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ECB Model Approvals from October 1: How the Capital Safeguard Works
The ECB’s early implementation approach starts on October 1, 2026. Here is how approval, risk-weight floors and targeted on-site reviews fit together.
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Explore European politics, security and economic change, including the European Union and its neighbours. These stories examine national choices, cross-border tensions and their consequences for people and businesses.
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Ukraine’s Kursk Incursion: Hold, Retreat or Push Further?
After seizing almost 1,000 square kilometres in Kursk, Ukraine must decide whether to hold, pull back or dig in near the border — a choice that could shape…
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Ukraine’s Kursk Incursion: Advance, Risks and End Goal
Six days in, Ukrainian units had pushed up to 40km toward Kursk, catching Moscow off guard. Accounts from wounded soldiers show rapid gains, heavy risks and an end…
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Ukraine’s Surprise Incursion Into Russia’s Kursk Region
Three days in, Ukraine's cross-border raid has taken at least 350 sq km in Kursk, with fighting around Sudzha and Korenevo as Russia races to respond.
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Russia’s Summer Offensive Grinds Down Ukraine in Donbas
Russia is gaining up to 1km a day in Donbas at huge cost, with Pokrovsk now its main target as Ukraine runs short of shells, troops and morale.
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Ukraine Corruption Tapes Deepen Crisis for Zelensky Government
Anti-corruption wiretaps portray graft as routine inside Ukraine's presidential office, as former defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov challenges Volodymyr Zelensky amid war and economic strain.
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Norway’s King Haakon VIII Takes Oath After Harald V Dies
Haakon VIII took Norway's oath of allegiance on September 1st after the death of Harald V. He inherits 72% support — and family scandals that have tested the…
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Ukraine Holds the Front Line but Faces Strain at Home
Ukraine’s drone-led forces have steadied the front and Europe is releasing aid, but manpower shortages, energy damage and political strains raise hard questions about a longer war.
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Ukraine Moves Kramatorsk Industry West to Escape Russia
Kramatorsk’s factories are being transplanted to Perechyn near Ukraine’s western border as Russian troops advance, testing whether an entire industrial ecosystem can move.
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Ukraine’s drone strikes on Tuapse oil hub: fires and Black Sea spill
Ukrainian drones struck Rosneft's Tuapse oil hub repeatedly in April, killing two people, igniting fires and spilling oil across about 50km of Black Sea coastline.