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Published on 28/11/2025 – 9:11 GMT+1 Art lovers from the UK, US and China hoping to admire the Mona Lisa’s enigmatic smile will have to shell out an extra €10 to do so next year. The Louvre has decided to increase the price of admission for non-European visitors by 45% starting in 2026. From 14 January, nationals from outside the European Economic Area (EEA, which includes EU member states, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway) will have to pay €32 to visit the world’s most visited museum – €10 more than the current admission price. Approved on Thursday by the Louvre’s board…
It’s also a worry in Poland, Austria and inside EU institutions — all of which are rushing to put in safeguards to block, or at least monitor, third-country investment in key tech and transport infrastructure. What accelerated Sweden’s move was a recent EU court ruling involving Turkish and Chinese companies bidding on two railway projects. Judges concluded that suppliers from countries without a free-trade agreement with the EU do not enjoy the same rights as EU firms — a reading Stockholm took as both a green light and a warning signal. Sweden’s new rules are due to take effect in…
Severe floods and landslides have swept across Indonesia’s Sumatra island, leaving at least 90 people dead and dozens missing. In West Sumatra’s Padang Pariaman district, hundreds of families were evacuated to mosques and community halls as more than 4,400 residents were affected. Authorities report that over 1,600 homes were damaged, some remaining submerged under up to a meter of water. Emergency teams, police, and military units have been deployed to restore access, deliver supplies, and support recovery efforts.
Another step forward in the fast-growing partnership between the European Union and the countries of Central Asia was made during the 3rd EU–Central Asia Economic Forum, that took place in Uzbekistan’s capital, Tashkent. Following this year’s EU–Central Asia Summit in Samarkand (Uzbekistan), the ministerial meeting in Ashgabat (Turkmenistan), and President Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s visit to Brussels in Belgium, the forum became the latest milestone in a year that has elevated cooperation to a new strategic level. It brought together business leaders, investors, and government representatives from 32 countries. The European delegation was led by EU Commissioners Jozef Síkela and Marta Kos.…
Spain is being urged to strengthen its climate resilience and advance decarbonisation efforts to protect its economy. A new report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) found the Spanish economy has held up “remarkably well” following a slow recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Steady GDP growth has been recorded in recent years, with Spain surpassing many of its European peers. This has been driven by a plethora of factors, including tourism, investments from the EU Recovery and Resilience Funds and increased government spending. However, researchers warn that Spain is among the European countries “most exposed” to climate…
KYIV — Ukrainian anti-corruption watchdogs on Friday raided the office of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s top adviser Andriy Yermak in a bombshell development to a snowballing graft probe. “National Anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and Special Anti-corruption Prosecutor’s office (SAP) are conducting investigative searches at premises of the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine,” NABU said in a Facebook post. Earlier this month, Ukrainian MPs and watchdogs demanded that Zelenskyy fire Yermak over a $100 million energy corruption scandal being investigated by NABU, in which one of the president’s business associates — who fled the country — was…
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Published on 28/11/2025 – 7:00 GMT+1 Researchers in the United States have developed a new tool that allows independent scientists to study how social media algorithms affect users—without needing permission from the platforms themselves. The findings suggest that platforms could reduce political polarisation by down-ranking hostile content in their algorithms. The tool, a browser extension powered by artificial intelligence (AI), scans posts on X, formerly Twitter, for any themes of anti-democratic and extremely negative partisan views, such as posts that could call for violence or jailing supporters of an opposing party. It then re-orders posts on the X feed in…
By euronews Published on 28/11/2025 – 7:32 GMT+1 Welcome to “Europe Today” – Euronews’ daily live fix of European news and analysis. Coming up today – Vladimir Putin has said the outline of the US/Ukraine peace plan could serve as a basis to end the war in Ukraine – but Ukraine would have to give up territory. This as Hungary’s Viktor Orban plans a visit to Moscow for face time with the Russian President. For more on this visit and the reactions from the EU institutions, we will talk with Maria Tadeo, our EU news editor. For the view from Ukraine,…
“It’s an amazing period, I’ve never experienced the same freedom, the freedom of speech,” Osama Mufdi beamed, shaking his head in disbelief. The Syrian entrepreneur spoke to Euronews from his brand-new office in Damascus, a city he was forced to flee just over a decade ago. Now, he is one of over 1 million Syrians who have returned to the country since the fall of notorious dictator Bashar al-Assad after almost 14 years of brutal war. Nearly 7 million Syrians have left the country since 2011. While most went to neighbouring countries, over 1 million went to Europe. Now, with…