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ADVERTISEMENT Poland will remain the biggest beneficiary of the EU’s proposed €2 trillion budget for 2028-2034, officials said Wednesday after the European Commission unveiled its draft multiannual financial framework. Polish Finance Minister Andrzej Domański called Poland “the biggest beneficiary of the biggest ever EU budget” with further funds available for…
ADVERTISEMENT Ukraine’s new government has approved plans to expand domestic arms production to meet half the country’s weapons needs within six months as it tries to push back Russian forces, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Thursday. “We are transforming the management of the defence sector and weapons production so that within…
Published on 17/07/2025 – 18:01 GMT+2 ADVERTISEMENT “We have entered an era of growing challenges from climate driven instability and global migration pressures to rising competition over critical raw materials, global influence and market access,” Jozef Sikela, European commissioner for international partnerships, said, during a presentation on the external action…
By Alessio Dellanna & Mert Can Yilmaz Published on 17/07/2025 – 17:35 GMT+2 ADVERTISEMENT Calls from the European Union and NATO for increased military spending aren’t exactly resonating among the EU public. A recent Eurobarometer poll showed EU citizens are not exactly eager to spend money on defence, despite growing warnings from NATO…
ADVERTISEMENT UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz signed a “first of its kind” defence and migration treaty between the two countries, formalising the commitment that each country will come to the other’s aid in the event of an attack. “This is a historic day for German-British…
ADVERTISEMENT For Ursula von der Leyen, the sky might not be the limit. Her proposal for the next seven-year budget of the European Union has taken Brussels by storm with its headline figure: €2 trillion, larger than any number rumoured or leaked in anticipation of the high-stakes announcement. The next…
ADVERTISEMENT A French court ordered the conditional release of a Lebanese pro-Palestinian communist militant on Thursday after more than 40 years in detention in France. Georges Ibrahim Abdallah was serving a life sentence for complicity in the murders of two diplomats, one American and one Israeli, in Paris in 1982.…
Published on 17/07/2025 – 13:01 GMT+2 ADVERTISEMENT A grieving widow is demanding answers about her husband’s death after his body was found in a toilet at a council building in Scotland six days after he entered the cubicle. 48-year-old Julie Stephen said she believed her husband Sean’s body was lying in…
ADVERTISEMENTNew rule of law conditions for payments in the next budget cycle proposed on Wednesday by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen could impact Hungary and threaten to cut off more funding channels from Brussels, according to draft rules seen by Euronews. “The rule of law must be respected…
ADVERTISEMENTOver one in five people in the European Union was at risk of poverty or social exclusion in 2024, according to the latest Eurostat figures.Despite a slight decrease of 0.4 percentage points compared to 2023, experts claim that this improvement cannot be revered.”We can’t celebrate a small decrease of 0.4…
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