The UK has threatened Russia with massive consequences and financial sanctions if Ukraine is invaded.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has scheduled a special meeting of the NATO-Russia Council (NRC) next week, as tensions boil between Moscow and the West over a range of issue, including Ukraine.

Germany is seeking to turn the European Union into a federalist "Fourth German Reich", says Jaroslaw Kaczynski, Poland’s deputy prime minister.

Police fired teargas and used water cannons to disperse protesters as demonstration over government-imposed COVID-19 restrictions turned violent in Brussels.

Uber drivers have blocked the main street leading from the European institutions to the center of Brussels on Thursday in anger about a court ruling which will see their activities halted from Friday evening.

Huge march against preemptive COVID-19 restrictions in Brussels grows violent as protesters clash with the police.

Several hundred protesters marched through Brussels towards the European Parliament, calling for decisive action on climate change from world leaders as they prepare to gather in Scotland for the COP26.