France’s appeal court is set to deliver a key verdict on whether Marine Le Pen and other members of her National Rally party misused European Parliament funds in the hiring of aides between 2004 and 2016. If, on Tuesday, the court upholds her 2025 conviction, which saw her barred from office for five years and … Read moreFrance’s Court of Appeal to rule on Le Pen conviction – what it’s all about
NATO leaders are meeting in Ankara, Turkiye on Tuesday and Wednesday. The summit gets underway as US President Donald Trump renews pressure on member states over defence spending. European nations are expected to respond with billions of dollars in new military contracts. At the NATO summit last year, members agreed to increase their target to … Read moreNATO summit begins in Turkiye’s Ankara: Who is attending, what is at stake?
French President Emmanuel Macron has arrived in Syria for talks with President Ahmed al-Sharaa, in the first visit by a leader from western Europe since Syria’s former dictator, longtime President Bashar al-Assad, was ousted from power in 2024. Macron was greeted at Damascus International Airport on Monday evening by Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shaibani. … Read moreMacron arrives in Syria for talks ahead of NATO summit in Turkiye
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte has demanded that NATO allies put forward “clear, concrete and credible plans” to reach the organisation’s spending targets at its annual summit in Ankara, Turkiye. Rutte was speaking in Ankara on Monday ahead of a two-day summit starting on Tuesday. It comes at a crucial time for the alliance, with the … Read moreNATO urges members to deliver plans for reaching defence spending targets