Regions/Cohesion

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.

Key security fund — whose schemes range from stopping ISIS recruitment to clearing deadly mines in Sri Lanka — faces uncertain future after cut to aid spending.

In seeking a historic peace accord between Russia and Ukraine, President Donald Trump has presented himself as an agnostic arbiter focused only on bringing the three-year war …

The vote to unleash borrowing for the military and Ukraine is a “first major step towards a new European defense community,” says incoming chancellor Friedrich Merz.

Voice of America and Radio Free Europe among outlets forced to make cuts as U.S. seeks to curtail funding.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said ahead of negotiations that Kyiv will have to give up land to Russia in order to achieve a peace deal

EU steelmakers, facing steep decline, want Brussels to intervene to give them more access to scrap metal. Recyclers aren’t happy.

A flurry of crucial policy reviews on areas that could define the U.K. prime minister’s government are coming due. POLITICO has you covered.

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.

Kyiv is trying to hang on to the territory it holds inside Russia despite fierce counterattacks by Moscow’s military.

It was the first large combined airstrike by Moscow since Washington halted aid and intel-sharing to Kyiv.

“The people elected me to do the job, and I’m doing it.”

The EU needs to find ways to massively ramp up defense spending, the French president says.

A government-backed analysis seen by POLITICO argues Beijing could remotely shut down wind farms unless Germany bans its suppliers.

Europe has significant leverage after being left out of key talks on ending the war in Ukraine, but will it use it?

CDU leader moves swiftly to form coalition with SPD, framing the alliance as a stabilizing force after Germany’s turbulent election.

Farmers should not be “an adjustment tool for purchasing power … nor an adjustment tool for trade agreements,” French president says.

But Donohoe acknowledged that it is “inevitable that in the years ahead, Europe will have to increase its defense expenditure.”

A European Commission draft sets out ways for governments to subsidize and boost clean-tech investments.

Kremlin forces also shelled residential buildings in Kherson.

Repayment of the EU’s €300 billion joint borrowing hangs like a cloud over the European Commission’s budget brainstorm.