The French interior minister Laurent Nunez has filed a complaint against satirist and humourist Pierre-Emmanuel Barré for joking about the police on a radio show.

Brussels is likely to introduce a so-called “fat-tax” in the proposed European Union cardiovascular health plan.

Germany’s Federal Minister for Culture and Media, Wolfram Weimer, has been accused of selling access to politicians at an exclusive event for up to €80,000.

The European Union will not participate in a vote on a revised treaty at the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (COP11) in Geneva, Switzerland this month.

EXC: Italian journalist and novelist Ezio Gavazzeni talks to Brussels Signal about one of the most chilling criminal enterprises to emerge from the Balkan conflict — the alleged Sarajevo Safari.

Catalan separatist Carles Puigdemont has petitioned Spain’s Constitutional Court to suspend his outstanding arrest warrant.

COMMENT: The EU’s latest dystopian invention — the so-called European Democracy Shield — is not a shield with which to defend democracy; it is a sword intended to threaten and control the peoples of Europe, writes @rpintoborges.

Norway’s public broadcaster NRK has apologised after describing Poland’s annual Independence Day parade as a “Nazi march” during a morning TV segment.

The Italian government is preparing to begin construction of the bridge connecting Sicily with the mainland despite a temporary halt, which was ordered by an independent authority over costs, legality, and transparency.

The Poland football match against the Netherlands in their World Cup Qualifier was interrupted by flares thrown onto the pitch by Polish supporters.

COMMENT: The recent remarks of ECJ president Koen Lenaerts are yet another example of a Union in free fall, one that no longer tolerates political disagreement, writes @rodballester.

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European Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos is pushing for Ukraine’s accession to the European Union – despite a number of corruption scandals that have hit the country.

Energy-hungry industries in Europe are effectively “dying” as rising energy prices, the flood of cheap goods from China, and climate policy make survival increasingly difficult, according to the National Bank of Belgium.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said today that his government would take the European Union to court over its decision last month to phase out Russian gas imports.

German police have raided the home of a man in the south of the country after he referred to public servants as “parasites” in a post on X.

Google has announced changes to its advertising services to avert the risk of a break-up, two months after Brussels hit the US giant with a huge fine.