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By Lina Ferreira Published on 18/09/2026 – 10:12 GMT+2•Updated 11:31 “Here I am, putting myself on the line,” said the Portuguese prime minister, Luís Montenegro, in a televised address to the nation on Thursday night. Timed for the main evening news bulletins, the speech was used to set out the measures against the cost of living, in particular those triggered by rising fuel prices. Some elements of the plan were already known. This is the case of the pension bonus and the cut to personal income tax (IRS) bands, announced last week in Parliament when the government survived a no-confidence motion.…
Published on 18/09/2026 – 11:29 GMT+2 Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic said on Thursday that AI systems are increasingly capable of building future versions of themselves, adding to mounting concerns about the dangers of the powerful technology. The debate over the risks of AI has intensified in recent months, fuelled by several incidents and apocalyptic warnings from industry professionals. Anthropic said its Claude chatbot now leads more than a quarter of its research and development work and collaborates with human staff on more than 90% of tasks. The company said it was publishing the information to give the public, third parties…
Published on 18/09/2026 – 11:23 GMT+2 Britain’s Eurovision woes are officially becoming a matter for Parliament. UK MPs are set to scrutinise the country’s “dismal” record at the competition, in the hopes of figuring out why one of Eurovision’s former powerhouses now so frequently finds itself at the bottom of the leaderboard. The UK has won Eurovision five times and is one of the “Big Five” countries guaranteed a place in the final. But in recent decades, those glory days have largely given way to immense disappointment. Since 2016, the UK has finished in the top 20 just three times.…
Budgets are where political priorities become real. Speeches, declarations and summit conclusions matter, but ultimately it is the allocation of money that reveals what governments are genuinely prepared to prioritize. Europe needs to become more competitive, more sovereign and better able to defend itself. There is no other choice. Our budget must reflect that new reality. The status quo of the current MFF cannot be the starting point. It is too focused on subsidies and transfers allocated largely in advance, leaving too little room for what Europe urgently needs: common investment in security and defense, competitiveness, innovation, and the fight…
Published on 18/09/2026 – 11:31 GMT+2 On Friday, Spanish authorities moved thousands of migrants to a new facility in Ceuta, sparking renewed tensions as crowds surged and officers fired warning shots into the air. The operation, which saw migrants moved from the Trampolín and Benítez beaches to the port of Ceuta, got underway shortly after 6:30 am, with several Civil Guard patrols deployed to gather the migrants and escort them on foot to the new settlement, around two kilometres away. The operation quickly became difficult to manage. As the first groups from Trampolín beach reached the area of Benítez beach,…
Published on 18/09/2026 – 10:41 GMT+2•Updated 10:42 South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said on Friday that his US counterpart Donald Trump “clearly” wants to maintain dialogue with Pyongyang and that he was “urging” him to do so. Lee told reporters at the presidential Blue House that South Korea was continuing “preliminary coordination efforts” to facilitate talks between the North and the US, adding that a meeting “remains difficult” but was “not impossible.” “I cannot say for certain how likely it is, but it is also clear that we must make every possible effort to turn that possibility into reality,”…
Brussels wants to shield children from Big Tech. It may end up handing Silicon Valley an even bigger competitive edge. The EU Kids Act, unveiled this week, promises age limits, parental controls and a crackdown on the “addictive” features baked into social media, video platforms and AI chatbots alike. But as the bloc moves to police the tech giants, a harder question looms: can Europe regulate its way to child safety without regulating itself out of the AI race it is already losing? The stakes could hardly be higher. Europe has just one significant AI company to speak of, Mistral,…
The proposal can also be seen as part of a more ambitious strategy to develop a European safe asset that drags down the liquidity premium that investors are asking for. Separately, Spain has proposed allowing the Commission to issue a portion of member countries’ debt on their behalf, helping to create a deeper common market for European debt. This could generate €25 billion in annual interest savings. With Spain for the first time set to become a net contributor to the next long-term budget, we are more than willing to pay our fair share to help make the EU a global powerhouse that creates opportunities for its citizens. The…
In exclusive comments to Euronews, the Australian government has responded to European Parliament President Robert Mestola’s hint that Australia and New Zealand could also be invited to be “associate members” of the European Union. While the Australian government spokesperson stressed that the country’s relationship with the EU has “never been stronger or more important”, they said Canberra is focusing on finalising the EU-Australia trade deal “which will bring us even closer together”. “This once-in-a-generation deal gives our farmers, exporters, producers and businesses access to 27 EU countries and 450 million consumers,” the spokesperson said. “Australia is a trading nation, and…