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.…

Published on 09/09/2026 – 16:48 GMT+2 The EU has announced an affordable housing plan aimed at encouraging long-term rentals and making housing more accessible for Europeans. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Unveiled on Wednesday, the plan aims to create clarity and predictability in how rules are applied by local authorities, particularly in neighbourhoods…

Four years after the European Union launched a plan to break its dependence on Russian oil and gas and accelerate the clean energy transition, an audit presented by the European Court of Auditors (ECA) on Wednesday said the bloc’s plan is falling well short of its ambitions. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Russian…

Published on 09/09/2026 – 20:30 GMT+2 The same week that Ceuta’s president, Juan Jesús Vivas, travelled to Brussels in a cry for help, we are joined by Czech centre-right MEP Tomáš Svetechovský and German Socialist MEP Birgit Sippel for their points of view. One month on from the arrival of…

Six hours of footage and a torrent of racist, misogynistic and conspiratorial remarks. The local newspaper Midi Libre has published video from a night-time patrol by Carcassonne’s municipal police, recorded on 6 November 2025. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Captured inadvertently by one officer’s body camera, which they thought was switched off, it…

Published on 09/09/2026 – 20:52 GMT+2 A plane carrying Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy from Moldova to Oslo was nearly hit by a drone, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store said on Wednesday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “His flight was almost hit by a drone when it was taking off from Moldova. That…

I am travelling to Latvia for a work trip centred on three d’s: drones, defence and debesmanna. Squeezing in time to the Rīga Conference and other sites relevant to the country’s upcoming EU council presidency is a must, too. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Meanwhile, my colleagues in Brussels are holding down the…

Published on 09/09/2026 – 19:07 GMT+2•Updated 19:09 The European Commission unveiled on Wednesday a legislative proposal allowing EU public authorities to favour European companies in public procurement for key public services such as energy, water, railways, ports, airports and postal services. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The move comes as European policymakers seek…

Published on 09/09/2026 – 18:33 GMT+2 The European Parliament will debate the situation in Ceuta next Tuesday in Strasbourg, in what is expected to be a heated political confrontation, following a decision by the Parliament’s political group leaders in Brussels on Wednesday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The centre-right European People’s Party (EPP)…

Published on 09/09/2026 – 17:31 GMT+2 The European Commission has granted the Spanish government 114.7 million euros from its emergency aid fund to deal with the migration crisis that Ceuta has been facing since the end of July, in what the institution describes as an act of “solidarity” with Spain.…