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A senior Dutch counterespionage official warns foreign governments are recruiting ordinary Europeans for spying and sabotage.

The France Unbowed leader wants to build on his party's success in local elections to become a leading presidential rival to Jordan Bardella and Marine Le Pen on the far right. It's a race few see him winning.

The conflict between Poland's president and its prime minister could sour the country on staying in the EU.

Micheál Martin avoided the trap that snared Germany's chancellor by politely pushing back as Donald Trump slammed Keir Starmer, NATO and migration to Europe.

After agreeing to help get Russian oil flowing again, Brussels and Kyiv hope for a Ukraine loan breakthrough at Thursday's crunch EU leaders' summit.

Half-joking comments about Canada joining the bloc have become common as Ottawa adapts to its fraying relationship with the United States.

Alexander Stubb, a golf buddy of the U.S. president, says it's a “really good idea” to try to bargain with Trump, who wants Europe to help him open the Strait of Hormuz.

The British prime minister held talks with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy in London Tuesday.

The Finnish president predicts the U.K. will rejoin the European Union, and wants closer integration on defense and trade as Trump rips up the world order.

"By modernizing our rules, we are standing up for fairness, equality and a Parliament that truly reflects the people it serves,” says Parliament President Roberta Metsola.

Committee vote scheduled following major lobbying effort by U.S. officials and diplomats.

WhatsApp conversations in Brussels spark disagreement between Berlin's chancellor and the German leader of Europe's most powerful political group.

Deal could help ease tensions that prompted Hungary to block a €90 billion EU loan to Ukraine.

Israel’s defense minister said Tuesday that Iranian security chief Ali Larijani was killed in an overnight airstrike on Tehran.

Global insecurity and transatlantic tensions dominate the agenda for Sir Keir Starmer – but is the UK about to edge closer to the EU? Chancellor Rachel Reeves will deliver a speech on plans to deepen the ties with the European Union, as…

European affairs ministers meet in Brussels to prepare this week’s EU summit — with discussions ranging from Ukraine and the war in Iran to the bloc’s next long-term budget and competitiveness. But there is also motion on enlargement.…

Marine Le Pen's National Rally has done well in the first round of local elections. But the second round is its Achilles heel, as rivals can team up against it.

Israel began ground operations in southern Lebanon on Monday.

“Behind closed doors, European leaders tell me I’m right, but no one dares to say it out loud,” says Belgium's leader as he suggests normalizing relations with the Kremlin.

"This is not Europe's war," the EU tells Washington in a bruising rebuke on Iran even as oil prices rise.

Measures aim to soften the impact on Europeans of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.

New Delhi is seeking a wider trade agreement and new defense investment deals with the European Union, India's foreign minister says.

Budapest says farmers need cheaper fertilizer as prices rise, challenging an EU policy meant to curb funding for Russia's war in Ukraine.

Countries impose measures on Iranian, Chinese companies providing hacking services.

But some EU countries are pushing back on Trump's threat to NATO if they don't help clear the strait.

BERLIN — Germany’s government rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s demand that NATO allies help secure the Strait of Hormuz, declaring that the alliance had no place in the war.

The European Commission is resisting pressure from some member countries to temporarily import Russian fossil fuels.

US President Donald Trump is piling the pressure on the UK to back his war in Iran – but how long can Sir Keir Starmer hold his nerve? Barrels of oil continue to be above $100, and the Strait of Hormuz remains shut – all as Mr Trump casts…

“It’s only appropriate that people who are the beneficiaries of the strait will help to make sure that nothing bad happens there,” says U.S. president as Iran war drags on.

Josep Borrell told POLITICO the EU should suspend the implementation of its "unfair" U.S. trade deal in the wake of the Iran war.