Published on 19/05/2026 – 11:47 GMT+2 Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar said Tuesday he hopes to sign a political agreement with the European Commission “next week” on the release of EU funds that had been frozen during the previous government. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “Both sides will do everything they can to…

Published on 19/05/2026 – 11:55 GMT+2•Updated 11:56 Malaysia is seeking more than $251 million (€216 million) in compensation from a Norwegian company over a scrapped deal to supply a missile system for new warships, the defence minister said on Tuesday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Mohamed Khaled Nordin said the government had sent…

The European Union is increasingly accepting the idea of speaking directly with Russia to bring the full-scale invasion of Ukraine to an end. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The internal reassessment intensified after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, frustrated by the White House’s all-consuming focus on the Middle East, publicly urged Europeans to appoint…

Updated: 19/05/2026 – 13:12 GMT+2 European People Party MEP Željana Zovko warned that US “ideological fights” and EU “complex process procedures” could inhibit an EU-US deal from being reached at tonight’s high stakes talks in Strasbourg. Zovko also admitted she is “not so confident this morning”. … More

Published on 19/05/2026 – 12:07 GMT+2 Denmark’s former monarch, 86-year-old Queen Margrethe, has been released from hospital after undergoing an angioplasty procedure last week, the palace said on Tuesday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “Her Majesty Queen Margrethe was discharged from Rigshospitalet today and is returning to Fredensborg Palace,” it said in a…

Published on 19/05/2026 – 9:32 GMT+2•Updated 9:58 EU defence chiefs are gathering in Brussels this week to mark 25 years since the creation of the EU Military Committee, originally established in response to the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s. But amid the anniversary, the mood has been overshadowed by the…

People in the EU took 8.7 billion rail trips in 2024, amounting to a total of 444.5 billion passenger-kilometres, marking the highest level in years, according to the latest Eurostat figures. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Germany and France were the largest overall contributors to rail passenger transport performance, with 109.1 and 107.3…

Published on 19/05/2026 – 9:00 GMT+2 Last July, Trump and Ursula von der Leyen struck a trade deal in Scotland. The maths looked simple: zero tariffs on US industrial goods against a 15% cap on European exports. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT It was built to protect a relationship worth almost 1.68 trillion…

Published on 19/05/2026 – 7:50 GMT+2•Updated 8:01 Also on today’s show: ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Interview with Željana Zovko, Member of the European Parliament (European People’s Party), and Sean Clancy, Chair of the EU Military Committee. Explainer by Jakub Janas: What’s happening with the EU–US trade deal? Euronews’ Vincenzo Genovese reports live…

Published on 19/05/2026 – 7:00 GMT+2 The urgent need for NATO allies to ramp up weapons production in light of the war in Iran is high on the agenda for Tuesday’s meeting of military chiefs at NATO HQ in Brussels. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The US army is expending vast quantities of…