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  • Angela Merkel earlier in January.

    Europe live with Jakub Krupa
    Merkel says Merz ‘wrong’ for pushing through German migration proposal with far right in rare criticism of successor – as it happened

    Former chancellor issues rare criticism of leader of CDU/CSU after radical plans to restrict migration supported by far-right
  • Sunrise at the Eiffel Tower in Paris along the Seine

    European Central Bank cuts interest rates after eurozone growth stalls

    Reduction by quarter of a point to 2.75% aims to stimulate economy, which stagnated in last quarter of 2024
  • Nathalie Tocci

    Europe needs to stand up for Greenland. It is failing

    Nathalie Tocci
    There are rational explanations for the continent’s muted response to Donald Trump’s threats – but that’s not how you deal with this president, says Guardian Europe columnist Nathalie Tocci
  • Ursula von der Leyen making a speech

    EU launches ‘simplification’ agenda in effort to keep up with US and China

    Ursula von der Leyen announces plans to cut red tape and boost innovation in second term as head of European Commission
  • Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

    Europe ‘must not be bullied’ by Trump and Musk on tech laws, NGOs say

    Letter to Ursula von der Leyen urges European Commission not to weaken enforcement of DSA and DMA
  • Monika Kompaníková

    In Slovakia, a frenzy of cultural repression is under way, as we turn back to Soviet times

    Monika Kompaníková
    It is chilling to witness Robert Fico’s purge of state-run arts institutions – and the country’s steady creep to authoritarianism
  • Lord Frost pictured in 2021

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Ex-Tory Brexit minister Lord Frost rejects party’s claims over Europe-wide customs scheme – as it happened

  • France's President Emmanuel Macron gives a speech at the Louvre Museum in Paris on January 28, 2025.

    Europe live with Jakub Krupa
    Mona Lisa to be moved as part of ‘redesigned, enlarged Louvre’, Macron says – as it happened

  • Tesla Model 3 vehicles at the carmaker’s factory in Shanghai, China

    Tesla takes EU to court over tariffs on EVs made in China

    Elon Musk’s company still imports large number of cars into Europe from its Shanghai factory
  • Donald Trump gestures as he boards Air Force One

    European capitals tread cautiously after week of mixed salvoes from Trump

    US president’s tariff threats, Nato spending demands and Greenland ambitions keep leaders on edge
    • Seascape: the state of our oceans
      Sandeels vs the EU: how the puffin’s favourite food sparked first post-Brexit courtroom trade battle

    • Belarus opposition and western leaders denounce stage-managed Lukashenko victory

    • Bulgarian police ‘blocked rescue’ of teenage migrants who froze to death

  • A man waves a British flag on Brexit day in London, 31 January, 2020. A huge Union flag dominates the top half of the image as a smiling man in a crowd waves it back and forth.

    If we are serious about growth, the EU cannot be sidelined

    Praful Nargund
    Five years since the UK left the European Union, the director of the Good Growth Foundation argues that closer ties with our closest trading partner is more vital than ever
  • FILE PHOTO: Britain leaves EU on Brexit day<br>FILE PHOTO: A man waves a British flag on Brexit day in London, Britain January 31, 2020. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls/File Photo

    The UK is haunted by Johnson’s ‘botched Brexit deal’ and Labour’s plans for change don’t go far enough

    Anand Menon and Joël Reland
    Five years on, it’s unclear how a proposed UK-EU relationship reset would repair damage to the economy
  • People on the street halfway through the process of lowering the union jack among a row of flagpoles outside a building flying the flags of EU states

    ‘I sense Brussels is ready to be bold and ambitious’: hope mixes with anger on Brexit’s fifth anniversary

    The union jack was lowered in Brussels this week in 2020. Today, despite the problems caused by leaving, a yearning for ‘Breturn’ flowers
  • Keir Starmer

    ‘Move closer to Europe – not Trump’ voters tell Starmer in major UK poll

    Pressure growing on Labour to improve trade with EU as Rachel Reeves admits Brexit damaged UK
  • Simon Tisdall

    Donald Trump will huff and he’ll puff, but if Europe’s leaders rise to its defence, their house will stand

    Simon Tisdall
    The EU is facing a torrid year ahead from enemies both within and without. But it is still far from a lost cause
  • Robert Fico

    Slovakian PM rejects calls to quit as tension grows over shift towards Russia

    The latest protests come after private meeting between Robert Fico and Vladimir Putin in December
  • A crowd in dark with phones lit up

    Tens of thousands in Slovakia protest against PM’s shift towards Russia

    Around 60,000 people gather in Bratislava to oppose Robert Fico’s policy moves, with rallies also held in 20 other cities
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