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Hello readers. Angela Skujins here ringing out the week with your Friday newsletter. Before we dive in, news broke early this morning that a Russian drone crashed into an apartment building in eastern Romania, injuring two people. “These are not mistakes – these are provocations,” Polish Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Economic Development and Technology Michał Baranowskijust told Euronews’ Europe Today programme. “We are no longer in peace,” he added, referring to the drone incursions in his country last year, as well as the others rocking the Baltics in recent weeks. Watch. The big stories driving Brussels’ agenda…
Published on 29/05/2026 – 8:38 GMT+2 An Austrian court has convicted a man of planning to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna during her record-breaking Eras Tour. He has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. The state court in Wiener Neustadt, south of the capital, found the 21-year-old defendant, an Austrian citizen known only as Beran A. in line with Austrian privacy rules, guilty on multiple charges including those related to the concert. Beran A was accused of planning to use knives or homemade explosives to kill people at one of the singer’s shows in the capital in…
Séjourné is the most vocal public champion of tougher action but Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra also told POLITICO that he was a “hardliner” on the issue: “What I’m going to make part of the conversation [on Friday], I am worried about our significant dependencies on China, where we pretty much have the same track record as with Russia.” But others, like Teresa Ribera, are positioning themselves as more nuanced on the debate and more open to working with China, arguing that cooperation serves Europe’s interests better than potential confrontation. With the debate just getting started, the real question may be…
Published on 29/05/2026 – 7:23 GMT+2 For many people Winston Churchill is best known for making stirring wartime speeches and smoking fat cigars, but Britain’s most famous prime minister also loved to paint. That less known side of his character is the subject of a new exhibition at the Wallace Collection in London that seeks to explore his creativity. The organisers of the show have described it as the most significant display of Churchill’s paintings for more than 60 years. It includes more than 50 canvases, many of them rarely seen in public. Churchill first tried painting during World War…
“After literature, the censor Bolloré now wants to control filmmaking. It is unacceptable to allow a billionaire to threaten artists in this way,” said hard-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon, threatening to dismantle Bolloré’s empire. Socialist leader Olivier Faure slammed the move by Canal+ as a sign that “the far right has never liked freedom, creativity, or public service.” More diplomatically, Culture Minister Catherine Pégard regretted Canal+’s “disproportionate, to say the least” reaction to “the very real concerns that were raised.” The conservative mayor of Cannes, David Lisnard, slammed the artists as masochists for “biting the hand that feeds them.” Canal+ declined…
Published on 29/05/2026 – 7:46 GMT+2 Romania on Friday said a Russian drone carrying explosives crashed in the eastern city of Galați, causing a fire on the roof of a residential apartment block. The building was evacuated and two people sustained minor injuries, Toiu Oana, Romania’s foreign minister, said. “Two aircraft and a helicopter belonging to the Romanian Air Force were scrambled when Russian drones appeared on the radar, they had permission to shoot,” she continued, adding that it was “a serious and irresponsible escalation” by Moscow. “Romania has informed European member states, the Allies and the NATO Secretary General…
Europe has decided it wants to defend itself on its own terms after decades of treating military budgets as a line item to quietly trim or ignore. The turning point was Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, though the reckoning had been building for years. EU defence spending rose from €218 billion in 2021 to an estimated €381 billion in 2025, according to the European Defence Agency, or a 75% increase in just four years. Global military spending hit a record $2.9 trillion that year, with Europe as the main driver — up 14% to $864bn (€742bn), according to…
Recruiters are already turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to sort through resumes, but some are now taking the next step: Using it to conduct the job interview. Companies such as Google are creating specialised AIs to interview candidates at the screening stage either through phone calls, video chats with on-screen avatars, or by text message. More candidates are walking away from interview processes that involve AI, according to a research study by hiring platform Glasshouse of almost 3,000 job seekers in the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany and Australia. In Germany, 57% of workers have undertaken an AI interview,…
While parts of the Balkans like Croatia and Montenegro have seen a surge in tourism numbers in recent years, Kosovo remains one of the least-visited countries in Europe, with just over 450,000 travellers coming here in 2025. Thanks to a cheap Wizz Air flight from London Luton to North Macedonia’s capital, Skopje, I finally had the chance to visit for myself this May. With a jam-packed itinerary to maximise my time before my return to Doha, where our Euronews Travel hub is, I only had a day in Kosovo, and so had to choose between Prishtina and Prizren, ultimately landing…
A Russian drone entered Romanian airspace and crashed into an apartment block early Friday, causing a fire and minor injuries to two people, Romania’s defense ministry said in a statement. The drone hit the roof of a building in the Stirex-Mazepa neighborhood in the municipality of Galați, near the border with Ukraine, at around 1 a.m. Brussels time, according to local media reports. The defense ministry said the drone crossed the border from Ukraine, where Russia was carrying out attacks on civilian and infrastructure targets. Two F-16 aircraft were scrambled and the pilots were “authorized to engage targets throughout the…