Sweden to join Finland in applying for Nato

Finnish MPs have got the ball rolling on a week that's expected to culminate in a tectonic shift in Nordic security — Finland and Sweden's decision to apply for Nato membership.

After the EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen's Budapest trip, Hungary suggested it wants EU funds to offset the extra costs from receiving different oil sources, and the increased energy prices the planned Russian oil embargo entails.

International Monetary Fund managing director Kristalina Georgieva is among those warning that increases in food and energy prices due to the Ukraine war will trigger social unrest. Pakistan and Sri Lanka are proof that this is already happening.

Civil society groups in Hong Kong have suffered the wrath of the John Lee-led crackdown as security tsar. Now he is the chief executive of Hong Kong itself.

Orbán's government is still beating up and pushing back non-Ukrainian migrants, including one Lebanese man who fled the Ukrainian war zone to Europe.

During the Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) conference, many high-level discussions will touch upon the dynamics of decision-making in the design of new technologies, including the importance of inclusion, diversity, and ethics perspectives within these processes.

The EU may spend up to €20m in non-lethal weapons to help Rwanda's military operations in Mozambique. The EU is also training Mozambique armed forces, which has courted Russia's Wagner group.

Inflation is driving up cost of living across the continent, calls to rapidly increase interest rates are mounting. But some senior ECB council members cautioned against higher borrowing costs for fear of economic damage.

In a major blow to the anti-corruption rhetoric of the ruling coalition, the Slovak parliament has rejected a request for the arrest of ex-prime minister Robert Fico.

The war in Ukraine is fueling the "perfect storm" for a new and serious food crisis that could have been avoided, a new report has found.

As EU ambassadors discuss the sixth round of sanctions against Russia in Brussels, senior EU officials are presenting the plan of citizens for the future of the EU in Strasbourg.

Europe Day should remind us that the values we share can only thrive when they are nurtured, and that the EU needs to help protect those who tend to our democracies.

NGOs and academics say Poland's wall with Belarus violates EU environmental laws. The EU commission says "public safety" exemptions exist — in a possible endorsement of the 186km-long wall.

Countries such as Finland, France, the Czech Republic, Croatia and others pledged a total of billions of euros to support humanitarian and military efforts in Ukraine.