More than 70 bomb warnings sent to European airlines, newsrooms and other targets last week were hoaxes, but they still triggered diversions, evacuations and disruption. A separate threat to Europe’s security, an opinion article argues, came from Jared Kushner’s proposal for a broader security architecture.
Moldova’s new Vulcănești–Chișinău power line links the country directly to Romania’s electricity network, bypassing a transmission route through the Russian-backed Transnistrian region. Energy Minister Dorin Junghietu says the project is part of a broader effort to reduce dependence on Russian supplies and strengthen energy security.
A US licence allowing transactions needed to keep the International Criminal Court operating expires on 7 April 2027. The European Commission has urged companies to keep serving the Court under temporary authorisations, but that leaves its operations dependent on Washington’s next move.
A possible change of government in Israel and shifting political pressures in Washington offer Europe an opening to influence Middle East policy, the article argues. It says the EU should engage political forces seeking de-escalation and back its diplomacy with measures tied to international law.
Belgium’s five-party coalition is struggling to agree on a €10 billion savings plan for next year, prompting Prime Minister Bart De Wever to offer his resignation. King Philippe refused it on Friday and told him to find a deal, leaving the government facing a stopgap budget if talks fail.
A TotalEnergies executive seconded to an oil and gas lobby group met US officials at least three times to discuss the EU’s methane regulation, according to social media posts. DeSmog’s investigation says the group’s arguments for delaying the rules were echoed by Trump administration officials as EU governments debated postponing them.
Ukraine and Russia are due to send delegations to Abu Dhabi on Wednesday for talks mediated by the United States, while European leaders prepare to debate the war in Dublin. The diplomatic push comes as the EU’s formal agenda is set to focus on artificial intelligence.
The Kraków attack felt personal to one commentator who had visited the city’s market square with his daughter. He initially saw the killing as the act of an individual, but a run of violent incidents in Poland and warnings from friends prompted concern about a broader pattern.
From student protests in Serbia to wetland defenders in Albania and river campaigners in Bosnia and Herzegovina, communities on Europe’s margins are confronting questions of power, belonging and shared resources. Their actions offer lessons for the European Union, the article argues, but Brussels still tends to treat these places as recipients of democratic standards.
A woman returns to a Nepalese village wearing jewellery and promising children jobs in Kathmandu. Villagers support the plan, unaware she has been trafficked herself. The story is among those behind a Brussels photography exhibition documenting modern slavery, which opened ahead of European Parliament discussions on new anti-trafficking strategies.
The European Commission said Italy was still rejecting transfer requests from other EU countries at the end of September, despite being identified as responsible for the asylum cases. The dispute over returns risks adding pressure to Schengen’s passport-free travel area, where governments have responded to migration concerns with internal border controls.
At an informal summit in Dublin on 13 November, EU leaders are due to discuss who could represent them in potential high-level Ukraine peace talks. The agenda follows an exchange of letters in which Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni warned of disarray among Europe’s diplomatic formats on the war.
A second deadly crash on Spain’s Madrid–Seville high-speed railway has been followed by an EU investigation into possible fraud involving up to €110 million in European funds. The European Public Prosecutor’s Office opened the probe on Friday, 6 November, focusing on money for maintenance of the line.
Russian accounts say Ukrainian forces sent as many as 28 ground drones into an assault without putting soldiers directly into the fighting. The reported attack, involving robots armed with RPGs and grenade launchers, appears to have failed, though details so far come only from Russian sources.
EU ambassadors agreed on Friday, 6 November, to postpone methane requirements for oil and gas imports by a year, while adding a review that could lead to further delays. The compromise was backed at the member states’ third attempt in a matter of weeks.
Global renewable power capacity is projected to expand by almost 4,800 gigawatts from 2026 to 2031, a 57 percent increase on the previous six years. The International Energy Agency says the Middle East oil and gas shock is speeding investment in most regions, while Europe’s outlook has weakened.
A database of people linked to Hungary’s communist-era state security services drew intense attention after it wrongly listed Sándor Lezsák, a Fidesz politician and a founder of the former MDF party. The archives said an IT error had misclassified him: he was under surveillance, not a network contact.
In Ceuta, migrants face racism, violence and difficult living conditions that can deepen psychological distress, according to a volunteer with No Name Kitchen. A Europod podcast report, produced with Sphera Network, examines how limited access to care and tougher migration policies affect migrants and people in exile.
In central Belgrade, young protesters are painting over insults on city walls and replacing them with student slogans. Their work comes days after the Student List won the election, as Serbia confronts the question of whether the movement’s victory can reshape the state.
Democrats’ gains in Congress will give them ways to slow Donald Trump, but not to take control of US foreign policy. For Nato and Ukraine, the result offers little immediate reassurance: decisions on troop deployments, weapons deliveries and the use of presidential powers remain largely in the hands of the White House and Pentagon.
The European Commission spent months insisting it would not reopen the EU’s methane rules. Yet the law, adopted in 2024 and due to take effect two months later, was on the chopping block by October, amid pressure from US oil and gas interests and the Trump administration.
Fifty-five internal documents from the European Commission’s energy department trace more than a year of efforts to manage pressure over EU methane rules for oil and gas imports. They cover talks with the Trump administration beginning in March 2025 and show the commission ultimately proposed a delay after long resisting one.
Europe has shifted from serving mainly as a transit route for drugs bound for North America to becoming a major consumer market, while production has also grown. The change is reflected in rising use and sharp increases in drug seizures, alongside violence linked to trafficking networks.
A Prague court has acquitted Yang Yiming, a suspected Chinese intelligence operative who posed as a foreign correspondent, ruling that prosecutors did not prove he intended to endanger Czech security or sovereignty. He was released on Monday, 2 November, after being arrested earlier this year.
A dispute over how EU states would vote on a trade ban for Israeli settlement goods erupted in Parliament’s trade committee on Thursday, 5 November. German MEP Bernd Lange accused the European Commission of using the lack of agreement among member states as a reason not to propose legislation.
Only 4 to 10 percent of respondents in seven EU countries support unlimited approval of pesticides, while large majorities favour phasing them out, a YouGov poll commissioned by environmental group PAN Europe found.
At least 42 people had been killed by Thursday morning after Russia dropped at least nine glide bombs on a school complex in Komyshuvakha, where humanitarian aid was being distributed. The village in Zaporizhzhia oblast lies about 15 kilometres from the front line; 33 more people were reported missing.
Poland’s justice minister says Warsaw would accept EU mediation over a dispute at the Constitutional Tribunal, but no talks have been offered or requested. Waldemar Żurek said Thursday that reaching an agreement would require both sides, as protests continue over the court’s leadership and the appointment of judges.
As states prepare to meet in Geneva on rules for autonomous weapons, Washington is expanding its plans for autonomous warfare and scaling back civilian-protection capacity, the article argues. The author warns that European militaries risk importing US companies’ design assumptions along with their systems unless they set their own conditions.
As national security advisers from the E3, the United States, and Ukraine convene in Brussels to architect post-war security guarantees, European officials remain resolute in their refusal to re-engage with Russian energy markets, citing the ongoing bombardment of Ukrainian civilian infrastructure as a barrier to any potential sanctions relief.
