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If you haven’t seen “Frozen,” it’s about a place that’s cast into a perpetual winter (Europe) and is governed by a blonde woman in a tower (European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen). Among the other characters are a love interest who turns out to be a baddie of the highest order (U.S. President Donald Trump), and an annoying sidekick who keeps getting into trouble and threatening to ruin everything (Hungarian Prime MinisterViktor Orbán). At the end, everything’s resolved and they all live happily ever after (which seems unlikely). European Commissioner Apostolos Tzitzikostas, who is in charge of the transport…
By Friday, visitors were already spreading picnic sheets beneath pale pink canopies in Ueno Park, one of the capital’s best‑known hanami (flower viewing) spots. The announcement matters well beyond the weather: for Tokyo’s residents, sakura season marks the start of spring gatherings, family outings and one of the city’s busiest tourism periods. Officials said the bloom arrived five days earlier than the seasonal average. The cherry season in Tokyo is declared once at least five flowers open on the official sample tree, but this year observers counted 61 blossoms before making it formal. Warmer‑than‑usual temperatures since mid‑February helped accelerate the…
Dozens of popular European destinations have brought in fines, taxes and other restrictions on travellers in recent months, in an attempt to combat overtourism. However, in 2024, Copenhagen took a very different approach. The Danish capital began rewarding tourists who demonstrate responsible and conscious behaviour through the CopenPay initiative. The main aim of this scheme is to show travellers that climate actions can be much easier than they think, in an effort to promote sustainable tourism. Incentives include providing free bike rentals, boat tours and lunches for travellers who help out in communal gardens, collect litter and take public transport.…
Speaker Lindsay Hoyle told the Commons the three men who were arrested did not have passes granting them full access to the parliamentary estate. Yet Taylor’s presence will raise questions about the current access arrangements for guests of those who do hold passes. A parliamentary spokesperson said: “Parliament is a public building, and we facilitate the visits of thousands of people to the estate each week. We have robust security processes in place, with the safety and security of all those who work in and visit Parliament our top priority. Members in both Houses can sponsor events on behalf of external…
Published on 27/03/2026 – 7:51 GMT+1 On today’s show: Top story: G7 Summit debrief with Méabh Mc Mahon and Maia de la Baume. Explainer by Jakub Janas: What’s the point of the G7 meeting? Iran war update with Méabh Mc Mahon and Babak Kamiar. Interview with Ghassan Salamé, Lebanese Culture Minister. Interview with Valérie Hayer, Member of the European Parliament (Renew Europe, France). When and where to watch Europe Today? You can join Euronews’ chief anchor Méabh Mc Mahon and our EU editor Maria Tadeo live on TV and Euronews’ website and digital platforms every weekday. Our new format brings…
In a matter of weeks, the Iran conflict has rewritten Europe’s energy calculus. The benchmark Dutch TTF natural gas price has jumped from €38 per megawatt-hour to €54 month-to-date — a 70% increase that puts March 2026 on course to be the strongest monthly increase for European gas prices since September 2021. It is a number that carries weight far beyond energy markets. Europe’s gas vulnerability is not evenly distributed Europe entered this crisis already in a fragile position. Underground gas storage stood at just 28.4%, or 325 terawatt-hours, as of 24 March — 5 percentage points below the same…
Published on 27/03/2026 – 7:00 GMT+1 Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots that offer support for personal issues could be reinforcing harmful beliefs by excessively agreeing with the user, a new study found. Researchers from the American university Stanford measured sycophancy, the extent to which an AI flatters or validates a user, across 11 leading AI models, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT 4-0, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, Meta Llama-3, Qwen, DeepSeek and Mistral. To see how these systems handled moral ambiguity, the researchers turned to more than 11,000 posts from r/AmITheAsshole, a Reddit community where people confess conflicts and ask strangers to judge whether…
By Fakhriya M. Suleiman Published on 27/03/2026 – 7:00 GMT+1 US-based residential cruise company Fabled Voyages has announced a soon-to-launch “Pets Onboard” programme that will allow residents to be able to live with the furry companions. The move comes as the cruise company seeks to address a “key barrier” to long-term travel by creating a home at sea that includes pets. “Pets are family for many of our future residents,” said Madison Miller, Founder and CEO of Fabled Voyages. “Our responsibility was to design a programme that respects that bond while maintaining comfort, safety, and harmony on board.” Subject to size,…
In der SPD geht die Sorge vor den Geistern der Vergangenheit um: Lars Klingbeils Reform-Rede weckt Erinnerungen an Gerhard Schröder und Franz Müntefering. Männer, die das Land modernisierten, aber ihre Partei in die Opposition führten. Heute trifft sich die SPD-Spitze mit Landes- und Kommunalpolitikern, um über Klingbeils Vorschläge zu beraten. Rixa Fürsen und Rasmus Buchsteiner analysieren, ob das Treffen zum Aufbruch oder zum Krisengipfel wird. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview dazu: Jochen Ott, SPD-Fraktionschef im Landtag von Nordrhein-Westfalen und Spitzenkandidat der NRW-SPD für die Wahl 2027. Während Berlin über die Reformen streitet, ist Verteidigungsminister Boris Pistorius am anderen Ende der Welt unterwegs. Für…
By Ana Filipa Palma with Euronews Published on 17/03/2026 – 17:32 GMT+1 The long queues at Lisbon airport’s border control may be about to diminish. At least, that’s the aim of the new European mobile application, “Travel to Europe”. This new app allows travellers from third countries to pre-register their travel information before arriving at border control. Through the app, travellers can enter their personal and travel details, as well as answer a short questionnaire on entry conditions. This process is available up to 72 hours in advance. The Entry/Exit System (EES), which has been in place since October, has faced difficulties related…