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PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday reappointed Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister — less than a week after Lecornu’s stunning resignation as PM plunged France into a political crisis. Lecornu’s most pressing task is now to get a budget submitted to lawmakers ahead of a legislative deadline Monday. This developing story will be updated.
“Estonia believes in an information society and including young people in the information society,” Estonia’s minister of justice and digital affairs, Liisa-Ly Pakosta, told POLITICO. Tallinn is in favor of enforcing existing rules designed to offer protections, such as the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, rather than changing the current age restrictions, Pakosta said. That bans children under 13 from consenting to their data being processed, with countries able to increase that threshold. An age limit on social media would be a “very easy thing to do,” but countries should instead invest in better education for the digital age, she…
“There’ve been cases when the Nobel committee awarded the prize to people who’ve done nothing for peace,” Putin said, without naming names. “That’s damaged the prize’s prestige.” While he demurred when asked whether he felt Trump deserved the prize, the Russian president — who is currently waging a bloody, years-long war in Ukraine and is wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes — said Trump “is really doing a lot to solve crises that have lasted years, in some cases decades.” Trump “sincerely is aiming for peace” in Ukraine, Putin said, adding “the most striking example” of his…
Published on 10/10/2025 – 19:28 GMT+2 An explosion at a military munitions plant in the US left several people dead and missing, authorities said on Friday, as secondary blasts forced rescuers to keep their distance from the burning field of debris. The explosion, which people reported hearing and feeling miles away, occurred at Accurate Energetic Systems in Tennessee. The company’s website says it makes and tests explosives at an eight-building facility that sprawls across wooded hills near Bucksnort, a town about 97 kilometres southwest of the state capital, Nashville. “We do have several people at this time unaccounted for. We are…
According to Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley of the Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative, the plan contains elements that are “anathema” to both Israel and Hamas. “Hamas does not want to disarm and give up a role in Palestine’s future,” she said. “And Israel does not want to withdraw completely from the Gaza Strip, allow the Palestinian Authority to return, or agree to an eventual Palestinian state.” In short, the plan doesn’t advance self-determination for Palestinians, with economic development prioritized over political progress. It is “too early to speak of peace,” said Hugh Lovatt of the European Council on Foreign Relations. “The key…
“We left this meeting dumbfounded,” Marine Tondelier, the leader of the French Greens, told reporters who had gathered in the Elysée courtyard before her departure. “We feel that we came away with no answers whatsoever, except that the next prime minister, who will be appointed in the next few hours, will not be from our political camp.” Other political leaders who spoke to the press confirmed that the French president was planning to name a new prime minister Friday night and that it would not be someone from the political left. Tondelier, along with her allies from the center-left Socialist…
By Méabh Mc Mahon & Grégoire Lory Published on 10/10/2025 – 18:08 GMT+2 In an interview with Euronews during a visit to Brussels on Friday, Donald Trump’s top Massad Boulos said that the US president not winning this year’s Nobel Peace Prize was a disappointment. Boulos, a former businessman who is now a senior advisor to Trump on African and Arab affairs, was in Brussels for the EU’s Global Gateway Forum. “Of course this wasn’t good news because he absolutely deserves it, he absolutely deserves it,” he told Euronews. “And for those who say, oh, it should be next year and nominations come…
As a result, Belgium wants all EU capitals to guarantee the loan should the Kremlin’s lawyers prove successful in court, or should the war end, prompting an immediate recall. Rome wants its reassurances in writing from Eurostat that these guarantees won’t impact its financial health. Economy Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis told Giorgetti that Eurostat would only be able to answer the question once the EU executive has presented a formal bill for the loan, two of the diplomats said. A senior Commission official told reporters earlier this week that it was likely that these guarantees would only count as contingent liability.…
Around 30,000 Russian citizens were affected by the new rules. While most managed to comply, about 2,600 have voluntarily left Latvia. However, 841 Russian citizens failed to submit the required documents in time. They have now been notified to leave by Oct. 13, Madara Puķe, head of public relations at Latvia’s Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs (OCMA), told POLITICO. But it seems that there are people who were unaware of the changes. “Only when they are no longer paid a pension do they realize that something is wrong,” Maira Roze, the head of OCMA, told Latvian Television’s “De facto” program.…