Both sides said they would adhere to 'procedures concerning company price undertakings' of hybrid cars in a joint statement released on Friday. Beijing also committed to continuing the supply of vital items such as rare earth minerals to the EU.

The U.S. military is planning to broadcast a public execution on Dec. 3, but violent content must be moderated by social media platforms under EU law.

Using fake videos branded as ISW, RFI and Bellingcat, the bots cast Macron as both reckless and weak after a missile test and falsely claim Merz keeps 25% of aid to Ukraine.

As rumors spread about a possible plague outbreak in Siberia, the Kremlin turned to a familiar playbook: offering little information about potential bad news.

Exports rose by 1.2% from €48.2 billion in 2024, while imports increased by 18.0% from €28.0 billion, Eurostat said in a release on Thursday.

Hungary is working on a major overhaul of its energy industry to drastically reduce electricity costs that are currently some of the highest in Europe.

Andrii Sybiha said that Ukraine and Hungary are taking steps towards each other and towards European unity together.

Patriots group takes Parliament to court, saying it was excluded from key posts.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio used a dramatic backdrop in Greece to remind the world of the Trump administration’s focus on the “unapologetic” pursuit of power and to issue another warning to Europe about the dangers of Western decline.

The agreement means EU countries will for now only release the barrels agreed in March.

Hungary dropped its veto on two clusters of Ukraine's EU accession talks on Wednesday. The next phase depends on Kyiv's parliament passing a minority-rights law.

A gold statue depicting Donald Trump fully naked and perched on the shoulders of a much smaller man has been unveiled in the European Parliament building in Strasbourg.

Europeans are united in their desire to see Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu step down from the political stage. They also fear the possibility of an armed conflict between EU countries and Russia. This is what emerges from the latest survey by Polling Europe Euroscope.

Hungary’s economic growth will probably accelerate next year, with a credible path toward euro adoption set to spur a further rally in bonds, Finance Minister Andras Karman said Wednesday.

Nuclear power generates around one-tenth of the world’s electricity, but it has also produced hundreds of thousands of tonnes of radioactive waste. Before it is sealed for all eternity, the FT’s Richard Milne explores the deep vault where Finland is about to start burying its nuclear waste in ancient bedrock.

European Union member states on the UN Human Rights Council said they would vote in favour of a resolution extending an international fact-finding mission into alleged abuses in Sudan.

Representatives from seven Central Asian universities attended the 25th Wind & Solar Integration Workshop in Porto from 29 September to 2 October to discuss research cooperation on integrating renewable energy into power systems.

Politicians need to solve the affordability crisis to stop the far-right, social democratic Portuguese prime minister Luís Montenegro told MEPs on Tuesday (6 October).

Hungary will impose a wealth tax from next year, Prime Minister Peter Magyar said, fulfilling a election pledge to make the rich shoulder a larger share of public obligations.

A National Conservatism (NatCon) conference beginning today in Jerusalem advertises a talk from the Trump administration’s anti-terrorism czar alongside speeches from far-right Israeli politicians, European figures who have faced disciplinary action over alleged antisemitism, and Christian nationalist and far-right figures from the United States.

Hungary could adopt the euro as early as 2031 if the government set an ambitious goal of meeting the common currency criteria by 2029, according to central bank Deputy Governor Zoltan Kurali.

Commission president dismissed Germany’s calls for big savings, arguing that they would undermine EU-wide priorities.

Macron's decade of pro-business reforms is ending with France as the euro area's weakest economic link, as crisis spending left debt soaring and investors now demand more for French bonds than Italian ones. Finance Minister Roland Lescure is pushing sharp budget cuts, but that may not stop the bleeding, with Le Pen and Mélenchon rising in the polls and vowing to undo Macron's reforms.

Russian authorities are suppressing reports of a suspected plague outbreak in the Irkutsk Region, urging reliance on official statements, while media posts are deleted and Central Asian countries tighten border controls.

According to reports Donald Trump used a March meeting with defence minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz to encourage his party, the PSL, to quit Donald Tusk's coalition and govern with the right-wing opposition, which would cost Tusk his majority.

The number of women targeted by deepfake pornography — when generative AI is used to create sexually explicit depictions of people, often without their consent — means roughly one in six female members of the European Parliament have been affected, the report by Agora Digitale Transformation, a Germany-based civil society group, said.

Russia's oil and gas revenue fell 17% in the first nine months of 2026, though Urals crude roughly doubled after the US-Israeli campaign against Iran. Ukrainian attacks on refineries and Black Sea shipping cut production and exports, while a stronger ruble reduced the ruble value of dollar earnings.

European defense startups are forecast to raise a record $10.5 billion of funding this year, roughly four times the $2.6 billion raised a year earlier and led by investments in firms developing drone technology, according to Dealroom, which tracks data on venture capital funding.

Researcher dies of unknown pneumonia in Russia, prompting quarantine and observation of ~200 people.

With housing topping voters’ concerns, the prime minister is hoping the affordability crisis can help him defy the polls and extend his time in power.

Burnham has reopened the Brexit debate. That doesn’t mean the UK will be welcomed back on its own terms

EU governments have approved €10 million in funding to support the Balkan Medical Task Force under the European Peace Facility.

France proposed to release some of its diesel stockpiles after an emergency G7 meeting.

Italy and Romania lead push to preserve EU spending for agriculture and regional payouts.

Kyiv will propose a new law on minority education rights, with a vote expected in October. Budapest has blocked EU accession talks until Ukraine adopts the laws agreed under an 11-point plan on Hungarians in Transcarpathia.

In the days following the parliamentary election, some employees of the public service media turned on one another. Although many saw the change as a liberation, they were forced to confront the question: Why did they stay there if the propaganda-like operations bothered them?

In Germany’s recent state elections, voters as young as 16 could cast ballots. The results confirmed a global trend of political division between young women and men.

The UK government is battling entrenched skepticism about its finances that is adding billions to borrowing costs and amplifying the pain of a global bond selloff.

Europe's solar boom is cushioning households from the crippling costs of gas, as the war on Iran continues to highlight the dangers of fossil fuel reliance.

The ouster of the Kremlin-friendly leadership of Viktor Orban in April has led to a reckoning of Hungary’s ties with Russia under Prime Minister Peter Magyar’s new government. Now it’s the turn of the country’s biggest bank.

Can the new Help to Buy scheme end the horror?

The Russian Foreign Ministry announced the expulsion of several Hungarian diplomats on Thursday in response to Hungary’s recent expulsion of 10 Russian diplomats from the country

The European Commission has proposed a new EU-wide communications network intended to let police, firefighters, medical services and civil protection teams communicate securely across borders during emergencies.

Preference for European-made arms could disrupt the transatlantic defence industrial base and benefit Europe’s "enemies", Ambassador Andrew Puzder warns. #EuropeNews

The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from a top European anti-corruption watchdog as it forges ahead with plans to disengage from international and multilateral organizations that it accuses of exceeding their mandates, being inefficient or not adapting to U.S. policies.

French President Emmanuel Macron and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez have welcomed Andy Burnham’s plan to unpick Brexit.

The new British PM said in an interview broadcast earlier on Wednesday that rejoining the EU was among the potential answers to the unavoidable question of what Britain's future relationship with Europe could look like.

The leader of the Belarusian democratic forces, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, tells The New Union Post that the situation in her country should be assessed "as part of the broader debate on European security." Meanwhile, EU countries should do more, including by finding a solution for Belarusians who cannot renew their documents while in exile

Economic benefits would be conditional and can be taken away if non-members backslide on democracy or share sensitive tech with unfriendly governments, the plan says.