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Do you know the two countries you can reach by ferry from Sicily? Even boat travel geeks might struggle with this one. One is Tunisia – reachable from Palermo in 11 hours (in the six years I’ve lived in Sicily, I’ve still only known one person who’s ever taken that boat). The other is Malta. Luckily for me, the most frequent ferry to Malta goes from my local town. Pozzallo to Valletta is a pleasant 1hr45 minute journey, on a catamaran mostly staffed, curiously, by people from the Philippines. With three or four crossings a day, Malta is quicker to…
Speaking on Euronews’ morning flagship show Europe Today this Friday, Spanish EPP MEP Antonio López-Istúriz said the government of Pedro Sanchez was ‘weak’ and should have reacted earlier to reports from the national police and intelligence services that had warned that thousands of irregular migrants were preparing to enter Ceuta. López-Istúriz also thinks Morocco could be behind the irregular crossing despite Pedro Sánchez insisting there is no evidence to support this. The MEP said the authenticity and significance of the material would have to be determined through a judicial investigation. The ongoing dispute comes against the backdrop of already strained…
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The European Union is expected to make a last-minute decision on banning new oil and gas exploration in the Arctic during a weekly meeting of the bloc’s 27 commissioners in October, according to two EU officials who spoke to Euronews on condition of anonymity. Earlier media reports suggested that the EU is considering dropping its ban on new drilling in the Arctic in its revision of the 2021 Arctic strategy as the bloc is enduring an energy crisis triggered by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, where 20% of the world’s gas and oil transit. The Artic has become…
The far-right National Rally Party’s Jordan Bardella is set to host a joint press conference with Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage on Friday afternoon, as the party’s annual conference kicks off in Birmingham. Speaking to Euronews, a National Rally spokesperson said the pair are set to discuss illegal migration, as well as joint cooperation between the UK and France targeting small boat crossings, a day after British Prime Minister Andy Burnham and French President Emmanuel Macron discussed how to “scale up” efforts to tackle illegal crossings and strengthen the UK’s relationship with Europe. The 30-year old firebrand was once…
That being said, it’s impossible now to bring back the Russian teams. Because of the way they are used, the national teams, it’s so hard to separate from the propaganda. But that is a failure, I’m not happy to say that it’s impossible; it’s sadly so, even though we are in 100 percent solidarity with Ukraine. It’s never good to make kids never play with each other. That is the aim, that they could play with each other and not be affected by the war. But that’s not possible now, football would stop and Ukraine would not play. So then…
Senior EU officials have issued a warning to the Serbian government over the funeral of war criminal Ratko Mladić, with the bloc’s enlargement chief saying that it “will be a very important test” in Belgrade’s bid to join the European Union and its future path. “Ratko Mladić was convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. The return of his remains to Belgrade reminds Europe of the darkest pages in our recent history,” European Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos wrote on X. “The glorification surrounding his death is incompatible with the values on which the EU path is built,”…
Senior EU officials are downplaying the fallout from Iceland’s referendum defeat, as Brussels tries to keep the momentum for enlargement alive at a high-level meeting on Friday. European affairs ministers from EU member states and candidate countries are meeting in Dublin for the first informal gathering hosted by Ireland’s EU Council presidency, to discuss the enlargement process in the wake of Iceland’s vote. On Saturday, Icelandic voters rejected reopening accession talks with Brussels, frozen since 2013, by a narrow margin, 52.8% to 47.2%, a significant blow to the EU’s enlargement ambitions, particularly towards its wealthier neighbours. Asked whether the result…
Published on 04/09/2026 – 13:26 GMT+2•Updated 13:29 Rescuers have recovered the bodies of two women off the coast of northern Cyprus, bringing the death toll from last week’s ferry accident to 12, officials said. A FiloJet ferry was sailing from Kyrenia in Cyprus to Taşucu in Turkey on 30 August when it began taking on water around 6 km off the Cypriot coast before capsizing. The vessel had 259 passengers and eight crew members on board when it went down, sparking a large-scale search and rescue operation. In a post on X on Friday, Ünal Üstel, the prime minister of…
US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he will ask Europeans to repay the American aid provided to Ukraine under the administration of his predecessor Joe Biden. Trump has long demanded that Europeans shoulder more of the cost of Western support for Ukraine in its war with Russia, which began more than four years ago. “Hundreds of Billions of Dollars was given to Ukraine and NATO, free of charge, that Europe would have paid for – If they were only asked, but we will be asking for that money, though somewhat belatedly!” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. The…