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The European People’s Party is opposing setting up an inquiry committee by the European Parliament to investigate an alleged spying ring led by Hungarian secret services in Brussels on the basis that it could weaponised by Viktor Orbán. In October, the European Commission launched a probe after several media reports alleged that the Hungarian government tried to recruit EU employees in Brussels as informants. The agents reportedly posed as diplomats of the Hungarian Permanent Representation to the EU in Brussels, which was led between 2015 and 2019 by Olivér Várhelyi, who is now the Hungarian European Commissioner. Progressive groups in…
Published on 11/11/2025 – 11:22 GMT+1 A new far-right francophone political party named after US President Donald Trump has been launched in Belgium. TRUMP — an acronym for Tous Réunis pour l’Union des Mouvements Populistes (All United for the Union of Populist Movements) — is a successor to the now-dissolved Chez Nous political movement and the old Belgian Front National party. The founder of the new party is Salvatore Nicotra, former chairman of the Belgian Front National. “Donald Trump is the ultimate symbol of populism. He immediately embodies what we stand for,” Nicotra told the Brussels-based news outlet BRUZZ. Unlike…
Listen on Spotify Apple Music Amazon Music Sky News With Donald Trump threatening to sue the BBC, will the BBC have to pay out? And how have those across the political spectrum been reacting? And with 15 days until Rachel Reeves’ budget, Matthew McGregor – CEO of campaigning organisation 38 Degrees and a former digital strategist for both Labour and Barack Obama – takes issue with Sam’s take from yesterday and sends in a voice note. And Sam and Anne discuss the latest twist in the Your Party saga, and it’s all about money.
Published on 11/11/2025 – 8:59 GMT+1 Canadian born Hungarian-British writer David Szalay has won the Booker Prize for fiction for his sixth novel, “Flesh”. Szalay, 51, beat five other finalists, including Andrew Miller (“The Land in Winter”) and Indian author Kiran Desai (“The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny”) to take the coveted literary award, which brings a £50,000 (€57,000) payday and a big boost to the winner’s sales and profile. He was chosen from 153 submitted novels by a judging panel that included Irish writer Roddy Doyle and Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker. Doyle said “Flesh” -…
Laurence Tubiana is the CEO of the European Climate Foundation, France’s climate change ambassador, and COP30 special envoy for Europe. Manuel Pulgar-Vidal the World Wildlife Fund’s global climate and energy lead and was COP20 president. Anne Hidalgo is the mayor of Paris. Eduardo Paes is the mayor of Rio de Janeiro. In April, former U.K. prime minister Tony Blair wrote that our net zero policies are “doomed to fail.” This narrative — that the world is losing faith in climate action — has gained a lot of traction. But it is simply not true. Across the world, strong and stable…
The size of right-wing and far-right groups swelled in the last election, destabilizing the centrist majority that usually backs her — her own political family, center-right European People’s Party, plus the Socialists and Democrats and the liberals of Renew. The EPP has repeatedly threatened to team up with the far right, planting distrust and blowing up negotiations. “This is the most unstable Parliament ever. It is very difficult for the Commission to predict their moves and what to expect from votes, it’s generating a lot of frustrations in the Berlaymont,” an EU official said when the centrists failed to back…
The creation of a special tribunal set up to try crimes of aggression against Ukraine is encountering budgetary difficulties, multiple sources familiar with the matter told Euronews, highlighting the challenges for European nations to keep up their financial engagements without the backing of the United States. The special tribunal was bilaterally agreed by the Council of Europe and the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy in June and will require funding from multiple partners to effectively go ahead. European donors now worry that the US will continue its policy of disengagement from multilateral institutions, complicating their fundraising efforts. Although the Council…
When the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed opened the vast Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in the country’s west on 9 September, he did not mince his words. “This lake has brought with it a wealth greater than Ethiopia’s GDP. This generation has accomplished a great deed with the Renaissance Dam. The era of begging has ended,” he told a group of assembled officials, media and some regional leaders. Behind him, sheets of water poured over the concrete from the reservoir behind, which holds almost 74 billion cubic metres of water over a surface area roughly the size of Greater London.…
In 2015, almost 200 countries signed a landmark agreement to combat climate change. The Paris Agreement aimed to hold “the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2C above pre-industrial levels” while pursuing efforts to limit it to 1.5°C. The world has changed a lot since leaders celebrated this historic agreement in Paris a decade ago. Ahead of COP30, UN Secretary General António Guterres conceded that a “temporary overshoot above 1.5 degrees, starting, at the latest, in the early 2030s, is now inevitable”. Emissions have continued to rise and the world’s climate has continued to warm. Extreme weather…
Both the right-wing Conservatives and Reform insist they have no desire to destroy the BBC. “There is a future for the BBC, because it does have a strong global brand, but in order to retain its trust and confidence, it’s got to respect its impartial charter responsibilities and make sure that the news and current affairs programming abides by its own editorial guidelines,” Huddleston said Monday. Soft power One of the central arguments the BBC’s advocates make in favor of funding the broadcaster is the soft power role it plays through initiatives such as the BBC World Service, which…