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PARIS — Face à la menace grandissante du président américain Donald Trump sur le Groenland, l’Europe a besoin que son couple franco-allemand s’unisse. Mais les relations entre Paris et Berlin sont tendues en ce moment. Le chancelier allemand Friedrich Merz s’est engagé à former un front commun avec le président français Emmanuel Macron dans les jours à venir, afin de relancer le duo souvent décrit comme le moteur de l’UE, et obtenir une avancée avec Trump. Mais la nécessité d’élaborer ce que Friedrich Merz appelle une “position commune” avec Emmanuel Macron tombe mal. Les deux parties devront mettre de côté…
Published on 20/01/2026 – 21:13 GMT+1 The presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan appeared together at a Euronews panel at the World Economic Forum on Tuesday, in their first joint appearance since signing a historic peace deal ending 30 years of conflict. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev described the peace agreement as “a tremendous benefit to Armenia, to Azerbaijan and to the South Caucasus, and it sets an example of how countries on very deep hostile terms can now transform into cooperation.” “We did it, we restored justice, international law, our sovereignty, our territorial integrity, and then we achieved peace and then…
BRUSSELS — EU leaders have toughened their position and want the European Commission to ready its most powerful trade weapon against the U.S. if Donald Trump doesn’t walk back his Greenland threats. Germany has joined France in saying it will ask the Commission to explore unleashing the Anti-Coercion Instrument at the emergency EU leaders’ summit in Brussels on Thursday evening, according to five diplomats with knowledge of the situation. Berlin’s move brings the EU closer to a more forceful response, with Trump’s escalating rhetoric about the Danish territory and its supporters having prompted key capitals to harden their stance on…
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“We will, of course, have discussions with the administration in the coming days to remind them of the strength of this deal and how it secures the base,” he told MPs. Donald Trump’s apparent change of heart follows assiduous lobbying over the deal’s potential risks on both sides of the Atlantic. | Pool Photo by Francis Chung via EPA Starmer’s spokesman told reporters the parliamentary process to enact the Chagos treaty would continue as planned, while Mauritius’ Attorney General Gavin Glover issued a statement stressing that it still expects the transfer to go ahead. Campaigners had long argued that Britain’s…
Azerbaijan observes a National Mourning Day to commemorate the 147 victims of the former Soviet troops crackdown on Azerbaijanis’ national independence movement 36 years ago, a decisive and pivotal moment in Azerbaijan’s modern history. People flocked to memorials throughout the country to pay their respects to those who lost their lives during the events. President Ilham Aliyev also laid a wreath in the Alley of Martyrs memorial in Baku, which is seen as a symbol of remembrance for the civilians killed during the military crackdown.
The case arose in 2015 after the Parliament noticed that 20 parliamentary assistants were listed as having political roles in the party’s organizational chart. “The European Parliament never advised us, nor did they blame us for our assistants,” Le Pen told the presiding judge, Michèle Agi, noting that the legislature’s “rules and regulations are 150 pages long.” She suggested the institution was not doing enough to help MEPs navigate their human resources needs. Parliament Director General Didier Klethi later took the stand and pushed back against that claim. “In practice, it is very easy to see whether a contract is…
Speaking to Euronews at Davos on Tuesday, Belgian Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Prévot accused United States President Donald Trump of seeking to “replace the United Nations’ system” with his transitional “Board of Peace”, a body ostensibly set up to administer post-war Gaza. While it remains unclear exactly how many leaders have been asked to join the body, Prévot told Euronews that Belgium has not been invited, decrying the project as “totally unacceptable” and adding that Trump was trying to “create his own personal board”. Trump began inviting world leaders to join the Board of Peace on 16 January in exchange…
Published on 20/01/2026 – 18:01 GMT+1 California’s Governor Gavin Newsom urged Europeans on Tuesday to stop playing nice with US President Donald Trump over Greenland, “develop a backbone” and “punch him in the face.” In blunt remarks to reporters at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, the prominent Democratic politician called Trump “weak” and said the European Union should “push back very aggressively” against the US leader. “He’s good at exploiting weaknesses, but he backs down when he’s punched in the face,” Newsom said. “You can’t play all sides. Enough of the niceties,” he added. “Stop trying to appease him.…
Published on 20/01/2026 – 17:38 GMT+1 •Updated 17:54 Elon Musk has set his sights on Europe’s favourite low-cost airline, at least according to his statements on X, musing about buying it and then putting a “Ryan in charge of Ryan Air”. The world’s richest man kicked off the exchange after Ryanair’s famously mischievous social media team took a swipe at the thin-skinned tech entrepreneur during an outage on X by asking “perhaps you need Wi-Fi @elonmusk?” in a post on the Musk-owned platform. Musk responded by floating a mock takeover in a response over the weekend, asking whether he should…