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Catching a train from London to mainland Europe could soon become a lot more straightforward. A new analysis by Politico suggests high-speed services between London St Pancras and destinations including Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam could depart as often as every 15 minutes by the end of the decade, as Eurostar faces growing competition from the likes of Virgin Trains and Italy’s Trenitalia. Currently, there are around 25 daily round trips made by Eurostar, but it’s hoped that figure will rise to 55 by the end of the 2020s, which is an equivalent of four departures every hour. Since its launch…
Published on 27/08/2026 – 12:14 GMT+2 Adriana Majdzińska, an artist and professor at the Gdańsk Academy of Fine Arts, runs an art atelier called WL4 at the shipyard together with her husband, sculptor and ceramicist Dr. Czesław Podleśny. She hopes this will help preserve the site’s cultural and historical legacy. Podleśny himself creates his human-shaped sculptures from rusting ship parts. “WL4 is a group of independent artists not affiliated with any institution, for whom art is the paramount value. Our circle includes both established artists and those just beginning their creative journey, working across different fields of art. Our diversity…
Meta’s reported removals of scams and fraud on its platforms in the EU “show that scams are not a marginal phenomenon occurring outside the platform’s main operating model,” but rather one of “the largest and most persistent forms of abuse within the Meta ecosystem,” the deputy PM wrote. Polish authorities and cybersecurity teams have notified Meta multiple times, but the company still doesn’t ensure “an effective and adequate response to scam advertisements,” Gawkowski wrote. A cybersecurity team within Poland’s National Research Institute reported 122 advertisements to Meta as fraudulent and only 13 percent were removed, he said. The deputy PM…
Ceuta has faced its second consecutive night of protests over the migration crisis, and social tensions continue to rise. Tuesday’s demonstrations against the alleged plan by the government to house migrants in the Coronel Fiscer barracks were followed on Wednesday by a new wave of protests that ended with barricades, rubber bullets fired by police and blockades on the streets around the port. Both days share a common denominator that is starting to repeat itself as the crisis persists: the press covering the situation has also become a target of criticism. Two nights, two TV crews harassed On Tuesday, a…
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Published on 27/08/2026 – 7:01 GMT+2 You might think Scandinavia would be the obvious choice for an active European coolcation, but a new ranking suggests the Alps could be just as tempting. As this summer winds down following months of record-breaking temperatures, new research shows that searches for coolcations have risen 74% year-on-year, and that 65% of holidaymakers now saying they’d rather avoid travelling during the hottest time of year. Those who do opt to holiday in the peak summer months are often travelling to spots where they can beat the heat. The research, from SportsCover Direct, has ranked Europe’s…
Thousands of revellers descended on the Spanish town of Buñol on Wednesday for the 79th La Tomatina, where 165 tonnes of overripe tomatoes were hurled around for just over an hour. Held on the last Wednesday of August, La Tomatina dates back to 1945 after a brawl broke out between two groups of teenage boys during a parade in the small town. From there it became an annual tradition before being banned by dictator Francisco Franco in the 1950s. In defiance of the ban, Buñol locals staged a mock funeral in the streets, dressing in black and placing a giant…
“Ukraine needs more financial support in both the short and long term,” said the letter, which copied in the Commission’s economy and enlargement bosses, Valdis Dombrovskis and Marta Kos. “We believe now is the time to revert to the issue of how we can make further use of Russia’s immobilised assets for the benefit of Ukraine.” EU leaders in December failed to agree on a plan that would leverage €210 billion of frozen Russian state assets, most of which reside in the Brussels-based depository Euroclear, to underpin a massive loan to Kyiv. Belgium resisted the plan and demanded unlimited guarantees…
Hungary’s Fidesz party is facing an existential crisis following its dramatic defeat in the country’s April elections, in which Péter Magyar’s Tisza party unseated Viktor Orbán after 16 years of governing with a supermajority. Having been a key driver of Hungary’s democratic transition at the end of the 1980s and then a vehicle for Orbán’s nationalist, eurosceptic transformation of the country since 2010, Fidesz has since struggled to adapt to Hungary’s new political reality. Tisza commands nearly 70% support in opinion polls, while Fidesz’s own rating has fallen below 20%. Several leading figures have left politics altogether since the defeat,…
By Euronews Persian Published on 27/08/2026 – 11:23 GMT+2 US President Donald Trump said he believes Iran’s Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei is alive but was seriously wounded in the strikes that killed his father, following fresh reports speculating that the younger Khamenei had died. “I don’t think he’s dead. He was very seriously wounded. The left side of his body, the arm, the leg, the whole thing. He was very seriously wounded, but I don’t think he’s dead,” Trump told conservative commentator Glenn Beck. Trump added he based his assessment on Iranian negotiators’ own behaviour. “If he is (dead), they’re putting on…