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By Lucy Davalou & Andreas Rogal with AP Published on 13/05/2026 – 22:53 GMT+2 U.S. President Donald Trump arrived in Beijing on Wednesday evening for a state visit to China, greeted by Chinese Vice President Han Zheng during a welcome ceremony. The president is seeking to sign deals with China to buy more American food and aircraft, saying he’ll be talking with Xi Jinping about trade “more than anything else.” Trump’s trade war with Beijing has sent U.S.-China trade into a freefall and forced companies on both sides of the Pacific to regroup. Now, Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are trying to stabilise their…
Speaking on RTL radio on Wednesday, Tardif alleged that President Macron maintained a “platonic relationship” with Farahani for several months. However, some exchanges — which Tardif said he was forwarded by people close to Macron — “went quite far,” the journalist said. Tardif said one message sent to Farahani said: “I find you very attractive.” Golshifteh Farahani attends the Grand Dîner du Louvre at Musee du Louvre on March 3, 2026 in Paris. | Aurore Marechal/Getty Images The Elysée, which initially called the reports of the slap fake news and later dismissed the incident as “horseplay,” has not given an…
Published on 13/05/2026 – 14:23 GMT+2•Updated 16:14 A press conference by Real Madrid president Florentino Pérez, one of the most powerful men in Europe, has turned into a political row engulfing commentors, the media and progressive politicians accusing the football chief of sounding like Donald Trump. In a rare QA with the press, Pérez said he would not step down after a disastrous season, in which Real Madrid failed to qualify for the Champions League final and lost La Liga title to Barcelona. “I am sorry to say that I am not resigning,” he said. Pérez then announced the club…
These practices can include verbal abuse, coercion, isolation, forced medication, electric shocks, and physical and sexual abuse, writes the Commission, and have “no therapeutic value.” But the Commission said Wednesday it plans instead to adopt a recommendation in 2027 calling on countries to enact a ban on conversion practices — a decision that campaign organizers saw as a “missed opportunity.” Through the recommendation, “the Commission will recognise the critical role that Member States play in this area and focus on supporting them in banning conversion practices, encouraging national action to extend the legal ban across the EU,” it said in…
Published on 13/05/2026 – 20:24 GMT+2 Hungary’s new Prime Minister Péter Magyar will send a letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Thursday, setting out his government’s position on politically difficult conditions tied to EU funding. Magyar made the announcement at a press conference following the first cabinet meeting of his government, held in Ópusztaszer. Magyar pledged to recover €17 billion in EU funding blocked under his predecessor Viktor Orbán over concerns about corruption and the rule of law. Of that total, €10 billion under the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility is at risk of expiring at…
Podgorica has closed 14 of the 33 chapters that need to be provisionally closed before it joins the bloc. Rule of law remains the toughest hurdle, with Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos urging Montenegro to keep reforms going. The country of some 600,000 people became an EU candidate in 2010, four years after splitting from Serbia, and opened accession talks in 2012. It has set the goal of becoming a member by 2028, even putting ’28 by 28′ branding on its national airline. The Commission aimed to use Montenegro as a test subject for its plans to prevent another “Hungary 2.0,”…
Published on 13/05/2026 – 20:30 GMT+2 The European Political Community’s first meeting in the South Caucasus last week reflects the stretching contours of Europe, geographically, politically and strategically. The meeting in Armenia was a response to global instability of which increasing trade tensions with the United States are a familiar part. Donald Trump’s threat of 25% tariff on European cars has left Brussels scrambling to save a fragile transatlantic deal negotiated last summer. As global alliances shift, Europe is becoming a space others may want to join, align with, or orbit around, from Canada to the United Kingdom, from Iceland…
Israel should halt actions that “threaten” Syria’s stability and work towards a “calm and comprehensive” security agreement, the country’s foreign minister Asaad al-Shaibani said in an exclusive interview with Euronews. Al-Shaibani made the remarks coinciding with a high-level political meeting in Brussels as Israel and Syria pursue efforts to improve relations after decades of conflict. In January, the two countries resumed US-mediated talks aimed at easing tensions along their border and restoring a United Nations-patrolled buffer zone between their forces. “We want to have a security agreement with Israel,” Al-Shaibani told Euronews’ morning show Europe Today. “We hope that these…
Putin has 14 days to sign the bill into law. This year, various European intelligence agencies have labeled Russia as a direct threat to the West and to NATO. EU defense officials and lawmakers fear that the Kremlin could view the next year or two as the ideal time to test the West’s commitment to the military alliance. That window will remain as long as Donald Trump is in the White House and Europe has yet to reinforce its military capacity, according to three EU politicians with direct knowledge of the discussions, interviewed by POLITICO earlier this month. Moscow has…
The European Commission is looking for ways to help Hungary unlock billions in EU funding, dispatching a delegation to Budapest next week as the clock ticks. While Brussels has warned Budapest the receiving the full envelop €10 billion in recovery funds before an August deadline, suggesting that it may receive the full cashout of grants, but not the loans. Still, the Commission will send a team of senior officials to make a more detailed assessment with the now-in-office government. One of the options the Commission is exploring is using the country’s investment bank Exim Bank to channel the funding, but…