Author: staff
Published on 07/09/2026 – 8:30 GMT+2•Updated 8:58 Alternative for Germany’s dominant showing in Sunday’s Saxony-Anhalt election has triggered starkly divided reactions across the continent, exposing the widening fault line between Europe’s establishment centre and its emboldened populist right. AfD won 43.8% of the vote, more than double its showing five years ago in the region of 2.1 million people west of Berlin. That was far ahead of Merz’s Christian Democratic Union, which polled 17.2% — losing about half its support — and won 15 seats. The center-left Social Democrats polled 9.3%, the Greens 8.9% and the Left Party 8.6%, winning…
Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond in this Euronews news bulletin. In just a few minutes, our newsroom brings you the latest news and breaking news across world affairs, business, politics, culture, entertainment and travel, with the context you need to make sense of a fast-moving day. Reported with the independence and the European perspective that define Euronews, this regular round-up gives you a clear and reliable overview of the stories shaping our world right now, wherever you are watching from.
Published on 08/09/2026 – 6:27 GMT+2 China’s exports accelerated in August, jumping 25% from a year earlier on strong demand for autos and high-tech goods, its customs agency said on Tuesday. The data came ahead of US President Donald Trump’s planned meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, set for late September, though Beijing has not yet confirmed the exact date for the visit. Exports grew 23.9% year-on-year in July. Imports climbed 28.2% in August from a year earlier, up from July’s 27.5% rise. That led to a $119.1 billion (€102.4bn) trade surplus for China, widening from $112.5 billion (€96.8bn) in…
Published on 08/09/2026 – 5:19 GMT+2 A robot that vacuums, scrubs toilets and wipes down kitchen counters for €26 an hour is already making its way into homes in San Francisco, in the United States. US start-up Tau Robotics is offering its humanoid robots as household cleaners, taking on the kind of complex, varied domestic work that robotics companies have spent years trying to automate. The service has been operating for about a month and has already cleaned more than 50 apartments and condominiums across the city. The company says demand is growing, with prospective customers now joining a waiting…
Some countries are places you simply visit; others urge you to travel through them. On foot, by bicycle, paddling across a lake, following a river downstream or heading beneath the surface of the earth. Slovenia clearly belongs to the second group. This small country of just over 20,000 square kilometres and barely two million inhabitants concentrates an extraordinary variety of landscapes. Around 60% of its area is covered by forest and more than a third of its territory is protected or forms part of the Natura 2000 network. It is the green lung of the Balkans and also a vast…
The EU’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, wanted a group of heavyweight former leaders to come up with fresh ideas to address Europe’s defense gaps. Instead, the initiative was killed before it even launched. Zoya Sheftalovich and Ian Wishart look at why some capitals pushed back — and what the episode says about Kallas’ authority and the battle over who drives European defense policy. Then, European Council President Antonio Costa continues his tour of European capitals as negotiations over the EU’s next long-term budget get more concrete. And finally: could Ukraine and Poland make a joint bid to host the football…
Eurostat estimates that consumer goods thrown away prematurely generate close to 35 million tonnes of waste annually across the EU. Although most discard their devices when broken, a Eurobarometer survey showed that 77 percent of Europeans would prefer repairing their appliances to replacing them. But professional repair services are often expensive, and parts are made inaccessible by the companies that provide them. The EU wants to stop this cycle of premature replacements through the Right to Repair Directive and an accompanying set of Ecodesign regulations. Amongst other things, the new laws ask manufacturers to design appliances with standard screws instead…
Published on 08/09/2026 – 5:29 GMT+2 The supercomputer, called the Threadripper Halo Station, was unveiled at the German tech event Internationale Funkausstellung by AMD Senior Vice President Jack Huynh. The Threadripper Halo is an ultra-high-performance workstation equipped with up to two terabytes of system memory, up to 576 gigabytes of high bandwidth memory (HBM3E), along with 96 cores of Threadripper Pro, two MI350P data centre accelerators, all supported by liquid cooling. Huyn said the new supercomputer is the “most powerful workstation in the world”, capable of running AI models with more than a trillion parameters. The AMD executive gave a…
Nach dem Wahlschock in Sachsen-Anhalt steht der Reformkurs der Bundesregierung auf der Kippe. Während Lars Klingbeil im Bundestag seinen Haushalt erklärt, muss Kanzler Friedrich Merz gucken, dass seinem Koalitionspartner ob schwieriger Umfragen und Wahlergebnisse nicht der Reformwille abhanden kommt. Rasmus Buchsteiner analysiert, wie sich der Kanzler in Selbstkritik übt und trotzdem noch nicht so wirkt, als hätte er definitive Antworten. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview fordert die SPD-Abgeordnete Rasha Nasr einen teilweisen Kurswechsel bei der Rentenreform. Sie erklärt, warum ein Festhalten an den aktuellen Plänen ein fatales Signal an Wähler sendet und warnt die Parteispitze vor einem respektlosen Umgang mit der arbeitenden Bevölkerung.…
Published on 08/09/2026 – 4:47 GMT+2 Russia resumed strikes on Kyiv after the expiration of a three-day halt in attacks for a visit to the Ukrainian capital by US envoys, as “Russian forces attacked Boryspil and Fastiv districts with drones,” the State Emergency Service of Ukraine posted on Telegram late Monday. Russia’s state news agency TASS also confirmed earlier that the strike pause had expired. Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered the three-day halt in Moscow’s strikes on Kyiv as US President Donald Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner were visiting the Russian and Ukrainian capitals at the weekend.…