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Hungary PM Viktor Orban restated position that Ukraine is not, by the EU’s own rules, ready to join and no exception should be granted.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny vanished from prison last week, with no explanation from the authorities and no information about where he was taken.

Incoming Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk promised closer ties with the EU and to be a champion for the war in Ukraine.

A report highlights the danger migrants are put in by callous people smugglers, who grow rich on human suffering. 

The fertility rate in the Netherlands continues its long-term downward trend as more couples decide to have no children at all.

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government informed Beijing that Italy is withdrawing from the Belt and Road global domination scheme.

“Polarization” caused by the Israel-Hamas war is leading to a “huge risk of terrorist attacks”, an EU commissioner has warned.

Ukrainian officials blocked former President Petro Poroshenko from leaving the country to meet with Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán over an alleged Kremlin plot.

At COP28, EU Commission Chief Ursula von der Leyen demanded new taxes and other schemes to take green agenda investment into the “trillions”.

It is up to young people to rectify the mistake of Brexit, European President Ursula von der Leyen told a formal dinner for Brussels figures.

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NATO reaffirms support for Ukraine and says its members all agree the nation will join the alliance, but not while the war is ongoing.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has written a letter to Brussels threatening to use his veto power to block EU funding for Ukraine.

EU border agency sending officers and equipment to Finland to help amid suspicion that Russia is behind an influx of migrants.

Geert Wilders’ and his anti-migration Party for Freedom swept to a stunning victory in Dutch elections, with exit polls predicting it will become the largest party.

The European Commission has asserted there is no evidence of EU aid to Palestine being diverted to “unintended purposes”.

Geert Wilders hailed a poll that put his anti-mass migration party tied for first place in next week’s general election as a “game changer”.

Viktor Orbán said Ukraine is “light years away” from joining the EU, signalling Hungary may seek to block the ascension process.

The European Union said it recognises Israel’s right to defend itself while calling on Hamas to stop using “civilians as human shields”. 

Two men of “Arab appearance” are wanted by police in Germany after a mother was reportedly raped in a schoolyard.

Croatia’s defense minister was seriously injured in a car crash early on Saturday in which another person died, officials said.

“Ukraine is in no way ready to negotiate on its ambitions to join the European Union,” Orbán said.

“Enlargement is a vital policy” for the EU, Von der Leyen says as it announces Ukraine is moving a step closer to becoming a member state.

Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa said Tuesday he is resigning after being involved in a widespread corruption probe.

NATO on Tuesday announced the formal suspension of a key Cold War-era security treaty in response to Russia’s pullout from the deal just hours earlier

New, stricter measures to curb the high number of migrants coming to Germany were agreed by Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the 16 state governors.

Poland’s president gave Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki a chance to form a government, despite his party losing its parliamentary majority.

Spain’s Canary Islands set a new record for the number of illegal arrivals, with more than 32,000 boat migrants landing this year.

Ursula von der Leyen continued to lobby for the cause of Ukraine joining the EU as she met with with President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv.

Automotive industry analyst Michael Dunne warned on Friday that China has become “the world’s electric vehicle (EV) Godzilla, poised to smash everything in its path.”

Serbian police said Friday they made seven arrests on suspicion of smuggling people into Hungary as part of a days-long crackdown.

UK and Austria signed security agreement taking in migration, terrorism, and cyber and are set to enter further talks on deportations. 

A group of northern Euro nations has agreed to work together, saying they will share deportation flights and organise voluntary repatriations.

Former defense minister Claus Hjort Frederiksen had alleged that Danish spies helped the NSA eavesdrop on European leaders.

As the war rages in Ukraine, EU officials have sought to push the integration process forward and encourage Balkan nations to boost reforms.

The people of Germany need to become prepared to fight a war in Europe, Defence Minister Boris Pistorius has warned.