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Umberto Bossi, the gravel-voiced founder of Italy’s Northern League who channelled regional anger into a political force that transformed the country’s landscape, has died at the age of 84. He passed away in a hospital in Varese, the Lombard town that served as both his political heartland and symbolic capital. #EUToday #LegaNord #UmbertoBossi #Obituary eutoday.net/obituary-umber…

Belgium is deploying soldiers to help protect synagogues and Jewish schools after the attack on a synagogue in Liège and a series of related security incidents elsewhere in Europe. #EUToday eutoday.net/belgium-deploy…

The scene in Brussels today was as revealing as it was dispiriting. While most European leaders arrived intent on unlocking urgent financial support for Ukraine, Viktor Orbán came with a different purpose: to block, to delay, and—critics increasingly argue—to serve interests far beyond Hungary’s borders. #EUToday eutoday.net/hungary-orbans…

@StudentofLife0 @EUPakistan @EU_Global_News @eureporter @Europarl_EN @eu_eeas @eucopresident @EUCouncil On March 25th EU Today will be raising these issues at the UNHRC in Geneva. We will also be working with Baloch activists during the week.

Why oh why is the EU silent @EUPakistan @EU_Global_News @eureporter @EU_today @Europarl_EN @eu_eeas @eucopresident @EUCouncil

EU leaders meeting in Brussels on Thursday have opened a summit overshadowed by two immediate pressures: a sharp rise in energy costs linked to the war involving Iran, and a continuing Hungarian blockade of a €90 billion EU loan package intended to support Ukraine’s wartime finances. #EUToday eutoday.net/eu-summit-open…

There is growing concern that Hungary is no longer merely an awkward partner but an active saboteur of collective decision-making. Diplomats warn that the delay risks undermining Ukraine’s financial stability at a critical juncture in its war against Russia, while simultaneously exposing dangerous fractures within the European Union. #EUToday eutoday.net/viktor-orbans-…

Iceland, long perched between independence and integration, is once again contemplating a future at the heart of Europe. #EUToday #Iceland eutoday.net/iceland-case-f…

Cuba hardens its tone as Washington sharpens its stance euglobal.news/havana-hardens… via @EU_Global_News

EU leaders will gather in Brussels on Thursday and Friday, 19th and 20th March, for a European Council meeting dominated by Ukraine and the wider security and economic consequences of the wars on Europe’s borders. #EUToday eutoday.net/eu-leaders-hea…

French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz are expected to discuss the troubled Future Combat Air System on the margins of the EU summit, as industrial conflict between Dassault and Airbus raises fresh doubts over one of Europe’s largest defence programmes. #EUToday eutoday.net/macron-and-mer…

A Brussels court has ordered former Belgian diplomat Étienne Davignon, now 93, to stand trial over his alleged role in the 1961 killing of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. #EUToday eutoday.net/belgian-court-…

The world’s fraudsters, once the preserve of crude phishing emails and improbable lottery wins, have evolved into something far more formidable, INTERPOL has warned. #EUToday #INTERPOL eutoday.net/interpol-globa…

The UK, Finland and the Netherlands say they are exploring a new mechanism by 2027 to finance joint defence investment & procurement, to increase munitions availability, strengthen industrial capacity & improve military interoperability. #DefenceMatters defencematters.eu/uk-finland-and…

Major European carriers are preparing to push back against the EU’s synthetic aviation fuel mandate, arguing that the timetable is out of line with supply and could add substantial costs to tickets. #EUToday eutoday.net/european-airli…

Stockholm has warned it could restrict electricity flows to neighbouring countries if the European Commission presses ahead with a proposal requiring grid operators to ring-fence part of their congestion income for EU-backed cross-border infrastructure projects. #EUToday eutoday.net/sweden-threate…

Pressure is building on the European Commission to conclude its investigation into Google’s search practices under the Digital Markets Act, turning Big Tech regulation into one of the clearest live EU policy stories in Brussels today. #EUToday #Google #GoogleAds eutoday.net/brussels-faces…

In European politics there is always a moment when “realism” begins to sound suspiciously like surrender. Belgium’s prime minister, Bart De Wever, appears to have reached that point. #EUToday #PoliticsToday eutoday.net/bart-de-wever-…

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that pressure on Ukraine to restore the Druzhba oil pipeline for the transit of Russian crude is, in practical terms, pressure to soften sanctions on Moscow. #EUToday eutoday.net/restoring-druz…

This morning, EU energy ministers met in Brussels to examine possible emergency responses after the war involving Iran drove oil and gas prices sharply higher and added new strain to European markets. #EUToday eutoday.net/eu-emergency-a…

@ThreeJacques @PaulGolding London Buses were actively recruiting in the W. Indies.

@EU_today @PaulGolding The Windrush migrants were not invited except in a tiny minority of cases. That whole story is a myth invented years later.

Black people came to Britain in the 1500s, until Elizabeth I expelled every last one of them. Then they came again, uninvited, on the Empire Windrush in 1948. That’s it, the entire history of black people in Britain. This ridiculous video is fiction!