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By Euronews Published on 21/07/2025 – 11:24 GMT+2 Key diary dates Monday 21- Wednesday 23 July: Delegations from the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs and Budget committees will travel to Washington DC. Tuesday 22 July: EU Council working party on trade questions to review foreign investment screening. Wednesday 23 July: EU Council Ad Hoc…
ADVERTISEMENT Members of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group (UDCG), chaired by the UK and Germany, are meeting Monday to discuss US President Donald Trump’s plans for NATO allies to provide Ukraine with weapons. The UDCG — also known as the Ramstein format — comes after Trump said that arms deliveries,…
ADVERTISEMENT A debate has erupted in France over whether the country’s population works hard enough, after Prime Minister François Bayrou suggested getting rid of two public holidays to boost the economy. “The entire nation needs to work more to produce and for the country’s overall activity to be more significant…
By Euronews with AP Published on 19/07/2025 – 13:47 GMT+2 ADVERTISEMENT Russia launched more than 300 drones and over 30 missiles towards different cities in Ukraine overnight into Saturday morning, killing at least one person and injuring several others, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said. “Rescue operations are underway following the attack: the…
Published on 18/07/2025 – 16:12 GMT+2 ADVERTISEMENT Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that his top priority for this election period is to pull Germany out of recession and strengthen European defence. Speaking to journalists at the chancellor’s traditional summer briefing on Friday, the German leader delivered a sharp criticism of…
ADVERTISEMENT Germany deported 81 Afghanistan nationals to their country of origin on Friday, marking the second such operation since the Taliban seized power in 2021 and the first under Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s new government, which has promised a firmer stance on immigration. In a statement, the Interior Ministry confirmed that…
ADVERTISEMENT Torre Pacheco, a town in Spain’s south-eastern region of Murcia, has made headlines this week after a pensioner was beaten up by three young men, sparking protests which spiralled into violent unrest. The 68-year-old victim of the attack, Domingo, has said he was taking his routine morning walk when…
ADVERTISEMENT The European Union has agreed to impose a new round of sanctions against Russia, targeting the country’s energy and financial sectors in a bid to tighten the screws on the Kremlin’s war machine and force a temporary ceasefire in Ukraine. The sanctions, endorsed on Friday by ambassadors in Brussels,…
Published on 17/07/2025 – 12:32 GMT+2 •Updated 13:02 ADVERTISEMENT The voting age will be lowered to 16 in England and Northern Ireland by the next general election as part of a major overhaul of the electoral system, the British government announced on Thursday. The government said the proposals aimed to…
Published on 17/07/2025 – 20:57 GMT+2 ADVERTISEMENT European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Thursday that the EU will launch talks on a security and defence partnership with Iceland. “We will cooperate more closely on hybrid threat response, civil protection and secure communications,” von der Leyen said in…
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