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Published on 02/07/2026 – 9:20 GMT+2 A 927-page disclosure released this week by the US Office of Government Ethics has caused outrage and led many to accuse Donald Trump of “brazen crypto corruption”. The financial disclosures revealed that Trump had been paid more than $2.2bn last year in total – from real estate, branded merchandise like Trump-branded Bibles, licensing deals and court settlements – and that the Trump family’s cryptocurrency ventures generated more than $1bn in his first year back in the White House. The disclosures also revealed that Trump received a licensing fee of $10.71 million for Amazon MGM’s…
“A more frugal EU budget may not necessarily be modern,” he said in the opening speech of the Commission’s annual budget conference. “The risk is that those new aspects of modernity will be the first ones to be chopped.” The frugals are pressuring the new Irish Council presidency, which will broker the budget negotiations, to pursue deeper overall cuts while protecting spending on defense and competitiveness. They also dismissed Cyprus’ proposed cuts, arguing that they disproportionately targeted their priority areas. In his speech, Serafin also warned that smaller collective EU spending might result in a higher bill for national governments.…
The US is gearing up to celebrate 250 years of independence on 4 July, but across the Atlantic, European views of the country and its President, Donald Trump, are not particularly festive. More than eight out of 10 citizens in Sweden, the Netherlands, France, Germany, and Italy lack confidence in Trump to do the right thing regarding world affairs, according to a new Pew Research Centre study. Trump’s confidence ratings have significantly dropped in eight European countries since 2025, including drops of 15 percentage points in Greece and Italy. Generally, the US president is more popular among Europeans with favourable…
Published on 02/07/2026 – 9:20 GMT+2•Updated 9:27 An alleged member of the “Scattered Spider” hacking group has been arrested and extradited to the United States, US authorities announced on Wednesday. Peter Stokes, 19, was arrested in Finland in April and faces charges of conspiracy, computer intrusion, and fraud, the Justice Department said in a press release. Stokes, a dual US-Estonian national, appeared at a federal court on Tuesday in Chicago, where he was ordered to remain in custody. A criminal complaint alleged that Stokes, along with coconspirators, targeted a luxury jewelry retailer’s computer system in May 2025, exfiltrating data from…
Published on 02/07/2026 – 8:55 GMT+2 A Dutch engineer has reconstructed, using academic sources and historic cartography, the road map that connected the Roman Empire. The result, accessible from any browser, including on a mobile phone, makes it possible to plot routes between cities of Antiquity and find out how many days the journey would have taken on foot or on horseback. The tool is called OmnesViae (Omnesviae.org (source in Spanish)) and is based mainly on the Tabula Peutingeriana, a medieval copy of a Roman map that depicted the cursus publicus, the empire’s official road network. As the western part…
BSW “has criticized the ‘firewall’ against the AfD from the very beginning,” the leaders of Wagenknecht’s party wrote in a letter to the far-right party’s national leaders dated June 26. “It is undemocratic and does not solve any problems.” The AfD maintains a strong lead in polls ahead of two September state elections in eastern Germany, where BSW also has pockets of support. But because other parties have refused to form coalitions with the AfD, it’s unclear whether the far-right party’s polling lead will translate into political power. Wagenknecht’s party is now seeking to break the firewall by offering to…
Enlargement dominated the start of Ireland’s six-month presidency of the EU Council, with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy declaring that Ukraine has done “everything” needed to open all the clusters of negotiations. “It’s in the interest of all the countries to have Ukraine in the EU as quickly as possible,” Zelenskyy said on Wednesday at Dublin Castle, where the inaugural ceremony took place. Ukraine has so far opened just one cluster, titled “Fundamentals”, and is keen to unblock the remaining five before the summer break. But the ambitious timeline has been called into serious question after Hungary’s new prime minister, Péter Magyar,…
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Published on 02/07/2026 – 7:13 GMT+2 The European Commission is set to redistribute funding under the tool designed to financially incentivise Western Balkan countries to carry out the reforms required for EU accession in favour of ‘frontrunner’ countries, two EU officials told Euronews. The Reform and Growth Facility for the Western Balkans was set up in 2024 to give candidate countries in the region financial support tied to strict conditions, chiefly the implementation of reforms needed to join the bloc. The tool covers the 2024-2027 period, with the ambition of doubling the size of Western Balkan economies within the next…
By Irina Aleksandrova Published on 02/07/2026 – 7:00 GMT+2 Russia’s unprecedented months-long petrol crisis has made the consequences of the country’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine palpable for ordinary citizens. Continued Ukrainian attacks have been causing fires at refineries and disrupting petrol supplies nationwide. Queues at petrol stations are growing, along with public anger and anxiety. In many regions petrol is now rationed, and long lines of cars stretch for hours along the roads. Social media is replete with videos of drivers expressing shock at the queues they encounter or arguing over empty pumps and rising prices. “Television says one thing, reality…