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Far-right National Rally’s Marine Le Pen has announced she’ll run in the 2027 French presidential election, following Tuesday’s shock court ruling which cleared the way for her to do so. But what does that mean for Europe? On Tuesday, a Paris appeals court upheld Le Pen’s guilty verdict but reduced the amount of time she’s banned from holding public office. That means she can run — but under house arrest, with electronic monitoring. On the show, we unpack what Brussels makes of all this. Also on the show, Europe’s cows now have a new job title: critical infrastructure. The Commission’s new livestock strategy…

US-Präsident Donald Trump beendet von der Türkei aus die Waffenruhe mit dem Iran und verhängt einen Handelsstopp gegen Spanien. Gleichzeitig sichern EU und NATO der Ukraine 140 Milliarden Euro an neuen Hilfen zu. Der so wichtige Tomahawk-Deal zwischen Deutschland und den USA findet hingegen noch keinen Abschluss. Gordon Repinski, zurück aus Ankara, zieht eine Bilanz des diesjährigen NATO-Gipfel. Die Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) steht bei ihrer Jahresbilanz massiv unter Druck. Eine verunglückte SAP-Umstellung hat interne Zahlungen blockiert, während im Jemen offenbar Fördergelder in Millionenhöhe veruntreut wurden. Carlotta Diederichs hat die Details zu den Pannen und bespricht mit Gordon, welche…

Published on 09/07/2026 – 5:26 GMT+2 Air raid sirens sounds in Bahrain and Kuwait overnight after Iran vowed to respond to renewed US strikes on the country. Kuwait’s air defences were intercepting “hostile missile and drone attacks”, its military said on Thursday. “The General Staff of the Army notes that any explosions heard are a result of air defense systems intercepting hostile attacks,” the Kuwait military said in a post on X, without specifying their origin. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) confirmed on Thursday they had they had struck US military bases in Bahrain and Kuwait in response to fresh American…

Cooper — a veteran Labour politician who also served as a minister under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown — penned an extensive Chatham House essay on Monday giving her thesis of the global challenges facing Britain. She highlighted the “threats on the international stage,” and said Britain needs “not just to weather the storm but steer an active course” — is that code for stability at the Foreign Office? As one of the most senior women in government, she also warned Burnham about maintaining gender balance in his top team, telling Sky News she wants “to see as many talented women…

Lithuania’s new Prime Minister Mindaugas Sinkevičius presented his government’s policy agenda to the Lithuanian parliament on Tuesday, setting out a programme focused on defence, civil resilience and recalibration of foreign policy towards China while maintaining a hard line on Russia, as the country seeks to respond to a deteriorating security environment on NATO’s eastern flank. Bordering both Russia and Belarus, the Baltic country of less than three million has faced a growing number of hybrid threats in recent years, including drone incursions, airspace violations, cyber-attacks and cross-border smuggling. This has forced the country to move full steam ahead with its…

Burnham has campaigned on a “change” platform, and in the aftermath of the release of documents relating to former Labour peer Mandelson’s appointment as U.K. ambassador to the U.S. said: “People have lost faith in a Westminster system which puts private vested interests above the wider public interest and concentrates too much power in too few hands.” Under the current regime, only a small subsection of Britain’s lobbying shops are required to reveal their clients to the Office for the Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists (ORCL) — and only when direct contact is made on behalf of those clients with government…

Good morning, Brussels. Angela Skujins writing this mid-week bulletin, where a transatlantic turf war is brewing in Ankara that shows no signs of abating. But before we get there, a quick update on a major news story gripping Paris: far-right firebrand Marine Le Pen last night vowed to run in France’s 2027 presidential election despite a fraud conviction. Euronews’ deputy EU news editor Maïa de la Baume breaks down the announcement in this must-read analysis, writing that after an appeals court held up a previous ruling on Tuesday, the presidential hopeful will fight it. “I want to pursue all available…

Stijn van Kessel, a professor of comparative politics at Queen Mary University of London, said the narrative that Trump, Le Pen and Farage promote establishment conspiracies is so powerful because millions of voters in France and the U.K. feel like they have been conspired against too.  Van Kessel said it wasn’t clear whether Farage and Le Pen would be able to use their troubles to invigorate their voting bases or suffer electorally. “Politicians such as Nigel Farage and Marine Le Pen have been able to fuel and tap into anti-immigration sentiments as well as this voter distrust,” he said. “There…

Updated: 08/07/2026 – 9:02 GMT+2 Marine Le Pen ally Fabrice Leggeri claims the National Rally presidential candidate will prove her innocence despite an appeals court upholding her conviction for the misuse of millons in EU funds on Tuesday. … More

BRUSSELS — Top European leaders attending a NATO summit in Ankara were given engraved pistols and live ammunition as a leaving gift. The elaborate firearms — and accompanying bullets and cleaning kit — were presented to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President António Costa on Wednesday by the host, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, two EU officials confirmed to POLITICO. A European Council official added that Costa’s security team took the weapon for checks. “We will follow the Belgian procedures to bring it to Belgium and then we will store it in line with the security requirements…