Ambassadors in Brussels had been in the room for almost 12 hours straight. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The list of topics seemed endless – competitiveness, defence, migration, climate action, the conflict in the Middle East and even a tobacco taxation directive – and diplomats were beginning to feel the strain. Then, just…

Tourism is a major source of income for many EU countries, but it is also increasingly a source of grievance for local communities as residents complain of housing shortages and rising costs. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Spain, Italy, and France are the top three European countries where the backlash against mass tourism…

Published on 04/06/2026 – 7:57 GMT+2•Updated 8:32 Also on today’s show: ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Interview with Ghassan Salamé, Lebanon’s Culture Minister. Euronews’ Sasha Vakulina reports on Mark Rutte’s surprise trip to Kyiv. Euronews’ Stefan Grobe reports on Germany losing its seat on the UN Security Council. When and where to watch…

Published on 04/06/2026 – 9:00 GMT+2 Albania, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovia, North Macedonia Kosovo are at various stages of trying to join the bloc. Geographically, the region is completely surrounded by the EU. For nearly two decades, a period of relative calm kept enlargement on the backburner, but Russia’s…

​Good morning from Brussels. I’m Mared Gwyn. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT We start with a major development in Ukraine’s bid to join the European Union. Hungary last night lifted its two-year-long veto on Kyiv’s accession talks after Prime Minister Péter Magyar announced a deal on the rights of the Hungarian-speaking minority in…

Published on 03/06/2026 – 10:29 GMT+2 A British Treasury minister has called the United Kingdom’s return to the EU “an inevitability”. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Lord Spencer Livermore, the financial secretary to the treasury, said on Monday that reversing Brexit was “absolutely” in the UK’s “national economic interest” while also touting the…

The government has already responded to Wednesday’s general stoppage, playing down its overall impact. Even so, the late afternoon was marked by scuffles outside the Assembly of the Republic, where one of several demonstrations against the labour law was taking place on this day of general strike. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT According…

Published on 03/06/2026 – 15:30 GMT+2•Updated 15:36 The European Commission said on Wednesday that new US tariff threats linked to forced labour were “unjustified”, arguing that EU legislation is already robust enough to ban such products. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The move comes as the EU prepares to implement a contentious trade…

Published on 03/06/2026 – 19:45 GMT+2 European Union countries that send rejected asylum seekers to deportation centres in third countries will need to explore “more tangible” human rights safeguards, Cyprus’ Deputy Minister for Migration, Nicholas Ioannides, has told Euronews. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT His comments come days after the bloc approved sweeping…

Italian police arrested two Pakistani nationals for the murder of four farm workers, three Afghans and one Pakistani, who were found dead in a burnt-out minivan in southern Italy, Italian media reported Tuesday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The vehicle was found at a petrol station near the village of Amendolara in a…