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Salvini’s comments are likely to heighten tensions between the Italian government and the Agnelli-Elkann family, the largest single shareholder in Ferrari and the global carmaker Stellantis. The controversial Luce — the first Ferrari model to be fully electric and to have five seats — immediately sparked outrage among purists in Italy. It also didn’t immediately convince investors, with Ferrari’s stock dropping by more than eight percent on Tuesday. The four-door Ferrari, branded as “the most comfortable Ferrari ever” — hardly an on-brand endorsement for a carmaker synonymous with speed, style and passion — was co-designed by Jony Ive, the former…

Imposing restrictions on goods originating from Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories is only common sense, French Trade Minister Nicolas Forissier told Euronews. The country put forward a proposal alongside Sweden last month, calling on the European Union to increase trade tariffs and enforce stricter import controls on goods coming from Israeli settlements deemed illegal under international law. “With our Swedish friends, we wrote to the Commission and insisted on the necessity to have a common European position on this question, rapidly,” Forissier said on Euronews’ interview programme 12 Minutes With. “We cannot accept any import of products that…

Massive Angriffe auf Kyjiw, der Einsatz der russischen Oreschnik-Rakete und gleichzeitig neue diplomatische Gespräche in Berlin: Während Moskau militärisch eskaliert, versucht die Ukraine gemeinsam mit europäischen Partnern eine neue Verhandlungsbasis aufzubauen. Im Gespräch mit Sicherheitsexperte Nico Lange geht es darum, ob Russlands aktuelle Angriffswelle ein Zeichen der Stärke, oder Ausdruck wachsender Probleme ist. Lange argumentiert, dass die Ukraine an mehreren Frontabschnitten derzeit wieder Momentum aufgebaut habe: durch größere Reichweiten eigener Drohnen, erfolgreiche Angriffe tief im russischen Hinterland und zunehmenden Druck auf russische Logistikinfrastruktur. Parallel dazu besucht Rustem Umjerow, Chefunterhändler von Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj, Berlin. Im Fokus stehen neue europäisch-ukrainische Gesprächsformate…

Anti-corruption investigations in Ukraine show that the country’s institutions remain efficient despite Russia’s war, Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Taras Kachka told Euronews. Kachka, who’s in charge of the country’s EU integration, described the process as “the healthiest thing” in the country of some 44 million, which continues to defend itself from Russia’s all-out invasion, now well into its fifth year. “Ukraine is now living through the war and the dramatic change of its political culture,” he said in an interview on Tuesday. “Something that was a problem for the accession of Ukraine in the past, so 10 years ago, 15…

In France, authorities placed several western départements under a yellow heatwave alert from Monday lunchtime as temperatures climbed far above seasonal averages. In Nantes, thermometers reached around 34 to 35C, breaking local May records including a high of 34.3C. Across the Channel, the United Kingdom recorded its hottest May day since national records began. Temperatures reached 34.8C at Kew Gardens in London, surpassing the previous May record of 32.8C set in 1922 and matched in 1944. Parks, fountains and shaded public spaces filled with residents and tourists seeking relief from the heat, while health officials urged people to stay hydrated…

In a letter to the national parliament published on Tuesday, State Secretary for Digital Economy Willemijn Aerdts said the national authority charged with screening investments had advised the government to block the acquisition. The purchase was seen as posing “a possible risk to the public interest.” The government on Monday decided to adopt the advice and block the acquisition, Aerdts said. “The Netherlands attaches great value to the presence of foreign, especially U.S.-based tech companies, and their added value to the Dutch economy and digital infrastructure, but it maintains, at the same time, an independent investment screening framework aimed at…

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that the spate of recent drone incursions into the airspace of European Union (EU) countries over the past few weeks are “not isolated incidents,” as Baltic leaders and EU officials caution that hybrid threats along Europe’s eastern border are intensifying. “This is a deliberate strategy from Russia trying to destabilise our democratic societies,” she said, standing alongside Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian heads of state at a press conference in the Vilnius on Tuesday. “When Baltic states are being tested, Europe as a whole is being tested,” she said. The EU chief was…

Published on 26/05/2026 – 17:30 GMT+2 Iran’s Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei declared in his first major public statement since taking office that regional countries would no longer serve as staging grounds for US military bases, after US Central Command acknowledged carrying out strikes on missile sites and boats in southern Iran overnight. In a 14-page written message marking the Eid al-Adha holiday and the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, Khamenei said the US “in addition to no longer having any safe haven in the region for aggression and the establishment of military bases, is moving further and further away from its former…

“I think that is a danger with AI, because it is not about the left and the right, it is about democrats against authoritarians,” he said in one of his first public appearances since resigning as U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s top aide in February. He noted the U.K. could “learn a lot” from what Ukraine is doing. An AI-operated election campaign could target 5,000 different voter target groups, compared to just 10 if run by humans, McSweeney noted. “The risk then for democracies is that election campaigns become much less of a national story and much closer to individual stories,…

The tacit approval of permits for new energy projects has emerged as one of the most politically explosive issues in the EU’s negotiations over the renewal of its ageing power grids, according to a document seen by Euronews. Under proposals for the EU’s new European Grids Package_,_ certain stages of the permit process for energy infrastructure projects aimed at revamping the bloc’s electricity grid could automatically proceed if national authorities fail to respond within set deadlines. The idea of a silent consent for such projects is unsettling EU capitals, which fear Brussels is quietly trying to transfer power from national…