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EU leaders agree on joint borrowing to fund Ukraine, set aside plan to use Russian frozen assets

The leaders also gave the European Commission a mandate to continue work on a so-called reparations loan based on Russian immobilized assets, but that option proved unworkable for now.

UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT Volodymyr Zelenskiy speaks with European Council President Antonio Costa as they attend a European Union leaders' summit in Brussels, Belgium, December 18, 2025.
Used blister packets that contained medicines, tablets and pills are seen, in this picture illustration taken June 30, 2018.

EU Council and Parliament reach agreement to overhaul drug rules, speed patient access

Residents move towards a shelter from their apartment building that was damaged during a Russian drone strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine September 7, 2025.

EU Parliament delegation visits Israel to learn about drone warfare, resilience

 Greenland's flag flies in Igaliku settlement, Greenland, July 5, 2024.

French FM slams Trump, says France 'stands by Greenland's side' during visit to the island - report


Belgian MP says Iran tried to kidnap her, use her as bargain chip in 'hostage diplomacy'

Darya Safai, a Belgian Iranian Member of the Belgian Parliament, announced that Iran was planning to kidnap her alongside other European MPs.

 Members of a special IRGC force attend a rally marking the annual Quds Day, or Jerusalem Day, on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan in Tehran, Iran April 29, 2022.

Trump clinches 15% tariff deal with EU's Ursula von de Leyen

US President Donald Trump announced that the European Union had reached a trade agreement, which includes a 15% tariff on EU goods entering the US.

President Donald Trump shakes hands with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, in Turnberry, Scotland, Britain, July 27, 2025

EU prosecutor's office investigates alleged misuse of funds by far-right lawmakers

Media outlets across the EU reported that a draft European Parliament audit found parties linked to the group engaged in improper procurement and donated to non-parliamentary activities.

 FILE PHOTO: European flags fly outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium September 20, 2023.

European Parliament condemns PA textbooks for six years in a row

The resolutions called for EU funding to the PA to be frozen until textbooks are reformed. It also signaled growing pressure on the European Commission to adopt a similar stance.

 FILE PHOTO: European flags fly outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium September 20, 2023.

European Parliament suspends MEP who disrupted Holocaust moment of silence

European Parliament Member Grzegorz Braun was suspended for thirty days from the European Parliament after disrupting the moment of silence "for the next victims of the Jewish genocide in Gaza."

 Grzegorz Braun, member of far-right political alliance Confederation, speaks during a parliament session, after he used a fire extinguisher to put out the Hanukkah menorah candles, at the Parliament in Warsaw, Poland December 12, 2023.

France's Le Pen barred from running for office for five years after graft conviction

The judges also gave Le Pen a four-year prison sentence- of which two years are a suspended sentence - and a 100,000 euro fine.

French far Right leader Marine Le Pen at the courthouse in Paris, France, March 31, 2025.

Tehran rejects EU parliament’s resolution hostage diplomacy

In the government’s statement, it was said that the resolution’s section regarding the IRGC was “completely unjustified.”

 Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi attends a news conference in Baghdad, Iraq December 6, 2024.

Fingers pointing in all directions: Dutch politicians debate Amsterdam attacks, antisemitism

The members of the House debated the role of lack of integration, antisemitism within the Muslim population, and failure of authority in a discussion about the attacks.

 Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof speaks to the media at a European Union leaders summit in Brussels, Belgium October 17, 2024.

'The time for silence is over': Experts condemn Hamas's sexual violence and attacks on women

During the event, experts testified that the same forces seeking to attack the Jewish people were abusing women throughout the Middle East.

  (L-R) MEP Fulvio Martusciello, Manel Mslalmi and Dr. Charles Asher Small speaking at the EU Parliament in Brussels, October 15, 2024.

Vilimsky to 'Post': 'Israel represents a bulwark against Islamism and political Islam'

Austrian far-right MEP Harald Vilimsky changes antisemitic and anti-Israel rhetoric after Oct. 7.

HARALD VILIMSKY celebrates the Austrian Freedom Party’s success in the European elections at an election night party in Vienna in June.

When the far-right rises in Europe, where is there room for Israel? - opinion

European countries will stay divided and Israel’s only chance of garnering enough support is through careful engagement on a bilateral level. 

 FRENCH FAR-RIGHT National Rally party leader Marine Le Pen (center) and its president, Jordan Bardella (right), arrive at a tribute to the 42 French citizens killed and all the victims of the Hamas assault on October 7, in the courtyard of the Hotel des Invalides in Paris, in February.