EU asylum agency bosses favored ‘friendly circle’ for promotions, watchdog finds Fraud watchdog probes favoritism and mismanagement at agency tasked with implementing EU asylum law.

Senior management at the EU’s asylum agency bypassed staff regulations to promote a “friendly circle” into senior positions, a confidential investigation by the EU’s anti-fraud watchdog OLAF found.

The lobbying budgets of the largest European defense companies surged around 40 percent between 2022 and 2023, a data investigation by POLITICO found. 👉 www.politico.eu/article/eu-d...

Bashar Assad’s fall was met with delight by many Syrians across Europe.

But the news had barely broken before politicians began talking about Syrian refugees returning home en masse.

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Romanian court cancels presidential election amid Russian influence fears Constitutional court throws Romanian politics into turmoil, 2 days before runoff vote was due to take place.

🚨 BREAKING: Romania’s top constitutional court has annulled the country’s presidential election, after security services warned the vote had been distorted by a mass Russian influence campaign to favor a far-right candidate.