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Meta’s handling of political ads may be a focus ahead of the EU election in June....

For the first time, Moldova can cut an energy link to its breakaway territory. Yet doing so risks Moscow’s threats and a possible humanitarian crisis....

Rome has no reason to oppose EU sanctions targeting Russian LNG, Energy Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin says....

Global companies get heat for financing pro-Kremlin media in Serbia and Bulgaria with their advertising budgets....

Europe’s phoney war with China is at an end. After years of building up an improved arsenal for a trade war, Europe is now showing it is willing to get tough on Beijing....

Following allegations of dodgy links to Russia and China, one lawmaker referred to Alternative for Germany as a “party of treason.”...

The former president’s return would cement a shift in the U.S. as a fact that can no longer be ignored....

The German chancellor and his defense minister have doubled down on their decision not to send long-range missiles to Ukraine....

“It is not we, the West, who should fear a clash with Putin, but the other way around,” Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski said....

The Kremlin may have been trying to undermine the ICJ’s authority by making it a venue for specious legal arguments, say authorities....

Macron reiterated calls for a third way between the U.S. and China, saying Europe must show that “it’s never going to be a vassal for the United States.”

French President Emmanuel Macron warned Thursday that Europe faces possible demise if it does not take bold action to tackle U.S. and Chinese protectionism, amid serious geopolitical threats from authoritarian regimes....

You famously never know what you’re going to get when you open a box of chocolates. But for Belgium, a state that’s synonymous with the high-end confectionery, soaring cocoa prices are making life for the nation’s chocolate aficionados even more uncertain than usual....

Move will see Britain spend 2.5 percent of GDP on defense by end of the decade as Downing Street urges ‘other major European NATO economies to follow.’...

Washington’s support for Ukraine should not dispel a sense of urgency among EU countries, Ukraine and its allies warn....

Preventable deaths are on the rise in the European Union amid low vaccine uptake, putting young children most at risk, Europe’s disease agency has warned....

Both NATO and the EU want to spend a €100 billion on defense — and that’s leading to clashes between the two Brussels-based institutions....

“If the leadership proves to be bad, it must be replaced. It’s that simple,” Hungarian leader says....

“The accused repeatedly passed on information about negotiations and decisions in the European Parliament to his intelligence service client,” authorities said....

Saab chief cautions that Beijing dominates supplies of a key component to make powder to fire shells, and metal for submarines and warships....