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Jobbing off: “The Prime Minister promised economic growth, but the only thing that’s grown is his list of broken promises,” Badenoch hit back. This list analogy was really gaining momentum. She lambasted rising unemployment under Labour, yet the PM was able to point to lower inactivity under his watch and, of course, mentioned the boost of falling inflation this morning. Backhanded compliment: Starmer, no doubt desperate for a rest, used the imminent break to “congratulate” Badenoch for breaking a record on the number of Tories defecting to Reform UK. “The question is who’s next,” he mused, enjoying the chance to…
Signing off the Mercosur trade deal between the European Union and Latin American countries is “imperative”, EU Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra told Euronews, as political divisions among member states could derail a crucial vote this week. The deal, more than 20 years in the making, has entered a decisive week, which could see the Mercosur accord finally signed off or have it derailed. Backers, which include the European Commission, Germany and Spain, argue that a failure to stamp the deal would present a setback as the bloc seeks new markets for exports. France is leading an opposition camp and is…
Police in Spain carried out eviction orders on Wednesday to clear an abandoned school building where around 400 mostly undocumented migrants were living north of Barcelona. Many sub-Saharan migrants, mainly from Senegal and Gambia, had moved into the empty school building in Badalona — a working-class city that borders Barcelona — since it was left abandoned in 2023. Badalona Mayor Xavier García Albiol announced the evictions in a post on X. “As I had promised, the eviction of the 400 illegal squatters in the B9 school in Badalona begins,” he wrote. Albiol, of the conservative Popular Party (PP), has built…
Published on 17/12/2025 – 12:51 GMT+1 Will Twitter’s blue bird ever fly again? Not if X can help it. The company owned by Elon Musk, which bought the Twitter brand and social media platform in 2022, filed a countersuit against a new start-up for “brazenly attempting to steal the world-famous TWITTER brand”. The legal riposte comes a week after a Virginia-based startup called “Operation Bluebird” filed a petition with the United States Patent and Trademark Office to cancel X’s trademark of the words “Twitter” and “Tweet”. Operation Bluebird’s petition claimed that X Corp. had legally abandoned the brand after overhauling…
Expanding Rome’s metro network is a notoriously complicated task, as excavations are regularly halted by the discovery of archaeological treasures. So it’s big news that two new metro stations have just opened beneath the Italian capital. One is located deep underneath the Colosseum, a useful transport link for tourists that means avoiding the hectic traffic on ground level. The second is by Porta Metronia, a gate in the city’s third-century Aurelian Walls. The two stations also feature displays of ancient artefacts, leading Rome’s mayor, Roberto Gualtieri, to hail them as “full-blown tourist and cultural attractions” in their own right. Rome’s…
This year has seen a number of global cultural changes and trends. We’ve experienced more blending of genres, fragmentation of traditional media and an ongoing shift from broad mainstream culture to niche subcultures, short-lived “eras” and algorithm-driven scenes. From Gen Alpha’s 6-7 meme to the rise of aesthetics like clean girl and corporate girlie, social media platforms like TikTok have been on fire this year. But what have cultural trends have had the biggest impact? As the year draws to a close, the Euronews Culture team looks back on some of the most memorable global culture trends in 2025. AI…
The topic sparked animated discussions in the European Parliament plenary on Tuesday evening. MEPs with center-right and far-right groups tabled competing texts to the resolution put forward by Renew’s Abir Al-Sahlani on behalf of the women’s rights and gender equality committee. Supporters of the scheme argued it would help reduce unsafe abortions and ensure women across the bloc have equal rights; those who oppose it, mostly from conservative groups, dismissed it as an ideological push and EU overreach into national policy. Abortion laws vary greatly across the EU, from near-total bans in Poland and Malta to liberal rules in the…
A video shared on X claims to show heavily armed police officers going from door to door registering young men for the German army in Berlin’s Charlottenburg district. “Military police are currently going from house to house and registering all young men between 18 and 35. I am not at war with Russia. You won’t get my grandson,” the caption reads under the video, which has been shared more than 281,000 times. But the claims in the video are false. While the footage is real, it can be geolocated to the Dutch city of Leeuwarden, not Berlin. Multiple local media…
By Euronews Published on 17/12/2025 – 12:05 GMT+1 •Updated 12:12 An MIT professor was shot and killed at his home in Massachusetts on Monday night, authorities confirmed Tuesday. Nuno Loureiro, 47, a Portuguese professor of nuclear science and engineering, was found with multiple gunshot wounds at his apartment on Gibbs Street in Brookline at about 8.30 pm and died Tuesday morning at a Boston hospital. Brookline police Deputy Superintendent Paul Campbell said officers responded to reports of shots fired. The Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office said the investigation is ongoing and no suspects are in custody. Brookline Police Chief Jennifer Paster…
An amendment to Italy’s upcoming budget law proposes to double the maximum limit for cash payments for individuals and businesses. Critics are notably concerned that the policy, which raises the cap from the current €5,000 to €10,000, could worsen Italy’s already-high level of tax evasion and facilitate money laundering. The government and its parliamentary majority insist, however, that the measure will have no such impact on tax evasion. The amendment to the 2026 Budget Law has been tabled by the Brothers of Italy party, led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. It was, in fact, Meloni herself who introduced a first…