With the 2027 presidential election on the horizon, tensions between Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella are testing the unity of France’s National Rally as both figures navigate competing ambitions and a shifting political landscape.
The US Mint has placed a sitting president’s image on a circulating dollar coin for the first time, marking a significant break with a convention rooted in American democratic tradition.
A German digital minister has proposed a new international AI oversight body inspired by the International Atomic Energy Agency, warning that national rules alone cannot manage the risks of rapidly advancing artificial intelligence.
Washington has resumed military operations against Iran in a second major wave of strikes, ending a month of relative quiet and raising fresh alarm among European allies who had hoped for a diplomatic opening.
NATO’s eastern member states are pushing back against alarm over an imminent Russian military attack, even as they accelerate defence spending and raise concerns about a growing campaign of hybrid aggression from Moscow.
The construction of a commercial business park on former Nazi concentration camp land in Austria has sparked widespread anger, with survivors’ groups and historians demanding stronger legal protections for the site’s remaining traces.
King Harald V of Norway, Europe’s longest-reigning monarch, has died after being hospitalised with haemolytic anaemia, prompting tributes from royal houses and world leaders across the continent.
A rare high-level American intelligence contact with Moscow has reignited debate over the security of NATO’s eastern flank, leaving Baltic governments walking a fine line between public reassurance and private concern.
From Sweden’s near 7% of GDP committed to education to Romania’s figure barely touching 3%, Europe’s wide disparities in school funding raise hard questions about what taxpayers are actually getting in return.
Britain’s Green Party is pushing for a halt to new data centre construction, echoing debates already reshaping planning policy across the United States and parts of continental Europe.