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The EU’s diplomatic service called for the release of Mikalai Khilo, who received a four-year sentence.

The X owner and Donald Trump pick will never, ever stop posting — governments be damned.

Sébastien Lecornu warned that if the program opens the door to non-EU arms producers, “it’s better to do nothing.”

Kyiv’s decision not to renew a deal with the Kremlin hasn’t sparked the catastrophe the Slovak prime minister imagined.

No such connection has yet been uncovered, the president said.

What the European Union will be squabbling about in the Commission’s upcoming term.

5 totally not tongue-in-cheek reasons to be optimistic about the year ahead.

Familiar trends characterized a year marked by elections and bloodshed.

Elections, war and porn: The stories that captured your attention over the past 12 months.

Kyiv hasn’t commented on the FSB’s claim, which comes 10 days after Ukraine assassinated Russia’s chemical weapons chief in Moscow.

POLITICO asked politicians and chroniclers of SW1 to tell us the book they most enjoyed reading this year — here are the results, in their own words.

According to analysts, the ship was part of a mission evacuating Russian bases in Syria.

Experienced fighter warns Taiwan needs “a wake-up call” to effectively counter the threat posed by China.

Burnett is seen as the architect of Trump’s post-bankruptcy image — and is largely responsible for Trump’s rise to the national spotlight as a high-powered Manhattan businessperson.

“The enemy is trying to use this situation in its information operations to sow panic among citizens of Ukraine and abroad,” says Kyiv’s deputy PM.

Renew MEP says Belarus is testing the bloc’s “position and response,” and that Brussels must “send a clear message” to Minsk.

Vatican and Iraqi security forces intercepted a suicide bomber during the first ever papal visit to the country, the pontiff writes in his autobiography.

New ‘personality right’ comes as UK creative industries lobby hard against copyright shake-up that would help AI firms.

The Chinese national was described by an aide to British royal as sitting “at the very top of a tree that many, many people would like to be on.”

Romanian tax authorities are now investigating ultranationalist Călin Georgescu and the TikTok activists who promoted his campaign.

Letter expressing no confidence in Alan Turing Institute’s top team comes amid external criticism of the prestigious state-funded body.

During leak investigations, Trump’s DOJ obtained phone and email records of two House Democrats and dozens of congressional staffers.

The French navy’s Atlantique 2 aircraft was over the Baltic Sea to track Russian vessels and show support for allies.