Polish President Karol Nawrocki said he won’t sign a legislation designed to give his country a quick access to €43.7 billion ($50.3 billion) from the European Union’s loans-for-weapons program in a ...

A top Polish official called into question a core financing instrument designed to boost the European Union’s defense capabilities, saying the €150 billion ($177 billion) loans-for-weapons program ...

Nawrocki’s veto has left the financing of one of Europe’s most ambitious military build-ups tied to the next move in Poland’s institutional standoff. Address by Polish President Karol Nawrocki on 12 ...

Karol Nawrocki, President of Poland [Klaudia Radecka/NurPhoto via Getty Images] Poland’s ferocious dispute over EU defence loans reached a fever pitch on Thursday as nationalist president Karol ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Poland’s Eurosceptic president has vetoed the use of €44bn in EU funding for defence, arguing that Brussels ...

Maybe it is a coincidence, but maybe not: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is accusing Ukraine of a plot to sabotage his country’s energy infrastructure just weeks ahead of an April parliamentary ...

On April 12, 2026, Hungarians will head to the polls for what could be the most consequential parliamentary elections in Europe this year. Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has consolidated power for ...

Poland’s President Karol Nawrocki has vetoed legislation that would have enabled the country to access nearly €44 billion in EU defence loans, escalating a political clash with the government of Prime ...

Ekrem Imamoglu, mayor of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, giving a speech in front of the Istanbul Palace of Justice on January 31, 2025 [Photo: X / @ekrem_imamoglu] The trial of 402 defendants, ...