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It’s the head-turning, eye-popping announcement of the week: Ursula von der Leyen has invited Canada to make history by becoming the first-ever “associate member” of the European Union. “We want to bring the relationship with Canada to the highest level possible,” the European Commission president said in her State of the Union speech. The following day, speaking from the same lectern in Strasbourg, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said his country “welcomes” the offer and hailed the dawn of an “alliance for the future”. “Europe and Canada are stronger together,” he said. The back-to-back speeches made international headlines, caused a…
Published on 19/09/2026 – 7:42 GMT+2•Updated 7:46 The United States and Denmark have announced that they have come to an agreement over Greenland, with US President Donald Trump saying the deal would give Washington “permanent control” of the island’s security. “I am pleased to announce that the United States of America has entered into an Agreement with The Kingdom of Denmark, and Greenland, that gives the United States permanent control over security,” Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social account on Friday. “From now on, no U.S. adversary can EVER have a base in Greenland, have a military…
Filling up a car has never cost more on average across the European Union, according to European Commission data going back more than two decades. At the latest average prices, it costs about €103 to fill a 50-litre tank with petrol and €108 with diesel. Retail fuel prices have surged since the outbreak of the conflict in the Middle East, adding to inflationary pressures. Eurozone energy inflation rose to 14.3% in August, up from 10.3% in July, according to the European Central Bank. A litre of petrol cost a weighted EU average of €2.063 as of 14 September, while diesel…
People’s view of a country and trust for its artificial intelligence (AI) regulation tend to be closely linked, Moira Fagan, senior researcher at the Pew Research Center and one of the authors of a new study on AI, told Euronews Next. According to the report, in Bangladesh, Malaysia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, people trust China more than the United States (US) or the European Union (EU) with AI governance. And, taking into consideration the other seven middle-income countries where this question was asked, a median of 43% trust China to regulate AI, 35% trust the…
The sound I most associate with death is silence. Not just the obvious one, in that the dearly departed will never speak, never yell, never cry, never laugh again. Smaller silences, like post-funeral, when the last guest is gone and all you’re left with are your thoughts and an inordinate amount of food shared by well-wishers. Or when weeks have passed and you go to call or text them about your day before you stop yourself because you can’t do that any more. Even years later, it lingers in that awkward pause when you reveal someone close to you has…
“With the Left party, above all, what you get is new socialism,” Kristin Brinker, the AfD’s lead candidate in Berlin, told Welt TV. “We know — if we look back — that Berlin has already experienced socialism, and given the state of the real estate market at that time, that’s something many people don’t want.” Legal hurdles The AfD has no chance of taking real political power in Berlin, as all other parties have ruled out working with the far right. But a potential left-wing coalition would still need to overcome many hurdles. Although an expert commission concluded in 2023…
Irish Finance Minister Simon Harris says details of the new associate membership with Canada “are yet to be determined”, but believes it is “good news” that the European Union has signalled its intention to have a “much closer relationship” with Ottawa. Harris insists this is “not a hostile act towards anybody”, after US President Donald Trump threatened to impose new tariffs on the European Union. “This isn’t either-or” between Canada and the United States, Harris said.
A criminal organisation that used Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to clone the voices of relatives in order to make telephone scams more convincing has been dismantled by the Directorate for Combating Organised Crime. The gang is alleged to have defrauded citizens using various pretexts, posing among other things as employees of the Hellenic Electricity Distribution Network Operator (HEDNO), mobile phone companies and fibre-optic service providers. They would then exploit voice-cloning technology to create the impression that a relative or other trusted person of the victim was on the line. The organisation’s activities were brought to an end following a police…
Andrew Caruana Galizia, Head of Europe and Eurasia at the World Economic Forum, believes there are certain areas where Europe “will never be able to be self-sufficient, like critical raw materials”. But he insists “best thing Europe can do” is focus on its own internal market. Caruana Galizia also said that Europe has “the best savers in the world”. Despite this, the “real tragedy” is that they are “poorer than Americans”. Even if Europeans save “twice as much as Americans”, they are “unable to build up wealth at the same rate as Americans”, Caruana Galizia said.
Siegmund combined the forward-looking “Everything is Possible” with another slogan, “Bring Back the Good Old Times,” fusing nostalgia and hope, a powerful combination for people worried about the rapid pace of disruptive change and an uncertain future. “He’s become a bit of a pop star, and that explains a lot about why the AfD doubled its vote,” said the German-British historian Katja Hoyer. “It also helps explain why there was a smaller gap between men and women in Saxony-Anhalt. In the national vote, far more men than women vote for the AfD.” Hoyer believes the appeal won’t be confined to…