When the European Commission started briefing EU states last month on the next sanctions package expected to be imposed on Russia, the 27 member nations expected concrete written proposals to follow. They're still waiting.
Bulgarian authorities expect to get the green light this week from the European Commission and the European Central Bank to introduce the euro from January 1, 2026.
The European Union hopes to set up a "Black sea maritime security hub" to counter Russia’s action in the region and to protect critical maritime infrastructure.
Remarks by the German Chancellor have sparked renewed debate about Germany supplying Ukraine with Taurus missiles.
After Artyom Uss, a Russian businessman and son of a powerful Kremlin-connected governor, escaped from Italian house arrest two years ago, investigators spent months honing in on a motley Balkan crime gang that smuggled him home to Russia.
European leaders threatened “massive” sanctions against Russia if it failed to agree to a 30-day cease-fire proposed by US President Donald Trump. Russia has failed to agree and European countries say they are now working on it. But analysts are skeptical.
Former NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen tells RFE/RL that Europe’s old model of “cheap security from the US” doesn’t work any longer and that Europe needs to double its defense spending.
After months of political chaos, Romanians go to the polls to finally choose a president, Previous polls last year were anulled and the frontrunner banned from taking part in this election.
Estonia has accused Russia of creating a "serious threat" to NATO in the Baltic Sea after a Russian fighter jet disrupted operations by the Estonian Navy to inspect an unflagged tanker that is on the United Kingdom's sanctions list.
The EPC, an idea conceived by the French President Emmanuel Macron as a direct response to the war in Ukraine, meets at the highest level twice a year with the host rotating between the 27 EU member states and the 20 non-EU countries.
Presented by the European Commission earlier this week to the 27 EU member and seen by RFE/RL, the EU's latest sanctions proposal contains no hard-hitting economic measures against the Kremlin.
Germany's new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, visits Brussels on May 9 for meetings at the European Union and NATO following a whirlwind first few days in office amid a bulging international in-tray.
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