Nuntii Europae
News from a European perspective.
The bloc removed steel magnate Alisher Usmanov and banker Mikhail Fridman from the list after requests from France, Slovakia and Luxembourg. The new measures follow a harder line taken by Washington in September.
The drill in southeastern Poland is to test command and logistics rather than show force, Le Monde reports, with airspace over Romania also included. Details are expected in early November.
Trackers call it the largest cryptocurrency theft on record. Binance says it has replaced the stolen funds and froze about 2.7 billion dollars with partners.
The French minister warned at a Barcelona forum, weeks after both parties voted against France's 30.9 billion euro EU budget contribution.
The Irish Council Presidency has tabled a compromise proposal for the second Cybersecurity Act, as the European Parliament prepares to debate critical infrastructure protection on Wednesday.
Sophie Wilmès, who led the civil liberties mission from 26 to 28 October, said questions remain on the judiciary, corruption and media freedom, and no decision has been taken on closing the Article 7 procedure opened in 2018.
Pentagon officials are due to present options on the American military presence in Europe to Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth on 6 November. Decision Desk HQ gives the Democrats a 78 percent chance of winning the House.
The EU and Canada adopted a joint partnership declaration in Montreal covering trade, research and raw materials, but only after Berlin and several other capitals forced the contested term out of the text.
It is the second wave of attacks in three weeks, after incidents in France. No suspects have been identified, but food security is not currently threatened, says the EU's food commissioner.
The US Secretary of State said Trump had not decided on new strikes and preferred diplomacy, as Israel's UN ambassador also rejected the report. Trump said negotiations with Iran were going fine.
The Dutch Labour Party's Barbara Kathmann wants endless scrolling, autoplay videos and luring notifications classified as unfair commercial practices, with parliamentarians in seven other countries on board. Brussels has warned that diverging national rules risk fragmenting the single market.
Hitcore, a previously unknown group, says it targeted Ukraine's air alert app with fake alerts of radiation and missile launches. Officials in Kyiv and Moscow say the systems were taken offline, and Ukraine says no personal data was leaked.
The Council of Europe's anti-torture committee will no longer be able to inspect places of detention in Russia. Its president says independent monitoring inside the country has now ended.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled on 30 October that the International Ice Hockey Federation must readmit Russian teams, but Sweden, Finland and Latvia say they will not play. The IIHF board meets on Monday with Russia as its main topic.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy put the Russian toll in October at more than 54,000 killed or seriously wounded, the highest since the February 2022 invasion.
Nearly 5,000 soldiers will take part, a Polish radio station reports. The United States is not taking part.
The freeze covers Austria's planned minimum age of 14, as well as draft laws in Greece and Denmark, until 28 July 2027. Vienna has called the move unacceptable.
Poland's economy doubled since EU accession, but the government's own evaluation attributes only a modest share of that rise to EU money, while the deficit climbs. Both the gains and the costs now carry numbers as the next EU budget is negotiated.
Ukraine's strikes have put more of Russia's refining capacity out of action than at any earlier point in the war, and measured quarterly output has fallen by more than a fifth. What the record does not settle is how long the damage lasts, because refineries have shown both quick repairs and lasting decline.
Gabriel Attal made the call on TF1, but Bruno Retailleau rejected a primary involving Raphaël Glucksmann, warning it would serve Marine Le Pen.
Judges from Poland's parliamentary majority suspended tribunal president Bogdan Swięczkowski and his deputy for one month on Friday, and riot police blocked access to the building. President Karol Nawrocki, who says the constitutional order was violated, abandoned a foreign trip and returned to Warsaw.
Police sealed parts of the city centre on Halloween night after a largely peaceful youth demonstration dissolved. Hesse's interior minister said most suspects arrested were aged 13 to 29.
The proposal, open for comment until 9 November 2026, would let each investigative step reset the five-year penalty clock, up to a ten-year cap. The text is not yet Commission policy.
Police in Berlin and Frankfurt reported injuries, arrests and looting after the protests turned violent, and France's interior minister called a molotov attack on a gendarme attempted murder.
The call follows the police ban of a Paris demonstration route after five weeks of student and pupil protest. Minister Philippe Baptiste says there is a right to study but no right to blockade.
The Security Council failed to renew MINURSO by 31 October after Russia blocked an American draft, and Moscow's own counter-draft fell short of the nine votes needed. France warned that an abrupt closure would be exceedingly alarming.
Soldiers report Grad launchers massed in forests east of the city and possible preparations to cross the Dnipro river. Kherson's deputy governor warns shelling could intensify from Monday.
The payment, due in December 2026 once the Council confirms it, closes Czechia's recovery plan. The same week, a report by advisers led by Catherine Day set out the Commission's biggest shake-up in two decades.