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For investors following Europe’s developed markets, Greece is back on the map. FTSE Russell’s reclassification of the Greek capital market from “advanced emerging” to “developed” took effect on Monday, marking another step in the country’s recovery from its sovereign debt crisis. Euronext Athens said the upgrade represented “a major international recognition of the significant progress and structural reforms implemented in recent years at the Athens Stock Exchange” and underscored the growing attractiveness of the Greek capital market to international investors. The change moved 62 Greek stocks out of FTSE’s emerging-market benchmarks and into its developed-market indices, according to Piraeus Securities.…
Published on 21/09/2026 – 12:15 GMT+2 Google has been fined €403 million by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) after a six-year investigation into how the tech giant tracked and stored users’ location data. The DPC, which acts as Google’s lead regulator in the EU, launched the inquiry in February 2020 following complaints from several European consumer rights groups, including BEUC. Investigators examined three Google features, including Web & App Activity, Location History and Location Accuracy, and covering the period from 25 May 2018 when the GDPR came into force to 4 February 2020. ‘Loss of control’ over personal data The…
“I have proposed measures against those facilitating these sham elections in occupied Ukrainian territories,” she added. Residents of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson — regions that the Kremlin unlawfully occupied after the 2022 assault started — also took part in the vote, with some reportedly coerced into doing so. The war in Ukraine featured heavily in the elections, which were marked by severe repression. Dissenting voices were all but silenced, and Yabloko — the country’s only openly anti-war party — was banned from fielding a national list of candidates in the State Duma. “A party that has not been represented…
Spain’s Minister for Youth and Children has defended the right of unaccompanied foreign minors to remain on Spanish territory if they so wish, after more than 70,000 people crossed into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from Morocco. “I think most of them want to stay in Spain and they are going to stay, of course. There is a law that protects them,” Sira Rego told the Spanish radio network Cadena SER. Rego, a former member of the European Parliament for Izquierda Unida between 2019 and 2023, argued that Spain’s laws on minors apply equally to everyone, regardless of their origin.…
By Euronews Persian Published on 21/09/2026 – 12:32 GMT+2•Updated 12:34 A simultaneous exchange of threats between Washington and Tehran raised fears of a return to all-out hostilities in the Iran war ahead of the UN General Assembly in New York on Monday. Iran’s IRGC warned on Monday that the war with the US is not yet over and that it has prepared for a “long-term war” with weapons that have not yet been used, spokesman Hossein Mohebi said. Mohebi said Iran had upgraded its weapons capabilities during and before the war, and described the unused systems as “strategic” and to be…
Published on 21/09/2026 – 11:46 GMT+2 Volkswagen, Europe’s largest automaker, is no longer among the eurozone’s blue chips. Index provider Stoxx confirmed the change in its annual review at the start of September, and it came into force before trading began on Monday, with Finnish telecoms group Nokia returning to the index and French utility Engie joining. Dutch information-services group Wolters Kluwer was also dropped. The removal is mechanical rather than a judgement, as the index is weighted by free-float market value, and Volkswagen’s shrinking valuation no longer cleared the threshold. However, the consequences are real, as funds that track…
Published on 21/09/2026 – 11:51 GMT+2 US President Donald Trump has announced plans to create an “AI Force” and appoint a new artificial intelligence “czar”. Trump made the announcement in a Truth Social post, the right-wing American social media platform, with no details on how or when the organisation would work. The announcement comes amid growing debate over the rate of development of the technology and its associated risks following numerous incidents of rogue AI agents breaking out of their sandbox environments. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei last week in an essay called for policymakers to help the industry “pace the…
Published on 21/09/2026 – 8:38 GMT+2 Gorillaz have kicked off their 2026 US tour and the band’s frontman, Damon Albarn, urged the crowds not to be “neutral” in the face of atrocities in Gaza. During the concert at Orlando’s Kia Center this weekend, Albarn took a Palestinian flag from an audience member, lifted it above his head and told the crowd: “Don’t forget this. Ever. Stand your position. Don’t ever be neutral.” While not the first artist to be outspoken on stage about the atrocities in the Middle East, as many artists like Massive Attack, Kneecap, Fontaines D.C., Patti Smith…
BRUSSELS — Eleven countries, led by Austria, are pushing to pause new EU legislation for 12 months for what the country’s Europe Minister Claudia Bauer described as a “year of simplification.” “We can’t go on tabling new legislative proposals when existing rules have not been fully implemented,” Bauer said in an interview with Brussels Playbook, referring to a discussion paper signed by Austria, Germany, Italy, Poland, Denmark, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Lithuania, Portugal and Hungary, and seen by POLITICO. Brussels is already scrambling to roll out red-tape-cutting packages known as “omnibuses” — but those efforts don’t go far enough, according to Bauer.
Published on 21/09/2026 – 10:31 GMT+2 “It’s been resolved,” US Ambassador to Belgium Bill White told Euronews’ flagship current affairs news programme Europe Today, following a weekend deal between the US, Denmark and Greenland over security on Greenland. “I told everybody to relax, take a deep breath. It will all be fine. And yesterday, it was announced that it’s all fine,” he said on Monday. The agreement, which eases tensions between Europe and the US over President Donald Trump’s repeated threats to claim the territory, has been hailed by leaders on both sides of the Atlantic. However, details remain scant.…