I'm RFE/RL Europe Editor Rikard Jozwiak, and this week I am drilling down on two issues: the EU getting legally creative on Russia sanctions, and widening the scope of its visa liberalization ...

You are listening to the audio version of the Wider Europe newsletter, published on April 15, 2025, read by an AI-generated voice of RFE/RL's Europe Editor Rikard Jozwiak.

Extending sanctions against Russia has been one of the most pressing issues for the EU, especially this year. And Hungary's ...

"I've seen a lot in my life. I'm happy to be alive," says Pavlo Martsenyuk, a Ukrainian soldier who lost his sight in a mine explosion near the frontline city of Pokrovsk. With the support of his ...

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has begun a regional tour of Southeast Asia as Beijing looks to win over governments in the region and across Europe that are looking to balance their reliance on Washington ...

People laid flowers to remember victims of a deadly Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian city of Sumy. At least 34 people were killed and 117 were injured in the April 13 attack that came ...

"I've seen a lot in my life. I'm happy to be alive," says Pavlo Martsenyuk, a Ukrainian soldier who lost his sight in a mine explosion near the frontline city of Pokrovsk. With the support of his ...

A Ukrainian commander whose unit held off daily Russian assaults while trapped in freezing ruins for more than a month says ...

After more than two years of hearings and testimony from 125 witnesses, prosecutors with a special Kosovo court in The Hague ...

A Ukrainian commander who fended off constant Russian assaults in a freezing house says he and his comrades found strength ...

Kosovo war crimes prosecutors have laid out evidence, questioning scores of witnesses, building their case for why former President Hashim Thaci should be convicted over the killing or detention of ...

In eastern Ukraine, a small team of Ukrainian volunteers carries out a harrowing task: recovering the remains of Russian ...