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“All national budgets need to be respected,” he added. Costa’s visit came only three days after the far-right Alternative for Germany secured a historic landslide victory in the regional elections in Saxony-Anhalt. The Euroskeptics’ success risks hardening Merz’s stance in the budget negotiations, according to several EU diplomats. Speaking alongside Costa, the German Chancellor reiterated calls to cut “several hundreds of billions” from the Commission’s near-€2 trillion proposal. He described the budget increase as “simply prohibitive because at the end it is the European taxpayer who has to foot the bill.” Costa countered that EU-wide taxes, known as own resources,…

Six hours of footage and a torrent of racist, misogynistic and conspiratorial remarks. The local newspaper Midi Libre has published video from a night-time patrol by Carcassonne’s municipal police, recorded on 6 November 2025. Captured inadvertently by one officer’s body camera, which they thought was switched off, it contains, according to the daily, comments described as “of exceptional violence”. According to Midi Libre, a preliminary investigation has been under way since January 2026, when the footage is said to have been passed to the Carcassonne public prosecutor’s office. Following the video’s publication by the newspaper, the prosecutor’s office confirmed to…

“There’s very strong support for [Commission President] von der Leyen making that outreach and for closer cooperation,” said a third diplomat with knowledge of the preparations. That’s despite a handful of countries, including Giorgia Meloni’s Italy, Andrej Babiš’s Czech Republic and Robert Fico’s Slovakia, traditionally seeking close ties with the Trump camp and trying to avoid outright provocations. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will address the European Parliament next week on a trip first reported by POLITICO, as part of a public campaign to pivot away from dependency on the U.S. and form a club of like-minded, pro-free trade democracies.…

Published on 09/09/2026 – 20:52 GMT+2 A plane carrying Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy from Moldova to Oslo was nearly hit by a drone, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store said on Wednesday. “His flight was almost hit by a drone when it was taking off from Moldova. That is the reality he lives in,” Store told Norwegian public broadcaster NRK. The Norwegian Prime Minister did not provide further details about the incident. “I asked him how his night had been, and he said it had not been a good night because he had been on the phone receiving updates about…

Archaeologists have uncovered a collective tomb containing the remains of 38 people at Chan Chan, a vast pre-Hispanic adobe citadel in northern Peru. Aerial footage shows teams working among the remains and excavating the site. The tomb was discovered a few weeks ago at the archaeological complex near Trujillo, around 500 kilometres north of Lima. The remains were found alongside copper and gold objects, adding to the evidence being studied at the ancient complex. Chan Chan was the capital of the Chimú civilisation, which flourished along Peru’s northern coast before the Inca conquest. Archaeologists continue to investigate the tomb and…

“It’s disturbing and, in many ways, completely inappropriate,” Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen told broadcaster DR. “It’s obviously a sign that the U.S. president still harbors some kind of maximalist vision in his own mind. We need to rein that in.” Icelandic Foreign Minister Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir summoned U.S. Ambassador Billy Long on Tuesday, with her ministry saying it made clear that the post was “entirely inappropriate.” The U.S. president has also repeatedly mixed up Iceland, a sovereign country, and Greenland, a self-governing Danish overseas territory. At the World Economic Forum in Davos in January, he referred to Iceland…

Published on 09/09/2026 – 18:33 GMT+2 The European Parliament will debate the situation in Ceuta next Tuesday in Strasbourg, in what is expected to be a heated political confrontation, following a decision by the Parliament’s political group leaders in Brussels on Wednesday. The centre-right European People’s Party (EPP) and the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) also pushed to add a resolution to be voted on by lawmakers after the debate, in a move widely seen as an attempt to attack the Spanish government led by Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. The debate is expected to be contentious, with the EPP…

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The EU earlier this year agreed on wide-ranging new rules allowing countries to establish “return hubs” in third countries like Albania and Rwanda, to which unsuccessful asylum seekers and other failed migrants can be sent to. It has also drawn up lists of safe countries from which would-be refugees are unlikely to be accepted apart from in exceptional cases. With far-right parties gaining in the polls ahead of key elections in France, Germany, Italy and other EU countries, governments are pushing Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to use her State of the Union speech next week to demonstrate mainstream…

Published on 09/09/2026 – 19:07 GMT+2•Updated 19:09 The European Commission unveiled on Wednesday a legislative proposal allowing EU public authorities to favour European companies in public procurement for key public services such as energy, water, railways, ports, airports and postal services. The move comes as European policymakers seek to shield the bloc’s market from China amid heated trade negotiations, as the EU grapples with a trade deficit with Beijing of roughly €1 billion a day. Public procurement markets in Europe represent €2 trillion every year — 15% of Europe’s GDP. “Public money must serve our collective interests,” Commission Vice-President Stéphane…