The European Union marks its annual Europe Day on Thursday.

Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss will join the former leaders of Australia and Belgium at a conference in Tokyo later this month to call for a tougher international approach to China.

Outgoing U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been the bane of Brussels for all so many years.

A controversial disciplinary body within Poland’s Supreme Court has rejected a prosecutor’s request to arrest a judge who has become a symbol of resistance for those who believe judicial independence is threatened in the country.

COVID-19 has wrought division in the European Union.

The deal for the budget and recovery fund looked well on track to enter into force in January — until Hungary and Poland vetoed it this week. The Polish parliament passed a resolution Thursday backing the government’s plan to veto the EU budget if it included the rule-of-law condition. The resolution calls it unacceptable and inconsistent with the EU treaty to apply “different standards” to different members. The EU has opened legal procedures against the two countries over what it considers systemic threats to the rule of law. ___Frank Jordans in Berlin, Raf Casert in Brussels, and Vanessa Gera in Warsaw, Poland, contributed to this report.

The European Union still hasn't completely sorted out its messy post-divorce relationship with Britain but it has already been plunged into another major crisis. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)BUDAPEST – The European Union still hasn't completely sorted out its messy post-divorce relationship with Britain — but it has already been plunged into another major crisis. Tomas Valasek, the chairman of the European affairs committee in Slovakia's parliament, called Orban's argument “nonsense,” noting that the EU budget says nothing about migration. In 2018, the EU agency that investigates how the bloc’s money is spent carried out more investigations in Hungary than in any other EU country. “You are waging a war against two of your allies, the Hungarian local governments and the European Union," the mayor wrote.