EU states ought to create a new anti-money laundering agency and a mechanism to coordinate national investigations, according to a draft proposal by the Finnish EU presidency seen by Reuters. They should also align rules on fines, with some states ...

Some 300 military police from the Russian region of Chechnya and 20 armoured vehicles have joined other Russian forces near Turkey's border with Syria under a deal between Ankara and Moscow, Russia said Friday. The Russian build-up comes after US forces ...

Thierry Breton, France's EU nominee for single market commissioner, could have a conflict of interest because the French tech firm of which he is CEO and shareholder, Atos, receives EU subsidies, French opposition MEPs have said. French president Emmanuel ...

Next week would have been a historic week with the UK leaving the EU, but that is unlikely to happen just now. The remaining 27 member states agreed on Friday (25 October) on an extension, but postponed deciding how long to delay the 31 October Brexit ...

Lawmakers in France on Friday approved a budget for two years of medicinal cannabis experiments, AFP reported. The experiments, which could target 3,000 sick people in France, will seek to determine whether cannabis derivatives can alleviate the symptoms ...

Police in the UK on Friday arrested a married couple connected to the deaths of 39 people whose corpses were found in the back of a refrigerated lorry earlier this week outside London. The couple are both from Warrington in the UK. Police initially ...

Ambassadors of EU states on Friday agreed on updating rules for the maritime transport sector to reduce administrative burdens and facilitate fuel usage reporting. "The maritime transport sector has to become more energy-efficient and use less fuel to ...

European Commission president-elect Ursula von der Leyen will meet the new candidates for commissioners from France, Thierry Breton, and Hungary, Oliver Varhelyi, on Monday, a commission spokeswoman said Friday. Earlier on, candidates from France, Hungary, ...

Ambassadors from the 27 EU member states shelved a decision on how long to extend the Brexit deadline after 31 October during their meeting on Friday. There was agreement on the need for an extension among ambassadors, but its length will be discussed ...

MEPs in Strasbourg slammed human rights abuses in Egypt on Thursday in a resolution, demanding the European Union to review the European Commission's budget support operations with the authoritarian regime headed by president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. However, ...

The Belgian ministry of defence will propose to the national security council to reduce the amount of soldiers in the street from 450 to 220. According to general Johan Peeters, the head of military operations, the reason is not budgetary, but a lack of ...

On the evening of Thursday (24 October), UK prime minister Boris Johnson wrote a letter to the leader of the opposition Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, to propose to hold elections on 12 December. That would give the British parliament until 6 November to ...

Human Rights Watch says Turkish authorities in Istanbul and Antakya have arbitrarily detained and deported dozens of Syrians to northern Syria between January and September. The NGO says they were sent to Idlib governorate, one of the most dangerous areas ...

The far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party is expected to make election gains in the east German state of Thuringia, amid a recent poll showing one in four in the country held antisemitic beliefs. The AfD is a nationalist and anti-immigrant ...

Northern Syria should be controlled by international forces, Germany has told Nato, after Turkey and Russia carved up the region for themselves. "The Sochi Agreement ... does not provide the basis for a political solution in the long run," German defence ...

The European Parliament plenary in Strasbourg on Thursday rejected a resolution demanding EU states do more on search and rescue at sea. Oxfam, an international NGO, has described the rejection as shameful. "Europe needs more and better search and rescue ...

MEPs on Thursday adopted a resolution that urges member states to create stricter taxation rules obliging multinationals to disclose where they pay taxes. The parliament already backed this proposal in 2017. However, member states did not agree on a ...

The Italian government said in a letter sent to the European Commission Thursday that its 2020 draft budget did not breach EU rules and that Italy wanted to revive its economy. "The projected change in the structural balance in 2020 would not constitute a ...

Spanish dictator Francisco Franco was exhumed on Thursday morning from the Valley of the Fallen following a ruling of the supreme court in September. Franco was buried for more than 40 years in a state-run mausoleum that also contains about 34,000 victims ...

The Élysée has nominated Thierry Breton, the 64-year old CEO of French tech firm Atos, to be single market commissioner. "He's man of action who knows industrial issues inside out and who ... will not have a bureaucratic approach to European issues," a ...

The European Parliament will award its Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought in 2019 to Ilham Tohti, economics professor and advocate of the rights of China's Uyghur muslim minority, parliament president David Sassoli announced Thursday. Tohti has been ...

British overseas territories - the British Virgin Islands, Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Jersey, and the Bahamas - took five out of the top 10 spots in a ranking out Thursday of which states helped global firms pay the least tax by London-based NGO the Tax ...

Britain will have to propose an EU commissioner if it still is a member of the EU after 31 October, European Commission president-elect Ursula von der Leyen said Thursday. The UK is likely to get an extension to the Brexit deadline, and under EU law, all ...

The EU's border agency Frontex, on Thursday, launched a recruitment campaign to set up its own standing corps of guards. Their aim is to have 10,000 under its watch, with an initial rollout at the start of the 2021. "For the first time, Frontex will have ...

The president of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, said in an interview with the Financial Times published on Wednesday (23 October) that following the EU's rejection to open accession negotiations with North Macedonia and Albania, "the region cannot rely solely ...

Belgium's federal prosecutor, in charge of investigating cross-border crimes, has opened an enquiry into the deaths of 39 migrants found in a lorry in Northern Ireland. The move highlights the European dimension of the tragedy, after the truck, which was ...

Four in five coal plants in the European Union are unprofitable and could face combined losses of €6.6bn this year, according to a study by the think tank the Carbon Tracker Initiative, Reuters writes. Coal is facing a decrease in competitiveness as ...

Initial movements on currency and UK securities markets have shown investors hedged hundreds of billions on the failure of Brexit talks, the Reuters news agency reports. The pound has started to rise in value after falling by 20 percent since the Brexit ...

Five candidates have secured enough backing from MEPs to enter the final furlong of a race to be the EU's ombudsman for the next five years. Irish former journalist Emilly O'Reilly, the incumbent, Italian local ombudsman Giuseppe Fortunato, Estonian judge ...

An explosive new investigation by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist has revealed how relatives and allies of the Cambodian regime stashed tens of millions of dollars abroad. Central to this story is how many of these individuals bought EU passports from ...