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French National Rally leader visited Brussels to strengthen ties with the Flemish nationalist party Vlaams Belang. Speaking at the Flemish Parliament, he called for greater cooperation among like-minded parties on migration and asylum policy, arguing that coordinated action could help reshape decision-making across the European Union. His visit comes amid growing attention around France’s 2027 presidential election, in which he could play a leading role depending on forthcoming legal and political developments within the National Rally. The Brussels event drew supporters as well as several hundred demonstrators outside the parliament building. Protesters accused Bardella’s movement of promoting policies they believe…
US Special Envoy for South and Central Asia Sergio Gor met officials from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan for the first in-person meeting of the critical minerals dialogue under the C5+1 format, which brings together the five Central Asian states and the United States. The meeting followed discussions launched between US President Donald Trump and Central Asian leaders during a C5+1 summit in Washington last year, where the parties agreed to deepen cooperation on critical minerals and related investments. “When President Trump hosted the C5 in Washington last fall, he was clear that Central Asia had not received the…
Published on 12/06/2026 – 8:52 GMT+2 Taylor Swift has become the youngest woman ever to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. The American pop princess qualifies for the prestigious honour as rules state an artist must have notable catalogue 20 years after the first release of a song. For the record, Swift’s debut single ‘Tim McGraw’ came out in June 2006 and was the lead track on her eponymous first album. Since then she’s recorded 12 albums, tinged with pop, country and folk vibes, and picked up 14 Grammy Awards and a record haul of four albums of…
The new Eurodac database — the “digital backbone” of the pact, according to one Commission official, granted anonymity to speak freely, as were others in this piece — will be used to register asylum seekers’ information, such as travel documents and fingerprints, which will allow their movements to be tracked. … and more solidarity The rules also mean support for EU countries that receive the most migrants. That support could take the form of cash, the relocation of migrants from one country to another, or other assistance. Under the first attempt at this so-called “solidarity pool,” countries set targets to…
Many European countries are often stereotyped as being prone to going on strike, and recent data would appear to back that up. In the first quarter of 2026, Portugal (234), Italy (190), Spain (108), and France (105) reported the highest number of strikes among seven EU countries. That’s according to figures analysed by AI data collector Strike Tracker, the Portuguese Directorate-General for Employment and Industrial Relations (DGERT), and the Italian institutional guarantor of the balance between the right to strike and user rights, CGSSE. These industrial actions mainly targeted the transport, education, healthcare, and public administration sectors, but they’re not…
Albania witnessed another large demonstration on 11 June as thousands of people gathered in Tirana for a twelfth consecutive day of protests against a proposed luxury resort linked to Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of US President Donald Trump. Marchers called for the resignation of Prime Minister Edi Rama and criticised the government’s support for the development planned along the Adriatic coast. Protesters carried signs, chanted slogans and displayed inflatable flamingos, highlighting concerns about the impact on protected bird habitats within the Vjosa-Narta landscape, one of Albania’s most significant wetland areas. The dispute has become a wider debate about development priorities…
Where you live can have a major impact on whether you work from home. Across Europe, workers in Finland are around 16 times more likely to work remotely than those in Romania, highlighting a stark divide in how countries have embraced home working. According to Eurostat, 20.5% of workers in Finland usually worked from home in 2025, compared with just 1.3% in Romania. Eurostat defines “usually working from home” as doing productive work at home for at least half of the days worked over a four-week reference period. “Remote work has become a permanent feature of labour markets, but its…
“It’s commendable that the federal government is tackling problems that have been left unaddressed for decades, but can all of this be accomplished at once?” Andreas Bovenschulte, the Social Democratic Party (SPD) mayor of Bremen, told German magazine Spiegel. “Tax reform, healthcare reform, long-term care, pensions, labor, energy — to put it mildly, that seems a bit much” to accomplish before the summer break. The other problem for Merz is that many of the reforms would be politically difficult even for a popular and ideologically-united government. Making the pension system more sustainable, for instance, will require proposals to increase retirement…
Published on 12/06/2026 – 7:58 GMT+2•Updated 8:30 On today’s show: Euronews’ Vincenzo Genovese reports on the start of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Euronews’ Maria Tadeo speaks to IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva. Euronews’ Angela Skujins on the EU Migration and Asylum Pact taking effect today and interviews Magnus Brunner, EU Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration. Former Vatican spokesperson Paloma García Ovejero joins to discuss Pope Leo XIV’s visit to Spain. When and where to watch Europe Today? You can join Euronews’ chief anchor Méabh Mc Mahon and our EU editor Maria Tadeo live on TV and Euronews’ website…
LONDON — The Liberal Democrats have already selected a raft of prospective parliamentary candidates in their target seats for Britain’s next general election, as part of a wider move to ready the centrist party for a potential return to government. Over the past month, Britain’s pro-EU liberal party quietly picked 28 candidates and built three-person activist teams around each of them. It’s a move that lays the groundwork for the next election — not currently due until 2029 — and marks the earliest in a cycle that the country’s third-largest party has ever picked candidates. POLITICO spoke to 12 Lib…