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The European Union is failing to invest enough in military projects and relying too much on the US and other countries, according to a landmark report released Monday. Almost two-thirds of the EU's defense orders between mid-2022 and mid-2023 were placed with US companies, with another 15 percent going to…

A long-awaited report on how to rescue Europe’s economy from weak growth and red tape is in

The snap legislative elections called by French President Emmanuel Macron left the country with a hung parliament and no dominant political bloc in power in the lower-house National Assembly for the first time in France's modern history. One solution proposed to end the deadlock is for a government of experts,…

Macron’s move to call snap elections also seen as helping commission president’s bid for second term

Centrists and pragmatic rightwing parties could at least compromise on the most urgent global threats

Commission chief is not running in MEP elections but is doing all she can to boost increasingly shaky bid for second term

The PM is talking up her underdog credentials ahead of this week’s European elections. But many in an impoverished Rome neighbourhood are sceptical

Ukraine’s top commander says enemy sending reinforcements to area but lacks numbers for a major push

Talking Europe sits down with one of the European Parliament’s most prominent veterans, Co-chair of the Greens Philippe Lamberts. The Belgian MEP has served in three legislatures since 2009 and says he has seen a big difference in both awareness and action on environmental issues in that time. Lamberts, who…