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EuroWire, BRUSSELS: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on March 9 that the European Union must be ready to project power more assertively because it can no longer rely on a rules-based international system to shield it from

ROME: UAE Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan met Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Rome during a working visit, as the two countries reviewed cooperation under their strategic partnership. The talks included economic

EuroWire, SANTANDER: Five people were killed and one person remained missing after a wooden footbridge on a coastal path collapsed near El Bocal beach in the northern Spanish city of Santander, authorities said. A seventh person survived and was hospitalized

EuroWire, EXETER: Parts of the UK are forecast to be warmer than Barcelona this week, with the Met Office predicting temperatures climbing into the high teens and reaching up to 19C in the warmest areas on Thursday, March 5. The

EuroWire, BRUSSELS: The European Commission on Feb. 26 presented a new ProtectEU agenda aimed at preventing and countering terrorism and violent extremism, setting out steps to strengthen the bloc’s preparedness and response across six areas, from intelligence analysis to online

EuroWire, BRUSSELS: NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte called on Feb. 24 for sustained and increased military, financial and humanitarian support for Ukraine, saying the flow of assistance must match the demands of a war that has entered its fourth year since

DOVER: Reform UK on Monday set out an immigration enforcement plan that includes creating a new “Deportation Command” and imposing visa issuance suspensions on nationals of certain countries, including Pakistan, if those governments do not cooperate in accepting people the

EuroWire, WARSAW: Irregular border crossings into the European Union fell 60% in January 2026 from a year earlier, with about 5,500 detections recorded at the bloc’s external borders, according to preliminary data released by the EU border agency Frontex. Frontex

EuroWire, PARIS: France said on Feb. 19 it was surprised the European Commission sent a senior official to Washington for the first formal meeting of the U.S.-led Board of Peace, saying the Commission did not have a mandate from EU

WASHINGTON: The United States has warned the European Union that limiting access for American defence companies in European weapons procurement would bring consequences for transatlantic market access, according to a written U.S. submission filed in an EU public consultation. The