Russia & CISNews
Armenia and Azerbaijan return to border demarcation talks
Negotiators are meeting again on the most technical, and most sensitive, part of a peace settlement.
Anna Kovacs
Europe correspondent.
Universities brace for tighter research security rules
New guidance on international partnerships worries researchers who depend on cross-border collaboration.
EuropeAnalysis
EU leaders weigh a staged path to membership for Ukraine and Moldova
A proposal circulating before the December summit would open parts of the single market to candidates long before full accession. Supporters call it realism; critics call it a waiting room.
EuropeExplainer
Why the Western Balkans keep losing patience with Brussels
Two decades after the promise of membership, voters in the region increasingly doubt it will be kept. Here is how the process stalled.
EuropeNews
Poland’s presidential vetoes test the government’s reform agenda
Ministers are looking for ways to pass judicial and media changes without the president’s signature.
EuropeNews
France’s pension debate returns to the National Assembly
The government faces a familiar arithmetic problem: finding a majority for a reform most deputies dislike.
Russia & CISAnalysis
Georgia’s EU path stalls as the government hardens its stance
Brussels and Tbilisi are now talking past each other. What would it take to restart the process?
EuropeNews
Germany’s coalition argues over how to fund defence and infrastructure
Partners disagree on whether new borrowing or spending cuts should carry the next budget.
Culture & SocietyAnalysis
How Europe’s far-right parties learned to speak to young voters
Short video, cost-of-living messages and a softer tone have changed who turns up at the ballot box.
Culture & SocietyAnalysis
Digital nomad visas and the politics of housing in southern Europe
Schemes designed to attract remote workers now sit at the centre of local anger over rents.
EuropeNews
Moldova sets out its next round of judicial reforms
The government wants vetting of senior judges finished before the next progress report.