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France’s local elections and the leaked communication between centre-right and far-right parties in the European Parliament have brought the issue of political polarisation in the European Union back to the forefront. Brussels, My Love? explored these topics with the French-German researcher Sophie Pornschlegel, Svenska Dagbladet’s correspondent Teresa Küchler, and Euronews’ Stefan Grobe. The right-wing group chat According to an investigation by the German news agency dpa, the centre-right, pro-EU European People’s Party (EPP) has been collaborating with far-right parties, including Alternative for Germany (AfD), on tougher EU migration laws, with communication happening on a WhatsApp group. Manfred Weber, the EPP’s…
Rivers and streams including Río Botello overflowed from around 04:00, flooding neighbourhoods such as Los Manzanos and La Selva. Residents reported water levels exceeding 1 metre inside homes, while at least 14 incidents were recorded across Cundinamarca, governor Jorge Emilio Rey said. Emergency services including the fire department, police and the Red Cross deployed pumps and evacuation teams throughout the day. More than 1,000 people were moved to temporary shelters, where food and basic supplies were distributed. The national weather agency IDEAM warned further rainfall could hit the region in the coming days, increasing the risk of landslides in nearby…
“This ETS is a great success. It has been in place for 20 years and is a market-based and technology-neutral system. So we are not calling the ETS into question,” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz told reporters after the talks had concluded. While the Commission will propose some adjustments to the ETS by July, these are merely adjustments, not fundamental changes, the German leader said. In the run-up to the summit, some EU countries, including Italy, floated the idea of weakening the ETS to help weather soaring energy prices. 15) No matter what, EU leaders want to get home — ASAP.…
By Serge Duchêne Published on 20/03/2026 – 10:01 GMT+1•Updated 10:03 French hotel group Accor has denied any involvement in the trafficking of adults or children for the purpose of exploitation and said it had already launched an internal investigation and appointed an external firm to look into the allegations. Accor shares lost more than 8% on the Paris stock exchange on Thursday following the publication of allegations by the American hedge fund Grizzly Research accusing it of human trafficking. Accor said it “firmly denies any involvement in the alleged systematic exploitation of human or child trafficking.” “Following the publication of this…
And that speech was about as far as it went. As Tehran pounded its neighbors, disrupting Europe’s energy supplies, Kyiv attacked Russian factories repairing military planes, and Donald Trump in Washington joked about the Pearl Harbor attack alongside the Japanese prime minister, European leaders used their talks to tinker with the bloc’s carbon permit scheme, the Emissions Trading System. It’s not a wholly unrelated matter to the global energy shock, but hardly an issue where the continent could demonstrate its geopolitical might. On Iran, leaders found they had little leverage or will to make any significant intervention. On Ukraine, more…
Good morning from Brussels. I’m Mared Gwyn, writing from the early hours of Friday morning after marathon talks among EU leaders last night. Fury over Viktor Orbán’s decision to veto the European Union’s €90 billion loan for Ukraine burst into the open on Thursday, my colleague Jorge Liboreiro reports from the European Council this morning, as leaders castigated, in the harshest terms yet, the “unacceptable” behaviour of the Hungarian Prime Minister. To recap: Orbán held firm on his veto on the EU’s Ukraine loan last night in protest over the disruption of the flow of cheap Russian oil via the…
8:59 GMT+1 Iran Guards say missile production continues despite war Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Friday that the Islamic republic has continued to produce missiles despite the war with Israel and the United States.”Our missile industry deserves a perfect score…and there is no concern in this regard, because even under wartime conditions we continue missile production,” Guards spokesperson Ali Mohammad Naini said, quoted by the Fars news agency.On Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that “Iran no longer has the capacity to enrich uranium and manufacture ballistic missiles.” 8:56 GMT+1 Israel says it strucK Syrian government targets after attack…
The release of Peaky Blinders in 2013 brought with it several booms: in French crops (no, you can’t pull it off), in newsboy caps (maybe you can, but probably not), and, perhaps most importantly, in tourism to the West Midlands region of England and beyond. The hit television series followed the eponymous gang, loosely based on a real group active in Birmingham between the 1880s and 1920s, for six seasons until 2022. Now Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) and his crew have returned for one final outing, with Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man released on Netflix on 20 March. If you…
Grégoire finished 12 points ahead of Dati in the first round of the election last Sunday, but the former culture minister made the race far more competitive by teaming up with center-right candidate Pierre‑Yves Bournazel, who finished a disappointing fourth. The decision of far-right MEP Sarah Knafo to drop out of the race gave Dati another boost. Grégoire chose not to team up with Chikirou on principle due to her party’s abrasive, confrontational approach to the local election. France Unbowed leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon has stoked controversy recently with his unapologetic response to the killing of a far-right activist, and later with…