All news on the topic: European Union

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Nord Stream suspect arrested in Croatia while reportedly working on Hollywood film about pipeline blasts
Earlier this month locals in Zagreb noticed something odd outside an art deco building. Sandbags and barricades appeared in front of the Esplanade hotel, along with a film crew and extras sporting Ukrainian military uniforms.
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Trezor data breach exposes home addresses of nearly 12,000 crypto wallet buyers
The ShipMonk leak tied thousands of crypto users to their delivery locations as violent crypto attacks and home invasions rise.
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Albania’s AI minister faces a corruption crisis inside the agency that created her
Prosecutors are investigating the agency that developed Albania’s AI-minister ‘Diella’ in a case that involves alleged rigged tenders, a kidnapping, and tens of millions in seized assets. The affair deepens doubts about how artificial intelligence will be used to address the country’s widespread graft problem.
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African migrants plan second mass attempt to storm Spain’s Ceuta enclave
African migrants are plotting a second invasion of Ceuta, with an imminent date set for a second wave of mass border crossings.
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Trump’s global threats lose impact as allies and rivals stop backing down
When President Donald Trump strode into the Rose Garden in April 2025 brandishing a poster board of tariff hikes, the world leaped as if a fire alarm had gone off.
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French arms giant Thales sold surveillance radars to Myanmar despite EU embargo
Arms giant Thales, in which the French state is a shareholder, has sold to the Burmese forces six radars used for monitoring its coast, Disclose and Info Birmanie can reveal.
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European prosecutors charge five people over $20 million VAT fraud linked to Chinese imports
European prosecutors have indicted five people and a company for allegedly evading more than $20 million in VAT on goods imported from China, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office announced Monday.
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Migrants refuse to leave Ceuta despite hunger and police pressure
Only the most determined or those with nothing to lose remain in Ceuta. They number a few thousand now – Sudanese, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Somalians, Algerians, even a few Palestinians – and refuse to budge from their little outpost, an encampment on a hill on the edge of the city.
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Germany’s car giants face deepening crisis as China turns from biggest market into biggest threat
China helped transform Germany’s automakers into global giants, delivering decades of strong sales and billions in profits. Now, it’s their biggest liability.
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Migrants hide in pipes and underground tunnels to avoid deportation from Spain’s Ceuta to Morocco
Thousands of migrants who flooded into Spain’s North African territory are being frogmarched back to Morocco, after the sudden arrival of so many people sparked a humanitarian crisis.
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Trump calls Spain’s migrant surge a “catastrophe” as Ceuta crossings top 60,000
Trump has slammed Spain after nearly 60,000 migrants crossed into Europe through the enclave of Ceuta in the space of just one day.
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EPPO seeks to strip Polish MP of immunity again in expanding corruption probe
The European Chief Prosecutor requested the Polish Parliament to lift an active MP’s immunity to authorize his prosecution and arrest for suspected trading in influence. Two other suspects in this EPPO investigation were arrested last week.
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€50 million ABLV laundromat: how Andris Ovsjannikovs and Darya Terekhina washed dirty money and then vanished
When authorities launched an investigation into the laundering of tens of millions of euros through Latvia’s ABLV Bank, it appeared to be a textbook European law enforcement operation, complete with coordinated arrests, media leaks and bold claims about dismantling an international criminal network.
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EU sanctions Prince Group over alleged cyber-scam and trafficking links
The European Union on Thursday imposed a new round of sanctions targeting Cambodia’s multibillion-dollar Prince Holding Group and its chairman, Chen Zhi, over their alleged involvement in large-scale cyber-scams and human trafficking.
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US launches review of military presence in Europe as NATO shifts defence burden
The United States began reviewing its military presence in Europe on Monday, officials said, after US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth told his NATO counterparts last month that Washington was planning such an analysis.
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Key figures in €50m ABLV Bank laundering scheme evade justice as Latvian investigation mysteriously collapses
When investigators launched a case into the laundering of tens of millions of euros through Latvia’s ABLV Bank, it appeared to be a textbook law enforcement operation: coordinated arrests, carefully orchestrated media leaks, and confident public declarations about dismantling an international criminal network.
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More than 300,000 flee as wildfires spread across France and Spain
Firefighters are struggling to contain wildfires in south-west France as strong winds push flames towards the city of Bordeaux, with one official saying they "are far from having the fire under control."
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Rostelecom executive overseeing critical Russian infrastructure vacations freely in EU member Latvia
Sergey Bochkarev, a member of the board of directors of RTK-TsOD, a subsidiary of Rostelecom, shares photos of his serene vacation on the Baltic coast on social media.
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Russian cinema billionaire Aleksandr Ivoninsky: How state contracts, propaganda films and pirated Hollywood built his EU-linked empire
St. Petersburg cinema tycoons the Ivoninskys profit from Russian state contracts, screen pirated Hollywood films, and continue doing business across the EU
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Spain declares first national wildfire emergency as massive blazes rage near Madrid
Tens of thousands of people fled wildfires in southwest France by car and boat on Friday and Spain declared a national emergency as huge blazes merged outside Madrid and searing heat left tinder-dry conditions across the region.
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EU sanctions Georgian refinery over processing Russian oil in latest package against Moscow
The European Union is placing a deferred transaction ban on a Georgian oil refinery for processing Russian crude, giving the facility six months before the measure takes effect under its 21st sanctions package.
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More than 60,000 evacuated as uncontrolled wildfires spread across south-west France
More than 60,000 people have been evacuated or are being moved to safety as two major wildfires continue to spread across south-west France, fuelled by highly unfavourable weather conditions.
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Trump imposes new 10% tariffs on UK and 60 other countries over forced labour concerns
Donald Trump will press ahead with a new 10% import tariff on UK goods, along with 60 other nations, over claims trading partners failed to properly stop forced labour.
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Ten convicted in Italy over €100 million VAT fraud linked to plastics trading
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Turin (Italy) has obtained the conviction of ten defendants by the Tribunal of Nola in a VAT fraud case involving the trade of plastics products.
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Germany approves Rosatom-linked nuclear fuel project despite security concerns
A nuclear project linked to Russian state-owned company Rosatom has been given the go-ahead by state authorities in northwest Germany, under strict conditions to mitigate risks posed by Russian involvement.