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Four-and-a-half years on, representatives for Ukrainian athletes argue that restoring Russian competitors and national symbols normalizes Moscow’s ongoing aggression. “The flag came back, and that is what is important for Russia,” said Dubrova. Ukrainian Sports Minister Matvii Bidnyi told POLITICO in July that the IOC is “effectively functioning as a pressure release valve” for Russia. “It is up to each International Federation (IF) as the sole authority for its international competitions, outside of the Olympic Games, to decide on this question [restoring Russian athletes’ participation under the Russian flag, emblem and anthem]. For more, we kindly refer you to the…

Sabotage, arson, cyberattacks, disinformation, and drones in restricted airspace. Russia’s hybrid campaign against Europe no longer looks like isolated incidents. The EU is now rethinking its response. In September, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the hybrid threats facing Europe are “less and less hybrid and less and less threats”. Her State of the Union address introduced a new idea, the European Security Council. From resilience to deterrence For Ionela Ciolan, a research officer at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, the challenge is clear. Russian hybrid warfare today, she says, means the “weaponisation of everything,” from…

Published on 15/10/2026 – 8:01 GMT+2 On today’s show: Shona Murray reports from the European Council, where EU leaders open a two-day summit on energy prices, the bloc’s next seven-year budget and support for Ukraine, and deteriorating relations between the US and Europe. Kaja Kallas, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, speaks exclusively to our Europe editor Maria Tadeo about the summit and Ukraine. Beate Meinl-Reisinger, Austria’s Foreign Minister, tells Euronews why enlargement is moving so slowly and sets out her proposal to give candidate countries access to the Single Market as they complete reforms. Tareq Abu…

Smaller parties have been gaining ground in the U.K. in recent years, challenging the long-held two-party system and complicating the polling landscape. ORB International’s Johnny Heald told the meeting of pollsters: “As one of the founding [BPC] members, clearly we set out with very good intentions to be transparent, but the industry’s changed massively … The combined turnover of all companies in this room has got to be hundreds of millions, and our [BPC] income is £4,000.” In an emailed statement to POLITICO, Green acknowledged that the Reform UK story had “increased the salience of some of the issues amongst…

Just two days ago, Louise Gotze was in the Ugandan city of Entebbe with her team, sharing her knowledge with around 30 doctors and nurses. She spoke to healthcare professionals about how to care for Ebola patients without becoming infected themselves. “These training sessions are absolutely essential to ensure that staff do not become infected and that they know how to work safely when they are in the red zone, meaning the area where patients are being treated,” Gotze told Euronews. Around 200 healthcare workers are currently known to have become infected as a result of their work. According to…

A new four-lane road bridge linking China and North Korea finally opened on Thursday, 12 years late, enabling the Asian giant and its isolated nuclear-armed neighbour to substantially step up cross-border trade. China is North Korea’s largest trading partner and a vital diplomatic and political backer, although relations have not always been smooth with the ruling Kim dynasty. Hundreds of people gathered on Thursday in the northern Chinese border town of Dandong, taking selfies in front of the 3,026-metre New Yalu River vehicle bridge before it opened. Trucks bearing the nations’ flags began moving in both directions late in the…

Imagine an investor who fell asleep in the summer of 2012, at the height of the euro crisis, and woke up this morning. He would remember a simple map. In the north, a core of countries that borrowed cheaply, with Germany at the centre. In the south, a periphery of debtors – Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Ireland – that paid dearly for the privilege of staying in the single currency. Fourteen years later, that map no longer describes the eurozone. Belgium, home to the European Union institutions, now borrows for ten years at 4.29%. Greece, bailed out three times, pays…

In the summer of 2026, two studies revived the debate on embryo gene editing, a technique that consists of manipulating the DNA of a human embryo for reasons ranging from better understanding human development to preventing children from developing certain diseases. One study was led by Kathy Niakan at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom, and the other by Dieter Egli at Columbia University in the United States. Both researchers employed base editing, a technique developed in 2016 to alter genetic material with greater precision than earlier methods. Both conducted their research on human embryos instead of mice, and both…

Fellow travellers, it’s time to forget about that all-too-comfortable beach break and plan to do something that’s, let’s say, not on your usual holiday agenda. That’s the thinking behind the “plot twist trip”, one of nine trends identified in Booking.com’s travel predictions for 2027, which suggest holidaymakers are interested in “going off-script”. Based on research from more than 28,000 travellers worldwide, the report’s findings show that people are rethinking where they are going, who they are travelling with, and how they experience the world. Next year, travellers will “humble everyone who thought they had them figured out” and surprise themselves…

EU leaders meet today for their first chance to beef about the budget face to face. On the show, Zoya Sheftalovich and Sarah Wheaton dive deeper into why leaders look increasingly unlikely to reach an agreement on the EU’s next money pot by December. Plus, Zoya obtained a document revealing deepening relations between Russia and Slovakia. Will that be a cause for concern around the Council table? Next up, Zoya spoke with Defense Commissioner Andrius Kubilius on stage yesterday. His main message? Europe should boost its defense capabilities and stop relying so heavily on U.S. military support. And finally, ECB…