US President Donald Trump said it was time for Ukraine to get a new president, claiming Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has not tried sufficiently to bring an end to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “I suggest they get a new leader who can make a deal because he could…

Touchdown in Beijing: EU Trade Chief Maroš Šefčovič landed in China yesterday with a crucial task in hand: secure commitments from the Chinese to rebalance the trading relationship. The stakes couldn’t be higher, my colleague Peggy Corlin writes in this morning. The EU faces a record €1 billion-a-day trade deficit…

Published on 10/10/2026 – 11:24 GMT+2•Updated 12:38 Russian strikes on the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia killed at least 15 people, including three children, and injured 16 others on Saturday, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service (DSNS) said. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “Medical staff are doing everything they can to help everyone,” Ivan Fedorov,…

Ireland, which currently holds the EU’s rotating presidency, has proposed trimming the bloc’s next long-term budget by €141bn in a bid to win over the Germany-led ‘frugal’ countries. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The so-called negotiating box will anchor the sensitive budget talks when EU leaders meet next week. It concentrates most of…

Published on 10/10/2026 – 12:57 GMT+2 Czechs are heading to the polls on Saturday in the second day of voting to elect local representatives as well as a third of the Senate’s members, in what is being seen as a popularity test for Prime Minister Andrej Babiš. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Babiš,…

Europe risks weakening its industries if the UK is shut off from European supply chains as a result of the EU’s “Made in Europe” policy, the UK’s minister for European relations, Hamish Falconer, has told Euronews. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Speaking from Strasbourg on Wednesday, where he held talks with EU counterparts…

The European Union is rapidly coming to terms with the limitations of its multibillion-euro support for Ukraine, as Russia’s all-out escalation wrecks the country’s finances, depletes its air defences and deepens its reliance on cash-strapped donors. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “This war will last longer than we thought,” a European diplomat said,…

After a 28-year-old laboratory assistant working at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute in Siberia died from a “lung infection of unknown origin”, many questions remain unanswered. Most recently, even US President Donald Trump sounded the alarm. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT But how dangerous is the situation really? And how can plague research…

Published on 08/10/2026 – 10:22 GMT+2•Updated 13:25 UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham on Thursday arrived in Berlin on his first official visit to Germany for talks with Chancellor Friedrich Merz that focuses on cyber security and hybrid threats from Russia among others. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Burnham was received with full military…

Published on 09/10/2026 – 8:02 GMT+2•Updated 8:32 On today’s show: Emma Rafowicz, French Socialist MEP, discusses the student protests that culminated in a mass gathering at the Place de la Bastille, after Jean-Luc Mélenchon declared “the Bastille has been retaken”, and whether France is heading for a debt crisis. ADVERTISEMENT…