In 2024, there were 23.2 million primary school students in the European Union, a figure virtually unchanged from the previous year, but the underlying trend has shifted over the past decade: today there are fewer students per teacher than in 2014. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The latest Eurostat data, released to coincide…

Published on 10/09/2026 – 10:31 GMT+2 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s plane was preparing to leave Chișinău for Oslo on Tuesday afternoon when Moldova’s military detected an unmanned aerial vehicle in the country’s airspace. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT What initially appeared to be another Russian drone incursion took on greater significance the following…

Published on 10/09/2026 – 9:51 GMT+2 As Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrives in Canada for talks with leader Mark Carney, Russia and Ukraine continue to exchange fire. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT At least three people were killed in Russian overnight attacks. Ukraine’s Armed Forces reported that Moscow attacked Ukraine with 149 drones…

The mass entry of around 80,000 migrants into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from Morocco was a “hybrid attack” on an “external border of the European Union”, Spain’s former foreign minister Arancha González Laya has told Euronews. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The goal was to “use migration as a tool” to “weaken”…

The European Commission is redirecting internal resources to Moldova’s enlargement process, after Chișinău’s reform pace outstripped the department’s capacity to keep up with it, EU officials told Euronews. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The Moldovan government has pushed through required reforms so quickly that the Commission is now playing catch-up, reallocating existing resources…

Published on 10/09/2026 – 6:00 GMT+2 August was the hottest month on record, tied with July 2023, according to data published on Thursday by the European climate observatory Copernicus. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Last month, the global average air temperature reached 16.96°C, which is 1.65°C higher than the pre-industrial reference period of…

An urgent memo from the National Intelligence Centre (CNI), declassified on Wednesday and dated 29 July, confirms that the agency was aware, at least 24 hours in advance, of the possibility of a migrant crossing linked to Morocco’s Throne Day celebrations. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The memo, declassified by the Spanish Prime…

Published on 09/09/2026 – 16:01 GMT+2•Updated 16:04 The Hungarian government has formally notified the European Commission of the reforms it has passed to address the EU’s rule of law concerns, in a move that could unlock €4.2 billion in cohesion funding and restore access to EU programmes. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “The…

Published on 09/09/2026 – 16:06 GMT+2 European cities will have greater powers to restrict short-term rentals such as Airbnb under EU plans unveiled on Wednesday aimed at tackling rising housing costs in popular tourist destinations. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The European Commission set out conditions under which local authorities will be able…

Published on 09/09/2026 – 16:17 GMT+2 A rescue operation is underway after a passenger train collided with a truck at a level crossing and derailed in Sokolniki Suche, near Warsaw, in Poland. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT There were 120 passengers on board the train. Twenty people were injured, four of them seriously.…