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Published on 01/10/2026 – 11:00 GMT+2•Updated 11:08 Montenegro may fall short of translating all EU laws accurately before it joins the bloc. The European Commission is weighing several options for a temporary derogation, including letting the country use an existing EU language in the meantime. Montenegro aims to become the EU’s 28th member by 2028. But first it must adopt and translate the so-called acquis, the tens of thousands of EU laws that form the bloc’s legal framework. Brussels is growing wary that it will not finish in time. “Montenegro will need to produce translations of the acquis into its…
Madrid’s Prado Museum and Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum have joined forces to restore the memory of women in art. The two major European galleries are pooling efforts to revisit the shared history between Spain and the Netherlands and to give women artists, patrons and key figures the prominence they have always deserved in their rooms. The centrepiece of this agreement is an international postdoctoral fellowship that will start in 2027. The aim is to delve into the collections and shed light on women’s roles during the Habsburg era, with findings that will inform upcoming projects at both museums and culminate in a…
Ces pays, ainsi que l’exécutif européen, se sont mis d’accord sur trois points, selon ces mêmes interlocuteurs : réagir à la pression d’une “voix coordonnée”, veiller à ce que “toute décision concernant la libération des stocks soit portée au niveau de l’AIE [l’Agence internationale de l’énergie]”, et s’efforcer d’“apaiser les tensions dans les échanges avec les Etats-Unis”. L’AIE, dont le siège est à Paris, coordonne la politique énergétique des pays développés et a supervisé le déblocage de stocks pétroliers en début d’année, à la suite de la fermeture du détroit d’Ormuz. L’idée, c’est de “désamorcer” la situation, a expliqué l’une…
The European Commission has concluded that Ukraine’s financial and military needs for this year are fully met, one month after Kyiv flagged a $27 billion (€23.92 billion) shortfall in its Ministry of Defence that caught Brussels off guard. “Today, through coordinated joint efforts, we have identified the means to cover Ukraine’s budget and defence needs for 2026,” the Commission said in a vaguely worded statement shared by President Ursula von der Leyen on Thursday. “We have also reconfirmed the steps needed to ensure their timely release.” With this, the executive closes the debate that began in late August when Ukrainian…
Protests continued at French schools on Wednesday as students called for more resources and better learning conditions. In Saint-Denis, around 50 students demonstrated outside Paul Eluard High School, where a fire was seen outside the school. In Rennes, riot police intervened after students gathered at an underground station, while several schools were affected by vandalism, including damaged vehicles, burnt gates and a vandalised reception area. Students also cited a lack of funding and problems with school timetables and facilities.
“He says he wants to unite the country,” Farage said of Burnham. “A second referendum will divide the country bitterly in a way perhaps we’ve never seen before. “If Andy Burnham — the ‘King of the North’ — wants a fight in Doncaster and the Red Wall with me on rejoining the European Union, then bring it on, I say.” The choice of Doncaster for the speech was no coincidence. The northern city strongly voted to leave the EU, and lies in the so-called “Red Wall” that was once Labour’s industrial heartlands. “He might have just given me the biggest…
By Jean-Philippe Liabot & Andreas Rogal with AFP Published on 01/10/2026 – 20:15 GMT+2 A protest movement in France’s high schools intensified on Thursday, with students setting fire to bins and erecting blockades outside schools in an increasing number of cities. The students have been protesting overcrowded classrooms, teacher shortages and crumbling facilities. Several school principals have been injured, harassed or assaulted at high schools, according to reports from regional education authorities, prefectures and union representatives. Police have already detained hundreds of protesters at the lycées, which students aged 15 to 18 attend for their final three years of secondary education in France. There have…
Published on 01/10/2026 – 6:08 GMT+2•Updated 9:42 A US-led coalition deployed in Iraq more than a decade ago to fight extremists concluded its mission on Wednesday, a move celebrated by the country’s leaders and US President Donald Trump despite fears of emboldened pro-Iran armed factions. Coalition troops deployed to Iraq and Syria in 2014 to fight the so-called Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, which had seized large swathes of territory, committed massacres, and forced thousands of women and children into slavery. The group was defeated in Iraq in 2017 and in Syria in 2019, but coalition forces stayed…
Cet argument ne convainc pourtant pas Eric Coquerel. Pour le président de la commission des Finances et député LFI, si le gouvernement voulait réellement éviter de figer les choix budgétaires avant la présidentielle, il aurait pu opter pour une loi spéciale (soit la reconduction provisoire du budget précédent) et laisser le prochain pouvoir arbitrer. La nécessité d’un budget bis Cette “souplesse” mise en avant par le gouvernement présente toutefois des limites pour les grandes mesures fiscales. Contrairement aux gels ou aux mesures explicitement conçues pour pouvoir être modifiées par décret, les principales dispositions fiscales du PLF comme du PLFSS ne…
Published on 01/10/2026 – 20:15 GMT+2 Both when it comes to defence capabilities and industry capacities, Europe is in a very difficult position, Belgian Defence Minister Theo Francken told Euronews. He pointed to the bloc’s decades-long prioritising of soft power as one reason for this. His comments come as the European NATO members are ramping up defence spending and Brussels is rolling out policies to bolster the defence industry. While Francken sees progress being made, he warned Europe does not have all the capabilities it needs. “Europe has been very good at investing in soft power, in social security, and…