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The activists have since said they have been mistreated at the hands of Israeli soldiers, describing beatings, tasers and attack dogs. Israel has denied mistreatment, calling the allegations “false and entirely without factual basis.” With his statement, Barrot joined a growing chorus of European leaders who are calling for EU sanctions against Ben-Gvir. “Like my Italian colleague, I call on the European Union to also impose sanctions on Itamar Ben-Gvir,” Barrot said in the social media post. But Czech Foreign Minister Petr Macinka on Wednesday vowed to block sanctions on Israeli government ministers, which require unanimity among the EU’s 27 member states.…
By Sertac Aktan with AFP Published on 23/05/2026 – 16:45 GMT+2 President Volodymyr Zelensky has insisted that Ukraine deserves full EU membership, while German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has pitched making Kyiv an “associate member” without voting rights. According to a letter to the bloc’s leadership, Merz suggested this status for the duration of the lengthy negotiations before a complete accession. Zelensky pointed out that his country was defending Europe by repelling the Russian invasion and stressed the importance of its full EU membership. In his daily address, Zelenskyy said that “without Ukraine, there can be no fully-fledged European project, and Ukraine’s presence in…
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By Sonja Issel Published on 23/05/2026 – 16:21 GMT+2 Unusual find in the north of the German capital: While walking through woodland in the Pankow district, a person discovered a suspicious object. Special units from the State Office of Criminal Investigation (LKA) were soon on the scene. What the specialists then uncovered was something nobody had really been expecting: buried in the forest ground were 59 unfired shells of Soviet design, each with a calibre of 122 millimetres. The Second World War ammunition weighed in at around 1.5 tonnes in total. The police responded to the discovery with a touch of…
“The ‘muddling-through’ approach that many countries have adopted so far is reaching its limits, and a more strategic response seems essential to respond to rising spending pressures,” it added. The European Court of Auditors also told the finance ministers that doing nothing is not an option, highlighting the need for fiscal consolidation measures. The IMF paper calls EU countries to incentivize work and hiring across the 27-country bloc, simplify citizens’ savings flow across the bloc into investments, energy markets integration and implementation of climate-resilient projects. Pension reforms and a higher retirement age would also help. EU should agree that innovation,…
The EU ultimately opted for a €90 billion interest-free loan for Ukraine for 2026 and 2027, financed through EU borrowing rather than the direct use of frozen Russian sovereign assets, after the asset plan ran into legal concerns from Belgium and political resistance from Hungary amongst other countries. Hungary later lifted its veto on the loan after Viktor Orbán was voted out of office, clearing the way for approval, but the compromise left the frozen-assets question unresolved: EU leaders reserved the right to use the assets for repayment if Russia does not pay reparations. Budrys said the issue had effectively…
Ziobro is wanted in Poland over the alleged misuse of public funds and the deployment of Pegasus spyware against political opponents. He has consistently denied the charges, calling the investigation a political vendetta from Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk. He arrived in the U.S. earlier this month to work for right-wing Polish broadcaster TV Republika. Reuters reported on Monday that U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau directed senior State Department officials to expedite a U.S. visa for Ziobro. The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has close ties to Poland’s Law and Justice party. Sikorski said he has expressed Warsaw’s “displeasure”…
Published on 23/05/2026 – 13:07 GMT+2 A key member of a terrorist cell that carried out the November 2015 Paris attacks has been allowed multiple temporary prison leaves and could be eligible for conditional release. Mohamed Bakkali was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a French court in 2022 for his role in helping coordinate the deadly attacks that killed 130 people and injured hundreds more after gunmen stormed Paris’ Bataclan theatre and suicide bombers struck across the city. Bakkali, who was extradited to Belgium in 2018, was also sentenced to 25 years in prison in Belgium for his…
A backlash that is not going down well. The Human Rights League (LDH) and the CGT Spectacle union announced on Saturday that they are bringing a civil action before the Nanterre judicial court against Canal+. The two organisations denounce what they call “discrimination” targeting the signatories of an anti-Bolloré op-ed, after the group decided to stop working with them. “Canal+ will appear before the courts for having broken the law”, CGT Spectacle and the LDH state in a press release entitled “No discrimination has any place in cinema”. In the text, seen by Euronews, they refer to the “unacceptable and…
The question of Ukraine’s NATO future remains one of the most sensitive issues inside the alliance. Several allies support keeping the door open to Kyiv, while others fear that moving too quickly could escalate tensions with Russia or import an active war into NATO. Jonson acknowledged that there was no consensus among allies. “I recognize that there are allies that are against it,” he said. “But if you ask me for our position, that is our position.” The Swedish minister sees Ukraine as a future security asset for Europe. He pointed to the scale of Ukraine’s armed forces, its wartime…