More than two million commercial flights took place across the EU between June and August 2026, according to Eurostat, even as European jet fuel prices rose during the final month of the summer. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT August recorded 708,980 flights, 2.3% more than in August 2025 and 5.7% more than in…

Published on 30/09/2026 – 13:50 GMT+2•Updated 16:48 The European Union should engage diplomatically with Russia to bring the war in Ukraine to an end and avert a devastating nuclear attack, Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev told Euronews’ Defence and Space Summit. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Russia controls the world’s largest nuclear arsenal,…

The Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez and French president Emmanuel Macron highlighted the close relationship between their two countries and urged greater European unity to confront key migratory, economic and geopolitical challenges. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The joint press conference at the Moncloa Palace was also marked by the Spanish Senate’s rejection…

Published on 30/09/2026 – 17:30 GMT+2 A Brussels debate over a European preference in defence contracts ignores a basic problem: Europe’s defence industry cannot produce enough, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte told Euronews on Wednesday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “The problem is not: do you buy in Europe or do you buy…

National Rally figurehead Jordan Bardella hit back at French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday, after Macron called reports that Bardella had sent antisemitic messages in 2013 “extremely serious and unacceptable” and urged him to clarify his position. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Responding to Macron on X, Bardella stated: “After October 7, 2023,…

Europe is one of the world’s biggest tourist destinations, but record visitor numbers are putting growing pressure on the places people call home. From Barcelona to Lisbon, and Amsterdam to Athens, cities are struggling to balance the economic benefits of tourism with overcrowding, rising rents and a shrinking supply of…

Published on 30/09/2026 – 22:00 GMT+2•Updated 22:03 The Right Livelihood Award, often called the alternative Nobel Prize, has this year honoured women and women-led organisations who, in the jury’s words, confront some of the world’s most deeply entrenched power structures: authoritarian rule, patriarchal violence and unregulated artificial intelligence development. ADVERTISEMENT…

Published on 30/09/2026 – 21:19 GMT+2 British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on Wednesday there were “strong indications” that Iran was involved in suspicious activity near a UK airbase used by the US military, which sparked a major security alert. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “There are strong indications that Iran played a…

Published on 30/09/2026 – 19:28 GMT+2 The UK’s Home Office said on Wednesday that its year-old deal with France to return migrants crossing the Channel on small boats had ended. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “The government’s pilot with France to remove asylum seekers in exchange for an equal number of legal migrants…

For years, Ukrainians have lived with a war raging not only along the front line, but above their heads. In Kyiv, the battle in the sky has become part of daily life, measured in air-raid alerts, the sound of air defence and the explosions that follow. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT t an…