EU confirms plans to create a payments tool to help European companies trade with Iran

Spy chief finds a firm ally in German interior minister Seehofer

Italy’s finance minister is the calming voice amid tensions between Rome and Brussels

The danger is that the next step she takes will leave her even more politically marooned

EU leaders discuss old arguments over how to share the migration burden

Recent visits by EU diplomats to north African countries add intrigue to migration summit

The electoral process, first tried out in 2014, is facing something like a crisis of confidence

The UK’s departure is seen by some member states as an opportunity to revamp the world’s biggest development bank

There is a long way back for the former Italian prime minister in a country that has turned towards Eurosceptic agitators

MEPs may have put the Hungarian prime minister at bay, but he is far from beaten

MEPs are in a very public fight with the self-styled illiberal nationalist running Hungary

Wyclef Jean will push MEPs to vote against the ‘death of the internet’ and the ‘end of memes’

The Hungarian premier’s growing authoritarianism at home has divided the EPP eight months before European parliament elections

Talks on a peace deal between Serbia and Kosovo have provoked both excitement and alarm

Brexit is getting in the way of the Frenchman’s personal ambitions

A series of recent scandals about illicit flows of foreign cash brings together European governments’ biggest neuroses

Brussels has chosen to start talks with the US president with the threat of unilateral tariffs

Attempts by leaders to gin up momentum have so far delivered few real results

The country’s new-found political instability looks like it will last some time

Vladimir Putin reminds Europe’s hawks that he still has friends in a divided EU

According to the ‘doomsday’ notes, it may be time to get ready for the worst

The ‘Hansa’ have spent most of 2018 concentrating their energies on monetary union

The company’s fine will run to billions of euros and set a new bar for regulatory penance

The agreement will create the world's largest open area for trade

Politicians across Europe wait nervously on both the big picture and the fine detail of the Trump-Putin summit