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Tusk’s government and the European Commission have insisted the court must be overhauled to conform with EU norms on impartiality, and on Friday suspended the court’s president and his deputy. On Tuesday, eight judges elected by the current ruling majority led by Tusk convened the court and declared they had sufficient numbers to resume its long-stalled work. Hitting back, Nawrocki used the televised opening of a National Security Council meeting, attended by Tusk and other political leaders, to attack the prime minister. Tusk was not given a chance to respond while the cameras were on. “Full responsibility for every police…
By Dogyu Lee and Euronews Doha bureau Published on 3 November 2026 – 16:21 GMT+1 South Korea and Turkey signed an agreement on Tuesday to explore financing for Turkish energy projects, as Seoul seeks a role in building the country’s planned second nuclear plant at Sinop on the Black Sea coast. The memorandum of understanding was signed by the Export-Import Bank of Korea and Turkey Nuclear Energy Inc following talks between South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Seoul. The two organisations will examine possible funding arrangements and set up a working group to exchange…
It is the most prestigious literary prize awarded to an author writing in French. Meeting at the legendary Drouant restaurant in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, the jury of the Académie Goncourt delivered its verdict: the Goncourt Prize 2026 goes to Philippe Jaenada for his novel “L’Inconnue du quai de Javel” (Flammarion). At 528 pages, this investigation revisits the murder of a young woman found dead on a quay on the Seine at the end of the 1950s. The 62-year-old author has already written several books devoted to criminal cases, among them “Sulak” (2013), “La Petite Femelle” (2015) and “La…
Brits see a Republican hold as a riskier result for the world, with a third expecting global affairs to get more chaotic if the U.S. president’s party controls Congress, compared to 17% who believe it will be less chaotic. Trump has long been unpopular with the British public, and 55% say his presidency has been bad for the U.K. compared to 17% who think it’s been good. His administration is slightly more popular with Reform supporters — but 38% of that cohort still view it negatively, compared to 27% who regard it positively. EU is a more ‘reliable ally’ Brits…
Portugal’s housing protesters celebrated in Lisbon on 2 November after a court ruled that activist Renata Cambra could set up a tent in Rossio Square, where police had cleared demonstrators over the weekend. The decision overturned the automatic 00:30 curfew used by officers to demand that protesters leave, recognising the tent as a symbolic part of the demonstration rather than an illegal occupation of public space. The Acampada movement is campaigning against Portugal’s housing crisis and the laws governing relations between landlords and tenants. Cambra says house prices have risen sharply, making decent accommodation increasingly difficult to find. She also…
Published on 3 November 2026 – 19:06 GMT+1 ‘La bola negra’, directed by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, has become the third most successful Spanish film of all time, with 36,7 million euros taken and 5,4 million cinema-goers up to 1 November. The production, starring Penélope Cruz and Glenn Close and inspired by Federico García Lorca, is only behind ‘Ocho apellidos vascos’ and ‘Lo imposible’. The film’s success comes as Spanish box office revenues recover, with a 40% increase in takings during the first 41 weeks of 2026, reaching 489,4 million euros. This figure is 8% higher than the average…
Trump told reporters last month he would meet Putin and Xi, initially “on denuclearization,” but also to discuss Ukraine. “I would meet in order — anything I can do to end the war, whether somebody is there or not, whatever I can do to end the war.” Kyiv met the prospect of a trilateral meeting with concern, with Volodymyr Zelenskyy stressing that it should take place after a meeting that includes Ukraine. “I really don’t want this to be a ‘Yalta – 2, 3, 4,’ when there is a redistribution of influence,” Zelenskyy told reporters in late October — referring…
Published on 3 November 2026 – 19:10 GMT+1 US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Washington would stop giving Israel around $4 billion a year in military aid from 2027. He made the announcement as polls opened across the United States for the midterm elections. Speaking by phone to Fox News, Trump said Israel no longer needed the money, but that the US would keep selling arms to its closest Middle East ally. He said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had come to him with the idea, and that they had been discussing it for a couple of years.…
The Government on Tuesday signed the share sale contract for TAP with Lufthansa, formalising the conditions of the deal that was confirmed in October. In a speech to those present, Luís Montenegro congratulated everyone involved in the deal, stressing that it makes it possible “to anchor the country’s strategic interests and preserve TAP’s identity and brand”. “If that were not the case, we would not have taken the decision we ultimately took,” he said. The Portuguese prime minister said that the Lufthansa group, which is now formalising the acquisition of part of TAP’s capital, has always been keen to preserve…
His fixation on the idea, and his repeated refusals to rule out using military force to take the territory — as well as his use of tariffs against allied countries he saw as standing in his way — stretched the NATO alliance close to breaking point. At NATO’s annual summit in July, Trump said the island “should be controlled by the United States, not by Denmark,” provoking warnings from European leaders who maintain the territory is not for sale and that its future should be left to its people. In September, Trump signed a defense agreement with the prime ministers…