Kyiv dismissed the reformer who was making the concept of speed its defence ministry's organising principle - just as Russia begins to copy the model, and days after Europe signed up to build on it. So what now?

Airline emissions bills and carbon credits for investment dominate revamp of EU’s labyrinthine emissions scheme

EU to give boost to prosecutor’s office as part of new anti-corruption measures later this year

Ukraine’s new French and Swedish jets will pose threat to Russia’s top warplanes (Ukraine Battlefield update: Day 1,605)

How Britain’s Andy Burnham went from ‘King of the North’ to inheriting the 10 Downing Street throne

The EU-China trade war: what if Beijing hits back?

International flights arriving in Europe from destinations within 5,000 km will be required to pay for their CO2 emissions from 2029 as part of a major overhaul of the EU’s emissions trading system announced on Friday.

Listen: Is Ukraine gaining the upper hand against Russia?

The announcement on Friday follows the publication of reports that attempt to decrypt rule-of-law issues in each of the 27 member states. It will include a boost to the European Public Prosecutor's Office.

[Interview] ‘Some of the resistance comes from people fearing they’ll end up without a job,’ says industry expert on Europe’s slow electrification

Danish shipyard keeping Putin’s €4bn gas tankers afloat angers EU politicians

Kyiv’s pilots prepare to fly cutting-edge Rafales against Russian jets, amid a bruising power struggle in Ukraine’s defence leadership.

Andy Burnham has gone from the "King of the North" to Downing Street in a matter of weeks. But what does this mean for the UK and its relationship with the EU?

The EU has probably missed the boat in imposing trade measures against solar panels or electric vehicles (EVs) without China viewing this as a direct, offensive measure (and in turn, incurring harsh retaliation)

Disrupted fuel supplies, damaged refineries and a stalled frontline are starting to bite into Russia’s war machine, even as Ukrainians pay a steep price in money and lives.

According to Devan Pillay of Schneider Electric, it's not just grids and prices holding electrification back. It's also change-resistant engineers of the older generation that are running plants today. "Their attitude is: if it works, let's leave it."

With an EU-wide LNG embargo looming in 2027, the battle over a Danish shipyard has become a test of whether Europe can close loopholes that keep Russian gas flowing.

MEPs voting to shield themselves from investigation? Sadly, that’s all too typical

Orbán watches World Cup in US as Fidesz falls apart (95 days after the election)

EU’s Gaza reconstruction pledge means nothing without Israel giving access to the enclave

Russia and China have a plan to disable Starlink, as Ukraine war comes to space (Ukraine Battlefield update: Day 1,604)

The ICC is in its worst crisis yet — and Europe’s double standards are a big part of the problem

Listen: France legalises assisted dying, is Europe following?

MEPs in the European Parliament's budgetary control committee voted to shield the Patriots for Europe group from any criminal investigation into misspending EU funds.

The Tisza government is poised to topple Orbán-era power brokers but a messy battle over Hungary’s presidency now risks dragging the Constitutional Court into a full-blown legitimacy crisis.

Who is Karen Malayan: Russia’s top diplomat in Brussels, or yet another spy?

How Pakistan’s slave‑like cotton labour still feeds EU fashion despite new rules

Even the relevant EU commissioner, Dubravka Šuica, acknowledged the central obstacle: “To be open, the key problem is access to Gaza,” she said.

By treating Starlink as a “space blockade” that must be broken, Moscow and Beijing are turning the Ukraine war into a test case for who will control the orbital infrastructure behind future global conflicts.

A tribunal created for one conflict — while acts of aggression in the Middle East and Latin America go unanswered — serves the court’s critics their strongest argument on a silver platter: that international criminal justice is a selective instrument of Western power, not a universal principle.

With France now joining just five other EU countries that permit assisted dying, millions of Europeans still face radically different choices over how they can end unbearable suffering, depending purely on which border they live behind.

Vladimir Putin’s envoy to the EU had a strange career path, a spy-linked uncle, spy friends, and allegedly played a role in pre-Brexit dirty tricks in the UK.

Pakistani women and children pick cotton in bonded labour for a few euros a day while Europe’s biggest fashion brands exploit legal loopholes to keep their clothes and their consciences officially clean.

From Trojan Horse in Brussels to executive for China’s BYD – Hungary’s Szijjártó makes classic ‘revolving doors’ move

Under the theme of “A Sustainable and Just Transition to a Zero-Carbon Economy: EU-China Cooperation and Innovation in Maritime Transport,” the seminar focused on in-depth discussions on advancing China-EU green transition cooperation.

EU offers India the keys to Horizon, months after signing ‘mother of all trade deals’ with Delhi

EU’s top court is the hard-right’s next target – and MEP Weimers’ report just pulled the trigger

Russia running out of missiles, had to skimp on defence of a nuclear‑submarine base (Ukraine Battlefield update: Day 1,603)

EU home affairs Brunner branded ‘completely lost’ in secret Brussels meeting on Taliban deportations

Kushner‑backed luxury project in Albania becomes a litmus test for EU accession green standards

The farming lobby is in bed with the pesticide industry – against the interests of farmers themselves

Listen: Can Europe remain prosperous with a rapidly ageing population?

Le Pen and Farage – the far-right always play the ‘victim’ card

India is set to join the EU's Horizon programme in October, the latest incentive offered by Brussels as it aims to boost trade ties with Delhi.

Exclusive: Frontex returned almost 50 people to Afghanistan this year with help from NGO fronted by UK security veterans

Presented as a transparency exercise, a draft European Parliament report would curb the Court of Justice’s power to defend judicial independence across the Union and with it the legal infrastructure on which the EU’s citizens, companies and rights depend, warns Alberto Alemanno.

Russia’s scramble to plug holes in its air defences is now exposing key bases, as Ukraine claws back ground in the south and steps up drone and naval strikes.

EU-banned facial-recognition cameras made in Spain now watch millions of Indians

The European Commission and MEPs held a closed-door meeting to discuss the Taliban. Magnus Brunner, the EU home affairs commissioner, was speaking at the meeting and appeared "completely lost" on the subject, said one EU source.

As Albania's EU membership momentum hits full steam, Brussels' institutions and Albanian civil society speak out about what accession with current environmental scandals could mean for the EU's credibility