Housing costs across the EU kept climbing in late 2025, new Eurostat figures show, with prices up 63 percent over the past decade, and rents 21 percent higher.

The EU is against regime change in Iran, while condemning violence and drafting new sanctions, with a foreign policy largely unchanged since before the protests turned deadly.

Olivér Várhelyi, the European health commissioner, repeatedly brushed off allegations he had headed a spy-ring during his team as Hungary's ambassador to the European Union.

Across Europe, mayors and local councillors are facing a disturbing rise in harassment, threats, disinformation, and even physical violence. These aren’t isolated incidents — they are a growing pattern. And they’re not 'just politics'. They are deliberate attempts to silence, intimidate, and push people out of public life, warns the Council of European Municipalities and Regions.

A French banker inside Euroclear, who flew to Russia 155 times for "private" reasons, allegedly tried to connect the company's CEO, Valérie Urbain, with Russian spies and threatened her when she declined, according to an investigation by EUobserver, Humo, De Morgen, and Dossier Center.

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