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Planning a holiday to the Balearic Islands? Majorca, Menorca and Ibiza may be three of Spain’s best-known islands – and the largest of the group – but each offers a very different take on a Mediterranean getaway. All three have beautiful beaches with crystal-clear waters, plenty of sunshine, which lasts well into the autumn shoulder season, and lots to see and do. Despite these shared assets, your experience on each island can vary considerably. Majorca has the widest range of landscapes, from dramatic mountains and pretty villages to long sandy beaches and lively resorts. Menorca is more laid-back, with unspoilt…
“If we do not make sure that these big power consumers are indeed in line with our overall objectives… then they will risk undermining our ability to live up to our own targets,” the EU’s energy chief, Dan Jørgensen, said in an interview with POLITICO. According to the Commission’s figures, Europe’s data centers used 20.7 terawatt-hours of electricity — about as much electricity as the entire nation of Croatia consumes — and more than 8 million cubic meters of water in 2025. That’s a 26% increase in electricity use and 52% in water use from 2024. But those numbers do…
The fate of a proposed Trump family-linked luxury resort which sparked mass protests in Albania during the summer will be decided by the results of an environmental impact assessment, not “streets and ideology”, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has told Euronews. The proposed investment in the protected area of Zvërnec, in southwestern Albania, is connected to Ivanka Trump, daughter of US President Donald Trump, and her husband Jared Kushner, who advises and negotiates on behalf of the president. Speaking at Euronews’ Travel and Tourism Summit 2026 in Brussels on Tuesday, the Albanian leader continued to defend the project, arguing that…
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Diesel is now the most expensive fuel at Europe’s pumps. The EU weighted average price of diesel reached €2.226 per litre on 21 September 2026, according to the European Commission’s Weekly Oil Bulletin. That was the highest level since the data began in 2005. That is 13.4 cents more than a litre of Euro-super 95 petrol. Filling a 50-litre tank with diesel now costs about €111. Roughly 40% of that amount goes on taxes. Taxes on diesel averaged €0.861 per litre across the bloc, or 38.6% of the pump price. On petrol, the tax bill is €0.981 per litre, about…
Die deutsche Wirtschaft sendet widersprüchliche Signale: Während der Ifo-Index leicht steigt, kündigen Autokonzerne Werksschließungen an. Was ist aus der milliardenschweren Initiative „Made for Germany“ von Friedrich Merz geworden? POLITICO-Industrieexperte Tom Schmidtgen analysiert, ob die versprochenen Investitionen echtes Geld sind und was der anstehende „Invest in Germany Summit“ mit dem Kanzler bringt. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview erklärt der wirtschaftspolitische Sprecher der SPD-Fraktion, Sebastian Roloff, wie der Standort Deutschland wieder attraktiv werden soll. Dabei geht es um den Investitionsbooster, geplante Steuersenkungen und die Frage, warum Entlastungen für kleine und mittlere Einkommen jetzt entscheidend für die heimische Wirtschaft sind. Auf geopolitischer Bühne lehnt Donald Trump…
Addressing Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in Strasbourg, von der Leyen said she wanted to bring the relationship “to the highest level possible” in this “openly hostile world”. Canada has been getting closer to the EU as relations with Washington cooled under Trump. Trade talks collapsed in August 2026, and Trump responded with aggressive 25% to 50% tariffs on Canadian goods. He also threatened their sovereignty, with comments about absorbing Canada and making it “the 51st US state”. For geographical reasons, Canada cannot turn to full EU membership, so the European Commission is proposing a new “associate member” status. Since…
US President Donald Trump said that he and a large group of leaders of artificial intelligence companies signed a voluntary accord on Tuesday that will include internal and external reviews during a meeting aimed at addressing Americans’ fears about the technology and its risks on humanity. “I think I’m seeing tremendous self-policing. And they understand that they have to self-police,” Trump told reporters during an impromptu press conference outside the West Wing. Trump and US House Speaker Mike Johnson met with leading executives from top tech and AI firms at the White House that are spending hundreds of billions of…
“As Gordon Brown has said, we can be the world’s innovation nation, and he’s right, we can,” Burnham told Labour’s conference on Tuesday, saying the U.K. could be “an honest broker” in the debate on regulating AI. “Just as Gordon did in the financial crisis in 2008, so Britain will do it again — step forward, and bring people together around what’s right for the future — securing our prosperity, but also our safety.” Burnham served in Brown’s government as health secretary until Labour lost power in 2010. He has picked colleagues who served with him in Brown’s ministerial team…
By Euronews Published on 29/09/2026 – 9:00 GMT+2 The first terminally ill child to be euthanised in the Netherlands under an expansion of the country’s assisted-dying laws was one year old and is the youngest person in the world to die by euthanasia. Dutch officials revealed in June that a child had died by euthanasia last year but gave no further details about the age of the infant or the terminal illness. But an official government report published earlier this month said that the child had been born prematurely, had contracted sepsis and had been diagnosed with “extensive brain damage” at…