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Greece’s tourism sector enjoyed a strong first four months of 2026, with travel receipts and arrivals moving to clearly higher levels compared with the same period in 2025. In April 2026, the travel balance posted a surplus of €735.9 million, up from €697.3 million in April 2025. Travel receipts rose by 9.5%, reaching €1.11 billion, from €1.02 billion a year earlier. The increase was mainly driven by a 10.6% rise in inbound travel flows, despite a slight 1% drop in average spending per trip. The picture over the first four months is even more striking. The travel balance surplus jumped…
Ramsey ordered Jeffrey Donaldson — one of Northern Ireland’s most prominent politicians for decades — to be remanded in custody ahead of his scheduled sentencing Sept. 25. The judge told Donaldson he would be listed on the U.K.’s National Sex Offenders Register and must expect to face “a lengthy sentence.” His legal team did not immediately indicate whether he would pursue an appeal. Donaldson’s downfall as DUP chief in 2024 came weeks after he delivered the big achievement of his leadership — an agreement that spurred his party to resume its awkward partnership government with Sinn Féin at Stormont after…
Published on 22/06/2026 – 16:51 GMT+2 A summit between the EU and UK due to be held on July 22 is looking increasingly doubtful after UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer set out a timetable for his departure from 10 Downing Street earlier on Monday, with Brussels confirming that the plans are being re-assessed. “We are re-assessing with (European Council) President Costa and the UK the opportunity of still holding the summit as had been announced last week and we will take it from here,” the European Commission’s chief spokesperson Paula Pinho said in response to a question by Euronews on…
Thousands of kites took to the skies above Denmark’s west coast on Sunday as visitors gathered for the annual Fanø International Kite Festival, one of the largest events of its kind in the world. The video shows giant dragon, octopus, whale and astronaut-shaped kites flying above the beach, while teams of enthusiasts work together to launch and guide them. Organisers say the festival attracts around 5,000 kite flyers from 26 countries each year and features roughly 25,000 kites. Participants range from hobbyists to experienced kite makers, many bringing large inflatable designs that dominate the skyline. The event has become a…
The probe follows the finance department’s finding that the now-defunct Identity and Democracy group misspent €4.3 million between 2019 and 2024. ID remained active until the June 2024 European Parliament elections, after which many of its members and staff regrouped under the Patriots banner. According to the report, officials discovered irregularities in the Patriots’ accounts covering the period between July 16 and Dec. 31, 2024. The findings conclude the group donated €54,620 to local and regional organizations — a practice prohibited under Parliament rules, which require expenditure to be linked to political activities at the EU level. Associations promoting French…
It’s been 10 years since the referendum that saw the UK vote narrowly to leave the European Union, with 52% opting to get out and 48% preferring to remain. The vote on 23 June 2016 was followed by years of agonising negotiations and political turmoil in the UK, before the country finally officially left the bloc in early 2020. While the time may have flown by, some of the conflicting claims about whether Brexit would be a benefit or a disaster for the country have not. From the economy to immigration, the Irish border and security, arguments about whether the…
Iran’s delegation returned from Switzerland having agreed a mechanism to keep the Strait of Hormuz open and maintain the Lebanon ceasefire, as mediators described 18 hours of talks as producing “significant progress”. US Vice President JD Vance said Sunday had been “a very, very good day” before leaving the Alpine country that hosted the talks. “First, we wanted to build a mechanism for keeping the Strait of Hormuz open — it is open,” Vance told reporters at Bürgenstock on Monday. “We laid a very good foundation for a successful final deal, the final deal is the house,” he said. “We…
Withering verdicts on Starmer’s top team and the inner workings of the security vetting system are included in second batch of documents covering Peter Mandelson’s appointment as U.S. ambassador to Washington. Jun 1 11 mins read
By Christina Thykjaer & Euronews en español Published on 22/06/2026 – 12:55 GMT+2•Updated 13:51 Spain’s Supreme Court has sentenced former Transport Minister José Luis Ábalos, once a senior figure in Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialist Party (PSOE), to 24 years in prison for his role in a corruption scheme linked to the award of face mask contracts during the COVID-19 pandemic. The court also sentenced his former aide Koldo García to 19 years in prison and businessman Víctor de Aldama to four and a half years. The ruling, unanimously adopted by a seven-judge panel, found that the three men formed a criminal organisation…
The European Commission has recently unveiled its proposal for the Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA), which aims to boost the local cloud and AI industry by reshaping infrastructure, the European cloud market, and how public sector bodies can operate in the future. CADA focuses on three major pillars: investment in research, development and innovation, capacity building — tripling the European data centre market within the next five to seven years — and a comprehensive autonomy framework, which entails four levels of sovereignty and security and new obligations for EU member states. CADA met with a mixed reception Thus far,…