Published on 19/09/2025 – 11:23 GMT+2 ADVERTISEMENT EU environment ministers announced on Thursday evening a “statement of intent” on climate targets for 2035 to  present at next week’s UN General Assembly (UNGA), avoiding taking a decision on a concrete aim. With member states divided into more or less ambitious camps…

ADVERTISEMENT In recent years, gang violence has become widespread in some European countries – from frequent machine gun rampages in Brussels and teen hitmen murders in Sweden. Euronews looks at major European cities where shootings are most common, but also identifies those cities free of gang violence and gun crime.…

ADVERTISEMENT A total of 58 terrorist attacks were reported by 14 member states in 2024. This marks a halving compared to 2023, when 120 attacks were reported, according to the European Union’s law enforcement agency, Europol.  Italy and France recorded the most attacks, with 20 and 14 incidents, respectively.  This…

ADVERTISEMENT France wakes up to another day of nationwide disruption on Thursday as hundreds of thousands of people are expected to join strikes and demonstrations against the government’s new austerity measures. Eight major trade unions have called on citizens to take to the streets around the country against what they…

Published on 18/09/2025 – 14:03 GMT+2 •Updated 14:11 ADVERTISEMENT The European Commission is monitoring the possible economic impact caused by the closure of all crossing points between Poland and Belarus, which has effectively shut down a traditional trade route between the bloc and China. “We are certainly looking at it…

ADVERTISEMENT Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is under fire from opposition politicians who claim he incited the protests that stopped the final lap of cycling race La Vuelta a Espana. Last weekend, cyclists were stopped a mere 60 kilometres from the finish line because pro-Palestinian protesters knocked down barriers and…

ADVERTISEMENT Bollingstedt, a town in northern Germany: The largest battery storage facility in Germany is located here. Project manager Carina von Schleinitz shows me the secrets of the plant. 64 mega-containers, packed with battery technology, guarantee high voltage on demand. Slow coal-fired power stations could soon become obsolete as an…

ADVERTISEMENT Environment ministers set to meet on Thursday (18 September) in Brussels are wrangling over national emissions targets for 2035 which must be fixed at EU level before the COP30 climate summit in Brazil later this year, according to an internal briefing note seen by Euronews. A controversial 2040 EU…

ADVERTISEMENT While the EU and India aim to conclude an historic free trade agreement (FTA) soon, the security and defence dimension could play a significant role in the document concerning the EU-India Strategy that the European Commission is presenting on Wednesday. Sunil Prasad, Secretary General of the EU-India Chamber of Commerce,…

Published on 16/09/2025 – 13:05 GMT+2 •Updated 14:50 ADVERTISEMENT In an interview with Euronews, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas confirmed the strategy to suspend trade-related provisions within the Israel-EU Association Agreement.  Trade between the EU and Israel was €42.6 billion in 2024, and the preferential treatment is around 37%…