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Published on 08/06/2026 – 16:12 GMT+2 France’s Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin has ruled out stepping down amid growing outrage over judicial failings linked to the killing of an 11-year-old girl. The body of Lyhanna was found last week in south-western France, several days after she disappeared near the town of Fleurance on 29 May. The case has sparked nationwide anger after it emerged that the main suspect had previously faced multiple allegations involving minors. Speaking on Monday, Darmanin insisted his position was not in question as long as he continued to take responsibility. “The question of my remaining (in government)…
“La primaire est finie”, a lancé dimanche le candidat Insoumis lors de son meeting à Saint-Denis, décrétant son hégémonie sur l’ensemble de la gauche. S’est-il trop avancé ? Anthony Lattier discute avec Sarah Paillou et Klara Durand dans le nouvel épisode de Playbook Paris, le podcast de POLITICO.
Ireland is under fire over its continued sales of alumina to Russia, raising concerns that the country might be indirectly helping Moscow fuel its war machine against Ukraine. Sold as white powder, alumina is the raw material used to produce aluminium, a lightweight metal commonly found in weapons and ammunition on the battlefield. The timing of the revelations is particularly sensitive for Dublin, which is less than one month away from taking the reins of the EU Council’s six-month presidency. High Representative Kaja Kallas intends to raise the matter when she meets with Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin in Dublin…
In boxes stored at a secret location in Le Havre, nearly 38,000 pairs of counterfeit trainers that arrived from China in 2011 had been awaiting their fate. Because behind these shoes lies one of the longest legal proceedings customs officers have ever had to handle. After fifteen years of legal wrangling, the French importer was finally sentenced in December 2025 to a customs fine of 1.56 million euros, 260,000 euros for customs-related money laundering, as well as three years in prison, two of them suspended. Customs officers in Le Havre can therefore finally turn the page, and also free up…
From the moment early humans looked upward and tried to make sense of the sky, the sun and the moon have been at the centre of everything – faith, timekeeping, agriculture, mythology, and art. This summer, Saatchi Gallery’s major new exhibition, The Sun and The Moon attempts something quite ambitious: to gather that entire spectrum of human fascination into nine gallery spaces across two floors, and present it through the eyes of more than 170 artists. It’s the second in Saatchi’s series examining how the natural world feeds creative practice, following last year’s enormously popular FLOWERS – Flora in Contemporary…
Thousands of people took to the streets of Albania to protest plans for luxury tourism developments linked to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump over the weekend. Demonstrators gathered in the capital, Tirana, and at the protected Vjosa-Narta lagoon on the country’s Adriatic coast, where campaigners say a project threatens one of the Mediterranean’s most important biodiversity hotspots. Waving Albanian flags and carrying inflatable pink flamingos — which have become the symbol of the movement — protesters chanted “Cancel the project!” and marched under banners reading “Ivanka go home” and “Albania is not for sale”. But what exactly is Kushner Island,…
Seven years behind schedule, autonomous vehicle trials are finally set to expand across Europe in the coming months. On Monday, 17 European transport ministers signed a declaration backing large-scale cross-border testing of autonomous vehicles, alongside EU Commissioner for Sustainable Transport and Tourism Apostolos Tzitzikostas. The move aims to make testing easier by creating a common framework across participating countries. It marks a shift away from fragmented national pilot schemes towards a coordinated European approach to testing and preparing autonomous vehicles for future deployment. One of the biggest hurdles for the industry has been Europe’s patchwork of national rules. Different testing…
To obtain Vox’s support to form coalition governments in Extremadura and Castilla y León, PP-led regional administrations recently adopted the ultranationalist group’s prioridad nacional or “national priority” policy, which gives Spanish citizens preferential access to state benefits and services. Although polling indicates Spanish Catholics gravitate toward the right of the ideological spectrum, the pope’s focus on the suffering of migrants places him in greater political proximity to Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s left-leaning administration. His coalition government, which comprises the center-left Socialist Party and the far-left Sumar group, is currently in the process of granting legal status to half a million…
Published on 08/06/2026 – 15:39 GMT+2 Seven EU countries have urged Brussels to resist any rollback of CO2 standards for cars and vans, arguing that weakening emissions rules would endanger Europe’s climate objectives, economic competitiveness and energy security, according to a document seen by Euronews. The plea from Denmark, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Sweden comes after EU leaders, last December, eased a proposed European Commission ban on the sale of new cars with internal combustion engines by 2035 in response to pressure from several governments and automakers. Instead, the EU executive proposed a 90% reduction in car…
Updated: 08/06/2026 – 7:48 GMT+2 Children scream and run for cover as a school canopy collapses during the powerful earthquake that hit the southern Philippines, killing at least four people and injuring more than 200. … More