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Published on 05/11/2025 – 18:15 GMT+1 •Updated 18:20 Albania is committed to joining the European Union by 2030, Prime Minister Edi Rama told Euronews, labelling his country as “the most Euro-optimistic nation in Europe”. “2030 is not a date that I saw in a dream, but it’s a deadline that is the result of a very simple calculation,” he said during his interview at Euronews’ EU Enlargement Summit on Tuesday. He expects to conclude talks in the next two years, giving national parliaments across the EU another two years to ratify the decision, he added. The timeline is considered assertive…
The German government banned a Muslim group over accusations of violating human rights and the country’s democratic values on Wednesday and conducted raids against two other Muslim groups. The Interior Ministry said Muslim Interaktiv represented a threat to the country’s constitutional order by promoting antisemitism and discrimination against women and sexual minorities. Several hundred police officers searched seven premises in the northern city of Hamburg linked to Muslim Interaktiv, as well as 12 other premises in Berlin and the central state of Hesse in connection with two other Muslim groups, Generation Islam and Reality Islam. Authorities in Hamburg confiscated assets…
“In Europe and Romania, the American presence is more powerful than in 2020,” echoed Romanian President Nicușor Dan, speaking from a vast marbled Union Hall in Bucharest’s sprawling Cotroceni Palace. “So there is no concern, no worry.” The comments come as the alliance faces escalating airspace violations and hybrid attacks. Russian drones have been intercepted and shot down over Poland in recent months while another Russian drone was tracked over Romania; drones of unknown origin have disrupted air traffic at airports in Denmark, Norway and Germany. In response to the incursions, NATO has agreed to deploy more warplanes and air…
Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić has confirmed that his country is ready to sell ammunition to the EU, even if it ultimately ends up with Ukrainian forces in their fight against Russia. “We need to sell it to someone, and we’ll sell it to whomever we can in order to earn some money, but we’ll try to take care and not see that ammunition end up in a war zone. But it happens from time to time,” Vučić said on Euronews’ flagship interview show The Europe Conversation. “At the end [of the day], we’ll have to pay our workers,” he added.…
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The U.K. is locked in drug-pricing negotiations with the Trump administration and pharmaceutical firms about how much the National Health Service pays for their products through the so-called Voluntary Scheme for Pricing, Access and Growth (VPAG) scheme. Britain has offered to increase the threshold at which the NHS pays firms for medicines by up to 25 percent, POLITICO first reported in October. But pharmaceutical executives are pushing the government to go further. American drugmaker Eli Lilly’s international business chief said on Monday that it wants to see more changes to Britain’s medicine market before it pivots on its abandoned £279…
Published on 05/11/2025 – 16:46 GMT+1 NATO chief Mark Rutte on Wednesday sought to downplay concerns over the partial withdrawal of US troops in Romania during a visit to the country, insisting Washington remains committed to defending the alliance’s eastern flank. “Adjustments to US force posture are not unusual,” Rutte told reporters during a press conference alongside Romanian President Nicușor Dan. “And even with this adjustment, the US force posturing in Europe remains larger than has been for many years. There are still many more US forces on the continent than before 2022,” he added. “I really think we are…
Thousands of Iranians rallied in Tehran on Tuesday to mark 46 years since the 1979 takeover of the US embassy, chanting anti-American slogans and condemning Washington and Tel Aviv. Participants gathered outside the former embassy building, chanting slogans and carrying photos of military commanders killed in recent strikes. The event commemorates the day when Iranian students seized the US embassy on November 4, 1979. Demonstrators marched through the streets, holding national flags and banners criticizing the United States and Israel.
Al-Masri, long known as a key figure at Libya’s Mitiga prison, was previously arrested in Turin on Jan. 19 after attending a Juventus football match, following an International Criminal Court arrest warrant accusing him of war crimes, torture, murder and sexual violence. Despite those charges, Italy released him after 48 hours, a move that sparked outrage in Rome and prompted the Court of Ministers to open an investigation into Justice Minister Carlo Nordio, Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi and Cabinet Secretary Alfredo Mantovano over allegations they facilitated Al-Masri’s return to Libya. The inquiry was ultimately dismissed by Italy’s lower house of parliament, where the government…
Published on 05/11/2025 – 17:07 GMT+1 The EU’s environment ministers agreed on Wednesday on the bloc’s domestic climate target to cut CO2 emissions by 2040, after intense political pressure to deliver on climate commitments and maintain Brussels’ role as a climate action leader at next week’s COP30 UN climate summit. The EU27 agreed on a range to set a 2035 climate target to reduce net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 66.25–72.5% below 1990 levels, covering all sectors of the economy and all GHGs, including methane. The range takes into account the 2040 climate target, setting the path to cut emissions…