Author: staff
3.2% of Spaniards have rented or looked to rent a room in a shared flat, up from 2.8% a year ago. This is the key finding from the report Profile of people who share housing, produced by Fotocasa Research using data from the first half of 2026, which shows this option is becoming an increasingly common alternative in the rental market. Fotocasa puts this down to a lack of financial leeway rather than to personal preference. “Tenants are not looking to share a flat because it is their first choice, but because the market forces them to adjust their expectations…
Merkel spoke at the opening of a Bundestag exhibition on former Chancellors Konrad Adenauer and Willy Brandt, before joining Bundestag President Julia Klöckner for a discussion on Adenauer, democracy and politics. Adenauer, West Germany’s first postwar chancellor and the CDU’s first leader, helped shape the party as a broad-based Christian movement. Most of the on-stage conversation focused on art, with the lack of more in-depth political discussion notable given the scale of the CDU’s recent losses. On Sept. 6, the far-right AfD won 43.8 percent in Saxony-Anhalt, more than doubling its 2021 result, while Merz’s CDU fell to 17.2 percent…
Lithuania is “very sceptical” of removing Uzbek-Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov from the latest sanctions list, the country’s finance minister, Taurimas Valys, said. France requested to delist Usmanov from the blacklist last week as part of a package that could see two French nationals released from prison in Azerbaijan. The country cited national security concerns as its reason for joining Slovakia in calling for the removal, but French officials have refused to comment or provide further details. “Regarding any loosening of sanctions, we’re very sceptical,” Valys said on Euronews’ interview programme 12 Minutes With. The French position has complicated efforts to…
Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party has won a record supermajority in parliament, preliminary results showed Monday. The tightly controlled three-day vote excluded every party critical of the Kremlin or the war in Ukraine. Central Election Commission chief Ella Pamfilova said United Russia had secured 355 of the State Duma’s 450 seats. That beats its previous record of 343, set in 2016, and is well above the 301 needed to change the constitution. Final results are due later this week. The Communist Party came second with 40 seats, followed by the nationalist LDPR on 25, New People on 20 and A…
“We have to be very careful and understand that Russia is trying to destabilize and scare Europe. And any time we overreact to a hybrid attack, they have actually won the battle in that particular way,” Stubb told POLITICO during an interview on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York. “We also have to understand that it is not in the interest of Russia nor in the capacity of Russia to go full-scale” with military escalation, Stubb added. “So they will continue to intimidate and we just have to be, as I say, cool, calm and collected…
Published on 21/09/2026 – 17:13 GMT+2 Calin Georgescu has been detained in Romania as prosecutors said they were investigating the former Romanian presidential candidate for fraud. Georgescu, a pro-Russian politician who first made headlines during Romania’s 2024 presidential election, was detained by police and the Directorate for Investigating Organised Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) on Monday. He was taken in for questioning over alleged fraud and forming an organised criminal group. Prosecutors accused Georgescu and two others of defrauding a Romanian businessman by making him believe he could get access to up to €15 million worth of foreign bank financing in…
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.
Trump ended his post with a demand to end the conflict in Ukraine. “This ridiculous and never-ending war with Ukraine must be ended,” he said. “The whole World suffers as 25,000 people, mostly soldiers, are being killed each month. What a shame!” Responding to Trump’s message, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on X that his country was ready to stop its attacks on Russia if the Kremlin did the same for Ukraine. “Ukraine’s energy sector, critical infrastructure, and our food exports must stop being targets for Russia, and this will lead to matching de-escalation steps on our part,” he wrote,…
The European Union and Canada last week unveiled plans for an ambitious new partnership that could eventually give Canada a form of associate EU membership. Yet their existing landmark agreement remains unfinished business. The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) was signed in 2016 and has applied provisionally since 2017, removing almost all tariffs and helping drive a sharp increase in transatlantic trade. But ten EU countries – Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Poland and Slovenia – have still not ratified it. The contrast was underlined last week when European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen invited…
Published on 21/09/2026 – 19:45 GMT+2 Ground stops have been ordered at six airports in the northeastern United States on Monday due to an “equipment outage,” causing disruption to thousands of flyers. According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), ground stops are in place at Newark Liberty, Philadelphia International, John F. Kennedy International, LaGuardia, Teterboro, and Westchester County airports. Data from flight-tracking site Flightradar24 shows “major problems” at both Newark and Philadelphia, with average flight delays of around 170 minutes and 60 minutes, respectively. The site reported there had been 92 cancellations and close to 70 diversions at Newark as…