39 m. ago Ed Miliband faces massive pressure to ditch UK's 2035 petrol and diesel car sales ban as EU drops move

Net Zero Secretary Ed Miliband has been left isolated after a Brussels kingmaker declared that the bloc's deadline for ending sales is being dropped.

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7 h. ago 'Trump wants to push Austria into Auxit': Europe up in arms over 'leaked US plan to pull countries away from EU'

The file, reported by Defense One, supposedly claims Trump intends to pull Austria, Italy , Hungary and Poland away from the EU and closer in to Washington's circle of influence.

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13 h. ago Plans to ban new petrol cars in the EU have been abandoned in hasty u

At least seven EU governments, including Germany and Italy , and several automakers have been lobbying for softer regulation.

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13 h. ago Keir Starmer gives major update after NATO boss issues alarming WW3 warning

Keir Starmer headed a Coalition of the Willing meeting as crunch talks aimed at securing peace in Ukraine continue - hours after NATO boss Mark Rutte warned about Putin's 'next target'

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14 h. ago Downing Street responds after Nato chief issues chilling 'prepare for war' statement

The head of NATO has warned that conflict is 'at our door'

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15 h. ago Trump and Europe want ‘same thing’ for Ukraine, insists Starmer

The Prime Minister said there were a ‘number of issues still to be resolved’ but dismissed suggestions his optimism had been frayed

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15 h. ago Europe urged to be 'prepared' for war against bloodthirsty Putin amid war fears

NATO boss has said war was no longer a distant concern but something “at our door”, and cautioned that Europe risked repeating the darkest chapters of its history if it failed to act

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16 h. ago Europe must 'take action' against Russia or risk becoming its 'next target', says NATO boss

Mark Rutte warned "too many don’t feel the urgency" to stop Vladimir Putin

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18 h. ago NATO chief warns war with Russia 'is at our door' and tells Europe to be ready for action 'now' to avoid battle on scale 'our grandparents and great

In a speech in Berlin, Rutte said too many allies of the military alliance did not feel the urgency of Russia's threat in Europe.

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18 h. ago World War 3 fears as NATO boss declares 'the time for action is now' over Russia's plans in Europe

The NATO chief warned 'too many European leaders are quietly complacent'

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22 h. ago Trump plan for World Cup tourists to reveal social media activity described as ‘chilling’

UK tourists would be among those affected by US policy‘Unacceptable’ and ‘chilling’, says European fan groupA plan to require supporters travelling to the United States for the World Cup to disclose information about their social media accounts has been described as “profoundly unacceptable”.Tourists from 42 countries, including the UK, which use the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (Esta) as part of the visa waiver programme would be obliged to provide information about accounts they have held in the last five years in their applications. Previously it had been optional to provide the information. Continue reading...

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27 h. ago Carmakers sound warning over EU’s ‘very dangerous’ local sourcing rules

Companies and industries are divided over the bloc’s ‘Made in Europe’ plans

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38 h. ago Ukraine war: Trump criticises European leaders on eve of crunch coalition meeting

President says there were ‘strong words’ in latest call, as Volodymyr Zelenskyy to join other European leaders to discuss peace plan on ThursdayLeaders of the “coalition of the willing” group of nations will hold a video call about the Ukraine war on Thursday as Donald Trump voiced impatience with European allies and put US involvement in further talks in doubt, saying they risked “wasting time”.Amid chaotic American efforts to push through a peace deal, the US president said on Wednesday night: “We discussed Ukraine in pretty strong words”, when asked about an earlier phone call with British prime minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron and Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz Continue reading...

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40 h. ago ‘It’s a breach of trust’: fear and frustration over countries’ push to return Syrians home

Syrians who have rebuilt their lives abroad face uncertainty over their futures amid hardening of attitudesTears of joy streamed down Abdulhkeem Alshater’s face as he joined thousands of other Syrian nationals in central Vienna last year. The moment they were marking felt like a miracle: after more than five decades of brutality and repression, the Assad regime had fallen.A day later, however, the ripple effects of what had happened 2,000 miles away in Syria were laid bare. A dozen European states announced plans to suspend asylum applications from Syrians, in a show of how western states are increasingly treating refugees as transients. As the fall of Bashar al-Assad collided with politicians’ quest to be seen as taking a hard line on migration, the lives of Syrians around the globe were plunged into uncertainty. Continue reading...

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40 h. ago Starmer and European allies discuss Ukraine peace plan with Trump

Sir Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz spoke to Donald Trump about the Ukraine crisis.

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44 h. ago Ministers back plans to look at European human rights treaty over migration

Work will begin to adopt the declaration in Moldova in May 2026 following a meeting of ministers in Strasbourg on Wednesday.

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53 h. ago Democratic Senator fears Trump is ‘sleepwalking us into a war with Venezuela’ to take its oil

President Donald Trump has said Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s “days are numbered”

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55 h. ago ANDREW NEIL: A new security plan reveals what Trump really thinks about Europe

Donald Trump to Europe: 'You're on your own, losers. Bye!' That's the blunt message at the heart of his administration's new National Security Strategy.

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63 h. ago The urgent lesson that Keir Starmer must learn from Donald Trump’s new security strategy

The US National Security Strategy suggests the Trump administration plans to support far and hard-right parties in European countries, while leaving it to its own defences

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67 h. ago Trump lambasts ‘weak’ and ‘decaying’ Europe and hints at walking away from Ukraine

US president recycles far-right tropes on European immigration and presses Zelenskyy to accept his peace planEurope live – latest updatesDonald Trump has hinted he could walk away from supporting Ukraine as he doubled down on his administration’s recent criticism of Europe, describing it as “weak” and “decaying” and claiming it was “destroying itself” through immigration.In a rambling and sometimes incoherent interview with Politico, a transcript of which was released on Tuesday, the US president struggled to name any other Ukrainian cities except for Kyiv, misrepresented elements of the trajectory of the conflict, and recycled far-right tropes about European immigration that echoed the “great replacement” conspiracy theory. Continue reading...

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