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The joint US–Israeli strikes on Iran and Tehran’s response have pushed oil prices higher, with Brent crude frequently rising above $100. Experts say this will affect not only energy prices but also food prices. The impact could be particularly strong in Europe, leading to higher food costs and a rising cost of living. So, how will the crisis in the Middle East affect food prices across Europe? Which countries are more vulnerable and why? Experts talking to Euronews Business point out that the crisis is expected to push global food prices higher through multiple channels. “Global, as well as European,…

Published on 27/03/2026 – 21:24 GMT+1 Tehran has agreed to “facilitate and expedite” humanitarian aid through the Strait of Hormuz, the Iranian ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva said on Friday. Ali Bahreini said Tehran has accepted a request from the UN to let humanitarian aid and agricultural shipments move through the critical waterway, on the same day that its nuclear facilities were hit in air strikes. The aid plan would be the first breakthrough at the shipping chokepoint after a month of war. While markets and governments have largely focused on blocked supplies of oil and natural gas,…

The move comes as the EU and member countries are scrambling to find solutions to protect children from the harms of social media. Countries including Spain, France, Denmark and Portugal are already moving ahead with plans for age restrictions. Proponents argue that age-related restrictions setting a minimum age for the most addictive social media platforms are vital to protect children’s physical and mental health. Critics say that bans are ineffective and are detrimental to privacy because they require users to verify themselves online. Human rights adviser Michael O’Flaherty, the commissioner for human rights at the Council of Europe, told POLITICO that bans…

“That’s when they grabbed all the material they had on me, edited it, spun it around and published it as a sort of kompromat,” Panyi said, referring to a Russian term for compromising material. Szijjártó has acknowledged speaking with Russian counterparts before and after EU meetings, following reporting by The Washington Post that he gave Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov reports on what was discussed, and the possible solutions proposed, during EU meetings. On Thursday, Minister of the Prime Minister’s Office Gergely Gulyás announced that the government had filed a criminal complaint against Panyi, accusing him of espionage and collusion…

PARIS — The French government will spend €70 million to subsidize the price of fuel for farmers, logistics companies and fishermen from April 1 until the end of the month. “We have built a response at the national level which is gradual, targeted, sector-specific and limited to the month of April,” Economy and Finance Minister Roland Lescure told reporters Friday evening, presenting the plan amid spiking energy prices caused by war in the Middle East. “My primary concern is, above all, to sustain growth while ensuring that every euro of public money is spent effectively,” said Lescure.

The incident was “contained,” the Commission said. But the early stages of its investigation suggest some data may have been taken from those websites, it added. Its own internal systems were not affected, it said. It did not say who was responsible for the attack. European governments and companies are increasingly under attack from hacking groups, both criminal and state-sponsored. The head of the EU’s cyber agency, ENISA, recently warned that Europe is “losing massively.” The Commission added that it is in the process of contacting EU institutions that might have been affected, and that it will continue to monitor…

Published on 27/03/2026 – 18:29 GMT+1 A boat packed with migrants capsized off the coast of Djibouti on the way to Yemen this week, the UN migration agency said on Friday, killing at least nine people died and leaving another 45 missing. The tragedy was the latest in a series of shipwrecks between the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula that have over the past few years killed several thousand African migrants fleeing conflict and poverty in hopes of reaching wealthy Gulf Arab countries. The boat had left from the Djibouti port town of Obock with more than 300…

A Parliament spokesperson said that “all necessary preventive and reactive measures are in place to ensure the security and safety of MEPs and [European Parliament] staff during official missions.” Both lawmakers and officials have been given “briefings, training and assistance regarding security,” they added. The European Parliament has used burner phones and security pouches to protect devices like mobile phones before, including on a trip to Hungary last year, POLITICO first reported. Other European Union institutions have beefed up their protections against cyberespionage, too. One senior official, granted anonymity to disclose details about security policy, told POLITICO’s Brussels Playbook that…

The European Union is calling for the Black Sea grain model agreed between Russia and Ukraine as the diplomatic method to unblock the Strait of Hormuz, the EU special envoy to the Gulf region Luigi Di Maio told Euronews in Doha on Friday. “After the beginning of the war in Ukraine, we managed as international community to strike a deal between Russia and Ukraine for ensuring humanitarian corridors in the Black Sea,” Di Maio said in the Euronews interview. “We have to do the same with the Strait of Hormuz, we have to guarantee the freedom of navigation in the…

And that’s not all. Some of the stranded ships are now starting to run out of food and other necessities. “It’s not as easy as people think to get resources to the ships,” explained Hutchinson. “And now we’re beginning to see pressure on supplies getting to the ships. The firms that deliver the supplies are local. Fuel is up from $700 per ton to over $2,000, and these firms have to secure the supplies in the first place, which isn’t easy when the Strait of Hormuz is closed. And in a situation like this, delivering the supplies to the trapped…