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The completed tie-up combines Boerse Stuttgart Digital’s custody business with Tradias’ trading operations under a joint management team. Boerse Stuttgart Digital and institutional crypto trading firm Tradias have completed their merger after clearing the required ownership control procedure, creating a combined digital asset infrastructure unit with about 300 employees. The transaction was first announced in February, when the companies agreed to combine their regulated crypto businesses and expand their services for banks, brokers and other financial institutions across Europe. The merged business will operate under the Boerse Stuttgart Digital name, while Tradias will remain the brand for trading services, according to a Wednesday announcement. Read more

Ukrainian drone and missile maker Fire Point has secured agreements from European defense companies for the Freyja missile defense project, its CEO said.

RL1 began operations as a member-owned blockchain cooperative backed by 10 European financial institutions, including ABN AMRO, DekaBank and Natixis CIB. Ten European financial institutions have launched Regulated Layer One (RL1), a jointly owned blockchain cooperative designed for regulated financial markets and tokenized assets.  On Tuesday, the group announced that RL1 had been established as a European Cooperative Society in Luxembourg and had begun operations with founding members including ABN AMRO, Cecabank, Chartered Investment, Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale, DekaBank, DZ BANK, LBBW, Natixis CIB, SC Ventures and Seturion.  RL1 said each member will have equal decision-making rights over the network’s governance and development. Read more

RL1 began operations as a member-owned blockchain cooperative backed by 10 European financial institutions, including ABN AMRO, DekaBank and Natixis CIB. Ten European financial institutions have launched Regulated Layer One (RL1), a jointly owned blockchain cooperative designed for regulated financial markets and tokenized assets.  On Tuesday, the group announced that RL1 had been established as a European Cooperative Society in Luxembourg and had begun operations with founding members including ABN AMRO, Cecabank, Chartered Investment, Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale, DekaBank, DZ BANK, LBBW, Natixis CIB, SC Ventures and Seturion.  RL1 said each member will have equal decision-making rights over the network’s governance and development. Read more

This makes Belgium the fourth European country with an import ban on Israeli settlements. Spain was first in September 2025, followed by the Netherlands and then Ireland. 

Ukraine and nine European countries have announced the creation of an Integrated Anti-Ballistic Missile Coalition.

Ukraine's Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets, has called on European partners to continue supporting Ukrainians who fled the country because of Russia's war, while stressing that safe return will only be possible once proper conditions are established in Ukraine.

President Volodymyr Zelensky has invited the Irish government to join a European anti-ballistic initiative as part of the proposed Drone Deal framework.

The European Union's Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) has triggered a fight among licensed crypto exchanges to capture users and deposits from platforms that may no longer be allowed to serve the bloc. The new regulation, which is set to take full effect on July 1, hardens the line between firms with bloc-wide authorization and those still […] The post European crypto users are being paid to move before MiCA closes the door appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Banks across Europe and South Korea will study whether regulated euro and won stablecoins can enable real-time cross-border foreign exchange settlement. Chainlink has joined a working group with European and South Korean banking organizations to explore the use of stablecoins for foreign exchange (FX) settlement, underscoring how blockchain technology is increasingly being tested to modernize legacy financial infrastructure. On Tuesday, Chainlink announced Project Pangea alongside South Korean digital asset infrastructure company FairSquareLab, the Unified Korea Alliance (UniKA) — a consortium that includes more than a dozen Korean commercial banks — and Qivalis, a euro stablecoin consortium backed by 37 European banks. Project Pangea aims to bring together financial institutions across Europe and South Korea to evaluate direct, atomic swaps of euro- and South Korean won-denominated stablecoins using Chainlink’s data infrastructure alongside FairSquareLab’s onchain foreign exchange settlement technology. Read...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis discussed diplomatic efforts, Ukraine's European integration, and continued support for Ukraine.

El Al has signed a new codeshare agreement with airBaltic, expanding access to European destinations via Riga starting July 1.

The decision to open the first cluster of negotiations on Ukraine’s accession to the European Union is a recognition of Ukrainians’ resilience and the irreversibility of their European choice.

A joint European ballistic missile defense system should serve as the strategic response to Russian terror.

Ukraine has signed nearly 20 agreements on the joint production of defense equipment with European countries and views international cooperation as a key avenue for developing its domestic defense-industrial complex.

President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced that Ukraine is preparing meetings with several key European partners, including discussions focused on strengthening the country’s air defense capabilities.

European luxury brands have sharpened their focus on the United States, with a surge of store openings and fashion shows to lure a new crop of wealthy shoppers enriched by the AI and tech boom and offset weak consumer confidence in the rest of the world. After two years of contraction, the luxury goods sector was showing signs of stabilisation until the Iran war that began at the end of February, disrupting travel and denting luxury spending far beyond the Middle East. And China, the biggest source of luxury sales growth for two decades, is still struggling to tackle deflation and the lingering impacts of a property crisis, so the sector needs rich Americans more than usual. “The US high-end consumer has been much more resilient than we are seeing elsewhere, especially in Europe,” said Marcus Morris-Eyton, portfolio manager at AllianceBernstein in London, adding that the continued AI rally and healthy wage growth have boosted this cohort of spenders. Luxury brands, such as LVMH, Moncler and Gucci, have been q...

President Volodymyr Zelensky believes that incidents involving Russian drones crossing into European countries are a form of political pressure by Russia against Ukraine's partners, and stated that Ukraine is trying to intercept all enemy drones.

Ukraine views Africa as a strategic direction not only for strengthening its international standing and partnerships, but also as an important element of its European integration through participation in joint economic and security initiatives with the European Union.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has proposed that European countries conclude bilateral drone deals with Ukraine, stating that this would significantly strengthen the security of the continent.