogens | #publichealth | #mosquitoes | #ClimateChange | By @elenagiordano.bsky.social via @politico.eu

Despite their mutual hatred for Putin, Ukraine and Russia’s exiled opposition have mostly avoided joining forces amid deep distrust. But a top Russian dissident told me and @elenagiordano.bsky.social in Brussels that talks have kicked off behind closed doors 👇 www.politico.eu/article/russ...

The EU’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas defended Greenlanders’ right to self-determination in her inaugural speech to the European Parliament today.

As a crime reporter-turned-EU 🌾 policy nerd, I never thought I'd get to combine my passions. Then Giuseppe Antoci arrived in Brussels... My latest 📝 with the marvellous @elenagiordano.bsky.social.

🚨 BREAKING: London’s Heathrow Airport will be closed for the entirety of Friday after a fire at a nearby electrical substation cut power to the area. Full story: www.politico.eu/article/uk-l...

Excellent reporting by @elenagiordano.bsky.social and Ben Munster, showing that the Meloni govt. prefers a working relationship with Libya over international law. www.politico.eu/article/osam...

French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau condemned celebrations over far-right National Rally party founder Jean-Marie Le Pen’s death on yesterday as “simply shameful.”

Giorgia Meloni pitched her Albania refugee camp as a near-miraculous solution. A few months in, the camps host more Italian staff than they ever did refugees as Meloni struggles to dodge European refugee repatriation laws. By @elenagiordano.bsky.social and moi: www.politico.eu/article/gior...

🚨 BREAKING: The ICC has issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over war crimes in Gaza.

Golf-obsessed US President-elect Donald Trump will visit Scotland next year for the opening of a new course in Aberdeenshire, his son Eric told British news agency PA during an interview yesterday.

The US Embassy in Kyiv shut down today following reports of a possible major air strike.

Moscow has dismissed suggestions that Russia had anything to do with damaged telecoms cables in the Baltic Sea as “ridiculous.”

Introducing POLITICO Europe's team of breaking news reporters to Bluesky. 🇮🇹 @elenagiordano.bsky.social 🇦🇺 @sebstarcevic.bsky.social 🇨🇿 @ketrinjochecova.bsky.social 🇭🇺 @krmcsngr.bsky.social We cover a swathe of topics from war in Ukraine, to Dutch politics, to Giorgia Meloni, to undersea mysteries.

🚨 Exclusive: I spoke with Finland's Defense Minister Antti Häkkänen about the Baltic Sea cable damage, NATO, and safeguarding critical infrastructure. Read the full interview here on @politico.eu www.politico.eu/article/finl...