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Published on 19/06/2025 – 14:17 GMT+2In Barcelona, Lisbon and Naples, thousands of demonstrators took to the streets on Sunday to call for an end to what they call the “touristification” of their cities. But why are holidaymakers such a source of tension?Sandra Carvão, Director of Economic Intelligence, Policy and Competitiveness at UN Tourism, told Euronews that mass tourism has soared in recent years due to “more disposable income among the middle classes in many countries…more accessible travel in terms of air capacity but also in terms of air fares” and “border crossing facilities that have changed radically over the decades”.The…
On this episode – what advice is Sir Keir Starmer getting over Britain’s potential involvement in the Iran-Israel conflict? There are reports the Attorney General’s legal advice to the PM is to limit what it does to protect its allies from attack – Sky News’ Sam Coates and Politico’s Anne McElvoy discuss the implications of that. Plus, we hear Foreign Secretary David Lammy will get a meeting with his Iranian counterpart as part of a diplomatic push to prevent war. Foreign ministers from Germany and France will also join the talks in Geneva.
By Euronews with AP Published on 19/06/2025 – 15:14 GMT+2Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that he is open to meeting with Ukraine’s leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy, but only during a “final stage” of negotiations. “I am even ready to meet him [Zelenskyy] but only if it is some kind of final stage, o as not to sit there and divide something endlessly, but to put an end to it” Putin said on the sidelines of the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) on Wednesday.Putin said that Russian and Ukrainian negotiators have agreed to hold another round of discussions after 22 June. Two rounds…
According to Greek law, only the country’s parliament can investigate allegations of misconduct against former ministers. Karamanlis maintained his innocence during the debate but requested to be referred both to the committee and subsequently to the judicial authorities. There were three separate proposals for investigating the rail disaster: New Democracy’s proposal targeted only Karamanlis and only on felony charges; the main opposition Pasok’s proposal named eight political figures; a third proposal, submitted by citizens including a victim’s relative and supported by smaller parties and independent lawmakers, targeted 11 political figures, including Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis himself, with charges of high…
Larysa Hnatchenko has been at the helm of Slobidskyi Kray, the Kharkiv region’s oldest newspaper, for more than 14 years. However, following the Trump administration’s decision to slash 90% of USAID grants in January, she has been doing something she did not expect she would have to do, just to keep working.Hnatchenko has been dipping into her personal savings to ensure the publication’s survival — using her money to pay salaries, office rent and fuel expenses. “On top of this all, we were already owed two months’ money when they paused the funding,” she told Euronews.While most of Slobidskyi Kray’s team…
Russia is a close ally of Iran: Tehran supplied Moscow with military drones to strike Ukraine and, in return, has received help with its civilian nuclear program. The Kremlin has also maintained warm relations with Israel, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu frequently visited Moscow before 2022, which could put Putin in position to play power broker in the region. However, European leaders have pointed out the hypocrisy in Putin’s peace quest in the Middle East, where he recently lost one key regional ally when rebels toppled Syrian ruler Bashar Assad in December. “I do not believe that Russia, which…
Published on 19/06/2025 – 13:32 GMT+2•Updated 13:40The European Parliament’s political leaders agreed on Thursday to form a working group within the Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT) to scrutinise how the European Commission funds non-governmental organisations.The group will include 13 MEPs chaired by German lawmaker Niclas Herbst with two co-rapporteurs, from the centre-right European People’s Party and the right wing European Conservatives and Reformists, Parliament sources told Euronews.The decision came after a spat over the financing of environmental NGOs by the European Commission, accused by the German newspaper Welt Am Sonntag of having secretly paid up to €700,000 to promote the bloc’s climate…
“We have long said that not enough is being done to ensure transparency in NGO funding — and we meant it,” said Tomáš Zdechovský, lead EPP lawmaker in the budgetary control committee. The EPP said the working group will count with staff to check all the contracts awarded by the Commission to NGOs. Europe’s right-leaning political forces have been calling for more scrutiny on how NGOs are funded and use Commission money in recent months, creating divisions among political groups in the Parliament. The idea for the scrutiny body started when EPP lawmakers in the budgetary control committee accused the Commission of financing…
Should an artist’s faith determine what happens to their work when they die? The death of one of France’s most successful rappers has raised this question.French rapper Werenoi, whose real name was Jérémy Bana Owona, died on 17 May 2025, aged 31. He was France’s top album seller in 2023 and 2024, and his death shocked both the music industry and the public.“Rest in peace my man. A news that saddens me and courage to the loved ones especially”, popstar Aya Nakamura wrote on social media.Following the release of his first song ‘Guadalajara’ in 2021, Werenoi quickly rose to great…
Green Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony, however, announced Monday that the march will be organized by the municipality, which, he said, means the police can’t stop it. “It’s time to show that we are proud of our freedom, and to show that in this city, no one can be a second-rate citizen,” the mayor said on social media. Lahbib will join around 70 members of the European Parliament, including Socialists and Democrats (S&D) Chair Iratxe García, liberal Renew Europe Chair Valérie Hayer and Greens Co-Chair Terry Reintke. The Dutch secretary of state for education and several mayors from big European capitals…