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European affairs ministers met in Brussels on Tuesday for another round of negotiations on the EU’s next seven-year budget. Despite a shared ambition to reach a deal by the end of the year, negotiations appear to have stalled, with significant differences still unresolved. “This is my fourth [Multiannual Financial Framework] negotiations, so I have to admit that some of the discussions come with a large sense of déjà vu,” European Commissioner for the Budget Piotr Serafin said during a debate with EU ministers on Tuesday. “Many positions are quite predictable, as they have been consistently repeated over the last decades,”…
Ancient Roman Pula on Croatia’s Adriatic coast is being transformed by contemporary light art as the Visualia Light Festival brings installations to 16 locations across the historic city. More than 2,000-year-old Roman architecture becomes the backdrop for projections, interactive installations and contemporary artworks exploring themes including peace, nature, human relationships and technology. Artists from across Europe and beyond are taking part, while the city’s Roman amphitheatre and historic centre provide a contrast between ancient architecture and some of the newest developments in light art. All in all, the artists come from Croatia, Germany, Spain, Italy, Finland, France, the United Kingdom,…
La menace russe s’intensifie en Europe, alertent Emmanuel Macron et plusieurs de ses homologues sur le continent. Comment ont été planifiées les opérations d’ingérence ayant récemment touché la France ? Des camps d’entraînements secrets dans les Balkans aux navires de la flotte fantôme, quelle organisation à grande échelle a été mise en place le Kremlin pour déstabiliser l’Europe ? Anthony Lattier reçoit dans le podcast Playbook Paris Marion Solletty, grand reporter Europe à POLITICO, autrice de Les agents du chaos, et Laura Kayali, notre spécialiste défense, qui a contribué à ce livre-enquête. N’hésitez pas à vous abonner et à laisser…
Latvian Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs has admitted that Riga “stood to the end” regarding its lone objection to take two wealthy Russian businessmen off the European Union’s wide-ranging sanctions list. But he warned that the exemption should be a one-off occurrence and not be par for the course when debating EU sanctions in the future. “Either it is sports, what we’ve seen, either culture, and now one by one cherry-picking out of sanctions, that is not the way to go,” he said. “That is normalising Russia.” After two weeks of drawn-out talks among EU ambassadors, France succeeded in its push…
Published on 22/09/2026 – 17:43 GMT+2•Updated 17:44 Russia is quietly modernising bomb shelters in Moscow and St Petersburg, with procurement data showing tens of millions of roubles being allocated for repairs that have not been publicly announced, as Ukrainian drones intensify strikes on Russian territory. State procurement records, reported by Russian independent media, show 39 million roubles (€400,000) allocated in early September to restore nine facilities in three districts of Moscow’s South-West administrative region, an area home to dozens of research institutes and defence contractors. Work is due to be completed by 30 November and covers entrances, internal partitions, doors…
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Published on 22/09/2026 – 18:32 GMT+2•Updated 19:21 US President Donald Trump has signed a new Greenland security deal with Denmark and the island territory. Trump, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, and Greenland PM Jens-Frederik Nielsen signed the agreement on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday. Under the terms of the deal, shared online by the Danish Foreign Ministry, the US will be permitted to expand its military presence on Greenland through the modernisation and enlargement of its current Pituffik Space Base and the establishment of new defence areas at Narsarsuaq and Mestersvig. It…
Charles Spencer’s new book about his late sister, Princess Diana, goes on sale after searing extracts prompted a rare and sharp rebuttal from King Charles III. In ‘Swan Song: Diana, My Sister’, Spencer says he wants to speak on Diana’s behalf and correct untruths that have become accepted over time. The memoir alleges rows with the then-Prince Charles over the 1997 funeral and accuses him of contempt for his ex-wife. Spencer claims he argued with Charles over palace plans for Prince William and Prince Harry, then 15 and 12, to walk behind their mother’s coffin. He says the then-Prince Charles…
Trump promised to build two “very major military bases” on the territory, adding that he’s “formed a bond” with the people of “beautiful” Denmark and the Greenlanders during the negotiations. The legal text of the deal is available here. “I know it’s going to be a long-term, fantastic relationship,” Trump said at the signing ceremony later, alongside the prime ministers of Denmark, Mette Frederiksen, and Greenland, Jens-Frederik Nielsen. Frederiksen thanked Trump for the agreement, labeling it a good deal for the U.S., Denmark and Greenland that would keep enemies and adversaries away. “Seventy-five years ago, we entered into an agreement about…
Authorities in Poland have detained a 17-year-old accused of preparing an attack on a school and a mosque. A court has ordered that the teenager, named as Paweł G, be held in pre-trial detention for three months. The case is part of an ongoing investigation by Poland’s Internal Security Agency (ABW) looking into individuals active in online neo-Nazi and extremist circles. On 18 September, ABW reported the detention of two minors who were active in groups bringing together people linked to such ideologies. At the time, officials stressed that the investigation was ongoing, with officers analysing the detainees’ contacts and…