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“A Green tidal wave is coming at the next general election,” declared Hannah Spencer, as she became the first ever Green Party MP to be elected in the north of England last week. She and a growing cohort of women are at its crest. Spencer is not the typical face of green politics. A plumber who left school at 16 and was still completing her plastering training during the campaign, she represents the kind of voter the Green Party – with its middle-class, southern UK heartland – has long struggled to reach. Promising in her speech to “make lives better…
“Spain and the U.S. have had an amazing relationship, forever, for centuries,” Botín told Bloomberg TV, alluding to the Spanish crown’s financial support for George Washington in the American War of Independence, the 250th anniversary of which is being observed this year. “The long-term relationship is strong.” Yet another TACO? Of course, it’s entirely possible that Trump’s vow to cut ties with Spain will never materialize. According to market lore, whenever the risk of self-inflicted economic pain outweighs political rhetoric, “Trump always chickens out” — or TACO . None of the higher tariffs he threatened to impose on Sweden, Norway, Germany, Finland, France,…
Investors poured a record €42.5bn into mergers and acquisitions across Central and Eastern Europe in 2025, as fewer but larger transactions signalled renewed confidence in the region’s economic prospects, according to a new report by Forvis Mazars and Mergermarket. The value of deals rose 36% year-on-year, even as the number of transactions fell 9% to around 1,300, a shift experts attributed to a growing focus on large assets. The standout transaction was US fund GTCR’s €4.1bn acquisition of Czech pharmaceutical group Zentivathe largest foreign investment in the region by an outside investor in several years. Experts attributed the decline in…
Published on 07/03/2026 – 17:50 GMT+1 Baku has released footage showing explosives seized during a counter-terrorism operation, after authorities said they had foiled a series of Iranian-linked terror plots targeting key infrastructure and Jewish community sites in Azerbaijan. Video aired by Azerbaijani media shows investigators displaying explosives allegedly recovered during the operation, including blocks of C-4 that officials say were smuggled into the country as part of a planned attack. Authorities say the materials were discovered during a counter-intelligence investigation by Azerbaijan’s State Security Service (SSS). The SSS said on Friday it had prevented Iranian intelligence agents from carrying out…
German Vice Chancellor Lars Klingbeil on Saturday rejected Berlin’s participation in the escalating military conflict in Iran, describing the U.S.-Israeli campaign as “not our war” and flagging legal concerns over the strikes. In an interview with RND, Klingbeil said that while the Iranian government is a “terror regime,” he has “considerable doubts” that air strikes will lead to a permanent solution or comply with international law. “I say very clearly: This is not our war. We will not participate in this war,” said Klingbeil, who is with the Social Democrats. He warned against a global order where “only the law…
Turkey’s potential move comes as the island, split between a Turkish-backed breakaway state in the north and the Greek-speaking EU member state of Cyprus in the south, has been targeted in a series of drone and missile strikes since the U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran started a week ago. The Republic of Cyprus houses the British airbase at Akrotiri, which was targeted by drones in the opening days of the Israeli-U.S. campaign against Iran. The Iranian threat to Cyprus has triggered various European countries, including Greece, France and the U.K., to move military hardware toward the eastern Mediterranean island. On Monday,…
The Israeli military ramped up strikes on southern and eastern Lebanon overnight into Saturday as it continues to clash with Hezbollah militants in the area. The bombing campaign intensified on Friday night when Israeli forces struck the town Nabi Chit in the eastern Baalbek district at least 12 times, with Hezbollah saying Israeli troops infiltrated the town from the air. On Saturday, Lebanon’s health ministry said the strikes had killed at least 41 people. “The series of raids launched by the Israeli enemy on the town of Nabi Chit and surrounding towns in the Baalbek district resulted in a total…
Russian missiles and drones claimed the lives of at least seven people, including children, in the city of Kharkiv, as Moscow’s forces attacked civilian infrastructure across Ukraine, according to Ukrainian officials. The overnight attacks, which involved 480 drones and 29 missiles, also caused casualties in the capital Kyiv as well as Odessa and Dnipro, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on his Telegram channel. In Kharkiv, a Russian ballistic missile partially destroyed a residential apartment building, killing civilians, said Zelenskyy. The Ukrainian president said that emergency responders were still combing the rubble in the search of victims.
By Sasha Vakulina & Lilly Douse Published on 07/03/2026 – 14:38 GMT+1•Updated 14:40 Euronews journalist Lilly Douse was travelling from Dubai International Airport on Saturday morning when the Iranian drone attacked the vicinity of the compound. Douse had already boarded her flight to Cape Town when, suddenly, all the passengers were rushed to disembark, return to the airport and seek shelter as soon as possible, guided by airport staff. Douse reported that everyone was being evacuated and told to leave from the gate to seek shelter. As she filmed the dramatic events, she said that at first people did not really understand exactly…
U.S. President Donald Trump said an apology by Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian to neighboring countries on Saturday is a sign Tehran has “surrendered,” while also promising to escalate the U.S.-led bombing campaign against the Islamic Republic. In a post on Truth Social Saturday, Trump dismissed the public apology from Pezeshkian, who said earlier Saturday that his country regrets the retaliatory strikes that Iran has conducted on its neighbors in response to the U.S.-Israeli military campaign against Iran. The U.S. president said the American military will be ramping up its attacks soon, posting: “Today Iran will be hit very hard!” He…