Andrew Rettman

Swedish defence minister Pål Jonson also said on Monday: "We should increase the price for Russian aggression, and it is only then that Russia will understand that they will not win this war".

Despite its ordinary conduct, Russia's war still shaped Latvia's election in a new normal for Europe that most of us had hardly imagined just five years ago.

EU leaders will stay mute on Gaza and merely "condemn" West Bank violence at next week's summit, as 2026 Nobel prize highlights the UN's findings on Israel's "genocide".

I felt sorry for police facing Molotov cocktails and cobble stones, then I felt angry about police use of weapons that left young people maimed.

The EU's top diplomat has backed the idea of a Black Sea naval mission to protect grain ships from Russian drones - but this would require much more than Brussels' existing Red Sea mission, while air policing might be more effective.

The messages, seen by EUobserver and published here in full, now form evidence in a Belgian police investigation into Reynders on money-laundering charges, which paints them in a potentially criminal light.

Katharina von Schnurbein caused controversy in May 2025 when she briefed EU ambassadors in Tel Aviv that proposed EU trade sanctions on Israel were based on "rumours about Jews, as opposed to facts".

Vučić acknowledged defeat shortly after 9.30PM on Sunday, when exit polls put his SNS party on 105 seats in parliament, behind the reformist Student List movement, led by cardiologist Ilija Srdanovic, on 135 to 140.

EUobserver revealed last week that a director in the Belgian intelligence service (VSSE), had exchanged WhatsApp messages with ex-EU commissioner Didier Reynders, which may have been part of a criminal conspiracy to block VSSE reports into Reynders alleged wrongdoing.

The Finnish-Norwegian call was "not coordinated with any of us [allies]" in advance, said Denmark's Mette Frederiksen on Tuesday - directly contradicting Finland's Alexander Stubb and Norway's Jonas Gahr Støre. "I really don't understand what these two countries think can be achieved this way," she said.