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EU foreign ministers back Gaza reconstruction plan

EU foreign ministers back Gaza reconstruction plan

The Arab-backed plan would cost $53 billion and see the Gaza Strip rebuilt over five years and would avoid displacing Palestinians.

March 8, 2025 5:18 pm CET
Italy approves draft law outlawing violence against women
EU sends more troops to Bosnia as Russia defends Serb leader
Europe scrambles to aid Ukraine after US intelligence cutoff
Russian strikes on Ukraine leave at least 14 dead
Tariffs will add excitement to 2026 World Cup, Trump says
US withdraws from UN climate damage fund
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UK bans meat, dairy imports from Hungary, Slovakia after foot-and-mouth case

Confirmation of case along the Hungarian-Slovak border comes less than two months after an outbreak of the highly contagious disease in Germany.

March 8, 2025 12:18 pm CET

Trump says ‘we’re doing very well with Russia,’ hours after threatening sanctions

In a post on Truth Social, Trump put pressure on the country that so far has faced little public pushback from his administration.

March 8, 2025 12:10 pm CET

Trump strikes dark tone as he seeks to restart Iran nuclear talks

“We can’t let them have a nuclear weapon,” the U.S. president warned.

March 8, 2025 11:43 am CET

Trump’s plan to stockpile crypto complicates industry’s policy push

The president’s endorsement of ideas once relegated to the fringes of the crypto community could jeopardize broader efforts by policymakers to legitimize the $3 trillion market.

March 8, 2025 11:23 am CET
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World’s cartoonists on this week’s events

Drawing the top stories around the globe.

March 8, 2025 4:01 am CET

3 Bulgarians convicted of spying for Russia in the UK

The group was directed by Wirecard fugitive Jan Marsalek.

March 7, 2025 7:00 pm CET

Italy must compensate stranded migrants, high court rules

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni calls decision involving the coast guard ship Diciotti “highly questionable” and “very frustrating.”

March 7, 2025 5:59 pm CET

Trump threatens large-scale sanctions, tariffs on Russia in push for cease-fire

In a post on Truth Social, Trump put pressure on the country that so far has faced little public pushback from his administration.

March 7, 2025 4:40 pm CET

Poland seeks access to nuclear arms and looks to build half-million-man army

Already a major spender within NATO, Warsaw has massive military plans as fears grow about the reliability of the U.S. as an ally against Russia.

March 7, 2025 4:38 pm CET

Farmers closer to shooting more wolves under proposed EU law

Law championed by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen would lower the protection status of Europe’s wolves.

March 7, 2025 4:15 pm CET

UK’s Just Stop Oil wins a cut in jail time — but lose the bigger battle

Dismay and anger inside London court as landmark ruling on climate activists is read out.

March 7, 2025 3:30 pm CET

Intense Russian attacks force Ukraine to consider pulling out of Kursk

Kyiv is trying to hang on to the territory it holds inside Russia despite fierce counterattacks by Moscow’s military.

March 7, 2025 3:26 pm CET
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EU’s defense plans are a threat, says Kremlin, warning of retaliatory measures

EU’s proposal to transform “from an economic to a military alliance” will make peace in Ukraine harder to achieve, top spokesperson says.

March 7, 2025 3:09 pm CET

US curtails Ukraine access to satellite imagery

Maxar, a leading provider of commercial satellite imagery to Ukrainian users, says the Trump administration suspended access in Ukraine.

March 7, 2025 1:27 pm CET

Hungary detects first case of foot-and-mouth disease in 50 years

Detection of highly contagious disease follows outbreak in Germany in January.

March 7, 2025 12:47 pm CET

Ukraine uses French Mirage jets for first time in repelling massive Russian attack

It was the first large combined airstrike by Moscow since Washington halted aid and intel-sharing to Kyiv.

March 7, 2025 12:34 pm CET

Orbán announces Hungarian poll on Ukraine joining the EU

PM says he will “collect the opinion of the people” in a mail-in campaign that critics have derided as a propaganda tool.

March 7, 2025 5:07 am CET

This newbie UK minister faces a baptism of fire on a key Labour promise

Miatta Fahnbulleh, left-wing-economist-turned Labour minister, has been tasked with cutting Brits’ energy bills. But convincing the Treasury to budge makes it a mammoth task.

March 7, 2025 4:20 am CET

EU tech chiefs say they don’t target US tech

The European Commission pushes back on U.S. criticism of its Digital Markets Act that targets Big Tech.

March 7, 2025 4:18 am CET

Trump tariff war would hurt Boeing more than Airbus

The U.S. plane-maker could be the “biggest victim” of a tariff war.

March 7, 2025 4:17 am CET

Albania to block TikTok in the coming days

Ban follows fatal stabbing of a 14-year-old that may have been linked to arguments on social media.

March 7, 2025 4:16 am CET

Parliament to probe EU grants to Shell, VW and migrant NGOs 

A fight over how the Commission spends its cash expands to 28 NGOs and business giants.

March 7, 2025 4:15 am CET

Jordan treads lightly with Trump, hoping to avoid mass displacement of Palestinians 

Amman this week welcomed the first convoy of sick and injured children from Gaza. 

March 7, 2025 4:01 am CET

The US-EU breakup—what does it mean for Ukraine, and for peace?

This week’s episode of EU Confidential comes to you from Thursday’s emergency meeting of EU leaders — the political equivalent of sobbing into your pillow on a …

March 7, 2025 4:01 am CET
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