Turkey sends mixed signals on Sweden's entry into Nato

Russia's weaponisation of global food supplies is a "war crime", while its new threats against Lithuania are "worrying", the EU's foreign policy chief has said.

With Russia reducing natural gas supplies to Europe, several EU countries are considering burning further carbon-intensive coal to secure supplies for next winter.

Ukraine and Moldova should immediately join the EU enlargement queue as candidates, but Georgia isn't ready yet, the EU Commission said.

The Dutch have urged the EU Commission to take a "rigorous" approach in deciding if Ukraine merits being put on the enlargement train.

Ukraine's EU application is a chance to recalibrate not only the enlargement process, but the entire European project. EU leaders ought to embrace it.

Germany has urged businesses and families to do their best to save energy as Russia tightens gas supplies. Experts said all EU member states should do the same.

European countries must assess media that pose a threat to their national security and impose sanctions in an "information war," EU commissioner Věra Jourová said.

French president Emmanuel Macron, German chancellor Olaf Scholz, Italian premier Mario Draghi and Romanian president Klaus Iohannis said they support fast-tracking Ukraine becoming an official candidate to join the bloc.

Legal madness that's causing security worries not just for Lithuania but for wider Europe — that's how Lithuanians see a Russian initiative to un-recognise their independence.

Ukraine's membership in the EU would reinvigorate Europe's tired institutions, address the Union's democratic deficit, and provide young Europeans with a model of democracy in action.

France has proposed a nebulous new European club for Ukraine to join, as president Emmanuel Macron visits EU-aspirant capitals on the Russia front-line.

The least developed countries account for less than 1.3 percent of global GDP yet host 27 percent of the world's displaced populations. High-income countries, by comparison, host 16 percent.

Ukraine wants to increase grain exports via Romania's Black Sea ports and set up storage facilities in EU countries to avert a worsening food crisis.

Russian president Vladimir Putin has "humiliated himself" by his conduct in the war and the West wanted to see him defeated on the battlefields of Ukraine, America's EU ambassador has said.