Hungary is holding the EU’s 20th sanctions package on Russia “hostage”, a senior adviser to Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Euractiv, as Budapest continues to veto Brussels’ latest round of restrictive measures against Moscow. Vladyslav Vlasiuk, the Ukrainian president’s sanctions envoy, said Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s refusal to approve the package is …

Countries such as Hungary and Slovakia must be able to be overtaken in decision-making when the EU’s security is to be decided now and in the future, writes Juha Ristamäki. European leaders, including President of Finland Alexander Stubb, travelled to Kiev on Tuesday on the anniversary of the war of …

Internal Security Forces in Raqqa governorate announced they had dismantled a cell affiliated with the Islamic State group, which they said was behind two attacks that targeted a security checkpoint west of Raqqa city (northern Syria) over the past two days, killing four personnel and wounding others. Raqqa Internal Security …