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The Tory libertarian right has been destroyed by the failures of Johnson and Truss, while Donald Trump’s return looks less certain by the day

Timmermans warns of more difficult winters ahead and expresses disgust at Hungarian efforts to curry favour with Putin

European Commission is expected to recommend suspending billions earmarked for Budapest

Zsuzsa Hegedüs ‘severs’ relationship after right-wing leader’s claims about ‘race-mixing’

What wealth can’t always buy is admiration. And that’s an area in which the tech titans have suffered major losses

Soros urges West to defeat Putin ‘to preserve our civilization’

Delay risks slowing momentum for global OECD levy deal ahead of crucial midterm elections in the United States

Inside Politics: Dutch prime minister and senior US democrat arrive in Ireland

Russian president claims invasion of Ukraine safeguarding motherland from the hostile West

Efforts under way to save Ukrainian fighters trapped inside, Zelenskiy says

Brussels officials seeking consensus on an embargo as part of the latest package of sanctions against Moscow

Some states have frozen very few assets of sanctioned oligarchs and companies

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has forced a reckoning – but Vladimir Putin retains powerful friends in the West

If Macron is re-elected, it will be less because of what he is than what he is not: a crypto-fascist

Macron’s rival for French presidency would push foreign policy that would sunder West

President faces tricky act of wooing voters on right and left in France divided in three blocs

In The News: Speed of sanctions reflects growing consensus across Europe

Orban’s ‘unfair’ election victory brings potential headaches for Brussels’ war response

Moscow denies accusations related to killing of civilians in Bucha where mass grave found

Leader of opposition says he disputes whether election was ‘democratic and free’

Right-wing candidate and Putin ally looks set to prevail as votes continue to be counted

Viktor Orban’s fence-sitting between Moscow and EU key issue as country goes to polls

Ireland has declined to provide lethal aid but has been a strong supporter in other ways

Countries split over whether to sanction oil, gas imports as Moscow wages war in Ukraine

The ground has shifted and Ireland’s approach to military defence will come under scrutiny like never before

Inna, whose sister lives in Dublin, fears for her husband who has signed up to fight in Kyiv

Poland and Hungary open their borders to receive families fleeing invasion

Even optimistic insiders only give six-party coalition 40% chance of victory in election

Q&A: Natural gas is Russia’s trump card as the EU, US and others weigh their next move

World View: Europe’s major powers are bystanders in what is a straight fight between the US and Russia

Ukraine’s EU neighbours expect an influx of refugees if Russia launches a major attack

A ruling by the EU’s top court clears the way for the union to cut funding to Poland and Hungary

Think tank linked to Budapest government wants former US president to pay a visit

French president does not see invasion of Ukraine as imminent as he visits Moscow and Kyiv

Costa has won plaudits for turning around Portugal’s post-crisis economy

Triumph of science is the big story this year, but we still struggle with the truth

Europe Letter: Ambition of French presidency may collide with Hungarian and Polish agendas

Defiant prime minister not for altering existing regime ‘and will not let anyone in’

The resilience of “Teflon Mark”, one-time budget hawk, is remarkable

Development nudges EU closer to being able to cut off flow of funds to wayward states