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Romania is set to lose at least €770 million in EU funds after political disagreements prevented the country from meeting a key deadline in its post-pandemic recovery plan. The main political parties failed to reach a consensus on a new public-sector salary law before the 31 August deadline for completing reforms linked to the National Recovery and Resilience Plan. According to EU sources, the missed deadline will cost Romania around €770 million, to be deducted from the €8.44 billion in EU funds still due to the country – around 40% of the entire €21.41 billion recovery plan. The final calculation…

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QatarEnergy has extended force majeure on liquefied natural gas (LNG) deliveries to customers in Europe and Asia as regular LNG shipping through the Strait of Hormuz remains largely halted. Italian utility Edison said QatarEnergy would be unable to deliver another five LNG cargoes scheduled between late September and early November. That brings the number of cargoes affected under Edison’s contract since April to 29, representing around 3.8 billion cubic metres of natural gas. Edison said it had already replaced 21 of those cargoes, equivalent to about 2 billion cubic metres, and could continue meeting its commitments to customers. QatarEnergy has…

NASA launched its new flagship space telescope on Sunday, embarking on a multi-year mission to create an unprecedented map of the cosmos and shed light on some of the biggest mysteries in physics. Standing more than 12 metres tall, the state-of-the-art observatory launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 7:26am local time (1:26pm CEST) aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. US President Donald Trump, who phoned into NASA’s post-launch press conference, congratulated the agency on the launch, calling it part of “the golden age of America”. Developed over more than a decade at a cost topping $4 billion…

Good manners can go a long way when you’re travelling, and according to a new survey, some tourists have them down to a fine art. Japanese travellers have been named the world’s politest tourists, with Norway and Switzerland following behind, while other nationalities picked up the top spots for everything from generous tipping to adventurous holiday habits and a love of local food. A new survey from safaribookings.com, an online marketplace for African safaris, asked 192 of its tour operators the following five questions: Which nationality is the politest? Which nationality tips the best? Which nationality spends the most money…

Published on 31/08/2026 – 13:05 GMT+2•Updated 13:53 ‘Rizz’, ‘Delulu’, ‘Locked In’, ‘Glow Up’, ‘FRFR’, ‘Aura Farming’… It can be hard keeping up with the latest Gen Z slang. While it’s hardly new that every generation develops its own jargon and expressions, the difference with Gen Z and Gen Alpha comes down to speed. Their lingo can go from niche to worldwide viral in a matter of days through social media, and if you’re not au fait with the latest expression, you risk reaching ‘Unc’ status – a Gen Z abbreviation for ‘uncle’ which mocks a person perceived as uncool and…

Prévot summoned White following the American envoy’s Instagram outburst against Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke on Friday. White posted an AI-generated image of the health minister and asked: “Who’s the biggest LOSER in Belgium?” The foreign minister called the attack “unacceptable.” White struck a markedly lighter tone as he arrived for the Monday meeting. “I am very happy to see my friend Maxime Prévot,” he told VTM NEWS, adding that the pair had “very important things to discuss.” He pointed to plans for a new U.S. embassy in Brussels and economic ties between the two countries. It is White’s second dressing-down…

Published on 31/08/2026 – 14:20 GMT+2•Updated 14:25 European countries that still hold significant stocks of interceptor missiles are expected to face pressure from the European Commission to transfer them to Ukraine, as Kyiv’s need for air-defence systems grows increasingly urgent, EU officials told Euronews. Spain and Greece, in particular, are expected to come under pressure at a defence meeting on Tuesday in County Wicklow, Ireland, to provide some of their stocks. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said late August that deliveries of Patriot interceptors had declined even as Russian missile attacks on Ukraine intensified. He said Kyiv needs an estimated 300…

Nearly six months after military conflicts broke out involving the United States, Israel, and the Islamic Republic, a reinstated US naval blockade off Iran’s southern coast has brought the nation’s primary commercial lifelines to a virtual halt. Following a brief one-month pause after the Islamabad Memorandum, maritime enforcement resumed in mid-July. Since then, the chokehold on the Persian Gulf has disrupted over 80% of Iran’s heavy imports and non-oil exports. With official inflation nearing 70% — and point-to-point food inflation surging to an unprecedented 128% in recent history — alongside a nearly 40% drop in non-oil trade compared to pre-war…

Behind the roar of the engines and the visual spectacle of each lift-off at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, a critical division is at work whose role tends to go unnoticed, unless something goes wrong: the Flight Safety Division (‘Flight Safety Division’). This team has a clear mission: to guarantee the absolute protection of the population and of the technical staff from the moment the rocket leaves the launch pad until all its stages have been deactivated and fallen back to Earth. Euronews spoke to Léonard Buchaillot, flight safety engineer at the French National Centre for Space Studies (CNES), to…