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Seven refineries processing Moscow’s crude in India, Turkey and Bulgaria continued exporting refined fuels to the EU.

The Continent’s housing crisis has gone from being a slow burn to a four-alarm fire — but some countries are handling it better than others....

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....

Budapest argues it’s facing an energy crunch after Kyiv imposed a partial ban on Moscow’s oil transiting the country....

Donald Trump doesn’t easily forgive or forget....

An early burst of patriotic fervor saw draft centers swamped with volunteers, but that has waned with Vladimir Putin’s war in its third year....

BRUSSELS — As the investigation into damage to Baltic Sea critical infrastructure continues, Finland’s Minister of European Affairs Anders Adlercreutz said it’s hard to believe sabotage to the undersea gas pipeline was accidental — or that it happened without Beijing’s knowledge....

The British parliament has for the first time referred to Taiwan as an “independent country” in an official document, breaking a political taboo as Foreign Secretary James Cleverly visits China this week....

After being demilitarized in 2005, Sweden re-introduced permanent troops to Gotland in 2016, following Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014. Sweden also became NATO’s newest member in March — meaning it is covered by the alliance’s Article 5 guarantee that all other members come to each other’s...

Vladimir Putin is not on the guest list, but Russian representatives have been invited to take part in WWII anniversary ceremony....

The yawning gap between locals’ and visitors’ consumption is stoking long-standing resentments ahead of an election....

Recent assaults spark national debate over Germany’s increasingly raw political climate, with some seeing echoes of its dark history....

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

Hungarian PM lashes out at Brussels for holding back billions of euros....

Emmanuel Macron’s party formed a last–minute agreement with right-leaning lawmakers to win a key vote in parliament on Thursday that opens the door to the French president playing a greater-than-expected role in forming the country’s next government....

Britain turned down the offer to remain a member of the cultural exchange program after Brexit....

Gheorghiță Vlad issued a stark warning about the state of the nation’s army, calling for immediate action....

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1898633...

France’s National Rally has sought to style itself a defender of women’s rights — partly by attacking its traditional bogeyman: immigration....