ADVERTISEMENTRomanians will go to the polls on Sunday to choose between hard-right candidate George Simion and pro-European independent Nicușor Dan, in a presidential election redo expected to shape the country’s future.After coming fourth in last year’s cancelled race, Simion, the 38-year-old leader of the Alliance for the Unity of Romanians…

ADVERTISEMENTPolitics is everywhere, including musicNew research on the past nine editions of the Eurovision Song Contest has revealed interesting voting patterns that reflect cultural and geographical proximity, with some notable surprises.The tightest bonds are among Mediterranean countries.Cyprus and Greece have had the strongest bilateral relationship, exchanging a whopping 267 points…

ADVERTISEMENTEuronews’ Eurovision aficionado Gerardo Fortuna, who has interviewed the show’s new top chief and several contestants, spoke with Radio Schuman about this year’s controversies and how organisers are working to ensure Eurovision doesn’t become a political competition.He delved into “flaggate”, this year’s favourites to win and why non-European countries participate.We…

ADVERTISEMENTOne week into his papacy, Pope Leo XIV has already found himself in the middle of multiple false narratives, much like Pope Francis before him.A social media post, for example, claims that an attached video shows the new pontiff deliberately snubbing and turning away from the LGBTQ rainbow flag as…

ADVERTISEMENTUS President Donald Trump complained on Thursday that the US was the only country not celebrating the 80th anniversary of the Allied victory against Nazi Germany in the Second World War last week, even though “we won the war.”He made the comments during an address to US troops stationed in…

ADVERTISEMENTThe EU’s highest military body is looking into strengthening the bloc’s mutual defence clause with a view of boosting interoperability and military mobility among European armed forces as the US increasingly looks to the Asia-Pacific.Austrian General Robert Brieger stressed on Thursday following a gathering of the European Union Military Committee,…

ADVERTISEMENTHard-right Romanian presidential candidate George Simion is spending his last campaign days not in Romania, but on a foreign tour. Simion is seeking the decisive votes of the Romanian diaspora and spreading his message, garnering support and fostering future European alliances if he emerges victorious on Sunday.As the latest Romanian…

ADVERTISEMENTRules and institutions established under US leadership in the aftermath of World War II are up in the air and up for negotiation, Irish Finance Minister and Eurogroup President Paschal Donohoe has told Euronews in an interview.With the United States threatening to withdraw defence support from Europe, the continent has…

ADVERTISEMENTEuropean Council President Antonio Costa continued his Western Balkans tour on Wednesday with a visit to Kosovo, another EU membership hopeful.Costa arrived in the capital Pristina during an institutional and parliamentary crisis. Even after three months of elections, the new parliament chair had not been chosen, and the new government…

ADVERTISEMENTRobinson, who as a member of the Elders group has met with key global figures including the late Pope Francis, French President Emmanuel Macron and China’s President Xi Jinping, criticised the United States for what she termed a “stupid” approach to climate change in an interview with Radio Schuman.She told…