Why terrorists love PlayStation 4
International security services struggle to decrypt communication via Sony’s PlayStation 4, according to Jan Jambon, Belgium’s Interior Minister. “The most difficult communication between these...
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Why Brussels is a terrorism hotspot
Brussels is in the spotlight after it emerged that two of the perpetrators of the Paris terrorism attacks lived in the city. Why does Brussels have a terrorism problem? Speaking at length at a POLITICO...
View ArticleBritish EU reform deal unlikely to meet December deadline
Prime Minister David Cameron and his European Union counterparts are still a long way from agreeing a deal to renegotiate Britain’s membership, according to Jonathan Faull, the EU administrator leading...
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Belgium’s surreal #Brusselslockdown dancing cats
When police asked social media users not to post details of their operations during the five days in which Brussels was on lockdown because of a raised terror threat, they responded by sharing...
View ArticleDonald Tusk calls for 18-month screening of refugees
Migrants to Europe should be detained for as long as is necessary to check their identity up to the 18-months allowed for by international law, European Council President Donald Tusk has said. He said...
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UK launches first air strikes in Syria
British bombers carried out their first air strikes on Syria less than one hour after MPs backed Prime Minister David Cameron’s call for the U.K. to join the raids against Islamic State. The strikes...
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Brexit video mocks EU’s Syrian response
“We come in peace. You leave in pieces,” is just one of the many jaw-dropping lines in this video posted Wednesday on the YouTube channel of Leave.EU, one of the rival groups hoping to be the official...
View ArticleLabour party wins by-election
The U.K. Labour party comfortably won a by-election on Thursday, easing pressure on the party’s leader, Jeremy Corbyn, after the parliamentary vote on Syrian air strikes earlier in the week exposed...
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Croatian picks up award, loses pants
Ivan Zvonimir Čičak definitely had a worse day than you. The head of Croatia’s leading human rights group was posing for a photo with president Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović when his pants dropped to his...
View ArticleMoedas: Innovation needs diversity
“We need diversity to get better results. We need people who think differently,” the European commissioner for research, science and innovation said on Tuesday. Carlos Moedas said the “greatest...
View ArticleCameron ‘flirting with Brexit’
U.K. Chancellor George Osborne was quizzed about David Cameron’s “seemingly endless renegotiation tour” when he stood in for his leader at the weekly Prime Minister’s Questions session in the U.K....
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David Cameron fails to convince Poland on EU reforms
Poland doesn’t see “eye-to-eye” with David Cameron’s proposal to curb benefits for EU migrants, Prime Minister Beata Szydło said at a press conference Thursday. Szydło said that some of the British...
View ArticlePeople-smugglers could face 35 years in prison for Aylan’s death
Turkish prosecutors want 35-year jail terms for the alleged people-smugglers blamed for the death of Aylan Kurdi, the three-year-old boy whose washed-up body came to symbolize this summer’s refugee...
View ArticleEU aims to boost border agency
The European Union is weighing a proposal to establish a permanent border force with the power to intervene if it believes countries are failing to police external frontiers effectively. The...
View ArticleBouquet and brawl in Ukrainian parliament
Scuffles are not unknown in Ukrainian politics but they rarely involve flowers. Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk was interrupted during his annual address in the Verkhovna Rada Friday in...
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Everything you need to know about the elections in France
The French go to the polls again Sunday in the second round of regional elections, after the far-right National Front won the first round December 6. Here is everything you need to know: What are the...
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David Cameron: Trump ‘stupid and wrong’ about Muslims
Donald Trump’s call for Muslims to be banned from the United States is “divisive, stupid and wrong,” U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron said Wednesday. The prime minister was asked by Labour MP Tulip...
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The worst predictions of 2015
They say predicting the future is a fool’s game and so it proved for many in 2015. We take a look back at this year’s worst predictions. Things can only get better for Greece At the end of 2013, the...
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Jeremy Corbyn reshuffles his team
Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the U.K.’s opposition Labour Party, finally concluded a reshuffle of his shadow cabinet late Tuesday night after more than 30 hours of negotiations. The Labour leader was...
View ArticleDenmark to seize refugees’ valuables
The Danish parliament secured a majority Tuesday for a bill allowing authorities to confiscate cash and jewelry from asylum seekers despite widespread international criticism. The legislation permits...
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