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Published on 26/05/2026 – 13:23 GMT+2•Updated 13:25 Italy’s most famous carmaker pulled back the curtain on the Ferrari Luce on Monday, its first fully electric car and at €550,000, one of the most expensive EVs on the market. Ferrari chairman John Elkann considered it worthy of a visit to the Quirinale on Tuesday, where he presented the car to Italian President Sergio Mattarella. Social media was not impressed. In the days since the unveiling, the Luce — Italian for “light,” and designed in collaboration with former Apple design chief Jony Ive — was being compared online to a Nissan Leaf…
The summer holidays are on the horizon and soon enough we’ll all be complaining of the hottest temperatures since records began and the noticeable scarcity of air conditioning. But alongside the heat comes another headache: the rising costs of travel. With soaring jet fuel fears, thousands of flights being cut and airlines quietly passing additional costs onto passengers, many of us will not be forced to think how, and where, we’ll spend our holidays this year. So, are Europeans abandoning travel plans altogether, or simply learning how to do so slightly differently? The Mastercard Economics Institute (MEI)’s annual Travel Trends…
“The EU is not going anywhere,” said Katarína Mathernová, the EU ambassador to Ukraine. “We are staying in Kyiv.” Mathernová added that “threats against diplomats” were a “sign of desperation” from Russia. A spokesperson for France’s Foreign Ministry similarly told France Info that it would be “out of the question to evacuate” its staff from Kyiv. In a statement, Poland’s Foreign Ministry condemned Russia’s warning, saying that any attacks on its embassy would be “treated as hostile acts.” A German Foreign Office official told POLITICO on Tuesday that Russia’s threat to foreign nationals “shows that Russia remains committed to escalation.”…
Published on 26/05/2026 – 12:44 GMT+2 Sixteen European countries are calling for increased investment in regional funds, agriculture and fisheries in the upcoming EU long-term budget for the period 2028–2034, according to a document seen by Euronews. The paper is signed by Bulgaria, Czechia, Estonia, Greece, Spain, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Latvia, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, and Slovakia. Calling themselves “Friends of Cohesion”, they complain in the document about the reduction in funds for the Cohesion Policy, Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) and Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), which they describe as “the most visible EU policies for EU citizens”. Cohesion…
Published on 26/05/2026 – 11:56 GMT+2 An Israeli air strike on a village in eastern Lebanon killed 12 people, state media said on Tuesday, as an Israeli official said the military had called up more troops to Lebanon. The strike hit the village of Mashghara in the Bekaa Valley late on Monday, according to Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency. It came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he had authorised more intensive strikes targeting the Hezbollah militant group across Lebanon. “I have ordered an even greater acceleration of our operations,” Netanyahu said in a video statement posted on…
Europe’s reliance on Chinese goods has grown so structurally embedded in certain sectors that credible alternatives have all but disappeared. The pressure intensified in 2025, when Washington imposed sweeping tariffs on Chinese goods, prompting fears that Beijing would redirect surplus production into European markets at slashed prices. Commission President Ursula von der Leyen described it as “a new China shock” at the G7 summit in Canada last year, warning that Beijing was flooding global markets with subsidised overcapacity that its own consumers could not absorb. Last week, EU Industry Commissioner Stéphane Séjourné also called for EU businesses to diversify their…
Published on 26/05/2026 – 12:51 GMT+2 The artificial intelligence boom will not lead to a “jobs apocalypse”, OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman said on Tuesday, admitting his own previous predictions on the technology’s impact on the job market were incorrect. Speaking in Sydney at a Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) conference, he said he was “roughly right” about the technological predictions OpenAI made when it launched ChatGPT in 2022. But he said they were “pretty wrong” on the social and economic impact, Reuters reported. Altman had previously predicted that AI could compress the historical rate of job turnover – normally around…
The eldest of the Andic children has told Mango employees that he is stepping down from his responsibilities as vice-president of the fashion company founded by his father, whose suspected murder at the hands of Jonathan himself is under investigation. Jonathan, however, has said that he will maintain his “family, social and business projects” in an open letter he has sent to the company founded by Isak Andic. In December 2024, this Turkish-Catalan businessman fell, or was pushed, down a 100-metre embankment on the route to the Salnitre caves in Collbató, on the southern side of the Montserrat mountain range…
The crash happened shortly after 8:00 a.m., around one kilometre from Buggenhout railway station, as the vehicle operated for regional transport company De Lijn carried seven schoolchildren, an accompanying adult and the driver. Belgian officials and local media reported at least four deaths, including two teenagers, while prosecutors and forensic teams opened an investigation into the circumstances of the collision. Rail infrastructure operator Infrabel said the crossing barriers were lowered and warning lights were red when the minibus entered the tracks. The train driver reportedly activated the emergency brake but could not prevent the impact. Around 100 passengers on board…
By Una Hajdari with AFP Published on 26/05/2026 – 11:43 GMT+2 The Paris Mint said Tuesday that it would soon start selling solid-gold coins for investment, the first since it quit making Napoleons and Louis over a century ago. Four versions of the new Marianne coins will go on sale 16 June, ranging from one-tenth of an ounce (3.1 grams) to a full ounce (31.1 grams). One side will feature the symbolic Marianne face representing the French republic, while the other will show a map of the nation’s territories, the Mint said. Napoleons were France’s standard gold investment coin from 1803 to 1914…