Greek far-left party Syriza has formed an anti-austerity coalition government with the right-wing Independent Greeks party after winning the country’s general election on Sunday.
Amid announcements by the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy that Ukraine and the EU were seeing “limited but positive signs” in Eastern Ukraine, hopes for a new and more constructive approach from Russia have emerged.
The Italian coastguard have boarded and taken control of a ship carrying 450 migrants, which was abandoned by its crew off Italy’s coast.
An EU court has removed Hamas from the union’s list of terror groups, after it found that the EU Council’s decision to keep the Palestinian Islamist movement on the list was flawed.
The Advocate General of the EU Court of Justice (EUCJ) has has thrown out the UK government’s challenge to the EU cap on bankers’ bonuses.