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Last month, Giorgia Meloni, the president of the far-right Brothers of Italy party, strongly criticised EU defence policy, claiming that no country is meeting its defence spending commitments. FRANCE 24's Georgina Robertson and Sophie Samaille look at some defence spending figures to debunk this claim.

ON THIS DAY IN 2005: Liverpool recovered from three goals down to beat Italian side AC Milan on penalties in Istanbul to lift their fifth European Cup and first for 21 long years

Gerhard Schroeder left the German chancellery after a narrow election defeat in 2005 with an ambitious overhaul of the country’s welfare state beginning to kick in and every chance of a future as a respected elder statesman

Spanish EU parliamentarian was to travel to occupied Palestinian territories with EU lawmakers to review the situation.

Less than a week after the Buffalo massacre, CPAC Hungary speakers call immigration worse than nuclear weapons

The Prime Minister’s father, a former MEP, said he is ‘absolutely delighted’ to have acquired the nationality.

The war in Ukraine has forced a major rethink of European security, with further enlargement of both NATO and the EU now on the table. Kyiv has asked for a fast-track procedure for EU membership. Moldova and Georgia have also applied. The EU has made it clear that Ukraine belongs…

PM’s father to be invited to official welcoming ceremony under French flag with national anthem playing

The European Parliament is set to urge the blacklisting of former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder if he does not quit as a board member of Russian state-owned oil company Rosneft.

The European Parliament and EU governments will decide their positions in June.

On March 23, as leaders gathered for multiple summits in Brussels, the Hungarian justice minister claimed that the EU had not helped the country after Budapest "stopped migration in accordance with international conventions". Sophie Samaille and Georgina Robertson take a closer look at the claims.