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Updated: 01/04/2026 – 12:00 GMT+2 Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this April 1st, 2026 – latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel. … More
Leaving home, taking a year out, travelling the world: that’s a path many young people choose after finishing school. But Léocadie Reimers went a different route. Rather than taking a gap year, she opted for military service in the German armed forces. At 24, she saw the decision as an opportunity to try something new and see a different side of life. Before her military service, Reimers had been involved in volunteer work and saw her time as an extension of that, her “contribution to society” as she calls it. At the same time, she was drawn by the prospect…
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot met with his Bahraini counterpart as well as other senior Gulf region officials on March 25 to “share observations” which aim to “maximize the likelihood of the text’s adoption and subsequent implementation,” one of the diplomats said. French President Emmanuel Macron last month called for the U.N. to help unblock the Strait of Hormuz. France is one of the European countries leading Europe’s response to the Iran crisis via a combination of military pledges — Paris has vowed to send warships to the Strait once fighting has died down — and diplomatic efforts via the…
With US President Donald Trump’s approval number deep under water, Democrats are hoping for a massive electoral shift in their favour come the midterms in November. Yet in heavily liberal California, the party could suffer a political nightmare of their own making and hand the governorship to a Republican. How is that possible in a state, where Democrats routinely carry huge majorities in a year in which some Republicans are fearing a national drubbing? Here’s what is happening: In California, there is a top-two “jungle primary” system in which all candidates are listed on the same ballot. The top two…
In his view, NATO allies would then be open at least to discussing the request, like Estonia. “But that doesn’t mean that we are jumping into the unclarity or jumping into something we don’t know what it is,” he clarified. The defense minister strongly disputed Trump’s characterization of NATO allies as abandoning the United States in its hour of need, citing Estonia’s involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq since the turn of the century. “Proportionally, the amount we lost in these conflicts is equal to [that suffered by the] U.S., so we’ve sacrificed as a nation, as an army, we sacrificed…
Published on 01/04/2026 – 17:44 GMT+2•Updated 20:58 Palestinian shops and public institutions were closed across the occupied West Bank on Wednesday in protest against a new Israeli law permitting the execution of Palestinians convicted of deadly attacks, but not Israelis found guilty of similar crimes. The law was passed by the Knesset earlier this week. In the territory’s main cities of Hebron, Ramallah and Nablus, most stores were closed after Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party called for a general strike. Entire shopping centres as well as the main market in Ramallah, the seat of the Palestinian Authority north…
Nordic table talk In Helsinki last week, 10 European leaders met for a private dinner without their officials and aides in the intimate surroundings of the Mannerheim Museum, the home of Finland’s World War II leader Gustaf Mannerheim. Amid the 1940s interiors, decorated with the former president’s hunting trophies, the leaders of countries including the U.K, Sweden, Finland and Norway held a frank discussion about the dire state of the transatlantic alliance. Trump’s stream of invective via social media is bad and getting worse, they all agreed. But they resolved they couldn’t consent to the U.S. president’s demands to join…
Updated: 01/04/2026 – 18:00 GMT+2 Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this April 1st, 2026 – latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel. … More
The pushback comes after the Commission announced earlier on Wednesday that it is exploring a new EU-U.S. “dialogue” on digital rules, as Washington piles on the pressure over how Brussels enforces its laws on American tech giants. “We are discussing with the U.S. to set up a dialogue to reinforce our cooperation on digital technologies and markets,” Commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier said, insisting the bloc’s rulebook “is not up for negotiation.” But critics say the proposed dialogue undercuts that claim — and risks turning EU tech enforcement into a bargaining chip in broader trade discussions with Washington. “The European Commission…
Published on 01/04/2026 – 18:00 GMT+2 US President Donald Trump is not immune from civil claims that he incited a mob of his supporters to attack the Capitol on 6 January 2021, a federal judge has ruled in one of the last unresolved legal cases stemming from the riot. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled on Tuesday that Trump’s remarks at his “Stop the Steal” rally, held on the Ellipse near the White House shortly before the siege began, “plausibly” were inciting words that are not protected by the First Amendment right to free speech. The Republican president is not shielded…