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Published on 03/12/2025 – 17:49 GMT+1 NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Wednesday appeared confident that Ukraine’s allies will have committed $5 billion (€4.3 billion) by the end of the year to purchase US-made weapons to ensure continued flow of such equipment to Kyiv following Washington’s freeze on military donations to the war-torn country. According to Rutte, allies have now pledged billions in US military purchases under the Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) initiative, which sees NATO coordinate the purchase of equipment Ukraine needs from US stockpiles. The programme was launched in July after the Trump administration announced it would…
Germany inaugurated on Wednesday the first elements of the sophisticated Arrow 3 missile defence system, which it has purchased from Israel as it moves to strengthen its air defences following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Arrow 3 is designed to intercept long-range ballistic missiles. The first part of the system was deployed at the Schönewalde base south of Berlin with further sites to follow. Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said that, with the new system, Germany is obtaining for the first time early-warning and protection capability against long-range ballistic missiles. “With this strategic capability, which is unique among our European partners,…
Published on 03/12/2025 – 17:24 GMT+1 Nearly a decade after the Brexit referendum, the UK has diverged sharply from its pre-2016 trajectory through a slow, grinding erosion of investment, productivity, and global standing. That’s according to a new report by the Decision Maker Panel, a research initiative hosted at King’s College London. “We estimate that by the start of 2025, the UK economy was approximately 8% smaller than it would have been without Brexit, based on macro data, and 6% smaller using firm-level micro data,” the study said. The authors describe a prolonged period in which political volatility and shifting…
France’s Angoulême International Comics Festival (FIBD – Festival international de la bande dessinée d’Angoulême) is among the world’s foremost comic book events, but its survival is now hanging by a thread after a monthslong dispute over its governance. Organisers have now decided to cancel the festival’s 2026 edition. The event “will realistically not be able to take place under suitable conditions,” lawyers for organising company 9e Art + said in a statement, which was first reported by local newspaper La Charente Libre. The 53rd edition was supposed to be held from 29 January to 1 February 2026. 9e Art +…
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European lawmakers have given the green light to tougher enforcement measures on imported goods traded under the EU27’s carbon border tax during the European Parliament’s environment committee vote on Wednesday. The carbon border tax on products such as steel, aluminium, cement, and fertilisers will kick off its operational phase in January 2026, at which point companies will start paying for emissions generated by their products. With the European Commission slated to announce new measures to increase monitoring of companies importing into the European Union, lawmakers voted 68-7 to speed up the legislative process. Under the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM),…
Farmers in northern Greece disrupted traffic at border crossings on Wednesday in an escalating protest over delayed European Union-backed subsidy payments linked to an investigation into a corruption scandal. Convoys of tractors blocked routes to North Macedonia, Bulgaria and Turkey forcing drivers into lengthy detours. In the central city of Larissa, farmers emptied milk in the main square before continuing their march to reinforce local motorway blockades. Further north in Serres farmers set up road blockades and some bypassed police checkpoints to march on the customs office in Promahona, near the border with Bulgaria. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said…
Before Borell, Mogherini was in charge of the EEAS between 2014 and 2019, after which she went on to become rector of the elite College of Europe, which is now at the center of the fraud case. Stefano Sannino, another central figure in the scandal, was secretary general of the EEAS under Borrell before taking a senior position as head of the European Commission’s Middle East and North Africa department in early 2025. In the ongoing probe being led by Belgian police and the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO), Mogherini and Sannino are suspected of having rigged a tender process…
Published on 03/12/2025 – 14:53 GMT+1 Istanbul-based shipping company Besiktas Shipping announced on Tuesday it is halting all operations with Russia, citing unacceptable security risks following an attack on one of its vessels. “After a thorough assessment, we have concluded that the risks posed to our vessels and crew have become untenable,” the company said in a statement. “As the safety of our personnel and assets is our highest priority, we are halting all such operations.” Besiktas Shipping owns the Panama-flagged oil tanker Mersin, which sustained four external explosions on 27 November while anchored near the Senegalese capital Dakar. The…
Published on 03/12/2025 – 15:07 GMT+1 •Updated 15:12 Anthropic has begun laying the groundwork for a possible stock market listing as competition between artificial intelligence firms heats up. That’s according to a report in the Financial Times which claims the company has appointed the Silicon Valley firm Wilson Sonsini to advise on an eventual public offering. Anthropic did not immediately reply to Euronews’ request for comment. One FT source said the move could position the San Francisco-based group to pursue an IPO as early as 2026, although the company has made no commitment to going public and stressed that it…