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EU puts 46 more mines and recycling plants on 'strategic' list, without closing funding gap

'When you laugh at a dictator, you take away his power': Artist behind viral naked Trump statue speaks out

Nato state Montenegro detains top Russian war-blogger Rybar, on suspicion of plotting hybrid tricks (Ukraine Battlefield update, day 1,688)

Agrochemical lobbyists are defending a toxic model of agriculture that is heading for collapse

Listen: What would a coalition of right and far-right in Spain mean for Europe?

Orbán channelled public money into propaganda through Hungarian billionaire Lőrinc Mészáros (Day 150 of the Tisza government)

Video game industry believes EU Kids Act will drive small creators and old games into extinction

French kitchenware Tefal faces legal ultimatum over harmful chemicals, as Europeans' health at stake

Concessions on electric cars, rare earths and tariffs should be enough for EU and Chinese officials to be able to claim success from trade talks which ended on Friday.

The EU added 46 strategic minerals projects on Friday, saying progress so far has been 'very tangible', but its own figures show little fresh EU financing has materialised.

Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale, a gold-covered statue of a naked Trump in the halls of European Parliament is meant to make politicians think about democracy, says 'Orange Plague' artist Jens Galschiøt.

While Rybar's pro-war editors complain of tightening fronts near Sloviansk, Komar and Dobropillia, independent maps and Ukrainian sources show Moscow's forces clawing back exaggerated gains as Kyiv tests ambitious advances on the ground and in Russia's digital backbone.

As pesticide lobbyists dominate a key hearing in Strasbourg, the EU risks locking farmers and citizens into a costly, chemical-dependent food system that poisons water, fuels disease and drains billions in EU subsidies away from real sustainable farming.

Spain is heading for early elections, after Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called a snap vote last week. According to current polls, the conservative People's Party, or PP, is ahead of Sánchez's Socialists, while Vox is also making significant gains. What would happen if they governed together?

Internal documents show how a top Orbán-era rail contractor showered Megafon influencers with billions of forints.

Campaigners have warned that stringent requirements to adapt games to children by default would prompt the extinction of small games and make costs spiral for developers.

Environmental NGOs have threatened to sue the owner of Tefal, a leading French kitchenware company, over failing to phase out forever chemicals from their products, at a high price for consumer health.

EU Parliament's 7 October memorial honours Israelis, sidelines Palestinians — and sows division

EU let member states rewrite targets after they had sought recovery-fund payment, auditors find

EU trade chief Šefčovič has no cards to play on China 'ultimatum' trip

EU pleads with Russian authorities to lift the lid on plague death in Siberia

Trapped under Russian occupation, people in Oleshky forced to eat dogs to survive (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,687)

EU agency Frontex told Libyans where to find migrant boat with children, then watched them run it over

EU disowns Vilnius event that warned of US political interference, but France maintains support

French school protests to continue, after prime minister ignores demands

Morocco's surveillance state does not stop at Western Sahara — and Europe can no longer pretend not to know

Cut the EU budget and we all lose

A memorial to victims of 7 October in Israel, which made no mention of Palestinian casualties, ended in tumbling flags, anger, and grief.

Listen: Are student protests in France actually being fuelled by Mélenchon's party LFI?

The revised targets were "aligned with actual achieved outputs, which made the payment possible," the auditors wrote in their annual report on last year's budget.