2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (668+ words) Sweden enters the final day of its general election campaign on Saturday with the centre-left opposition still favoured to finish ahead, but Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson’s governing camp has closed much of the gap that separated the two sides during…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (343+ words) They say the Commission announced a revision in December 2025 while developing its critical-minerals and simplification agenda, before gathering the evidence needed to define the options. The complaint concerns procedure, not the legality of a final amendment. The Commission’s call for…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (671+ words) The European Union’s General Court has rejected Roman Abramovich’s latest challenge against the renewal of sanctions imposed on him over Russia’s war against Ukraine. The Luxembourg-based court delivered its judgment on Wednesday, 9 September, in case T-358/25, Abramovich v Council, dismissing…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (286+ words) Even the right wing news outlet Newsmax asked a provocative or sarcastic question in Kyiv about the purpose of their mission. Certainly this trip was not intended to end the war. Was it to rehabilitate Trump before the midterms? Perhaps,…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago   (441+ words) The arithmetic is revealing. €2.1mn spread over more than two years is hardly transformational when measured against the needs of an entire national welfare system. The programme’s importance therefore lies less in the amount of money being spent than in what…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1040+ words) The answer may eventually have implications well beyond Germany’s eastern states. The AfD won almost 44 per cent of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt, securing 39 of the state parliament’s 83 seats and inflicting a devastating defeat on Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democrats. It…...