I have just spoken with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam. I expressed France’s full solidarity in the face of the indiscriminate strikes carried out by Israel in Lebanon today, which resulted in a very high number of civilian casualties.

Η ηττα του Ορμπαν τα πιο καλά νέα εδω και πάρα πολυ καιρο,δλδ μεγάλη ωθηση στην ευρωπαική ενοποιηση

~100% chance that Orban has lost. Question now is whether Tisza gets a supermajority. Hungary has many "cardinal acts," on things like courts, elections, local governments, churches, taxes that require a 2/3rds majority. With 46% of the vote counted, they are barely on track.

💥🇭🇺With 95% of votes counted, Hungary’s map shows the opposition Tisza party crushing Fidesz 94–12 in constituencies. Péter Magyar has secured a 2/3 majority, asked President Tamás Sulyok and other Orbán loyalists to resign immediately, and announced his first visit to Warsaw.

Brexiters are calling this “capitulation”. It’s not. It’s the UK finally admitting reality: if you want to trade with the EU, you align with EU rules. That’s not surrender. It’s how trade works. theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

Inflation was coming down in the United States—and then Trump’s tariffs happened.

FT exclusive: The EU is planning the biggest relaxation of its rules on corporate mergers in decades as Europe faces increasing pressure to build global champions capable of taking on US and Chinese rivals ft.trib.al/ojs5lb6

75 years ago, the Paris Treaties laid the foundation of European integration. 🇪🇺 From coal and steel to peace and unity, Europe was built by sharing sovereignty. The lesson still holds: in a changing world, we need more Europe, not less.

The European Commission proposed allowing groups of at least nine EU countries to use enhanced cooperation to advance over 40 single market reforms by the end of 2027, bypassing slower capitals in a two-speed approach, according to Euractiv. The plan includes boosting powers for

Every single EU country has a veto which blocks our progress. To build a United States of Europe, we need to be pragmatic. Discover what we mean by multi-speed Europe in this opinion piece by Reinier van Lanschot, Volt MEP: volteuropa.org/news/why-volt-…

Montenegro, which has been an EU accession candidate country since 2010, hopes to become the European Union's 28th member by 2028. #EuropeNews ➡️ l.euronews.com/jdiX

It will take decades to fix the damage being done to American science.

Remembering the often xenophobic talk about "all these poor Poles coming here" which fuelled so much of the Brexit debate, it's quite the turn-around to see in Financial Times that🇵🇱 is on the verge of having more GDP per capita than🇬🇧👇 That's Poland which stayed 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐔

May 9, Europe Day, is coming. A good time to remind us that we need the UNITED STATES OF EUROPE NOW! I just launched this poster campaign to make us aware of a simple truth: Europe is the way forward! /1

This is categorically false. Not merely a stretch, but a straight-up lie. Congress (not Biden alone) appropriated roughly $188 billion total for Ukraine-related support from 2022–2024. NOT $350 billion. Of that, the bulk (~$110–130B in security/military categories) stayed right

President Obama to Stephen Colbert: "We can survive a lot — bad policy, funky elections, there's a bunch of stuff that, you know, we can overcome." "We can't overcome the politicization of our justice system, the awesome power of the state. You can't have a situation in which

81 years of the end of WWII "The question which must be resolved first is the definitive abolition of the division of Europe into national States. Feelings today are already far more disposed to accept a federal organization of Europe" Ventotene Manifesto 1943

Expanding joint EU debt issuance would save governments billions of euros in borrowing costs, former Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta tells POLITICO in an interview. politi.co/4d30voM

If Labour is going to spend the next few months arguing about who should be PM, they should at least agree on one thing: these damaging red lines on Europe have to go. A customs union is vital to grow our economy and to tackle the cost-of-living crisis.