Ukrainian refugee stands defiant against Moscow’s Donbas order

European lawyers warn US: Trump’s attack on attorneys is road to fascism

Listen: Europe resists Trump’s pressure over Middle East conflict

Gunboat trade policy: how Trump’s tariffs have ended ‘free-trade’ orthodoxy

"If they attacked a French or Italian boat [in Hormuz after the war], it’s Iran against the world not Iran against the US,” said retired Italian admiral Giampaolo Di Paola.

Trapped in the EU-Israel impunity loop

Russia also declared it had captured the entire Luhansk region of Ukraine, but this was the third time it said so, and it was still not true.

Gulf countries have fired at least 2,400 interceptor missiles, close to their estimated pre-Iran war stockpiles of 2,800 units, but Poland and Ukraine declined to help due to Russian threat.

Bulgaria votes in three weeks. Its information environment is already being shaped by forces that nobody is controlling or investigating, and nobody seems particularly rushed to understand.

"Trump, of course, is not Hitler ... but authoritarian regimes use very similar methods to attack democracy and the rule of law," said the deputy head of the German bar association.

As Donald Trump threatens to abandon Nato, furious over the EU’s refusal to back his war in Iran, the American president warned: “The US won’t be there to help you anymore.” From Spain to Italy, find out why European leaders are finally drawing a line.

Despite its insistence that it supports 'rules-based trade', the EU has accepted president Donald Trump's tariffs. And its own trade agenda is more complicated than just free trade.

With the approval of the discriminatory death penalty bill by the Israeli parliament on 31 March, calls for Europe to “do something” continue to echo in Brussels. But there is little reason to believe the statements of concern will go further than that.

Fear, but not panic, in Europe, after Trump threat to leave Nato

France expects green light for €70bn nuclear expansion despite EU probe

EU allows pollution permits to pile up in bid to placate industry

Are journalists liable for social media comments? An Italian court is poised to decide

Ukraine’s Russia-type counter-attack went badly, causing some 100 deaths (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,497)

The ‘other’ war: Lebanon is now on brink of humanitarian and ecological collapse

Single mother escapes Sloviansk, as bombs and drones turn city into warzone

Listen: Will the EU finally sanction Israel after death penalty bill?

"Will there be panic in Europe? Depends when Moscow attacks. I personally think it will be this year, in which case we're not ready," said an EU diplomat.

France's plans for a €70bn expansion of its nuclear energy production come after EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said that abandoning nuclear had been a "strategic mistake".

Europe needs fossil fuel limits now

The plan adopted on Wednesday concerns the Market Stability Reserve, a buffer mechanism that can inject or absorb free pollution permits to keep carbon prices from swinging too wildly.

“We laugh at the enemy when it sends its soldiers in columns under conditions of drone dominance ... what are we to think of Ukrainian commanders who do the same?", Ukrainian defence aide said.

What is the actual cost, measured in Lebanon’s civilian lives and the disintegration of its ecological fabric, when destruction strikes the very foundations that uphold territorial integrity and the cohesion of its communities?

EU energy commissioner Dan Jørgensen tried to convince EU ministers not to respond to a looming fuel shortage by subsidising fuel consumption.

Bottom line: this isn't 2022. Europe needs fossil fuel limits, and not try to subsidise its way out @euobserver.com

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As Russian strikes intensify near the Donetsk frontline, the bombing of a maternity ward has forced families to flee. Among them is Minko Svitlana, who escaped Sloviansk with her son. Now in a transit centre, they join hundreds of traumatised children seeking safety and a future far from the rubble.

Israel has just passed a law reinstating the death penalty. Will the EU, which strongly opposes the death penalty, now sanction the Israeli government?