At least 12 migrants died off the northern French coast on Tuesday (3 September) trying to cross the Channel to England in the deadliest such disaster this year, the French government said after a major rescue operation.

Transport operators from Turkey and Greece have united around the idea of finding an alternative corridor to bypass Bulgaria because of the ongoing transport chaos in the country, the Chamber of the Bulgarian Road Hauliers (CBRH) has said.

Britain and the European Union must turn their "first steps" to rebuild trust into a "steady walk" as they confront common challenges, the president of the Eurogroup of eurozone finance ministers said on Tuesday (3 September) .

Schools in Czechia and Slovakia faced bomb threats on Tuesday morning, leading to school closures, modified schedules and urgent police investigations.

The Volhynia massacre, in which the Ukrainian Insurgent Army ethnically cleansed Poles in what is now eastern Ukraine during the Second World War, has come to haunt Polish-Ukrainian relations.

As Italy's Economy Minister Raffaele Fitto was put forward as Italy's choice for the commissioner role, former economy minister Enrico Giovanni, who penned much of the country's initial recovery and resilience plan, called for a stable transition.

Lisbon City Council will appeal a €1 million fine imposed on the municipality for sharing personal data on Russian anti-Putin activists with Moscow, the city council confirmed to Lusa on Tuesday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin was welcomed by honour guards and red carpets in the Mongolian capital on Tuesday (3 September) on his first visit to an International Criminal Court (ICC) member since it issued a warrant for his arrest last year.

At least 50 people were killed and 271 wounded when Russia hit a military institute in Ukraine's central town of Poltava with two ballistic missiles on Tuesday (3 September), the war's deadliest single attack this year.

Germany's centre-right CDU party has cleared the way for coalition talks with left-wing populist alliance BSW and the centre-left SPD in the state of Thuringia after regional elections narrowed the scope for a centrist formation.

As the EU gears up for a new era in defence, the focus is shifting to how the Commission and Parliament will align their differing interests. The new subcommittee's upgrade signals a stronger push for a unified strategy, but uncertainties persist.

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Ahead of the upcoming world climate conference, the EU will continue to insist that China and other large emitting countries pay their fair share of climate finance – but how remains subject to discussion.

Former European Central Bank President Mario Draghi – “the man who saved the eurozone” – will present his much-anticipated report on the future of European competitiveness to EU diplomats and leaders of the European Parliamentary groups on Tuesday (4 September).

While the EU Green Deal came with the promise of new jobs in green industries offsetting job losses elsewhere, these jobs are currently being created outside Europe, warned Judith Kirton-Darling, General Secretary of trade union IndustriAll Europe.

Illumina, a global leader in DNA sequencing technologies, has won a battle against the EU over its decision to block the merger between it and Grail, a company specialising in early cancer detection through genetic diagnostics.

France has updated its vaccination recommendations in the face of a rise in mpox cases in Central Africa linked to the clade I and clade Ib variants, despite the low risk of the virus being introduced into the country.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's Socialist Party (PSOE) should not “fall into the temptation” of echoing the discourse of the far-right as a possible electoral hook, a minister from left-wing coalition partner Sumar on Tuesday (3 September).

At a meeting in Cyprus on Tuesday (3 September), agriculture ministers from nine member states urged the bloc's executive to make rapid progress on policies on water security.

In France, the situation is starting to get embarrassing and potentially quite dangerous, almost two months after the second round of snap legislative elections, on 7 July.