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Published on 09/09/2026 – 16:48 GMT+2 The EU has announced an affordable housing plan aimed at encouraging long-term rentals and making housing more accessible for Europeans. Unveiled on Wednesday, the plan aims to create clarity and predictability in how rules are applied by local authorities, particularly in neighbourhoods popular with tourists where short-term rentals have displaced residents. “Lack of affordable housing is a matter of concern for so many of our European citizens,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in a press statement. “Essential workers and students cannot afford to live where they serve and study. But most…

Nous sommes le 11 juin 2025. Alors que s’ouvre VivaTech, le patron de Mistral AI, Arthur Mensch, monte sur scène pour l’une des tables rondes les plus attendues du salon : l’à peine trentenaire, impeccablement cravaté, doit prendre la parole au côté de Jensen Huang, tout puissant PDG du géant des puces Nvidia, pour annoncer un partenariat stratégique entre les deux entreprises. Alors que le président Emmanuel Macron les rejoint avec quelques minutes de retard, l’Américano-Taïwanais se tourne vers le jeune patron français et lui glisse, d’un air entendu : “Your president worked really hard for you” [“Votre président s’est…

Published on 09/09/2026 – 20:30 GMT+2 The same week that Ceuta’s president, Juan Jesús Vivas, travelled to Brussels in a cry for help, we are joined by Czech centre-right MEP Tomáš Svetechovský and German Socialist MEP Birgit Sippel for their points of view. One month on from the arrival of thousands of irregular migrants in the Spanish city, we hear how EU countries could have shown more solidarity and what more can be done to help Ceuta. Tomáš Svetechovský criticised the Spanish government’s handling of the situation, arguing that it should have acted sooner and requested more European support. “I…

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I am travelling to Latvia for a work trip centred on three d’s: drones, defence and debesmanna. Squeezing in time to the Rīga Conference and other sites relevant to the country’s upcoming EU council presidency is a must, too. Meanwhile, my colleagues in Brussels are holding down the fort, where one topic is stealing the spotlight. “Migration is very much back on the agenda,” one senior EU diplomat said to a crowd of journalists chewing on hors d’oeuvres Monday night at a rentrée party. What is clear is the migration horse certainly has bolted, with no signs of abating, and…

“All national budgets need to be respected,” he added. Costa’s visit came only three days after the far-right Alternative for Germany secured a historic landslide victory in the regional elections in Saxony-Anhalt. The Euroskeptics’ success risks hardening Merz’s stance in the budget negotiations, according to several EU diplomats. Speaking alongside Costa, the German Chancellor reiterated calls to cut “several hundreds of billions” from the Commission’s near-€2 trillion proposal. He described the budget increase as “simply prohibitive because at the end it is the European taxpayer who has to foot the bill.” Costa countered that EU-wide taxes, known as own resources,…

Six hours of footage and a torrent of racist, misogynistic and conspiratorial remarks. The local newspaper Midi Libre has published video from a night-time patrol by Carcassonne’s municipal police, recorded on 6 November 2025. Captured inadvertently by one officer’s body camera, which they thought was switched off, it contains, according to the daily, comments described as “of exceptional violence”. According to Midi Libre, a preliminary investigation has been under way since January 2026, when the footage is said to have been passed to the Carcassonne public prosecutor’s office. Following the video’s publication by the newspaper, the prosecutor’s office confirmed to…

“There’s very strong support for [Commission President] von der Leyen making that outreach and for closer cooperation,” said a third diplomat with knowledge of the preparations. That’s despite a handful of countries, including Giorgia Meloni’s Italy, Andrej Babiš’s Czech Republic and Robert Fico’s Slovakia, traditionally seeking close ties with the Trump camp and trying to avoid outright provocations. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will address the European Parliament next week on a trip first reported by POLITICO, as part of a public campaign to pivot away from dependency on the U.S. and form a club of like-minded, pro-free trade democracies.…

Published on 09/09/2026 – 20:52 GMT+2 A plane carrying Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy from Moldova to Oslo was nearly hit by a drone, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store said on Wednesday. “His flight was almost hit by a drone when it was taking off from Moldova. That is the reality he lives in,” Store told Norwegian public broadcaster NRK. The Norwegian Prime Minister did not provide further details about the incident. “I asked him how his night had been, and he said it had not been a good night because he had been on the phone receiving updates about…

Archaeologists have uncovered a collective tomb containing the remains of 38 people at Chan Chan, a vast pre-Hispanic adobe citadel in northern Peru. Aerial footage shows teams working among the remains and excavating the site. The tomb was discovered a few weeks ago at the archaeological complex near Trujillo, around 500 kilometres north of Lima. The remains were found alongside copper and gold objects, adding to the evidence being studied at the ancient complex. Chan Chan was the capital of the Chimú civilisation, which flourished along Peru’s northern coast before the Inca conquest. Archaeologists continue to investigate the tomb and…