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A high-speed train derailed in southern Spain on Sunday, jumping onto the track in the opposite direction and hitting an oncoming train in an accident that authorities estimate left more than 20 people dead and injured around 100. The evening train between Malaga and Madrid went off the rails and slammed into a train coming from Madrid to Huelva, another southern Spanish city, according to the Spanish rail operator Adif. Rescue operations are ongoing, he said, adding that at least 73 injured passengers have been taken to six different hospitals. The regional Civil Protection chief, María Belén Moya Rojas, told…
“It’s clear that a line has been drawn and enough is enough,” said one diplomat with knowledge of Sunday’s talks. “But at the moment we are discussing options — if Trump’s tariffs are imposed, then then we will be discussing not what options there are but which options to use.” The €93 billion in retaliatory tariffs would be a reactivation of measures that the EU put on hold after the signing of a trade deal with the U.S. in July. Such a move could be taken “very quickly,” compared to some of the other options being discussed, according to a…
Regardless of whether he makes it to next month’s runoff, Ventura’s ability to secure nearly a quarter of the ballots Sunday emphasizes how remarkable his Chega party’s growth has been in Portugal. In six years the ultranationalist grouping has gone from having just one lawmaker in parliament to becoming the country’s leading opposition party, controlling more than a quarter of seats in the country’s legislature. Cotrim de Figueiredo’s performance is also notable. Earlier this week the politician, who leads the Liberal Initiative, a liberal economic party, and is vice-president of the Renew Group in the European Parliament, called an emergency press conference…
BRUSSELS ―The leaders of the European Union’s 27 governments will meet “in the coming days” to discuss a response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to seize Greenland, European Council President António Costa announced late Sunday. Costa called the extraordinary meeting of the European Council after EU ambassadors huddled in Brussels on Sunday to discuss Trump’s statement on Saturday that he would buy Greenland and punish with tariffs EU countries that stand in his way. According to an EU official and a diplomat familiar with the planning, the summit is being scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 22 . The meeting of leaders,…
Pressure is growing on European leaders to deploy its trade bazooka against the United States after President Donald Trump threatened fresh tariffs if Denmark does not agree to sell the territory of Greenland. In a scenario of coercion, the EU counts with a powerful tool in the anti-coertion instrument, and calls are intensifying for Brussels to trigger it. But how does it work? Euronews explains: What is the anti-coercion tool? Adopted in 2023, the tool was designed with the US and China in mind as the world’s two biggest economies become more assertive in pushing their national interests through tariffs…
Updated: 18/01/2026 – 17:58 GMT+1 US President Donald Trump is threatening several European countries that oppose his plan to seize the Danish territory with tariffs. “An invasion of Greenland by the US would make Putin the happiest man in the world,” the Spanish leader adds in an interview with Spanish media outlet La Vanguardia. … More
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“We’re not the ones looking for conflict,” Frederiksen stated. “At the same time, it is now even clearer that this is an issue that reaches far beyond our own borders,” she added. Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson was one of Frederiksen’s colleagues stressing that European countries “will not let ourselves be blackmailed.” “This is an EU issue that affects many more countries than those now being singled out,” Kristersson said in a post on X on Saturday. Frederiksen’s comments on Sunday came after Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the U.K. — the eights countries targeted by…
By euronews with AP Published on 18/01/2026 – 17:21 GMT+1 The UK, Denmark, Finland, France, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden have issued a joint statement saying Trump’s Greenland threat risks a “dangerous downward spiral” and undermines transatlantic relations. The NATO members then went on to say that they stand in full solidarity with the Kingdom of Denmark and the people of Greenland and are ready to engage in a dialogue based on the principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity. Italy’s Prime MInister Giorgia Meloni, considered as one of Donald Trump’s closest allies in the EU, has called the threatened tariffs a ‘mistake’ and…
Amsterdam’s Museumplein burst into color as thousands of tulips filled the iconic square, turning the green lawn into a vibrant patchwork of reds, yellows and pinks. The display, organized to celebrate spring and the Netherlands’ long association with the flower, was open to the public — with visitors invited to pick tulips for free. This year’s slogan, ‘Unite with bloom”, promotes unity among all people and visitors, said Arjan Smit, chairman for the Tulip Promotion Netherlands foundation.