The head of Poland’s parliament says the country’s presidential election will be held on May 18, with a runoff on June 1 if needed.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk took over the presidency of the Council of the European Union. On taking office, Tusk made clear what was central for him: Europe must be ready for war.

Russian gas tankers are receiving repairs in French and Danish ports, with France's president Emmanuel Macron coming under pressure to stop the practice. Thanks to a loophole in European Union sanctions, Vladimir Putin ’s fleet of Russian Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) tankers has been able to dock in French and Danish ports to receive repairs.

“We expect active joint work in the spirit of peace through strength with the newly elected U.S. President Trump,” Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said at a press conference alongside Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

Just days out from the return of Donald Trump to the White House, the future of Russia’s war against Ukraine is dominated by a great unknown: whether the incoming president will manage to push Moscow to stop its advance on the battlefield,

Poland rules out sending troops to Ukraine after the war, urging NATO members to share responsibilities and boost defense budgets to 5% of GDP.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he has held further discussions with French President Emmanuel Macron about the possibility of Western troops deploying in Ukraine to safeguard any peace deal ending the nearly three-year war with Russia.

President-elect Donald Trump has criticized the cost of the war for US taxpayers through major military aid packages for Ukraine, and vowed to bring the conflict to a swift end.

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President Nausėda called Trump’s Greenland remarks unacceptable; a new batch of 50 JLTVs arrived in Lithuania Wizz Air resumes Vilnius-Tel Aviv flights Hungary’s low-cost carrier Wizz Air is resuming flights from Vilnius to Tel Aviv,

France’s president has paid homage to former French Resistance activist and author Geneviève Callerot, who has died aged 108

Hundreds of Swedish troops arrived in Latvia on Saturday to join a Canadian-led multinational brigade along NATO's eastern flank, a mission Sweden is calling its most significant operation so far as a member of the Western defense alliance.