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Published on 02/10/2026 – 12:32 GMT+2 If you’re 18 years old, living in an EU or Erasmus+ country, and are keen to explore Europe, you may be able to do just that – for no cost. Applications are now open for the European Union’s DiscoverEU scheme, which offers more than 40,000 free travel passes for young Europeans. The application process will close at midday Brussels time (CET) on 15 October 2026 and you can apply at youth.europa.eu. Here’s everything you need to know about the DiscoverEU programme. Thousands of passes for free travel will be awarded If you were born…
Berlin hingegen zögerte laut den Informanten, überhaupt Barrel freizugeben. „Deutschland und andere Länder wollen nicht instrumentalisiert werden; sie möchten ihre Vorräte nur aus echten Gründen der Versorgungssicherheit freigeben“, sagte einer von ihnen POLITICO unter der Bedingung der Anonymität, um – wie auch andere in diesem Artikel – offen sprechen zu können. Deutschland und Frankreich verfügen laut offiziellen EU-Statistiken über die größten Reserven an Öl und Erdölprodukten in Europa. „Frankreich ist sehr daran interessiert, sich zu beteiligen und der Bitte nachzukommen … es ist klar, dass die EU etwas unternehmen wird, sofern sie sich auf etwas einigen kann“, sagte die zweite…
Published on 02/10/2026 – 13:10 GMT+2 Hungary and Ukraine are close to ending a long-running dispute over the rights of ethnic Hungarians in Ukraine, potentially clearing a major obstacle in relations between Budapest and Kyiv. Ties soured sharply under Viktor Orbán, whose government repeatedly clashed with Kyiv over Ukraine and blocked its progress towards EU membership. His successor, Péter Magyar, has sought to repair relations since taking office in May, but the rights of ethnic Hungarians in Ukraine’s Transcarpathia region remain a source of tension. In June, the two countries agreed an 11-point plan to strengthen minority rights. Hungary responded…
Thousands of diners dressed in white gathered at a secret location in New York for the annual Dîner en Blanc on Thursday, October 1. Participants first met at designated meeting points before being led to the venue, where they set up tables, chairs and white tablecloths for an outdoor dinner. This year’s theme, ‘Une Soirée Parisienne – La Belle Époque’, gave the evening a distinctly French feel. Guests dressed up and decorated their tables with flowers, candles and elegant tableware, transforming the public space into a large open-air dining room. The tradition began in Paris in 1988 and has since…
More than 350,000 public administration workers are covered by the strikes called by three CGTP-affiliated unions for this Friday in Portugal. The biggest effects are being felt in education, with dozens of schools closing their doors due to a lack of staff. “We have schools closed from the north to the south of the country, in the Azores and Madeira as well,” explained Sebastião Santana, speaking to TVI. Outside the Francisco Arruda School in Lisbon, which kept its gates shut this morning, the coordinator of the Common Front highlighted the “strong turnout” for the protest. The union leader was speaking…
Published on 02/10/2026 – 12:19 GMT+2•Updated 12:34 Google launched a prototype satellite into orbit loaded with its AI chips on Thursday as part of the first phase of a project to explore if space could be the best place for powering large-scale AI infrastructure. The satellite, built by Planet Labs and launched on SpaceX’s Transporter-18 rideshare, is loaded with Google’s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) to see how they perform in space and deal with the physical stress of spaceflight, radiation and extreme temperature conditions. The thinking behind the initiative, aptly named ‘Project Suncatcher’, is to place satellites in low-earth orbit…
L’Elysée a indiqué ce matin qu’Emmanuel Macron avait échangé pendant la nuit avec Donald Trump “pour évoquer la situation énergétique mondiale”, et notamment pour “garantir la disponibilité des produits raffinés au niveau mondial”. La France, qui assure la présidence tournante du G7 “entend réunir dans les meilleurs délais une visioconférence des dirigeants du G7 pour assurer la coordination des mesures à prendre afin de contribuer à desserrer l’étau des prix”. Lors de l’échange ce vendredi matin, le gouvernement allemand s’est montré réticent à débloquer le moindre baril, selon ces sources. “L’Allemagne et d’autres pays ne veulent pas servir de pions…
“Even if all of 300 million barrels of European reserves are released, it will only cover around 10 to 11 days of the world’s diesel demand”, energy expert, Osama Rizvi tells Euronews and Europe Today, about President Trump’s call to European countries to release some of their diesel reserves. According to the expert’s analysis for consumers, in the next few months the prices are expected to remain high adding pressure to the household expenses. Watch the interview on the player above.
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Global bond markets found their footing on Friday morning, with yields slipping back after a turbulent Thursday in which government borrowing costs in Europe and the US hit multi-decade highs. Yields, which rise when bond prices fall, retreated as Brent crude slipped about 2% to around $99.95 a barrel, tempering fears that the energy shock would keep inflation high and force central banks into more rate hikes. In the UK, the yield on 30-year government bonds, or gilts, fell to around 5.92% after climbing above 6% on Thursday for the first time since 1998. The 10-year yield dropped to about…