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The Med 5 group of five major southern European countries bearing the brunt of irregular migration pressures – Italy, Greece, Cyprus, Malta and Spain – has urged the European Commission to step up its efforts to prevent migration flows while criticising the EU bloc’s recent controversial pact on migration and asylum for “lack of ambition”.

In fake videos that have gone viral online, two of India's A-lister Bollywood actors are seen criticizing Prime Minister Narendra Modi and asking people to vote for the opposition Congress party in the country's ongoing general election.

The moderate nationalist PNV party and the Basque Socialist Party (PSOE-EE) will repeat their current coalition government in the Basque Country after Sunday’s elections resulted in a tie between the PNV and the far-left EH-Bildu party.

Czechia will again propose restricting the movement of Russian diplomats in the Schengen area, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský (Pirates, Greens) said in response to the arrest of two Russian agents in Germany on suspicion of espionage and planning attacks.

Polish President Andrzej Duda may have impacted the former US president Donald Trump’s position on Ukraine, said his Lithuanian counterpart Gitanas Nausėda, as the Congress is about to pass a $60 billion support package for Kyiv.

French EU Minister Jean-Noël Barrot warned of the massive scale of disinformation campaigns coming from President Vladimir Putin’s Russia in an interview with Ouest-France on Saturday, speaking of a “proven risk” that this could distort the results of the EU elections in June.

German far-right party AfD has again provoked France’s far-right party Rassemblement National (RN) by questioning the territorial status of the French overseas department of Mayotte in an official written request to the German government, with the party’s figurehead Marine Le Pen, clapping back that they should focus on Germany’s problems instead.

Moldovan opposition parties denouncing pro-European President Maia Sandu's drive to secure European Union membership said on Sunday (21 April) they were forming an electoral bloc in an announcement delivered in Moscow.

Portugal on Wednesday (25 April) will mark the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution, a military coup that put an end to Europe's longest-lived dictatorship and 13 years of colonial wars in Africa.

In this episode of our daily podcast ‘Today in the EU’ we’re all about the last plenary session in Strasburg.

In this episode of our daily podcast ‘Today in the EU’ we’re all about the last plenary session in Strasburg.

Western military aid to Ukraine has narrowed the spending gap between Ukraine and Russia to $10 billion, as an investment race is spreading globally, according to the latest data on military spending released by SIPRI

Western military aid to Ukraine has narrowed the spending gap between Ukraine and Russia to $10 billion, as an investment race is spreading globally, according to the latest data on military spending released by SIPRI

In this week's edition: West struggles with time on Ukraine support and Letta's report on defence and enlargement.

The EU's latest electricity market reforms should soon enter into law. But the ongoing dramatic transformation of Europe's electricity system means that these reforms may just be one building block in a much wider policy revolution. 

The US House of Representatives on Saturday approved long-delayed military aid to Ukraine, while also bolstering Israel and Taiwan defenses and threatening to ban Chinese-owned TikTok.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan urged Palestinians to unite amid Israel's war in Gaza following hours-long talks with Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Istanbul on Saturday (20 April), his office said.

The US House of Representatives advanced a $95 billion legislative package on Friday (19 April) providing aid to Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific in a broad bipartisan vote, overcoming hardline Republican opposition that had held it up for months.

Croatia's Constitutional Court ruled on Friday (19 April) that President Zoran Milanović cannot take up the more powerful position of prime minister after this week's elections, saying the firebrand leader could not head any potential coalition.

Armenia has agreed to return several villages to Azerbaijan in what both sides said on Friday (19 April) was an important milestone as they edge towards a peace deal after fighting two wars since the collapse of the Soviet Union.