EU leaders express solidarity with Gulf countries amid Iranian attacks
EU and Gulf Cooperation Council leaders condemn ‘unjustifiable Iranian attacks’ across region after talks in Brussels.

EU and Gulf Cooperation Council leaders condemn ‘unjustifiable Iranian attacks’ across region after talks in Brussels.









French president has urged the bloc to learn lessons from ‘the Greenland moment’ and undertake urgent reforms.
Transparency International says the average global score in its report is at its lowest level in more than a decade.
TikTok calls European Commission probe ‘meritless’, pledges to challenge findings the video platform harms minors.
Investigation into social media platform looks at complicity in crimes including Holocaust denial and child pornography.

Iran has announced that it now considers all European Union militaries to be ‘terrorist groups’.
![Iranians drive past a huge banner of former Iran Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani ahead of the sixth anniversary of his assassination at Valiasr Square in Tehran, Iran, 30 December 2025. [Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/13610431_cropped-1769715696.jpg?resize=730%2C410&quality=80)
Iran’s foreign minister labelled the EU as hypocritical after designating the IRGC a “terrorist” organisation.
Foreign minister announces apparent reversal of France’s stance, saying Iran protest crackdown ‘cannot go unanswered’.

India and the European Union have announced a landmark trade deal after two decades of talks, creating a market of two b
Major agreement reached after 20 years of negotiations and during ongoing tensions with the US.
The deal, set to cover a quarter of the global GDP, will create a free trade zone of two billion people.