A statement by the French Foreign Ministry said it would continue to work closely with the Israeli Prime Minister.

“One of our first steps in the new mandate will be a new omnibus legislation” to cut rule overlaps, von der Leyen said.

There is concern that Trump will cut aid to Ukraine and sideline the EU in peace negotiations.

His house arrest has sparked regular anti-government protests, including on Tuesday, when police used tear gas and water cannon to disperse hundreds of protesters.

Energy-efficient construction in Germany, one expert says, is "all fun and games - until kickoff".

Most of the protesters, shocked by the surge of far-right Călin Georgescu ahed of the 8 December runoff, were young people who want Romania to remain part of the West.

How do non-coalition groups view this new, secretive, and unpredictable European Parliament? 

CEOs overwhelmingly pointed to accelerating economic and political fragmentation as the greatest geopolitical threat to their businesses.

European industrial companies pay 2 to 3 times more for electricity than their American counterparts. Europe and the Commission must turn this liability into an asset.

The EU and Switzerland are seeking to "stabilise and develop" relations, which are currently governed by more than 120 agreements.

Georgescu's popularity seems to have been boosted by viral TikTok campaigns calling for an end to aid for neighbouring Ukraine and sounding a sceptical note on NATO.

Europe's pharmaceutical industry added more than €311 billion to Gross Value Added across the EU-27 countries, but the EU is being massively outpaced by US and China's R&D spending. The catch-up window is narrow and closing.

She and the EPP's top man Manfred Weber outmanoeuvred their coalition partners after a week of nail-biting political negotiations.

Moldova's pro-European parties are grappling to shore up support in the aftermath of a presidential election marred by alleged Russian interference.

Brazil's National Congress is due to vote on legislation preventing the government from signing international agreements imposing 'discriminatory restrictions'.

Nearly a fifth of Romanian far-right presidential candidate Călin Georgescu's votes came from abroad, Romanian centre-right MEP Siegfried Mureșan said.

The Ukrainian project Texty.org.ua analysed comments on deepfake featuring politicians supposedly on the front lines and found that 20% of commenters thought the video as real.

"There is a lot that needs to be done and hopefully will be done at the EU level in terms of resilience and preparedness," Sweden's Civil Defence Minister Carl-Oskar Bohlin told Euractiv in an interview.

Lobbyists outnumber EU delegation and all member states combined, say NGO report.

Ursula von der Leyen's new team passed with 370 votes in favour to 282 against