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Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys said the US is pressuring Lithuania to allow the transit of Belarusian fertilisers through its territory, according to remarks made in a closed-door meeting with the Social Democratic faction.

One of Europe’s largest financial intermediaries plans to accept mainland Chinese bonds traded in Hong Kong as collateral, helping the drive by Beijing to internationalise its currency.

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Ukraine has been able to consistently strike military and military-industrial targets within Russia before, challenging the “safe rear” notion. However, 2026 has featured record levels of consistency.

A “core” group of European countries should work with allies to boost innovation and collectively counter the growing dominance of the US and China, a Nobel Prize-winning economist has said.

A Russian cargo ship carrying what its captain described as nuclear reactor components sank under mysterious circumstances off the coast of Spain in December 2024 – and new details suggest Moscow may have been secretly shipping sensitive military cargo to North Korea.”

All clusters in the negotiation process for Ukraine and Moldova’s accession to the European Union could be opened in July, with the first cluster expected to be launched by the end of June. The announcement was made by European Commissioner for Enlargement, Marta Kos, in Brussels.

The first tunnel element of the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel was immersed on the Danish side this week marking a key construction milestone in the long-running effort to create a fixed link between continental Europe and Scandinavia.

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One thing more where we stop to follow the American dream, because it has turned into a nightmare.

SAP, the German company based near Frankfurt, launched Autonomous Enterprise on Tuesday, a platform designed to help enhance global critical business workflows and build on its partnerships with Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft, NVIDIA and Palantir.

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The European Commission proposed on Tuesday that travelers should be able to buy a single ticket online for any international train journey in Europe—even if it involves multiple national railway companies— through a single, easy-to-use booking platform.

The new report, Permission to Pollute, reveals how the European Commission is taking a chainsaw to permitting rules for energy and industrial infrastructure. This is part of a wider deregulatory push driven by some of Europe’s most polluting industries. Although the EU presents this agenda as the “simplification” of permitting laws, in practice, it risks eroding the hard-won social and environmental protections that underpin these rules.

According to these reports, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is said to have intervened personally to stop a billion-euro fine against the US giant Google, which had already been planned, at the last minute.

The acknowledgment ends weeks of silence from Brussels over plans for a Taliban delegation to visit the Belgian capital before summer, at the invitation of Sweden and the Commission, for discussions on Afghan returns.

Helsinki has decided to abolish car traffic on Kaivokatu, the street in front of the city’s central train station. That is part of plans to transform the heart of the capital into a pedestrian district. The central traffic route between the east and west sides of the city will be closed and replaced with trees, outdoor cafés and two new tram tracks.

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