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Record temperatures are sweeping across Spain and into Finland. This summer, droughts have spread across Europe, prompting urgent water rationing measures and temporary bans on non-essential water uses. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The World Weather Attribution links current droughts to months of below-average rainfall and record heat between April and June. In…
A member of the European Parliament takes the floor, delivering an impassioned speech. Then the camera zooms out, revealing an awkward reality: a nearly empty chamber, with only a few dozen lawmakers scattered across the benches. Many are glued to their phones, while hundreds of seats remain vacant. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT…
Hungarian lawmakers approved former supreme court chief András Baka as the country’s new president on Tuesday following the contested removal last month of the previous head of state as pro-EU conservative Prime Minister Péter Magyar pushes to loosen his predecessor’s lingering hold over state institutions. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Parliament, where the…
Published on 11/08/2026 – 17:29 GMT+2•Updated 18:05 The United Kingdom is on course to record its “warmest summer on record,” according to the country’s national weather service. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Provisional statistics released by the Met Office on Tuesday showed that the current recorded mean temperature across the UK from 1…
Published on 11/08/2026 – 17:54 GMT+2 Paris is cracking down on rules for users of rideables such as electric scooters, Segways, and electric skateboards, as crashes involving such devices continue to rise in the French capital. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Police officers have launched a targeted operation in the city to enforce…
When news broke that members of the Taliban visited Brussels in late June to discuss migration with European Union officials, Sami Samar said she was left crestfallen. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “I was so disappointed because we really count on European countries as they believe the principle of human rights and the…
Published on 11/08/2026 – 15:40 GMT+2 Europe’s prolongued drought is putting immense pressure on Hungary’s Villány wine region, where scorching temperatures are taking a heavy toll on grape production. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Due to the lack of rainfall, berries are smaller, while vines struggle to survive in the relentless heat. Beyond…
Published on 11/08/2026 – 12:50 GMT+2 Residents of several villages in northern Poland’s Ciechanów County have been warned to stay away from woodland areas after reports of a large cat in the area, which could be a puma. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The warning applies to people in the villages of Osiek-Wólka,…
Water is under stress when we use 20 percent of renewable freshwater resources, and severely stressed at 40 per cent, according to the European Environmental Agency (EEA)’s Water Exploitation Index Plus (WEI+). Today, 30 percent of Europeans and 20 percent of land face water scarcity each year, according to the…
By Holger Mann (SPD), is a memeber of the German parliament und a member of the Bundestag Committee on Cultural and Media Affairs Published on 11/08/2026 – 7:00 GMT+2 The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not represent in any way the editorial position of…
