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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney received a standing ovation at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Wednesday. MEPs rose from their seats and applauded as Carney addressed the chamber during his visit to the French city. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen also raised the prospect of Canada becoming the EU’s first “associate member”, calling for closer cooperation between Canada and the bloc in areas including technology, defence and energy.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced a “new European heatwave plan” during her inaugural State of the Union speech on Wednesday, after a dramatic summer that saw thousands of hectares burnt and tonnes of crops lost to raging wildfires. “We need better early warning systems and better health preparedness. We need urban adaptation and cooling. And we need to support the most vulnerable,” von der Leyen told EU lawmakers in Strasbourg. She described the summer as a “summer of truth”, pointing to hundreds of thousands of hectares burned, crop losses and more than 35,000 excess deaths. However, the…
By Lilia Sergeeva & Euronews Published on 16/09/2026 – 16:58 GMT+2•Updated 19:21 Russia’s largest medical universities are struggling to fill hundreds of postgraduate residency places despite record applications, as new rules requiring graduates to sign advance employment contracts with regional hospitals are deterring candidates. Around 1,500 residency places remain unfilled at major medical universities, according to Russian educational outlet Mel. Moscow’s Pirogov University could not fill 289 places, while Sechenov University was short by 211. The vacancies span high-demand specialisations including anaesthesiology, intensive care, surgery and oncology. The shortfall emerged in the same admissions cycle that saw more than 591,000 applications…
The election is one of the closest in recent Swedish history, and offered voters a sharp choice between electing a new left-wing government or allowing far-right ministers into power for the first time. Swedish public broadcaster SVT called the election for Andersson’s side on Wednesday night. Her Social Democrats are Sweden’s biggest party and have enjoyed the loose support of three other opposition parties who are seen as her likely coalition partners: The Greens, the Center Party, and the Left Party. Kristersson’s conservative Moderates have been campaigning alongside the Christian Democrats, the Liberals and the far-right, anti-immigration Sweden Democrats. His…
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced on Wednesday that Canada has been invited to become the first “associate member” of the EU. She announced the move during her 2026 State of the Union address in Strasbourg, to an audience including not only MEPs but also Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, who attended her speech in the midst of a trade war with the US. Since late August, the Canadians have been pushing hard for the Europeans to build a closer relationship with them, though full EU membership is not an option as Canada is not a European state.…
Azerbaijan has warned that “revanchist forces” in Armenia and the Armenian diaspora “are still strong” and are trying to undermine the historic peace process between the former rivals. In a wide-ranging panel at the Arab Media Summit in Dubai on Wednesday, Assistant of the President of Azerbaijan Hikmet Hajiyev told Euronews that “probably Armenian government and Armenian leadership should work to prepare their people for the peace as well.” “Now we won the war, but we are also winning in peace which is an uphill struggle,” said Hajiyev, who is also Head of the Foreign Policy Affairs Department of the…
The location “isn’t a usual [stop] of a papal visit,” said Archbishop Philippe Ballot of Metz in an interview with French weekly Le Point. “How coherent, though, when you dig deeper. On the last day of his trip, he opens up to Europe and the world,” he added. Le Point first reported the invitations. The pope will be in France for a four-day official visit from Sept. 25 to 28 and is to meet Macron at the Elysée Palace, visit Notre-Dame Cathedral and the Unesco headquarters, where he’s expected to talk about artificial intelligence. In his first major encyclical —…
The trial of Rachida Dati opened on Wednesday afternoon before the Paris criminal court. The former justice and culture minister is facing charges of passive corruption, passive influence-peddling, and concealment of abuse of power and breach of trust. At the heart of the case are the €900,000 she received between 2009 and 2013 from a Dutch subsidiary of Renault-Nissan, while she was serving as a Member of the European Parliament. The opening day was marked in particular by the absence of Carlos Ghosn. The former head of Renault-Nissan, who has been in Lebanon since fleeing Japan in 2019, is also…
The vote took place late Tuesday, and for a third time, the US House voted to end the war in Iran, attempting to cut President Donald Trump’s ability to continue military action. The roll call, 220-204, was similar to earlier efforts this summer, with a few more Republicans joining all Democrats voting to bring an end to the conflict. None of the resolutions have made it to the president’s desk, where Trump would almost certainly veto the measure. “Remember when Donald Trump said that this war would last just a few weeks?” said Democrat Representative Seth Moulton, who served as…
The La Liga president Javier Tebas criticised three Real Madrid players on Wednesday, including Kylian Mbappé, for not wearing a T-shirt properly in support of the people of Ceuta, a Spanish autonomous city in North Africa that has been hit by a migration crisis. Mbappé, Vinícius Júnior and Ibrahima Konaté wore the commemorative T-shirt with the sleeves partially rolled up before Real Madrid’s 3-2 victory over Elche in La Liga on Tuesday. The rest of the players wore it in the usual way. In doing so, the three players partially hid the message “We are all Ceutans”, referring to the…