The vessel was intercepted on Sunday morning off the coast of the island of Pantelleria. The oil tanker was flying the Cameroonian flag, and its crew were initially uncooperative. Tajani: “We must press Putin to come to the negotiating table”

The crisis has reignited the tensions caused by the demographic issue. The need for sound policy and a cultural and psychological battle. Consideration should be given to a European agency for migrants

The Israeli Prime Minister’s elder brother, aged just thirty, was the only casualty of the Entebbe mission. Victory as survival, in the never-ending war

Ceuta is the perfect symbol of the politics of fear. Trump uses it against the Democrats, whilst MAGA supporters use it against Europe. But it is Morocco that lies at the heart of the American geopolitical game

Amid the chaos in Spain (60,000 arrivals, 48,000 already returned), two forms of demagoguery are emerging: the self-defeating stance of closure (‘what if this happened to us?’), and the folly of denial (‘problems aren’t solved: they’re denied’). But there is a solution: more Europe

The US president is ignoring the anti-American axis at his own peril. If Washington does not exert pressure to break up this alliance, the outcome of the war in Iran – and much more besides – will be at stake, warns the Wall Street Journal