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Updated: 12/12/2024 – 11:45 GMT+1 A Vatican Nativity scene featuring a keffiyeh-draped baby Jesus, symbolising Palestinian identity, was removed without explanation, sparking debate ahead of Pope Francis’s meeting with Palestinian Pre … More A Vatican Nativity scene featuring a keffiyeh-draped baby Jesus, symbolising Palestinian identity, was removed without explanation, sparking debate ahead of Pope Francis’s meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

Parliament’s Secretary-General Alessandro Chiocchetti called for a review of the project “to assess the causes of the poorer performance of some centers and address these before potentially replicating shortcomings in other centers,” in a note to senior Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) last month. Since the project began, the total footfall across all centers has reached 3.5 million, but some sites have been more popular than others. At Copenhagen’s Europa Experience, fewer than 9,000 visitors came through the doors in 2023, costing taxpayers €46 per person, while in Paris — where the museum is located in the exclusive Madeleine…

Euronews Culture sits down with award-winning actress Juliette Binoche, in her first year as President of the European Film Academy, to talk about cinema and the importance of choosing your filmgoing experience. It’s rare to meet a movie star who’s done it all.Juliette Binoche has close to 100 acting credits to her name, acting for the likes of Jean-Luc Godard (Hail Mary), Krzysztof Kieślowski (the Three Colors trilogy), Michael Haneke (Code Unknown, Caché), Anthony Minghella (The English Patient, Breaking and Entering), Olivier Assayas (Clouds of Sils Maria, Non-Fiction) and Claire Denis (High Life, Both Sides of the Blade) – to…

CKD’s extensive impact CKD involves the gradual loss of kidney function, which disrupts the body’s critical systems. It often progresses without symptoms until the later stages — at which point it may be that only a third or less of kidney function remains.(2,5,6) In Europe, an estimated 100 million adults live with CKD, with another 300 million at risk. Reduced kidney function can be detected early with simple urine and blood tests.(7) But these tests are underutilized, even for high-risk CKD patients — such as those with diabetes. This may be partly because kidney health is not prioritized in public…

This didn’t immediately trigger a probe from the Brussels-based authority. Instead, it expanded an older set of questions to TikTok with new queries about the platform’s system to recommend content to users and the risks of malicious actors exploiting the app. It also called TikTok, Facebook parent Meta, Google, Microsoft and X in for a chat. The Commission’s cautious approach starkly contrasted with fury from European lawmakers about how TikTok handled the election, especially during a hearing with the company’s executives about a week after Georgescu’s win. Ultranationalist Călin Georgescu’s shock win in the first round of the Romanian election…

“The government is committed to developing a long-term industrial strategy for rolling stock, which supports British manufacturing and innovation and ultimately improves the offer for passengers. As part of this, my officials have been exploring the best financing structures to support this investment, in partnership with private finance, and this includes considering Eurofima finance.” ‘A better value approach’ Counter-intuitively, Britain’s departure from the EU seems to have made the case for joining the body stronger. According to the Campaign for Better Transport, U.K. operators previously benefited from preferential financing from the European Investment Bank. Blocked from accessing that money post-Brexit…

EU leaders describe increasing entries of migrants though Belarusian and Russian borders as a ‘hybrid threat’, but the expression is criticised by some organisations seeking greater adherence to international legal obligations. Right to asylum should not be considered as a ‘value’ but rather a principle of international law, Olivia Sundberg, migration expert from Amnesty International told Euronews in an interview featured in Radio Schuman today.Yesterday, the European Commission presented a communication focusing on measures against countries such as Russia and Belarus, which are accused of facilitating entry of migrants into EU territory.This phenomenon is described as a ‘hybrid threat’, and…

The euro further declined against the US dollar following the release of US inflation data on Wednesday. Markets will be closely watching the upcoming ECB decision today. The euro continued to weaken against the US dollar following the US CPI data on Wednesday. The pair of EUR/USD fell for the fourth straight trading day to just under 1.05, the lowest since 2 December. However, the single currency rebounded slightly in the early Asian session on Thursday ahead of the European Central Bank (ECB)’s rate decision later today. US inflation sticksUS headline inflation rose by 2.7% year-over-year in November, up from 2.6%…

“Even if you reduce everything back home, but you don’t manage to take the others along, you still face all the problems that we’re currently facing. So diplomacy and applying carrots and sticks and incentivizing others to do more is essential,” Hoekstra said, without specifying the potential sticks.  One stick the EU is about to impose on the world is a carbon border tax, which will charge importers a levy on emissions-intensive goods starting in 2026. The move has drawn fierce criticism from countries such as Brazil, India, China and South Africa, which also sought to discuss the issue at…

Heute Thüringen, gestern Brandenburg, kommende Woche Sachsen. Im Osten hat das Wagenknecht-Bündnis bei jeder der Wahlen eines Ministerpräsidenten ein Wort mitzureden. In Brandenburg und Thüringen als Koalitionspartner, in Sachsen als Zünglein an der Waage für eine Minderheitsregierung. Während die Wahl von Dietmar Woidke zumindest im zweiten Wahlgang erledigt war, wird heute in Thüringen alles komplizierter. Denn dort ist man auf die Linke angewiesen und in Sachsen wird die Lage – durch die Höcke-AfD – noch komplizierter. Gordon Repinski schaut zusammen mit Chefkorrespondent Rasmus Buchsteiner darauf.  Im 200-Sekunden-Interview spricht der noch neue Generalsekretär Marco Buschmann darüber, wie die D-Day-Affäre seine FDP…