About $300bn of Russian central bank reserves were frozen at the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion. But the US only controls about $5bn, with most of it sitting in the EU, smaller amounts in Japan, the UK, Switzerland and other jurisdictions.

European Union governments and the European Parliament have reached agreement on harmonising the 27-nation bloc's insolvency laws to make it easier to invest across the EU and create a more liquid EU capital market,

The European Commission opened legal proceedings against Slovakia over a constitutional amendment claiming national law prevails over the bloc’s rules, escalating tensions between Brussels and Robert Fico’s government.

The European Union has introduced a new defense package to speed up the deployment of tanks and troops across its 27 nations.

Driscoll's team is the most senior military group to travel to Kyiv since Trump took office in January. He is joined by army chief of staff Gen Randy George, top US army commander in Europe Gen Chris Donahue, and Sergeant Major of the Army Michael Weimer.

The UK has rebuffed the European Union’s request that it pay €2 billion ($2.3 billion) to join the bloc’s massive defense fund, putting pressure on leaders to find a last-minute deal at a Group of 20 meeting this weekend.

The European Union has imposed sanctions on a top leader of Sudan’s paramilitary group over “grave and ongoing atrocities” committed by his forces in the more than two-year war with the Sudanese army,

Context: Trump has said the US will boycott the Johannesburg summit, the first G20 to be held on the African continent. The G20 was formed 26 years ago to promote co-operation among the world’s biggest economies on key issues including trade and financial stability.

Google has updated Android’s Quick Share feature to support Apple’s AirDrop, which allows users of Apple devices to share files directly using a local peer-to-peer Wi-Fi connection. Apple devices with AirDrop enabled and set to “everyone for 10 minutes” mode will show up in the Quick Share device list just like another Android phone would,

The European Union is in touch with social media network X regarding hate speech content on X's Grok, which the EU described as 'appalling' and going against European human rights values. "We are in touch with X,