Editors’ picks
Macron enters his lame duck era
Starmer aims to revive defense talks with EU
AI chatbots are not your friends, experts warn
UK general election polls
Potential Scottish indyref
Washington
Brussels
Prosecutors seek to uphold 5-year electoral ban on Marine Le Pen
The far-right leader is appealing her conviction last year for embezzlement, which looks set to keep her out of the 2027 presidential race.
EU Commission’s hiring contest begins … 7 years after the last one
Aspiring EU officials will have a chance to compete for lucrative jobs at the helm of the bloc.
Spain moves to ban under-16s from social media
Madrid’s proposal follows efforts in France, Denmark and Portugal to protect kids online.
France
Germany
Germany’s far right is on the threshold of power. This man is leading the charge.
Ulrich Siegmund is the friendly new face of the controversial AfD party.
No World Cup boycott (for now), says Germany’s football association
American President Donald Trump’s now-retracted tariff threats against EU countries had prompted calls to snub the event, being held in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
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Europe begins its slow retreat from US dependence
Serbians pushed out as China takes over a mining empire
Germans saying ‘nein’ to the stein
EU plan to share data with US border force sparks surveillance fears
Rutte is wrong about European defense
EU Commission’s hiring contest begins … 7 years after the last one
Opinion
Rutte is wrong about European defense
Europe may want to cool its Carney fever
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