Category: Europe
Coverage of geopolitics, international relations, and current affairs from across Europe, including EU policies, NATO strategies, elections, and Europe’s influence on global politics.
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Greece plans to further extend its territorial waters, potentially including areas of the Aegean Sea, despite long-standing objections from Türkiye, Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis told parliament on Friday (16 January). Athens and Ankara, both NATO allies, remain divided over maritime boundaries in the Aegean, a region with strategic and energy significance. Greece has previously expanded…
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The UK Royal Navy said its first full-sized autonomous helicopter has completed a successful maiden flight, marking a step forward in maritime surveillance as North Atlantic security pressures intensify. The aircraft, Proteus, was developed under a £60 million programme and is intended to support the defence of the UK and NATO allies against evolving undersea…
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President Rumen Radev has confirmed that Bulgaria will head to a snap election after all major parties declined mandates to form a government, extending the country’s prolonged political deadlock. Radev on Friday (16 January) offered the final mandate to the Alliance for Rights and Freedoms, which refused—marking the third rejection this week. With no bloc…
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Former Conservative Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick has become the latest high-profile defector to Reform UK. It comes after Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch announced she had fired him on Thursday (15 January) due to ‘irrefutable evidence that he was plotting in secret to defect’ from the party in a manner as ‘damaging as possible’…
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Military personnel from France, Germany and other European countries have begun arriving in Greenland as tensions rise over the Arctic island’s security and political future. France has sent 15 soldiers from its mountain infantry unit, while Germany has deployed a 13-person reconnaissance team. Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom are also participating. The deployment follows…
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Moldovan President Maia Sandu has said she would personally support reunification with Romania if the issue were ever put to a referendum, arguing that it is becoming harder for small states to survive as democracies in a more unstable regional and global environment. Speaking in an interview with Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart on The…
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At this week’s Prime Minister’s Questions, Kemi Badenoch, Leader of the Conservative Party, accused Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer of repeated policy “U-turns,” most recently on digital ID. Badenoch listed reversals on the winter fuel allowance, a ‘grooming gangs’ inquiry and family farms tax, arguing they point to weak leadership and a lack of strategic…
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Hungary will hold a parliamentary election on 12 April 2026, with Prime Minister Viktor Orban facing his most serious challenge since taking power in 2010. President Tamas Sulyok confirmed the date, as Orban seeks re-election amid economic strain and shifting voter sentiment. Key developments: • Orban leads the nationalist Fidesz party and promotes Hungary as…
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Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen has said the territory would choose Denmark over the United States if forced to decide “here and now”, rejecting renewed pressure from US President Donald Trump to bring the island under American control. Speaking alongside Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in Copenhagen, Nielsen said Greenland does not want to be…
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Cyprus’s president, Nikos Christodoulides, has rejected allegations linking his office to a “cash-for-access” scheme, after a viral video triggered the resignation of his chief of staff, Charalambos Charalambous, and prompted the first lady, Philippa Karsera, to step down from a senior charity role. The 8.5-minute video, posted on X by a user calling herself Emily…
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