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‘Whiteness’, low youth engagement and lukewarm pro-Europeanism in some states risks eroding bloc’s founding values, expert says

In thinktank’s survey of 15 European countries, few respondents believe Ukraine can secure an outright victory

Polls predict huge gains for the far right in the European elections. But it is too fragmented to truly capitalise on them, says Cas Mudde of the University of Georgia

Israel has rejected a ceasefire and launched an operation in Rafah, raising fears that the war in Gaza could drag on.

The feared reprisal had been almost two weeks in the making. But when Iran finally pushed the button on its retaliatory attack against Israel late on Saturday, it appeared to amount to little more than a drawn-out light show, resulting only in minor damage to some remote Israeli military infrastructure…

Survey shows supporters of nationalist parties hold widely differing views on EU membership, migration and support for Ukraine

Resistance to further aid for Kyiv is growing ahead of meeting that comes almost two years into Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Polling reveals cool attitude to accession of Georgia and some western Balkan states, and opposition to admitting Turkey

Many Europeans don’t realise that EU enlargement is the only way to counter China and Russia – but this week, leaders must act, say Piotr Buras and Engjellushe Morina of the European Council on Foreign Relations