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Updated: 09/02/2026 – 19:40 GMT+1 Mobile apps, designed to help shoppers identify and boycott American goods, have seen a surge in use in Denmark. It comes after US President Donald Trump’s repeated desires to acquire Greenland. Watch the video above for more. … More
The center-right European People’s Party, the center-left Socialists and Democrats, and the liberal Renew Europe all agreed to fast-track votes allowing the Commission to raise funds on the international debt market, backed by the EU’s long-term budget. The three groups’ backing means the votes — including on changes to the EU’s budget and to an existing Ukraine funding mechanism — will get the majority needed to pass. Without the loan, Ukraine had risked running out of cash by April, which would have been catastrophic for its war effort amid ongoing U.S.-brokered peace talks. The votes had previously been scheduled for a special…
Ukraine will open 10 weapon export centres in Europe in a major wartime policy shift, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on Monday. Zelenskyy said the centres will operate in several European countries, with Germany set to be among the first, as production of Ukrainian drones is scheduled to begin there within the next few days. “In mid-February, we will see the production of our drones in Germany. I will receive the first drone. This is a fully operational production line”, Zelenskyy stated. He also added that “similar production lines” are already running in the UK. “These are all Ukrainian technologies,” he…
As rising global temperatures speed up the melting of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, it’s set off a boom of ships taking routes that previously were frozen and not traversable. The increase in marine Arctic traffic, which received increased attention as President Donald Trump pushed for the United States to take over Greenland, has come with a heavy environmental cost: black carbon, or soot, that spews from ships and makes the ice melt even faster. Several countries are making a case for ships in the Arctic to use cleaner fuels that cause less pollution in meetings this week with…
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By Euronews Published on 09/02/2026 – 18:07 GMT+1 France’s former Culture Minister Jack Lang resigned on Saturday as president of the Arab World Institute following revelations about his past financial links to late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The resignation came after France’s financial prosecutor opened an investigation into Lang and his daughter Caroline on suspicion of “aggravated tax fraud laundering,” according to authorities. Lang’s name appears more than 600 times in files released on 30 January by the US Department of Justice, which documented exchanges between the two men spanning seven years until Epstein’s death in custody in…
The former Duke of York, who was a trade envoy between 2001 and 2011, forwarded information on Oct. 7, 2010 about his upcoming trips with associates of Epstein. The following month, on Nov. 30, 2010, he appeared to forward official reports of those visits, sent by his special assistant, five minutes after receiving them. The files also appear to show he forwarded Epstein an email on Christmas Eve 2010 containing a briefing about investment opportunities in the reconstruction of Helmand Province, Afghanistan. The terms of reference for a trade envoy say the role “carries with it a duty of confidentiality…
Published on 09/02/2026 – 17:00 GMT+1•Updated 17:09 A lack of clarity over how public funds will be tracked is among concerns raised by the European Court of Auditors (ECA) about the European Union’s upcoming long-term agricultural budget. The ECA, which is the guardian of EU finances, is making a number of assessments of the EU’s proposed long-term budget for the period 2028-2034. The latest assessment, released on Monday, focuses on the European Common Agriculture Policy. Unlike the previous EU budget, the new proposal would leave it up to EU countries to make their own national plans, a similar arrangement to…
By Euronews Published on 09/02/2026 – 16:56 GMT+1 Belgium’s reputation was suffering from the Brussels-Capital region’s failure to form a government more than 600 days after elections, Prime Minister Bart De Wever said on Monday. De Wever said the prolonged crisis in Belgium’s smallest region required major changes to the country’s complicated institutional setup. “Wherever I go in the world, in Europe, everyone asks me about it and says: ‘What the hell is this mess?'” De Wever told French-language public broadcaster RTBF. The Brussels-Capital region has been governed in caretaker mode since the June 2024 elections, with a population of 1.2…