Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said that the growing street protests threaten not his government but the country’s progress toward joining the European Union. Rama rejected demands for his resignation and stressed: “I am not being challenged, the government is not being challenged, a government majority or a winning party...
Latvian Prime Minister calls on EU residents to give up one beer a year to help Ukraine
Latvian Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs stated that to increase financial support for Ukraine, it would be enough for every resident of the European Union to donate an amount equivalent to the cost of one beer per year. He made the remarks to journalists upon arrival at the EU summit in...
EU unblocks €4.2 billion for Hungary and restores access to Erasmus+ and Horizon Europe
The Council of the EU has approved the unblocking of €4.2 billion in previously frozen cohesion funds for Hungary and lifted restrictions on Hungarian universities’ participation in the Erasmus+ and Horizon Europe programmes. The decision was taken at the General Affairs Council meeting in Luxembourg after Budapest fulfilled the rule-of-law...
European Commission confirms Cyprus’s technical readiness to join the Schengen Area
The European Commission has confirmed Cyprus’s technical readiness to join the Schengen area. At the same time, the country’s final accession requires a unanimous decision by the Council of the EU after consultations with the European Parliament. The positive assessment of technical readiness was recorded in the European Commission’s Schengen...
Lithuania calls on the EU to designate Russian military intelligence as a terrorist organisation
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kęstutis Budrys has called on the European Union to recognise Russian military intelligence (the GRU) as a terrorist organisation. He made the statement on 12 October 2026 in Luxembourg ahead of a meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council. According to Budrys, the EU must intensify Russia’s...
UK and EU to hold annual leaders’ summit on 20 November in Brussels
London and Brussels have agreed to hold the annual UK-EU leaders’ summit on 20 November 2026 in Brussels. The date was confirmed on Monday, 12 October, by UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham in a statement to the House of Commons. The summit will be the second annual leaders’ meeting under...
How corruption and intermediaries devour billions in European aid to Ukraine and the NATO budget
September 2026 brought yet another political scandal in the sphere of European security. Its essence is that as European capitals, under the slogan “we must arm ourselves faster than Russia,” ramp up defence spending, large-scale schemes of abuse, waste and intermediary mark-ups have come to the surface. In early September...
Kremlin prepares assassination attempts on top managers of European defence companies
Against the backdrop of a stalemate on the front in Ukraine and growing pressure on the Russian economy, the Kremlin, according to Western intelligence, has ordered an expansion of sabotage and “hybrid” operations in Europe. The goal is to undermine support for Kyiv in the coming months. One of the...
Lithuania proposes banning Russian grain transit through the EU
Lithuanian Prime Minister Mindaugas Sinkevičius said he will propose that the European Union ban the transit of Russian food grain through the bloc and impose sanctions on individual Russian agribusiness figures who, in his view, support the war against Ukraine. The head of the Lithuanian government wrote this on Facebook...
EU prepares the largest sanctions package against Russia since the start of the full-scale war
The European Union has agreed the biggest expansion of its Russia sanctions list since the start of the full-scale war. On 7 October, EU ambassadors approved the addition of 1,646 individuals and entities. Foreign ministers still must adopt the list formally at a meeting in Luxembourg on 12 October. The...