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Published on 13/05/2026 – 8:43 GMT+2 Forcing the return of hundreds of thousands of Syrians living in Europe without financial support would lead to “chaos” in the country, Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shaibani told Euronews in an exclusive interview in Brussels following talks with EU counterparts. Al-Shaibani met EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas this week as the EU looks to support Syria’s fragile political transition following the ousting of Bashar al-Assad in 2024, after a brutal civil war that displaced millions and devastated the country’s economy. European governments led by Germany have also called on Syrian authorities to facilitate…
Current Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin, Ireland’s current Taoiseach, told lawmakers that Ahern’s critical comments on Africans and Muslims did not reflect the policies of his own center-right coalition government or of today’s Fianna Fáil. “I want to be very clear, from my perspective and the party’s perspective, we do not approve of those specific comments,” Martin said in response to opposition attacks. Rising immigration has become a recurring flashpoint issue in Ireland since 2023, when an Algerian migrant stabbed three young children, one critically, along with an adult carer outside their central Dublin school. That attack triggered rioting and…
Published on 13/05/2026 – 14:02 GMT+2•Updated 14:08 EU lawmakers have reached a provisional deal to make the EU-US trade agreement suspendable in the event of a market disruption caused by a surge in US imports, Euronews has learned from two sources close to the talks. Intense negotiations have been underway between EU governments and the European Parliament over the implementation of the deal, which would cut EU tariffs on US goods to zero, under pressure from the Trump administration. The US has suggested it will double tariffs on European cars if an agreement to swiftly implement the deal is not…
By Lucy Davalou & Andreas Rogal with AP Published on 13/05/2026 – 22:53 GMT+2 U.S. President Donald Trump arrived in Beijing on Wednesday evening for a state visit to China, greeted by Chinese Vice President Han Zheng during a welcome ceremony. The president is seeking to sign deals with China to buy more American food and aircraft, saying he’ll be talking with Xi Jinping about trade “more than anything else.” Trump’s trade war with Beijing has sent U.S.-China trade into a freefall and forced companies on both sides of the Pacific to regroup. Now, Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are trying to stabilise their…
Speaking on RTL radio on Wednesday, Tardif alleged that President Macron maintained a “platonic relationship” with Farahani for several months. However, some exchanges — which Tardif said he was forwarded by people close to Macron — “went quite far,” the journalist said. Tardif said one message sent to Farahani said: “I find you very attractive.” Golshifteh Farahani attends the Grand Dîner du Louvre at Musee du Louvre on March 3, 2026 in Paris. | Aurore Marechal/Getty Images The Elysée, which initially called the reports of the slap fake news and later dismissed the incident as “horseplay,” has not given an…
Published on 13/05/2026 – 14:23 GMT+2•Updated 16:14 A press conference by Real Madrid president Florentino Pérez, one of the most powerful men in Europe, has turned into a political row engulfing commentors, the media and progressive politicians accusing the football chief of sounding like Donald Trump. In a rare QA with the press, Pérez said he would not step down after a disastrous season, in which Real Madrid failed to qualify for the Champions League final and lost La Liga title to Barcelona. “I am sorry to say that I am not resigning,” he said. Pérez then announced the club…
These practices can include verbal abuse, coercion, isolation, forced medication, electric shocks, and physical and sexual abuse, writes the Commission, and have “no therapeutic value.” But the Commission said Wednesday it plans instead to adopt a recommendation in 2027 calling on countries to enact a ban on conversion practices — a decision that campaign organizers saw as a “missed opportunity.” Through the recommendation, “the Commission will recognise the critical role that Member States play in this area and focus on supporting them in banning conversion practices, encouraging national action to extend the legal ban across the EU,” it said in…
Published on 13/05/2026 – 20:24 GMT+2 Hungary’s new Prime Minister Péter Magyar will send a letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Thursday, setting out his government’s position on politically difficult conditions tied to EU funding. Magyar made the announcement at a press conference following the first cabinet meeting of his government, held in Ópusztaszer. Magyar pledged to recover €17 billion in EU funding blocked under his predecessor Viktor Orbán over concerns about corruption and the rule of law. Of that total, €10 billion under the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility is at risk of expiring at…
Podgorica has closed 14 of the 33 chapters that need to be provisionally closed before it joins the bloc. Rule of law remains the toughest hurdle, with Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos urging Montenegro to keep reforms going. The country of some 600,000 people became an EU candidate in 2010, four years after splitting from Serbia, and opened accession talks in 2012. It has set the goal of becoming a member by 2028, even putting ’28 by 28′ branding on its national airline. The Commission aimed to use Montenegro as a test subject for its plans to prevent another “Hungary 2.0,”…
Published on 13/05/2026 – 20:30 GMT+2 The European Political Community’s first meeting in the South Caucasus last week reflects the stretching contours of Europe, geographically, politically and strategically. The meeting in Armenia was a response to global instability of which increasing trade tensions with the United States are a familiar part. Donald Trump’s threat of 25% tariff on European cars has left Brussels scrambling to save a fragile transatlantic deal negotiated last summer. As global alliances shift, Europe is becoming a space others may want to join, align with, or orbit around, from Canada to the United Kingdom, from Iceland…