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France will also summon the Russian ambassador over the hacking campaigns, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot told broadcaster BFMTV on Monday morning. The latest listing refers to the EU’s cyber sanctions regime, first used in 2020 against Russian officers of the military intelligence service GRU that conducted attacks including a global outbreak of NotPetya malware and a hack of the German Bundestag. Brussels has expanded the list of sanctioned hackers to include more GRU officers over attacks on Estonia. It has also sanctioned people involved in Russia’s hybrid aggression, like sabotage and disinformation. According to the French government, Turla compromized…

Published on 13/07/2026 – 11:12 GMT+2 During construction work at the Nordholz naval air base in Lower Saxony, an extraordinary Second World War find has come to light: a well-preserved Sturmgeschütz III assault gun of the Wehrmacht was found hidden in sandy soil for more than 80 years. According to public broadcaster NDR, citing the Federal Agency for Real Estate (BImA), the tracked vehicle was discovered back in April 2026 during excavator work. The find was publicly confirmed in mid-May. The vehicle is a Sturmgeschütz III (StuG III), the most widely produced fully tracked vehicle of the Wehrmacht. Unlike a…

Technology race Ukraine’s advantage remains fragile. Moscow’s economy is still on a war footing, Russia has expanded drone production, and its forces have repeatedly found ways to counter Ukrainian innovations. That’s why Kyiv is pressing allies to move faster with financing and procurement. Ukraine’s Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov told POLITICO this month that Kyiv needs billions more in military aid to sustain the current momentum. “If we have enough resources to launch a new cycle of war innovations before Russia adapts to the current one, we will get another six months,” Fedorov said. The defense ministers of Sweden, the Netherlands,…

Hungarian lawmakers are set to vote on changing the constitution on Monday to oust the president, as Prime Minister Péter Magyar pushes to loosen nationalist ex-leader Viktor Orbán’s grip on the country. Magyar, who won a landslide victory in April on the promise of “regime change” from Orbán’s 16-year rule, has accused unpopular President Tamás Sulyok and other top state officials of being his predecessor’s “puppets.” His push to remove Sulyok comes as the pro-European conservative rushes to undo the concentration of power that marked Orbán’s self-styled “illiberal” premiership, which won praise from US President Donald Trump but was widely…

A night on a European cruise is taxed almost half as much as a night in a hotel despite their high environmental costs and contribution to overtourism, a new study has found. The NGO Transport & Environment (T&E) found that a loophole allows cruise liners to avoid paying VAT and fuel taxes, among other things. The organisation is calling for tax reforms to ensure that ships “pay their fair share”. Cruises have ‘same benefits as freight transport’ A night on a cruise ship is taxed 40% less than a hotel, the T&E study shows. That is despite their high environmental…

The political week starts with the shockwaves from the murder of Reform politician – Ann Widdecombe – which has put MPs’ security back in the spotlight. Sam Coates and Anne McElvoy have the latest on the police investigation, Nigel Farage’s response and the wider political fallout. It comes as the row over political party donations intensifies, with Reform arguing that the current safeguards aren’t strong enough. Meanwhile, Sir Keir Starmer enters his final week as Prime Minister, while his successor Andy Burnham faces another major test in front of the Parliamentary Labour Party. Plus, will the Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood,…

Updated: 13/07/2026 – 9:18 GMT+2 Martin Heydon, Irish agriculture minister, speaks to Europe Today ahead of the EU ministers’ vote on the EU’s fertiliser plan, describing it as a “very decisive clear action to support farmers”. … More

“I think today [we need to] stay focused on what is already in the pipeline. So don’t look for any silver bullets, we already have plans — just implement them,” Maciej Witucki, president of BusinessEurope, told Euronews. “It’s important for businesses, but also it’s important to the citizens of Europe that they see the change.” In this episode of The Big Question, BusinessEurope’s new president, Maciej Witucki, joined Angela Barnes to discuss the challenges ahead and the need for strong international partners. What do European businesses need to thrive? Having spent the past 20 years leading companies in Poland and…

Europe is not an enlarged nation nor a community built on a single language, a single memory or a single historical experience. Its distinctiveness lies precisely in having built a common political project out of different histories, at times wounded, contradictory and even opposed. Perhaps the mistake has been to assume that a European identity can only grow out of what everyone shares equally. Political identities are not built solely on commonalities. They are also forged in the ability to recognise as one’s own what others contribute to the whole. Europe shares history, but does not always share the same…

POLITICO spoke to 17 current and former senior politicians and officials, most of whom have worked with Burnham and many granted anonymity to speak frankly, about what the new PM’s arrival will mean for Whitehall. Some warned that Burnham’s plans could spark a turf war not just between ministers and the civil service, but between civil servants themselves. ‘Slowed down’ Some of Burnham’s rhetoric may be hammed up — he has spent nine years as the left-wing mayor of Greater Manchester — but Burnham’s old friend Steve Rotheram insisted it is not “faux” frustration. “We have experienced time and again…