EU leaders will commit to addressing Ukraine’s pressing financial needs for 2026-2027, a draft text to be approved at a European Council summit in Brussels. A source told the news agency that the draft had been backed by Belgium, which holds Russian frozen assets that had been planned to be…

Spain is to deploy fighter jets to Poland in November to bolster NATO’s eastern flank following a series of Russian airspace violations, reported on Thursday that the contribution will include Eurofighter jets and an A400M transport aircraft previously stationed in Lithuania.  The move, which will make Madrid one of the…

Addressing the Chamber of Representatives, he described the ongoing negotiations as “complex and far-reaching,” emphasising that “what Europe demands of us will be the bare minimum.” While Prime Minister Bart De Wever (N-VA) attended a European summit, Van Peteghem faced scrutiny from MPs regarding the stalled discussions. He noted that…

Tenex, Rosatom’s export arm, pumps roughly a quarter of America’s reactor fuel across the Atlantic while the U.S. targets Russian oil. When Washington slapped sanctions on Lukoil yesterday, Bulgaria’s only refinery didn’ just feel the squeeze – it saw the spectre of shutdown. A single U.S. decision in a Maryland…

Institutional hurdles and a prosecutor’s probe delay the signing of a landmark joint venture with the German defence giant. Bulgarian institutions are delaying the implementation of a key multi-billion-euro defence investment to build two factories for gunpowder and artillery shell production in partnership with the German defence corporation Rheinmetall. The…