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Sky News’ Sam Coates and Politico’s Anne McElvoy preview how the day will play out in British politics. Overnight, reports emerged of a UK-US trade announcement being hours away. Sam and Anne discuss the significance of this political win for Sir Keir Starmer “at a time he needs it most”. The pair discuss what detail is expected to be in the pact and what it means for the ‘special’ relationship between the two countries. Plus, the Bank of England is expected to announce a cut in interest rates. Sam and Anne ask whether things are looking up for the prime…

On Thursday evening, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz agreed with U.S. President Donald Trump during a phone call “to work closely together with the aim of ending the war in Ukraine,” according to a German readout. After the call, Trump urged Putin to accept a 30-day ceasefire and said that if it was “not respected, the U.S. and its partners will impose further sanctions.” The tribunal is set to be established under the legal framework of the Council of Europe — the non-EU body responsible for human rights in Europe. It will have its own prosecutors and judges. It can begin…

EU lobby groups held 5,813 meetings between the beginning of the new European Commission (EC) mandate in December 2024 and 7 April 2025, according to Transparency International EU.   At least a third of all disclosed meetings addressed subjects related to the EU’s climate agenda. Simplification and competitiveness top the list of most popular subjects for climate-related meetings, with 421 meetings mentioning one or the other, or both. By contrast, the Green Deal as a subject has disappeared from the EU’s lobbying landscape, with 21 meetings specifically mentioning the bloc’s landmark climate package. The digital policy area remains a major lobbying target, with 492 meetings…

The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not represent in any way the editorial position of Euronews. I was just eight when I first glimpsed what cooperation between Türkiye and Europe could look like—not through treaties or official speeches, but through a family story. It was the day my aunt’s husband left Manisa, an industrious town in Western Türkiye, to work in Germany. He returned years later with knowledge, skills, and tools that helped our local community flourish. That is the promise of a truly meaningful partnership. Later, in my political career, I observed…

With just under three months to go before the 27 EU member states need to appoint a regulator tasked with overseeing business’ compliance with the AI Act, it remains unclear in at least half of the member states which authority will be nominated, a round-up by Euronews shows.By 2 August member states must notify the Commission about which market surveillance authorities are appointed, in addition the countries need to adopt an implementing law that sets out penalties and that empowers their authorities. The latest meeting of the AI Board in late March, which helps coordinate cooperation between member states, showed that the…

The European Union and the United States remain at odds on trade, with Trump maintaining 10 percent tariffs on all imports from the trading bloc as well as 25 percent on cars and metals imports. The EU paused its own targeted tariffs in bid to give space to negotiations during Trump’s 90-day pause. But Brussels raised the pressure further on Thursday by proposing potential tariffs on nearly €100 billion of imports, including big ticket items like airplanes. Shortly after the EU unveiled its lengthy list of U.S. goods that could be hit by tariffs, Trump surprised European officials by heaping…

If you thought fantasy football was as far as civilization could fall, think again. Italy, the eternally caffeinated land of saints, pasta and Berlusconi parties (RIP), has cooked up a new national obsession: the Fantapapa. It’s fantasy football — but for picking the next pope. In a country where political coalitions are more fleeting than a TikTok trend, it’s only fitting that citizens have turned the sacred act of electing the Bishop of Rome into a game of points and papal penalties. Although this might seem like a fanciful satire that Declassified made up, our staid imaginations could never invent…

LONDON — The U.K. is imposing fresh sanctions on up to 100 vessels accused of shipping Russian oil in the face of international sanctions, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced Friday. The British government said the tankers had moved more than £18 billion of Russian oil since the start of 2024 in defiance of curbs imposed on Moscow after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Russia has tried getting around these economic conditions by building up a “shadow fleet” of tankers, often aging vessels with obscure ownership and unknown insurance. Speaking ahead of a Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) meeting in…

Since the first presidential debates last year, Donald Trump refused to answer the question about how he saw the end of Russia’s war in Ukraine. He famously promised to end it within 24 hours, but he was less decisive when asked whether its end would mean Ukraine’s victory. Ever since, Kyiv has been trying to convince Trump to decide who to back — more specifically, to side with Ukraine.From meeting Trump in New York in September 2024 before the presidential election to being accused of being a “dictator” and finally the unprecedentedly heated argument in the Oval Office in February, Volodymyr…

China’s exports to the United States tumbled in April while its trade with other economies surged, suggesting that President Donald Trump’s tariffs offensive is hastening a shakeup in global supply chains.Total exports from China rose 8.1% last month from a year earlier, much faster than the 2% pace most economists had been expecting. That was — however — much slower than the 12.4% year-on-year increase in March. Imports fell 0.2% in April from the year before.Shipments to the US sank 21% in dollar terms as Trump’s tariffs on most Chinese exports rose to as high as 145%. With Chinese tariffs…