Published on 11/09/2026 – 15:00 GMT+2 Work begins at dawn in Corticeira Amorim’s cork oak forests. Cork harvesting takes place between late May and August, and much of it is still done by hand. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “On average a tree can produce for 170 years, 200 years more or less,…

Published on 11/09/2026 – 13:42 GMT+2 Portugal’s economy and employment growth are the best-performing in Europe, according to the country’s Prime Minister Luís Montenegro. But how true is that? ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Montenegro made the comments while speaking to the Assembly of the Republic, Portugal’s parliament, on 8 September. Here, MPs…

Published on 11/09/2026 – 12:40 GMT+2•Updated 12:47 The European Union is set to provide Ukraine with €6.1 billion in additional assistance to help the war-weary country purchase military equipment, notably the Patriot interceptors badly needed to shoot down Russia’s devastating ballistic missiles. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The funding, announcedon Friday, will come…

Emma Bonino has died aged 78. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The founder of More Europe, a longtime leading figure in Italy’s Radical Party and former government minister, passed away after her health deteriorated in recent weeks. Bonino had recently been admitted to the Santo Spirito hospital in Rome after a respiratory crisis.…

Published on 11/09/2026 – 11:11 GMT+2 The centre-right European People’s Party (EPP) is preparing to call for a rebalancing of relations with China that stops short of open confrontation or full decoupling. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT In the upcoming paper, senior EPP lawmakers are set to argue for a general rebalancing of…

Norway’s Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide has told Europe Today that Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has driven Israel into a “very dangerous place”. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Describing it as “the most far-right government in Israel’s history”, Eide said he hoped that, regardless of the outcome of Israel’s October elections, the country would…

Published on 11/09/2026 – 8:55 GMT+2 Brazil’s ambassador to the European Union has warned that the EU’s ban on imports of Brazilian meat risks undoing key aspects of the EU-Mercosur trade deal, fuelling a “reversal of expectations” in Brazil and mounting frustration among the country’s producers. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The European…

Published on 11/09/2026 – 7:45 GMT+2 Kyrylo Budanov, Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, says Europe is finally beginning to recognise what Kyiv has long warned about: Russian aggression is increasingly manifesting itself through hybrid warfare, and it goes well beyond the Baltics. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “Central European…

Europe’s housing crisis has escalated to an “emergency”, as young people in many member states find it impossible to buy or even rent a home, European Commissioner for Housing Dan Jørgensen has told Euronews, adding that Brussels is taking the situation “extremely seriously”. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Housing rental and purchase costs…

Published on 10/09/2026 – 10:26 GMT+2 Singapore’s ministers, already among the world’s highest-paid, are getting a raise for the first time in 15 years, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said, explaining that the government cannot attract top talent into politics if salaries remain unchanged. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Wong told Parliament on Tuesday…