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After getting the nod in December, Bayrou became France’s fourth prime minister in just one year. He now faces a major challenge to pass the long-overdue 2025 budget plan. French Prime Minister François Bayrou delivered a much-awaited key policy speech on Tuesday in Paris, setting the tone for his government’s roadmap. After days of negotiations with various political forces, Bayrou hopes to strike a delicate balance between obtaining the left’s goodwill and antagonising his allies on the right.To win over some left-wing MPs, Bayrou announced he is open to renegotiating some aspects of French President Emmanuel Macron’s highly unpopular pension reform…
The UK’s Chief Inspector of Prisons, Charlie Taylor, has called for urgent action to tackle drones delivering drugs and guns to high security prisons. Drones delivering weapons and drugs to two of the UK’s highest security prisons have become a threat to national security, according to the British prisons watchdog. The UK’s Chief Inspector of Prisons, Charlie Taylor, said drones were regularly being used to smuggle guns, drugs and phones into HMP Manchester and HMP Long Lartin. “It is highly alarming that the police and prison service have in effect ceded the airspace above two high-security prisons to organised crime…
Euronews conducted a statistical analysis to explore the potential link between the number of medals won at the Paris 2024 Olympics and the government spending and employment rates in sports across Europe. Which European country performed best at the Paris Olympics? The answer might not be so straightforward. First of all, it depends on how you count the medals — whether by total count, golds, or using a weighted point system. Also, each country’s socio-economic and demographic characteristics vary significantly, making comparisons challenging.To provide a more nuanced analysis, Euronews examined the employment rate in sports and government expenditure to evaluate…
As Los Angeles continues to battle devastating wildfires, attention is turning to why they started, and how much climate change played a role in the outcome. Los Angeles is not out of the woods yet as a new weather warning for dangerous winds in the northwest of the city could spread blazes even further, although in a different direction.As residents do their best to pick up the pieces of their ruined lives, questions are being raised about whether authorities did enough to protect the city, and how it all started.The US National Weather Service (NWS) in Los Angeles doesn’t believe…
He has notably weighed in on British politics, backing the right-wing Reform UK, with speculation he could soon start bankrolling the party; endorsed the far-right Alternative for Germany in the forthcoming snap federal election; and hit out at a Romanian court’s decision to annul its election over alleged interference, to give just a few examples. As Australians prepare to vote in a federal election, the prime minister warned Musk not to meddle Down Under. “We have foreign interference laws in this country and Australian elections are a matter for Australians,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of the center-left Labor Party told Australian…
Child sexual abuse is a growing problem and crimes committed via the Internet make it much more difficult to combat. The EU is revising its the rules in an attempt to criminalise behaviour online as well as in the real world. One in five children are estimated to be victims of sexual crimes on- and offline and EU member states made some progress with rules designed to criminalise the abuse at the end of 2024. But they failed to agree to controls over online image sharing since these could impact data privacy rights.MEPs and member states are working on two sets of…
Children make up at least half of Haiti’s displaced population, which has tripled within a year, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) says. The number of people uprooted by gang violence in Haiti has more than tripled in the last year to hit a record high of at least 1 million, the UN migration agency said on Tuesday.The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said the situation is particularly severe in the capital, Port-au-Prince, where “relentless gang violence” has fuelled a near-doubling of internal displacement and the collapse of healthcare and other services.”The latest data reveals that 1,041,000 people, many displaced…
This article was originally published in Italian Antonelli will be the first Italian to compete in F1 since Antonio Giovinazzi in Abu Dhabi with Alfa Sauber in 2021. After weeks of rumours, Mercedes has confirmed that teenage star Kimi Antonelli will race for the German car manufacturer starting in 2025.The young Italian driver from Bologna, who turned 18 on 25 August, will replace Lewis Hamilton, who is switching to Ferrari.His Formula 1 debut on Friday could have gone better: on the fifth lap of the Monza track during free practice, the driver hit the barriers of the parabolic curve with the…
The island of St Helena is hoping that better infrastructure will incentivise more people to move away from petrol and diesel-powered vehicles. The island of St Helena has installed the world’s most remote public EV charger in its capital Jamestown. The charger on the British Overseas Territory, nearly 2,000km from the west coast of Africa, is part of a trial by Norwegian charging company Easee and Japanese car brand Subaru. With very few electric vehicles on the island so far, the government is hoping that improving infrastructure will incentivise more people to ditch their petrol and diesel-powered vehicles. And, as…
Though Bayrou as prime minister will mostly deal with domestic issues — leaving foreign affairs to President Emmanuel Macron, his ally — he also addressed the fraught geopolitical situation that France and Europe face, caught between a historical ally in the United States that now appears ready to “flaunt” the rules-based international order, and China, which is “weaving the web of its economic, technological, diplomatic and military domination.” Bayrou mentioned Trump’s threats to annex Canada, Greenland and the Panama Canal and even name-checked Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X, who he said represents “the unbridled face of this new…