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Published on 08/09/2026 – 18:36 GMT+2•Updated 18:55 Ceuta’s president, Juan Jesús Vivas, has accused Morocco of a “policy of harassment” towards the city and urged the EU to take a tougher stance and fund border security after some 80,000 migrants entered the exclave on 30 July, distancing himself from Spain’s cooperative approach to Rabat. Vivas met three EU commissioners and several lawmakers in Brussels on Tuesday, urging help to return irregular migrants and restore normality in the exclave, where thousands of third-country nationals, including unaccompanied minors, remain. “Ceuta is on the brink of collapse,” he said. The Ceuta leader broke…
Chancellor Friedrich Merz and his coalition government’s response to the historic victory of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the Saxony-Anhalt state election will be pivotal in deciding the future of the federal government, political scientist Nicolas Spohn told Euronews. Final results following last Sunday’s election in the eastern German state showed AfD received 43.8% of the vote, more than double its showing five years ago in the region of 2.1 million people. Merz’s party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), slumped to 17.2%. “First of all, it really is a historic victory for the AfD, and it is…
Published on 08/09/2026 – 10:39 GMT+2 Europe’s answer to OpenAI has just become considerably better funded. The Paris-based company Mistral AI announced its Series D on Tuesday, three years after being seeded, with the memory chip giant Samsung leading alongside the EU-backed Scaleup Europe Fund, managed by EQT, and existing investor PSG Equity. The step up is steep. Mistral was valued at €11.7 billion in 2025 after a €1.7 billion Series C led by Dutch chipmaker ASML, meaning the company has almost doubled its valuation in a year. Much of the money is going into concrete rather than code. CEO…
AI researchers discovered last week that a swarm of OpenAI agents had bypassed safety parameters to take over German wiki forum DseWiki to collaborate. The agents had been allowed to visit the 25-year-old German programming website with read-only access but managed to exploit a web request to hijack the site, turning it into a bulletin board. The rogue agents made more than 18,000 posts sharing answers, research on their environment and how to bypass sandbox restrictions and hide themselves from human detection, according to the research group Nightingale Collective. The incident took place sometime between May and June this year,…
Que s’est-il passé lundi pour que Sébastien Lecornu en vienne à saisir la justice après que des pistes de travail sur le prochain budget ont fuité dans la presse ? Pourquoi une telle fébrilité au gouvernement ? Quelle est la stratégie du Premier ministre pour faire adopter son projet de loi de finances à quelques mois de la présidentielle ? Anthony Lattier en discute avec Marcelo Wesfreid, directeur adjoint de la rédaction de POLITICO, dans le podcast Playbook Paris.
Published on 08/09/2026 – 13:31 GMT+2•Updated 13:59 The Hungarian government has ordered 10 Russian diplomats to leave the country over activities described as “unacceptable for diplomats”. The government has not provided further details, but according to press and intelligence reports, Hungary has become a hub for Russian intelligence activities. “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed the Russian ambassador in Budapest that, according to our assessment, 10 employees of the Russian mission engaged in activities in Hungary that are unacceptable for diplomats under the Vienna Convention,” Hungarian Foreign Minister Anita Orbán said in a social media post, adding that Hungary had…
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing mounting pressure from Israeli opposition figures following a report that the United Arab Emirates had warned him about the 7 October 2023 attacks on Israel. A report by Israel’s Haaretz newspaper, citing an investigation from a new book by its writers, said UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan told Netanyahu a week and a half before the attacks that the Hamas militant group was planning a large-scale operation, which he warned could threaten the stability of the region. The report, which was based on largely anonymous sources, said Netanyahu responded to the…
The Italian economy could grow more than expected in 2026, approaching 1% of GDP. That is the assessment of Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti, who on the closing day of the Teha Cernobbio Forum said that Italian GDP would exceed the 0.6% growth indicated in the government’s planning documents. “For now we have secured 0.8%,” the minister explained, adding that if the indicators continue to be favourable, “growth could come close to 1%.” For Pietro Reichlin, economist and professor at LUISS University, interviewed by Euronews, this is a “realistic estimate”, but still not a result that allows us to speak of…
IFA is all about technology and innovation, with companies from around the world presenting their visions for the future. In 2026, many of those visions include humanoid robots, and companies brought plenty of them to Berlin. Across the exhibition halls, visitors repeatedly came across robots walking, waving, interacting with crowds or demonstrating individual tasks, with some being presented to European audiences for the first time. “Alongside artificial intelligence, robotics is one of the key future topics at IFA 2026,” Leif Lindner, CEO of IFA Management GmbH, said. He pointed to humanoids, physical AI and robotic systems for the home as…
Emmanuel Macron entend peser pour doter l’Union européenne de nouvelles ressources propres, notamment en taxant les géants américains de la tech, plutôt que d’augmenter les contributions des Etats membres. Jun 29 6 mins read