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Majorities in some countries back mandatory military service, and poll shows public sharply divided over Trump

Célia Belin of the European Council on Foreign Relations tells RFI that Donald Trump’s administration is treating Europe less as a partner and more as a rival. In backing nationalist movements and undermining multilateral institutions, it is exporting a political mode of operation that risks fracturing European unity.

Europe-wide polling finds UK and EU leaders now out of step with public opinion and pursue ‘ambitious reset’

Iraq is holding its first nationwide census in nearly four decades this week, a long-awaited count in a nation that has been blighted by sectarian and ethnic divisions.

Editorial: A new study is right to highlight growing threats to the EU’s core values from within. Leaders must stand up and be counted

‘Whiteness’, low youth engagement and lukewarm pro-Europeanism in some states risks eroding bloc’s founding values, expert says

In thinktank’s survey of 15 European countries, few respondents believe Ukraine can secure an outright victory

National Rally win may hamper bloc’s ability to get things done and pose existential question over French role

While the centre-right European People’s Party remains the largest bloc, analysts say a shift to the right is likely.