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Le Pen judge placed under police protection after receiving ‘personal threats’

Le Pen said the judge had made a “political decision” and violated the law.

April 1, 2025 6:14 pm CET

Meloni joins cacophony of outrage against Le Pen guilty verdict

“I think that no one who cares about democracy can rejoice in a sentence that affects the leader of a large party and takes away representation from millions of citizens,” says Italian PM.

April 1, 2025 9:01 am CET

Marine Le Pen’s allies in Russia and Hungary lash out at guilty verdict

French court ruling blocks far-right figurehead from 2027 presidential run, stoking conservative outrage around Europe.

March 31, 2025 2:29 pm CET

The time has come to punish Orbán, Germany’s next government says

Friedrich Merz’s incoming coalition wants to press the EU to look at withholding funds and suspending voting rights from Hungary, according to a document seen by POLITICO.

March 31, 2025 4:00 am CET

Erdoğan’s jailed rival says his lawyer has now been arrested

“The evil that a handful of incompetent people are inflicting on our country is growing,” says Ekrem İmamoğlu.

March 28, 2025 10:07 am CET

Turkey lurches toward outright autocracy as Erdoğan’s main rival is jailed

Popular opposition leader Ekrem İmamoğlu calls for mass protests as he is thrown in jail and booted out as Istanbul mayor.

March 23, 2025 6:32 pm CET
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AI saves mankind, and other stories definitely not brought to you by robots

If there’s ever a good time to explore dangerous, innovative tools whose impacts on society and humanity as we know it we still don’t really understand, that’s definitely now.

March 21, 2025 4:01 am CET

Erdoğan’s main rival arrested in major clampdown on Turkish opposition

Arrested mayor of Istanbul accuses authorities of blow “against the will of the people.”

March 19, 2025 3:22 pm CET

Court gives Georgia’s ex-President Saakashvili 12 years in prison

Former leader says the ruling is “shameful.”

March 17, 2025 12:17 pm CET

Italy’s release of a warlord puts Meloni’s entanglements with Libya under scrutiny

“Il caso Al-Masri” raises serious questions over Rome’s dealings with Libya.

March 17, 2025 4:00 am CET

Who’s in Elon’s ear — and DMs

Musk’s most trusted advisers remain a tight-knit group of executives who have followed him from his companies but lack political experience.

March 12, 2025 11:20 pm CET

Belgian satirist who wanted to ‘ram’ knife down Jews’ throats not guilty of antisemitism

“Polemical” writing style of Herman Brusselmans does not constitute criminal conduct, court rules, in verdict condemned by Jewish groups.

March 11, 2025 3:11 pm CET
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EU sends more troops to Bosnia as Russia defends Serb leader

Moscow supported Milorad Dodik after he banned the judiciary and security forces in Serb-majority regions following his conviction, sparking sharp condemnation from the U.S. and the EU.

March 8, 2025 3:55 pm CET

Italy must compensate stranded migrants, high court rules

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni calls decision involving the coast guard ship Diciotti “highly questionable” and “very frustrating.”

March 7, 2025 5:59 pm CET

2 MEPs suspended from Socialist group over Qatargate probe

Both lawmakers will have their legal immunity revoked by Belgian prosecutors for further investigation, if the European Parliament approves.

March 4, 2025 5:17 pm CET

Bosnia tensions build as Serb leader is sentenced for undermining peace

Milorad Dodik’s decades-long disruptive reign in Bosnia may be over as a top court bans him from politics and sentences him to prison.

February 26, 2025 6:35 pm CET

Spain’s disgraced football chief Luis Rubiales found guilty of sexual assault

Rubiales was fined €10,800, but the court gave him no jail time.

February 20, 2025 2:55 pm CET

Victims of international crimes need justice — and the ICC

We call on the EU’s member countries and institutions to be the voice of human dignity globally, and to mobilize, defend and support the court.

February 17, 2025 4:00 am CET

EU chiefs chastise Trump for sanctioning the ICC 

In a first jab at the White House, Ursula von der Leyen and António Costa said the U.S. president’s move to target the International Criminal Court undermines global justice.

February 7, 2025 12:04 pm CET

Britain’s handover of the Chagos Islands is pleasing nobody

Labour’s decision to grant the geopolitical archipelago to Mauritius has sparked criticism from all sides.

February 6, 2025 4:03 am CET

EU court upholds €320M fine against Poland for violating rule of law

Fine related to controversial Polish judicial reforms by previously ruling PiS party.

February 5, 2025 2:26 pm CET

US presses Brussels for answers over EU social media law

“We write to express our serious concerns,” U.S. House judiciary chair tells Virkkunen.

January 31, 2025 7:28 pm CET

Ex-Polish justice minister ducks police, avoids Pegasus probe

Zbigniew Ziobro evaded officers and spoke of “political theatrics.”

January 31, 2025 3:16 pm CET

Leaked memo reveals alarming German warnings over Trump

Trump’s second term will bring a “maximum concentration of power with the president,” Germany’s ambassador to the U.S. warns in confidential document obtained by Reuters.

January 19, 2025 2:20 pm CET
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