foreign affairs

Angola

EU–African Union summit: Leaders stress need for multilateralism

Gathered in the Angolan capital of Luanda, leaders of EU and African Union countries also welcomed progress in implementing the Global Gateway Investment Package.

25/11/2025

Radio Schuman

Will Trump help European conservatives push back on the Green deal?

The US is set to pull out of the climate fight with Donald Trump in power. The new American president announced last week that he would withdraw from the Paris agreement and launch a national energy “emergency” that could result in suspending environmental regulations.

27/01/2025

Europe News

Zaharieva and Popov to be Bulgaria’s EU Commission picks — source

Sofia has left its decision until the last minute – but is the only capital heeding Ursula von der Leyen’s request to propose a man and a woman for the EU executive.

30/08/2024

Radio Schuman

Why is Belgium struggling to name a European Commissioner?

It is not easy for Belgium to confirm its European Commissioner, ahead of Ursula von der Leyen's deadline for the nominees.

30/08/2024

United Kingdom

UK sanctions officials at Russian penal colony where Navalny died

Along with international outrage at dissident's untimely death, some sympathetic Russians have defied efforts to crack down on public mourning.

21/02/2024

Europe News

Tunisia denies entry to five MEPs on foreign affairs committee

The Tunisian authorities have denied entry to five members of the European Parliament's foreign affairs (AFET) committee, who were due to start an official mission to the country on Thursday.

14/09/2023

Europe News

EU foreign affairs ministers call for meeting with candidate countries

EU foreign ministers called on Thursday for a meeting with their counterparts from Ukraine and the western Balkans -- all candidate countries to the bloc -- by the end of September to discuss the enlargement process.

01/09/2023

Europe News

EU working on plans to sanction Niger coup leaders - Borrell

The EU is working on plans to sanction the military leaders who seized power in Niger in July, the EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Wednesday.

30/08/2023

Europe Decoded

What is the ‘Rome Process’, Meloni’s plan to curb irregular migration?

It's the latest in a raft of European efforts to ‘externalise’ migrant controls by outsourcing them to third countries.

25/07/2023

China

Foreign ministers of US and China hold rare one-to-one meeting

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and China's Foreign Minister Qin Gang talk for nearly six hours in Beijing - but appeared to agree on little.

18/06/2023

Europe News

EU greenlights €2 billion ammunition deal for Ukraine

Ukraine roughly needs 1 million ammunition rounds, primarily the 155 mm kind, over the next year.

20/03/2023

Turkey

German FM offers praise and criticism on visit to Greece and Turkey

Annalena Baerbock has been meeting with her counterparts in Athens and Ankara over the weekend to discuss migrants, border security and a Mediterranean island spat.

31/07/2022

Belgium

Belgian foreign minister temporarily steps down to care for husband

Sophie Wilmes' husband has been diagnosed with "aggressive brain cancer".

21/04/2022

United Kingdom

UK abandoned its supporters in Afghanistan, says whistleblower

A former Foreign Office employee has stated that only 5% of Afghan nationals who applied to flee under one UK programme received help.

07/12/2021

World News

Japanese FM discusses de-escalation with Iranian officials

The Iranian president met Sunday with Japan's foreign minister in the capital of Tehran and the two discussed de-escalation of tensions in the region, Iranian news agencies reported.

22/08/2021

United Kingdom

'What's 50 Cent's number?' among oddest requests to UK Foreign Office

British diplomatic staff handled some pretty unusual requests in 2019. Here are 10 of the weirdest enquiries it received.

30/12/2019