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A pilot project to send migrants who have been denied the right to stay in the EU to designated ‘return’ countries will be in place by early next year, Greece’s migration minister told POLITICO. 19 HRS ago 4 mins read
Hungarian prosecutors on Monday detained two former ministers over corruption and abuse-of-office allegations after parliament lifted their immunity. The detention of Miklós Seszták and Balázs Hankó is a significant development in Prime Minister Péter Magyar’s efforts to hold officials from his predecessor Viktor Orbán’s era to account. The campaign has been dubbed “Operation Purge.” Magyar, whose Tisza Party won April’s parliamentary election, has accused Orbán of running a “mafia state” that channelled billions of euros in public funds to his business associates. Tisza campaigned on a “Road to Jail” programme, and after forming a government, Magyar announced Operation Purge in…
Celine Dion surprised audiences at L’Oréal’s fashion show in Paris with a performance as Fashion Week got underway. Wearing a long black dress, the Canadian singer joined celebrities on stage and sang with the Eiffel Tower in the background. The show also featured stars including Eva Longoria, Cara Delevingne, Heidi Klum, Kendall Jenner, Viola Davis, Aishwarya Rai and Jane Fonda, as well as Turkish actress Serenay Sarikaya and Italian wheelchair fencer Bebe Vio.
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Published on 29/09/2026 – 18:31 GMT+2 Frustration within the European People’s Party is growing over Aleksandar Vučić’s Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), with senior lawmakers urging the party presidency to consider suspending or expelling it from the EPP. Gathered in Toulouse for their political assembly on Tuesday, EPP senior members expressed deep concern over events at the funeral of Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladić, known as the Butcher of Bosnia, who died in late August aged 84 in a UN detention facility in The Hague. They concluded that state honours and the participation of senior Serbian officials at the funeral “cannot…
Tokyo has endured 34 consecutive days of rain, setting a new record for the city’s longest rainy streak, Japan’s weather agency said Tuesday. Footage from the Japanese capital shows pedestrians navigating heavy downpours under umbrellas, while rainwater covers the streets and vehicles move through the wet conditions. The previous record of the longest streak of rainy days in Tokyo was 33 between June 27 and July 29, 2019, said Kazuhiro Hirono, another JMA official.
The same went for a call by Jørgensen last week for consumers to reduce fuel use; national capitals would rather wait for central guidance from the Commission, according to a European energy official familiar with member-country deliberations who, like others cited in this piece, was granted anonymity to speak openly. Both O’Brien and Jørgensen also warned that it was important for such measures to be targeted and temporary to avoid uneven application that could distort the EU’s single market. The despair over energy costs lent an experimental air to the closed-door discussions held in the imposing Dublin Castle in the…
Ukraine has urged the European Union to tap into the immobilised Russian assets to help plug the country’s financial and military shortfall next year, which could hit a staggering $78 billion (€68.77 billion) if allies fail to step up their contributions. Sergii Marchenko, Ukraine’s finance minister, made the push on Tuesday as he met with representatives from international donors and financial institutions in Brussels. During the gathering, Marchenko argued that using the pool of Russian assets would be both a practical and fair solution to meet Ukraine’s extraordinary wartime costs, protect its debt sustainability and ensure accountability for Moscow’s aggression,…
The Iran war has put an “unbearable” strain on the global economy, Qatar warned on Tuesday, as it said meetings aimed at reaching a deal were continuing and Doha resumed its role as a mediator between Washington and Tehran. “How long can the international economy withstand the results of what is happening in our region?” Foreign ministry spokesperson Dr Majed Al Ansari said at a press briefing in Doha. Asked about the prospects for an agreement, Al Ansari said, “In any agreement, there are obstacles. Our role is to overcome the difficulties and try to bridge the gap between the…
By Etienne Paponaud with AFP Published on 29/09/2026 – 20:47 GMT+2•Updated 20:48 Car manufacturer Stellantis announced on Tuesday 29 September that it will halt production for between five and fifteen days in October at its plants in Sochaux, Rennes, Mulhouse and Poissy, citing industrial reasons. In Sochaux, in eastern France, the historic Peugeot plant, which builds upmarket SUVs, is to shut down from 23 to 30 October. “This decision is linked to insufficient availability of certain batteries intended for the long-range versions of our electric vehicles”, the company said in a statement. Stellantis says that vehicles produced at the plant are in very…