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Amid a shifting geopolitical landscape and rising global instability, European Union enlargement has re-emerged as one of the bloc’s defining strategic questions. At a high-level Euronews summit bringing together EU officials and leaders from candidate countries, the message was clear: expanding the Union is no longer a matter of choice, but of necessity. But the unique gathering also highlighted the mounting frustrations on both sides with the enlargement process, in particular with the use of vetoes. Here is what you need to know about Euronews’ first such summit. Enlargement is a geopolitical necessity All the leaders present at the summit…

Pope Leo XIV prayed at the tomb of Pope Francis on Monday evening on his way to the Castel Gandolfo, a day after the festivity of the commemoration of the dead. The Pope laid flowers at the tomb located in St. Mary Major basilica in the Italian capital, and stayed awhile to pray. Earlier in the day, Pope Leo presided over a mass in St. Peter’s Basilica for Pope Francis, who died this year, and the cardinals and bishops who had recently passed away.

A criminal investigation was opened by the Paris police’s cybercrime unit at the end of October, Delaporte wrote in a press release welcoming the news. “Our commission’s empirical observation is that of an algorithmic trap that, in just a few interactions, increases exposure to harmful, anxiety-inducing, and depressing content,” he previously said. TikTok is regulated as a Very Large Online Platform by the European Commission under the EU’s Digital Services Act. The EU has been investigating TikTok for lapses in the protection of child users. TikTok and the Commission did not immediately respond to POLITICO’s request for comment.

Updated: 04/11/2025 – 18:00 GMT+1 Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this November 4th, 2025 – latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel. … More

To find a solution, EU capitals tasked the Commission with drafting a list of options to support Kyiv. “If we run further delays without deciding on a reparation loan or other feasible option for Ukraine … the question is, how will you provide financial support to Ukraine in early next year? So that’s the question we need to answer in this case,” the commissioner said, talking about a bridging solution. He also pushed back against Belgium’s concerns that Russia can retaliate by filing a mountain of legal litigation. “The European Commission’s legal service has very thoroughly assessed all the legal…

More than three-and-a-half years after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, 23 French companies continue to operate in Russia. That’s just under a third of the 75 firms that were active in the country at the beginning of 2022, before the invasion of Ukraine in February that year. Since then, many French corporate giants – such as Société Générale, LVMH and Safran — have withdrawn, either under pressure from sanctions or to protect their reputations. Yet some of the companies that remain are heavyweights, and business is booming. Two French corporations are in the top 20…

Published on 04/11/2025 – 16:58 GMT+1 Russian propaganda is present in one in five artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot answers about Ukraine, according to a new report. The British think tank the Institute of Strategic Dialogue (ISD) asked OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, xAI’s Grok and Deepseek’s V3.2 over 300 questions in five languages about the war in Ukraine, either using biased, unbiased or malicious language. Russian sources appeared more often in biased and malicious questions, like asking the chatbots for sources on Ukrainian refugees “plotting terrorist attacks” or “forcibly grabbing men off the street to conscript them into the military.”. The…

Published on 04/11/2025 – 16:30 GMT+1 “Cine-tourism” is the practice of choosing holiday destinations based on locations of high-profile movie projects, and Madrid wants in. More than that, the Spanish capital is banking – some would say strangely – on none other than Woody Allen. Madrid Regional Government is looking to promote tourism by investing €1.5m in Allen’s new movie. But for that sum, several contractual conditions apply. Several stipulations have been posted online, including that the 89-year-old director’s 51st film must be shot in and around Madrid, with “identifiable locations”. The film is also obliged to feature the word…

BRUSSELS — The European Commission is set to publish a package of measures in December to further clamp down on the flow and production of street drugs in the EU, as drug-related violence in countries like Belgium or the Netherlands surges.New rules on the precursor chemicals used to manufacture drugs, an EU Drugs Strategy, and a European action plan against drug trafficking are scheduled to land Dec. 3, according to the latest Commission agenda released Monday.“Both the new strategy on drugs and the new legislation on precursors are in preparation,” the EU Drugs Agency told POLITICO in a statement. The Commission’s home…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy slammed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán for providing “specific support” to Russian President Vladimir Putin by blocking Kyiv’s ambition to join the European Union. The deadlock has prevented both Ukraine and Moldova, which are informally coupled, from opening the first cluster of accession talks, fuelling anger and frustration. “I don’t think that I have to offer something to Viktor Orbán,” Zelenskyy said, in an interview via videolink with Euronews CEO and editorial director Claus Strunz at the Euronews’ EU Enlargement Summit. “I think that Viktor Orbán has to offer something for Ukraine, which is protecting the…