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Updated: 11/08/2025 – 18:00 GMT+2 Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this August 11th, 2025 – latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel. … More

Israel’s security is Germany’s ‘reason of state’ Others framed the move as a further illustration of their leader’s tendency to suddenly change course on core issues. “Reason of state abolished? A break with the principles of [conservative] policy,” the youth wing of Merz’s conservatives said in a post on Instagram. Israel’s security was declared as part of Germany’s “reason of state” in a 2008 speech by then-Chancellor Angela Merkel on account of her country’s “special historical responsibility” after the Holocaust, in which 6 million Jews were killed by the German Nazi regime. “Israel’s security is and remains a matter of…

Published on 11/08/2025 – 16:22 GMT+2 Police have detained three teenagers in the UK on suspicion of murder after a man was found dead in the coastal village of Leysdown-on-Sea in Kent, according to a statement by Kent Police.  Emergency services, including an air ambulance, were dispatched shortly after 7 pm on Sunday following reports of a confrontation in which a man was assaulted.  Kent Police confirmed the victim suffered severe injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene. His next of kin have been informed. A 16-year-old girl and two boys, aged 14 and 15, have been taken into…

Despite cultural similarities and technological progress, the productivity gap between Europe and the United States not only persists – it’s growing. Euronews spoke with new technology market expert Dawid Osiecki, who recently co-authored a 40-page report analysing economic development on both sides of the Atlantic, about why this is happening and what might change. “We recently conducted a study that clearly shows: the difference between the US and Europe isn’t just about money,” Osiecki said. “It’s also about the number of large companies that can effectively implement new technologies, including AI” or artificial intelligence. AI: opportunity or challenge in technological…

Merz and other European leaders demand that Putin first agrees to a ceasefire before any peace talks or land swaps between Moscow and Kyiv can take place. The spokesperson added that the virtual meetings will start at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, beginning with a one-hour discussion including leaders from Finland, France, the U.K., Italy, Poland, plus the European Commission and European Council presidents as well as Zelenskyy and NATO chief Mark Rutte. The schedule then contains a one-hour discussion from 3 p.m., between the European leaders and Zelensky, with Trump and his Vice President J.D. Vance. This story is being…

In Trancoso’s Freches village, more than 650 firefighters, 226 vehicles and six helicopters were sent to contain a blaze threatening four nearby villages. Local media reported 17 people, including six firefighters, were injured. Another fire in Covilhã’s Sobral de São Miguel, active since Sunday, has nearly 400 firefighters on site, while 86 more are battling flames in Távora and Pereiro. Authorities say much of mainland Portugal remains on high alert, with 12 districts under orange heat warnings and wildfire damage already triple last year’s levels.

Although not in the Wikimedia Foundation’s favor, the ruling “does not give Ofcom and the Secretary of State [for Science, Innovation and Technology] a green light to implement a regime that would significantly impede Wikipedia’s operations,” the court said.  “While the decision does not provide the immediate legal protections for Wikipedia that we hoped for, the Court’s ruling emphasized the responsibility of Ofcom and the U.K. government to ensure Wikipedia is protected as the OSA is implemented,” said Phil Bradley-Schmieg, lead counsel at the Wikimedia Foundation.  “The Foundation will seek solutions to protect Wikipedia and the rights of its users…

Published on 11/08/2025 – 13:44 GMT+2 British actress and national treasure Emma Thompson was at the 78th edition of the Locarno International Film Festival this weekend to receive the Leopard Club Award prize at the Swiss festival. During her talk on Saturday, the Oscar-winning Sense And Sensibility and Love Actually actress reflected on the time when Donald Trump asked her to go out for dinner and joked how she could have “changed the course of American history.” The moment happened while she was filming the 1998 political comedy Primary Colors – which was loosely based on Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidental…

The charges are the latest development in Finland’s investigation, which also led to the seizure of the Eagle S, prime suspect in the December 2024 incident that damaged four submarine cables and disrupted another in the Gulf of Finland. The sabotage triggered calls for more robust action against Moscow’s shadow fleet, an armada of aging, often uninsured tankers that sanctioned nations like Russia rely on to bypass international penalties. NATO has also mobilized forces to protect the seabed and critical communications infrastructure amid a pattern of similar incidents in the Baltic Sea, including the severing of an internet cable between…

Published on 11/08/2025 – 13:20 GMT+2 Southwest France sweltered on Monday as temperatures rose to 43 degrees Celsius in parts of Charente and Aude, prompting the country’s highest heat alert across a dozen departments. In Aude, where vineyards and Mediterranean scrub stretch across hills, hundreds of firefighters remained on the ground to monitor the perimeter of a vast wildfire that burned through 160 square kilometres last week.  Local authorities said the blaze is now contained, but warned it could smoulder for weeks, with hot spots still posing a risk. Meteo-France, the country’s national weather service, placed 12 departments on red…