France is hosting G7 talks this Monday to address Middle East-driven energy volatility and the Strait of Hormuz blockade. Meanwhile, EU ministers are tackling rising farming costs, and a landmark EU-Armenia summit begins this weekend. MEPs are visiting China and India to discuss trade and digital regulations.
After the college of commissioners failed to agree on many of the details of the Industrial Accelerator Act again on Monday, it will now be published in more limited form. Plans to bar non-EU producers from government contracts and funding have been delayed by six months.
TikTok removed 112 million pieces of content – mainly with automated systems – that violated the platform’s policies in the EU between July and December 2025, according to the platform’s latest Digital Services Act transparency report.
Despite soaring trade imbalances and EU pressure, German chancellor Friedrich Merz stressed the need to fortify diplomatic and economic relations with China on his first Beijing visit.
Fourth-anniversary Russian sanctions, plans for Gaza under Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, Friedrich Merz in China, and domestic EU curbs on firearms are all on the table this week.
The European Commission is planning to introduce “Made in EU” requirements across a wide range of strategic sectors, from chips, cars, and chemicals to quantum technologies and renewable energy.
E-commerce giant Shein will be investigated by the European Commission for potential violations of the Digital Services Act for potentially illegal products, addictive design, and transparency violations.
Nato chief Mark Rutte joked about Donald Trump’s invasion threat, at the Western allies’ first high-level meeting since the peak in the Greenland crisis.
Russia’s ‘Cosmos-2589’ satellite is one to watch for future spying on EU signals, after Moscow’s older model joined a “graveyard”.
The European Commission preliminarily found TikTok in violation of the Digital Services Act on Friday, for breaching the EU’s addictive design rules — such as not adequately assessing addiction risk and implementing weak mitigation features
Any new US-Russia deal on strategic nuclear bombs would have mostly “symbolic” value, as France and Germany focus on tactical threats instead.
The promise of an EU-US deal on critical minerals is one of the most significant cases of a transatlantic trade alliance since the start of Donald Trump’s second presidential term. What could this mean for Europe and supply chains?
Officials from the EU, US and around 50 countries are set to sign a joint ‘framework’ on critical minerals co-operation at the summit in Washington hosted by Marco Rubio.
Ministers responsible for competitiveness met for two days in Cyprus, but the talks produced little in the way of concrete decisions, and suggest an agreement on “Buy in Europe” rules is still some way off.
This is the first high-profile case in the wind sector, although the EU Commission stressed the opening of a probe “does not prejudge the outcome of the investigation.”
The new EU narrative on India reflects a modesty, pragmatism and flexibility that has long been absent from its dealings with the Global South. The unhelpful habit of dividing the world into democracies and autocracies is fading, replaced by a grudging acknowledgement that the EU is a middle-sized power which must work harder to find its place in a multipolar world, writes Shada Islam.