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Published on 16/06/2026 – 18:09 GMT+2•Updated 18:18 The European Parliament has rejected cuts proposed in the draft EU long-term budget for the period 2028-2034, MEPs Carla Tavares and Siegfried Mureșan told journalists at a press conference on Tuesday. The Cypriot government, who is currently chairing the budget negotiations among the member states, presented a compromise text last week with cuts of €32.8 billion to the bloc’s overall budget. The cuts represent a compromise between countries that asked substantial cuts and others that asked for an increase of the budget for agriculture and regional funds. The divisions among co-legislators add further…
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Germany, a 12% shareholder in Commerzbank, has rejected the hostile public exchange offer (OPS) launched by UniCredit, opting to preserve the German bank’s independence and denouncing what it deems an “aggressive” approach by the Italian group. The decision was announced in a statement by the German Finance Agency (Finanzagentur), which manages the state’s stake in Commerzbank. Accepting the offer was already described as “economically out of the question”, the note said, since the bid does not include an adequate premium over Commerzbank’s current share price. The deal is politically sensitive in Germany, where the federal government remains the second-largest shareholder…
Published on 16/06/2026 – 17:21 GMT+2 Portuguese writer Lídia Jorge has been awarded the 2026 Austrian State Prize for European Literature. The announcement was made on Tuesday in a statement published on the official website of the country’s Ministry of Culture (source in Portuguese). The prize, first awarded in 1965, goes to the complete literary work of a European author whose writing has achieved significant international recognition and is available in German, through translations, the same press release explains. In its justification for the choice, the jury argues that “Lídia Jorge has for many years been one of the most…
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Published on 16/06/2026 – 17:12 GMT+2 Belarus leader Aliaksandr Lukashenka said his country poses no military threat to Ukraine and claimed his earlier statements were only in response to what Lukashenka said were threats from Kyiv to Minsk. “If (Ukrainian President) Volodymyr Oleksandrovych (Zelenskyy) was offended, I apologise to him for these words,” Lukashenka said. “Perhaps I shouldn’t have said that, given that he is after all at war. Perhaps I shouldn’t have spoken so bluntly about it. But, on the other hand, he must understand that, as we often say: ‘you reap what you sow,'” Lukashenka said. At the…
By Mohamed Elashi & Euronews Doha Published on 16/06/2026 – 16:38 GMT+2 “We are cautiously optimistic,” Qatar’s foreign ministry spokesperson Dr Majed Al Ansari said on Tuesday, as Doha welcomed an expected US-Iran agreement while pointing out that the framework should be treated as a first step rather than a final settlement. “We are on the right track towards regional security. Obviously, there are a lot of challenges coming ahead, but let’s take this as a moment to enjoy some optimism,” Al Ansari said at his weekly briefing in Doha. However, the framework deal expected to be signed in Geneva on Friday —…
By Christina Molle with Agences Published on 16/06/2026 – 16:59 GMT+2 The French government wants to free itself from American influence. Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu announced on Tuesday morning that French firm ChapsVision has been chosen to replace US company Palantir in handling large-scale data processing for the General Directorate for Internal Security (DGSI). “We cannot accept new strategic dependencies in the digital sphere”, the prime minister argued, saying he wanted to “build real autonomy” so as “not to depend on the goodwill of certain partners, who are able to turn off the tap of access” to AI. A break after ten years…
Iran coach Amir Ghalenoei said his team was “perhaps the most oppressed in the World Cup,” after his side was ordered to leave the US and fly back to its training base in Tijuana only hours after opening the tournament with a 2-2 draw against New Zealand on Monday night. “They didn’t even give us time to recover,” Ghalenoei said through an interpreter. “After the game today, they said to us, ‘You have to leave immediately. “It’s very important for us to have time for recovery, but we are asked to get on a plane and return to our camp…
The British PM has been in the room twice with U.S. President Donald Trump since they arrived at the G7 summit, but has not been offered a bilateral meeting. He was also absent from a meeting between Trump, Emmanuel Macron and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, which took place separately from Tuesday’s working session on Ukraine. Starmer denied he had been “snubbed” and said Trump had raised no concerns with him about the U.K.’s defense spending or the announcement of a new social media ban for children. The prime minister said he had had “a very honest and frank” and “productive conversation” with…