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Europe Finally Names Its Team. The Hard Part Starts Monday.
EU leaders agreed in Dublin on Friday that Europe will be represented in Ukraine peace talks by the EU institutions plus France, Germany, Italy, Poland and the UK, with national security advisers doing the negotiating. It ends a week of open disagreement about who speaks for Europe. It settles very little about what Europe will say.
Brussels Is Writing Its 22nd Russia Package, and This Time the Trigger Is Arson and Drones
Ambassadors agreed on Wednesday to add 145 individuals and entities to the Russia sanctions list, to be signed off by foreign ministers on 16 November. A second package of more than a hundred measures targeting banks, energy firms and shadow-fleet tankers is being drafted for December, and EU officials are now linking it openly to sabotage and drone incursions on European soil.
Europe Has a Seat at the Table Now. It Still Cannot Agree Who Sits In It
Washington told the Europeans on Thursday that they will be in the room for the next round of Ukraine talks. Within hours, the leaders gathered in Dublin had demonstrated why that concession may be worth less than it looks: Estonia wants Costa and Kallas, France and Germany want the E3, and several prime ministers want to go themselves.
EU-LISA Sued IBM, Atos and Leonardo Over the Border System That Made Travellers Miss Flights
The EU's own IT agency filed a claim in an Estonian court on 22 December 2025 against the three-company consortium that built the Entry/Exit System. The case stayed secret for nearly a year, disclosed only in the agency's annual accounts. The agency says the system works. The queues say otherwise.
Four Countries Told to Carry the Migrant Caseload, and Fifteen Warned They Are Next
The Commission's second Annual Migration Management Cycle names Greece, Cyprus, Italy and Spain as under migratory pressure and eligible for the Solidarity Pool, puts fifteen member states at risk, and lists six facing a significant situation that can seek deductions. The 2027 pool's size is not public. The Council decides.
2,800 Troops, 11 Nations, No Americans: Europe Rehearses the Army It Would Send to Ukraine
Britain and France will lead KOALICJA 26.2 from 9 to 22 November, bringing 2,800 troops from 11 countries to Poland, France and Turkey to test how to move, protect and supply the Multinational Force-Ukraine. US troops will not take part. The drills begin the day before US, Russian and Ukrainian negotiators meet in Abu Dhabi.
Finland Jails a Russian Captain for 130 Kilometres of Dragged Anchor and Two Broken Cables
Helsinki District Court convicted the Russian captain of the cargo ship Fitburg and an Azerbaijani crew member of aggravated criminal damage on 5 November, finding they intentionally dragged the anchor along the Baltic seabed for about 130 kilometres, severing two telecommunications cables. Sentences were three and a half years and two years ten months, with €1.9 million in damages.