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Kaunas: An ECB rate hike moved closer on 2 October 2026, when Eurostat’s flash estimate put euro area inflation at 3.8% in September, up from 3.2% in August. Lithuania recorded…

Munich: The European Commission will set up a Climate Insurance Alliance to close the gap between disaster losses and the cover Europeans can buy, President Ursula von der Leyen announced…

Manila: The Philippines free trade agreement moved close to completion on 22 September 2026, when Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič and Philippine Trade Secretary Maria Cristina Aldeguer-Roque announced substantial agreement during…

Riyadh: The Saudi Arabia EU summit on 24 October 2026 will bring European and Gulf leaders together for only the second time at head-of-state level, and it arrives with a…

G7 energy security took centre stage on 2 October 2026, when leaders of the world’s major advanced economies agreed to release 100 million barrels of oil from strategic reserves over…

The Yabloko sanctions adopted by the Council of the EU on 28 September 2026 put asset freezes on ten Russian judges, prosecutors and officials who helped bar the country’s only…

Kiruna: The European Commission plans a new raw materials corporation to buy and stockpile the metals that power Europe’s cars, chips and defence industry, President Ursula von der Leyen announced…

Limerick: The Irish Presidency of the Council is expected to table its own negotiating proposal for the 2028-2034 budget in the first week of October 2026, giving EU leaders a…
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Greece wants a crisis switch that halts asylum applications. The European People’s Party has already named the instrument such a switch would need, and it…
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