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The two-day event aims to build a counter to advancing authoritarian and far-right forces, from the nationalist right in Europe — including parties aligned with the Patriots for Europe bloc — to global politics in the age of U.S. President Donald Trump. “This is not an isolated trend,” Löfven said. “It’s a shared challenge that requires a coordinated global response.” The Barcelona program includes a leaders’ dinner on Friday followed by a day of events featuring Socialist group chief Iratxe García and European Commission Executive Vice-President Teresa Ribera as well as Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, South Africa’s Cyril…
On Sunday, 12 April, Hungarian voters cast their ballots in the country’s parliamentary election, ending Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s 16-year rule. Tisza, the pro-European, conservative party led by Péter Magyar, secured a two-thirds majority in one of the most anticipated and closely watched elections of 2026. The outgoing Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has, in fact, been a central actor in the European Union (EU), where he’s well known for his anti-EU rhetoric and his use of the veto mechanisms to block, among others, aid to Ukraine. On the contrary, Prime Minister-designate Péter Magyar has taken a more positive stance on…
Forbes has already weighed in on the best new hotels debate, declaring The Red Sea EDITION in Saudi Arabia the greatest opening this year. For Esquire, Collegio Alla Querce, Auberge Collection in Florence captured the hearts of its editors. Now Travel + Leisure has released its 2026 It List, with 100 brilliant properties highlighted across the globe. While there’s no overall winner, the listings are split into categories including best city hotels, cruise ships and “splurge-worthy stays”. The latter is defined as any hotel that will set you back more than €1,000 a night, and 19 properties on the list…
National governments can equally design their own apps, and the apps are meant to work together to allow for smooth age checks across the bloc. But critics of age blocks say the technology to check people’s ages with proper privacy and data protections just isn’t ready — and even if it was, internet users would easily bypass it with things like virtual private networks (VPNs) that mask their location. Blazy was part of a group of more than 400 privacy and security experts who sent an open letter to the Commission in March to impose a “moratorium on deployment plans…
Bulgaria holds its eight parliamentary elections in five years on Sunday, with former president Rumen Radev’s new party leading polls in a vote many hope will end now-chronic political instability. Radev, a former air force general who resigned as president in January, formed his Progressive Bulgaria coalition after the resignation of the government in December. His party leads with 33% support according to the latest polls, positioning him as a key power broker in what is expected to be another fragmented parliament. The election follows five years of near-permanent crisis in which no government has survived a full term. Instead,…
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Published on 17/04/2026 – 11:56 GMT+2 Last year, we suggested (proved?) that the Trump administration may be culturally illiterate – especially when it comes to cinema. Now, Pete Hegseth has added another stone to that dubious edifice. The US Secretary of War, a Christian nationalist who has been referencing the Bible and Jesus Christ in several of his gung-ho / fire-and-brimstone addresses, quoted a fake Bible verse from Quentin Tarantino’s beloved classic Pulp Fiction during a prayer service at the Pentagon. No, we’re not making this up. Hegseth mistakenly presented the made-up scripture as genuine Bible verse – seemingly trying…
Mandelson became U.S. ambassador in February 2025 before being sacked in September over his friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The Guardian first reported Thursday afternoon Mandelson did not pass his security vetting clearance, but that the Foreign Office overruled the decision. Jones told the BBC on Friday morning that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office ignored the advice of United Kingdom Security Vetting, the government’s screening agency. “I find this whole situation astonishing,” Jones said in his BBC remarks, adding that he suspended the Foreign Office’s right to ignore security vetting going forward last night. “That is a failure…
An online claim suggesting that Apple Maps, the web mapping service developed by Apple, has removed village names in southern Lebanon has gone viral. Some posts making the claims have racked up millions of views, triggered explainer videos and sparked a heated debate on whether Apple has intentionally altered its maps to remove the names. Euronews’ fact-checking team, The Cube, found that one of the posts was shared by a pro-Iranian X account based in South Asia, which has repeatedly spread misleading claims about Iran’s military power in the war. The allegations come amid heightened regional tensions, with Israel carrying…
Published on 17/04/2026 – 9:11 GMT+2•Updated 9:23 Even if the Middle East conflict were to end today, its ripple effects risk creating the conditions for further conflicts to emerge, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Alexander De Croo has told Euronews’ morning show, Europe Today. “The first measure [that must be taken] is to stop the war or at least come to some type of normalisation of the shipping lanes in the Strait of Hormuz,” the former Belgian Prime Minister said. He cautioned that, even if the war ceased today, economic interventions are needed to avoid a situation where…