Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump plan a luxury residential complex that locals say will threaten a natural reserve

United Russia is campaigning with the president for the first time in nearly 20 years

Former Yugoslav essayist and novelist traced the costs of communism, war and nationalism in Europe

Lorenzo Mariani says Berlin role in GCAP would slow progress but bring benefits after collapse of rival FCAS programme

Images of debris from attack on Kyiv apartment block that killed at least 24 suggest Kh-101 missile was used

Chancellor wary about the ‘social climate developing there’ as relations with Donald Trump hit new low

[FREE TO READ] Brussels has linked unfreezing of funds to 27 conditions it expects Péter Magyar to deliver on

[FREE TO READ] European capitals irritated by Mark Rutte’s suggestion they will join US armada to Strait of Hormuz

[FREE TO READ] Russia has increased satellite dish activity on buildings it owns in Austrian capital

[FREE TO READ] State department grants to spread ‘American values’ are part of Washington’s 250th anniversary celebrations

[FREE TO READ] Russian strikes have plunged Ukrainians into their hardest winter yet, but they still want to fight on

[FREE TO READ] Unencrypted European communications are being targeted by Moscow

[FREE TO READ] Extremist groups launch petition that would force parliament to debate law on mass deportations

[FREE TO READ] Growing problem sparks concern that far right could take advantage in local elections

[FREE TO READ] Moscow’s energy revenues fell by a fifth in 2025 compared with previous year

[FREE TO READ] The continent needs a sense of crisis in order to change, and Donald Trump keeps it just short of that

[FREE TO READ] Looming US sanctions risk cutting fuel supplies to German capital, prompting government to review Rosneft expropriation

[FREE TO READ] Aggressive US rhetoric over Greenland demands a change in strategy by the EU and UK, officials say

[FREE TO READ] Bundestag asked to sign off on multibillion contracts, including a €21bn order for soldiers’ protective equipment

[FREE TO READ] Italy’s enigmatic leader holds a casting vote this week on two crucial issues for the EU

[FREE TO READ] Greens-Labour and Christian Democrats vow to form coalition without Geert Wilders’ party after elections on Wednesday

[FREE TO READ] Volodymyr Zelenskyy objects to Hungary’s pro-Russian leader hosting meeting aimed at ending Moscow’s invasion

[FREE TO READ] US president tossed aside maps of Ukraine frontline in volatile White House meeting

[FREE TO READ] Proposal aims to keep Donald Trump on Kyiv’s side amid signs of US-Russia détente

[FREE TO READ] Fraught summit in Anchorage marked a nadir that reshaped how the presidents approach each other

[FREE TO READ] The president and his family have built a rapidly growing digital assets empire which has been fuelled by the administration’s industry-friendly policies

[FREE TO READ] The US president has floated selling Kyiv a long-range weapon capable of striking Moscow

[FREE TO READ] Sébastien Lecornu hopes concession will suffice to secure left’s support

[FREE TO READ] FSB launches fresh criminal case against former Yukos oil magnate and 22 other dissidents in exile

[FREE TO READ] Chancellor Friedrich Merz seeking to reignite economy and address challenges of a shrinking workforce

[FREE TO READ] Budget committee stalls government plans to speed up defence procurement

[FREE TO READ] Job of protecting critical national infrastructure grows more complex as Russia tests Nato members

[FREE TO READ] State modernisation minister Karsten Wildberger promises to bring about digital age in country clinging to fax machines

[FREE TO READ] PM Mette Frederiksen refuses to rule out Russian involvement as Nato and EU blame Moscow’s ‘reckless’ behaviour in recent airspace breaches

[FREE TO READ] Historic smuggling haven of Newry plays host to bargain-hunters from the Republic looking for new legal drugs

[FREE TO READ] Heng Yang 9 stops in Ukrainian port of Sevastopol, which has been under western sanctions since 2014

[FREE TO READ] Germany argues groups such as Apple and Meta are excluded to protect Europe’s ‘digital sovereignty’

[FREE TO READ] Chancellor Friedrich Merz wants benefit cuts, but his coalition partners are pushing back

[FREE TO READ] Crisis over weapons programme crucial to European defence ambitions deepens as Berlin considers alternative partners

[FREE TO READ] Brussels seeks Viktor Orbán’s backing to bring forward ban on Russian LNG and lower oil price cap

[FREE TO READ] A picture of her grandmother posted on social media sent the author to the archives of Albania’s former security services — and raised difficult questions about who watches us today

[FREE TO READ] A €3.3bn refurbishment of the brutalist site has come under fire from Germany’s Federal Audit Office

[FREE TO READ] The Alaska summit exposed the flawed history and personal vanity that fuel the conflict with Ukraine, argues Timothy Snyder

[FREE TO READ] Zelenskyy’s anxiety over territorial concessions increases in the face of Putin’s maximalist demands

[FREE TO READ] Ukrainian refugees in Alaska have mixed feelings about US and Russian leaders’ meeting

[FREE TO READ] Former apparatchik played leading role in regime change and country’s pivot to west but also brutally repressed dissent

[FREE TO READ] Italian government aims to add decades-old project to increased Nato spending pledge

[FREE TO READ] Former Russian president goads Donald Trump with bellicose social media posts

[FREE TO READ] US president has threatened Vladimir Putin with punitive measures to force him to end war in Ukraine