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Published on 11/09/2025 – 17:18 GMT+2 •Updated 17:32 ADVERTISEMENT The death of US conservative influencer Charlie Kirk, 31, reverberated far beyond the United States, reaching the hemicycle of the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Kirk, a close ally of US President Donald Trump, was shot in the neck on Wednesday while…
By Marta Pacheco & Jorge Liboreiro Published on 11/09/2025 – 17:50 GMT+2 •Updated 17:51 ADVERTISEMENT EU energy chief Dan Jorgensen is confident that a deal to end Russian energy from entering the bloc by 2027 will happen “quite soon”, the Danish Commissioner told reporters, as the bloc faces pressure from the US to…
ADVERTISEMENT Late insertion of food and farm issues on the agenda of an EU delegation landing in New Delhi today suggests the talks on a future trade deal between the pair are now very advanced, according to sources in Brussels. Agriculture Commissioner Christophe Hansen has joined Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič…
ADVERTISEMENT Users online are sounding the alarm over a set of measures outlined in the European Commission’s proposal to combat child sexual abuse online. The measures, if approved, would allow governments and private messaging companies to scan users’ messages to prevent the circulation of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), and…
Published on 10/09/2025 – 11:06 GMT+2 ADVERTISEMENT A handful of Spanish media reported on Monday that Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez had expressed “regret” that his country did not have “nuclear bombs” to stop Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza. An article by newspaper La Gaceta was headlined: “Pedro Sánchez regrets…
ADVERTISEMENT Since its inception the EU Green Deal has had a mixed reception from Europe’s car industry, which faces mandatory shifts to slash CO2 emissions, phasing out internal combustion engine (ICE) cars by 2035, investing in electrification and taking up financial responsibility for end-of-life vehicles. Impending negotiations over the 2040…
ADVERTISEMENT More than a million hectares of EU forest burned this year by the end of August, according to data provided by the Copernicus satellite, used for Earth observation. This is almost five times larger than the area affected by forest fires in the EU the previous year. The most affected member states were Portugal…
Published on 09/09/2025 – 17:49 GMT+2 ADVERTISEMENT European lawmakers called for carmakers to sustainably dispose car parts once they become useless when they voted to adopt a European Parliament committee report in Strasbourg on Tuesday. New vehicles should be designed taking into account the easy removal of as many parts and…
ADVERTISEMENT Europe’s ideological divergences over the war in Gaza were laid bare on Tuesday during a heated debate which focused on the word “genocide” and the EU’s paralysis over how to act over the embattled Strip. The debate, entitled “Gaza at breaking point: EU action to combat famine, the urgent…
ADVERTISEMENT A majority of Europeans think the EU-US trade deal is a “humiliation” for the bloc and want Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, its ultimate negotiator, to resign as a result, a new poll has found. The survey was conducted by research firm Cluster17 exclusively for Le Grand Continent…
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