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Updated: 18/12/2025 – 18:00 GMT+1 Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this December 18th, 2025 – latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel. … More
Life has always been dangerous for the 600,000 Rohingya children who live in chaotic, overcrowded refugee camps in Bangladesh, but the US administration’s decision in January to dismantle the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has made life even harder. That’s what the Associated Press news agency found in interviews with 37 children, family members, teachers, community leaders and aid workers. Violations against children in the camps have risen sharply this year, according to UNICEF, the United Nations’ children’s agency. Between January and mid-November, reported cases of abduction and kidnapping more than quadrupled over the same time period last year,…
By Euronews Published on 18/12/2025 – 17:01 GMT+1 Housing affordability is deteriorating across Europe, but Portugal has emerged as the EU country with the most overvalued property prices. “The Commission estimates that the average overvaluation is most substantial in Portugal, at around 25%, surpassing other overheated property markets in Sweden, Austria or Latvia,” according to a report accompanying the European Commission’s affordability push. Prices, the Commission warns, are rising far faster than people can keep up with. “Price growth has been stronger than income growth, reducing affordability for potential buyers, with marked differences between countries,” the report said. “The countries with…
By Euronews Culture Published on 18/12/2025 – 17:35 GMT+1 FIFA is set to return to the video game market after announcing a partnership with US media giant Netflix. The agreement signals a new chapter in the world football governing body’s gaming strategy following its high-profile falling out with Electronic Arts, which produced FIFA’s video game franchise for three decades. For decades, FIFA relied on US games maker Electronic Arts to produce one of the world’s most profitable sports video games. That partnership ended amid disagreements over licensing fees, prompting EA to drop the FIFA brand name and continue the extremely popular…
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Published on 18/12/2025 – 17:21 GMT+1 Russia is trying to exclude the European Union not only from the diplomatic negotiations but also from any future security guarantees for Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in response to a question from Euronews at the European Council summit in Brussels on Thursday. “No matter what signals Russia sends, we understand that they would like to exclude the presence of Europeans. This cannot be done,” Zelenskyy stated. Ukraine’s president explained that a legally binding commitment from the European countries and the US security guarantees are “different things”. European leaders vowed to protect Ukraine…
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde signalled that the euro area economy is undergoing a structural shift driven by artificial intelligence investment, while stressing that interest rate decisions will remain fully data-dependent amid persistently high uncertainty. Speaking after the ECB’s final Governing Council meeting of the year, which unanimously decided to keep all three key interest rates unchanged, Lagarde said that monetary policy is “in a good place”. However, she made clear that this assessment does not imply a fixed or predictable path for rates. Interest rates: No guidance, all options open Lagarde firmly ruled out providing forward guidance on…
EU leaders will find a solution to the problem of how to get money to Ukraine but must stay on the right side of the law, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said Thursday. Addressing a press conference in Frankfurt after the ECB’s Governing Council meeting, Lagarde said she was “confident” that heads of government meeting in Brussels would thrash out a mechanism for lending to Kyiv, but immediately warned against expecting the ECB to underwrite it. “We are an area of the world which praises itself for respecting the rule of law,” Lagarde said. “I’m sure that there are…
Three Russian border guards briefly entered Estonian territory on Wednesday, the foreign ministry in Tallinn said in a statement on Thursday. CCTV footage taken on Wednesday showed three people crossing a breakwater in the Narva River, which also functions as part of the border between the two countries. The incident is said to have occurred at around 10 am, when the three border guards crossed the breakwater near the village of Vasknarva on foot after arriving in the area by hovercraft. “There was no immediate security threat,” Estonia’s Interior Minister Igor Taro said. However, the incident has prompted police and…
By Eldar Emric with AP Published on 18/12/2025 – 15:48 GMT+1 •Updated 16:01 Flights were cancelled, children were told to stay indoors, and outdoors construction work was banned in Sarajevo on Thursday as a thick layer of fog enveloped the Bosnian capital. Sarajevo traditionally faces severe pollution during winter, mostly from house heating and transport pollution. The city is located in a valley surrounded by mountains which can keep polluted air stuck for days at a time if there is no wind. Several flights from Sarajevo airport were cancelled, and cars moved slowly in low visibility during the morning rush hour. Some residents…