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Published on 30/09/2026 – 11:58 GMT+2 The European Union’s push to favour its domestic arms industry risks “alienating allies” and fragmenting the transatlantic defence industrial base, the US’s Ambassador to the EU, Andrew Puzder, has told Euronews. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Speaking at Euronews’ Defence and Space summit in Brussels on Wednesday,…
Belgian Defence Minister Theo Francken warned on Wednesday that Europe must prepare for further Russian hybrid attacks in the coming months, saying the continent faces a “dark winter”. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Speaking to Euronews journalist Angela Skujins at the Euronews Defence Summit in Brussels, Francken described Russia as the biggest threat…
Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya believes change in Russia could begin with change in Belarus, arguing that her country’s opposition movement is “more consolidated” than its Russian counterpart. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Tsikhanouskaya said Russian President Vladimir Putin is “testing the borders” of the European Union and “watching the reaction” from Western…
Defence in focus in downtown Brussels: NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, Bulgarian Prime Minister Ruman Radev and European Commissioner for Defence and Space Andrius Kubilius are among the headline guests at Euronews’ Defence and Space Summit, taking place today at Brussels’ Albert Hall. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Europe on alert: The summit comes…
Published on 30/09/2026 – 7:47 GMT+2 South Korea’s spy agency believes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy may have disclosed the transfer of two North Korean POWs to boost public support in South Korea for providing arms to Ukraine, a lawmaker said on Wednesday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Zelenskyy disclosed last week that his…
A UK probe into a suspected bomb plot at an airbase used by the United States was mired in confusion on Tuesday, after police said no explosives were detected in the vehicles seized nearby. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “Those vehicles have been subject to extensive examination, with the support of military assets…
Addressing Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in Strasbourg, von der Leyen said she wanted to bring the relationship “to the highest level possible” in this “openly hostile world”. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Canada has been getting closer to the EU as relations with Washington cooled under Trump. Trade talks collapsed in August…
By Euronews Published on 29/09/2026 – 9:00 GMT+2 The first terminally ill child to be euthanised in the Netherlands under an expansion of the country’s assisted-dying laws was one year old and is the youngest person in the world to die by euthanasia. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Dutch officials revealed in June that…
The blockade of Ukraine’s Black Sea export routes is becoming “critical”, with potentially far-reaching implications for global food prices, Ukraine’s Minister for Agrarian Policy and Food, Taras Vysotskyi, has told Europe Today. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “We can already see that on average, grain prices have increased by 25 percent,” Minister Vysotskyi…
Published on 29/09/2026 – 11:09 GMT+2•Updated 11:11 The leaders of six “frugal” net contributors to the EU budget have written to the Irish presidency, stepping up their push for a lower overall figure in its upcoming compromise proposal. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The letter, dated 28 September and seen by Euronews, is…
