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Published on 05/07/2026 – 16:21 GMT+2 On Tuesday, a Paris appeals court will rule on whether Marine Le Pen is eligible to run in the 2027 presidential election. Ahead of the verdict, the National Rally (RN) figurehead and the party’s young president, Jordan Bardella, pledged to work as a duo, whatever happens. “Here’s a little message for those who think that putting obstacles in our way is enough to discourage us. We will never be discouraged,” Le Pen said. If the courts were to prevent her from standing in the presidential election, Le promised to support her protégé Bardella “every…

Published on 05/07/2026 – 14:16 GMT+2 US Vice President JD Vance said Britain has been “failed by its leadership for a long time” following the resignation of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Vance, who has been a strong critic of the UK and Europe more widely since he took office in January 2025, made the comments in an interview with The Sunday Times published this weekend. While he called Britain “amazing,” Vance said there appeared to him to be something “very broken about British politics”. “People are really crying out for significant structural change,” he said. “I hope that Andy…

VIENNA — The top brass of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe huddled in the Austrian capital this weekend to celebrate ALDE’s 50th anniversary — and debate how to face the far-right surge. The gathering in Vienna served as an opportunity for national parties — including Austria’s NEOS, the Netherlands’ D66, Belgium’s Reformist Movement, Romania’s USR and Germany’s FDP — to schmooze and scheme in the grand ballrooms of the Habsburg’s Hofburg Imperial Palace while debating current topics like social media restrictions, EU institutional reform, and the single market’s competitiveness. So who’s up in the liberals’ world, and…

The breathtaking landscapes of England’s Lake District have inspired some of the world’s most famous poets and writers, from William Wordsworth to Beatrix Potter. Want to discover it for yourself? Then you might just want to buy this new travel pass unlocking the region. Offering unlimited travel on buses, trains and boats, the Cumbria Travel Pass is priced at £40 (€47) for one day, or £99 (€116) for three. Valid at any time on any day of the week, the pass covers Northern, TransPennine and Avanti trains, Stagecoach buses, and Lakes Day Cruises on Windermere. You’ll also get discounts on…

With a week of major articles looking at the EU’s foreign policy branch, POLITICO asks whether budget constraints, a lack of tools and a turf war with the European Commission is threatening its survival. Jun 29 13 mins read

Published on 05/07/2026 – 10:32 GMT+2 The Vikings were apparently not only a warlike people: In Søften, a small village in the Mid Jutland region north of Aarhus, archaeologists have uncovered the remains of an exceptionally large craft settlement. The complex dates from the 7th to 10th centuries and covers 100,000 square metres. In total, the archaeologists excavated 82 pit houses. The area seems to have served as a specialised craft zone, with numerous workplaces operating in parallel. The large number of identical workshops suggests that division of labour, and possibly centralised control, played a role. The excavations brought to…

Serbia will host EXPO 2027, which already has 140 countries signed up to take part. Preparations – but above all the Serbian economy and EU accession talks – were the main topics of a conference held in Brussels. It was attended by Serbia’s foreign minister, Marko Djurić, deputy prime minister and finance minister, Sinisa Mali, and the speaker of the National Assembly, former Serbian prime minister Ana Brnabić. ‘Constant contact’ Euronews poke to Serbia’s former prime minister Ana Brnabić about relations with Ukraine and Russia. Brnabić addressed accusations of alleged lack of Serbian support for Ukraine in its conflict with…

The Museum of Innocence was published as a novel in 2008, became a physical museum in 2012, and reached a much wider audience with this year’s Netflix series. Euronews Turkish team was personally welcomed at the museum by Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk who discussed the philosophy behind the novel, the memorial power of objects and his thoughts on the museum’s legacy. The sentence ‘I didn’t know it was the happiest moment of my life’ is now recognised as one of the most striking openings in world literature. What do you think makes this sentence so powerful? The novel also…

It was part of a broader redirection of far-right resentments away from race and ethnicity to class and status, embodied by the yellow-vest protests that began months after that World Cup victory. Le Pen began to speak of France’s most famous athletes the way her father once dismissed Paris’ detached elites — “technocratic robots, graduates of the École Nationale d’Administration, and bourgeois bohemians,” he said in a 2006 address to a party convention — rather than as ungrateful immigrants representing the country’s restive suburbs. The populist shift was evident in 2024, when several of the team’s top strikers all joined a swift counterattack against…

If you’ve been following the latest travel trends and are seeking a “coolcation” in 2026, then you can’t get much cooler than Stockholm. Not only is Sweden’s capital city cool(er) in temperature, but it’s also a very cool place to hang out for a weekend or short city break. Surrounded by 30,000 islands, Stockholm is an ideal destination for outdoor adventures this summer. From exploring on foot and two wheels to boarding a ferry and heading further afield, Stockholm’s stunning archipelago offers endless opportunities for walking, hiking, kayaking, and wild swimming, all within easy reach of the city. Chasing sunsets…