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Last updated: October 2026
The European Union is the world's deepest experiment in shared sovereignty — 27 member states, one single market, one currency for twenty of them, and a parliament in Strasbourg. Headquartered between Brussels and Luxembourg, it is the largest trading bloc on earth.
The European Parliament's foreign affairs chief tells France 24 the EU cannot yet take sovereign decisions in key defence areas ‘because we are too dependent on US capabilities’ — a diagnosis of the g
NewsAfter three months of talks, China pledged to halve its hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicle exports to the EU and ease rare-earth licensing. Brussels calls it a first step; the carmakers cheered, the EP
NewsMoscow says the EU paid it $320.7 billion for energy since 2022. Brussels disputes the number, Sweden wants frozen Russian assets for Ukraine, and a US diesel deal splits the alliance.
NewsThe EU wants to triple its data-center capacity while labeling how much water and power each one drinks.
NewsChinese carmakers are moving from shipping cars to Europe to building entire production ecosystems inside the bloc, with factories and local partnerships multiplying, while Brussels answers with tarif
NewsEU storage sits at 70% — twelve points below last year — and the energy commissioner is telling governments to dim the lights and cool the radiators. With Hormuz blocked and prices near triple their p
NewsTen days before EU leaders debate Chinese trade imbalances, France and Germany have tabled a joint paper for a rapid-response instrument that could cut offenders off from the single market.
NewsA record twenty Chinese brands storm the Paris show as Brussels caps hybrid imports at 350,000 a year — and Europe answers with cheap retro EVs.
NewsSefcovic meets Wang Wentao in Beijing on October 8 and 9 under an October deadline. On the table: a cap on Chinese hybrid-car exports that Beijing rejected, and the European safeguard that may follow.
NewsAfter two weeks of ultimatums from Washington, the G7 agreed to a coordinated, IEA-supervised release of up to 100 million barrels over four months, front-loaded with diesel, while Trump shelved his t
NewsShahed drones hit the Southern and Paton bridges, stranding a capital of three million — while Zelenskyy says every Russian missile is built on smuggled Western components.
NewsFourteen years after he took power, Aleksandar Vučić has resigned the Serbian presidency amid relentless anti-corruption protests. His own man, Miloš Vučević, takes over — and the Balkans' most durabl
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