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By euronews Published on 09/12/2025 – 7:52 GMT+1 •Updated 8:18 After key talks in London with the UK Prime Minister and the German and French leader, President Zelenskyy travelled on to Brussels for dinner with the NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and Commission president Ursula von der Leyen – before heading over to Rome today. This, as the US piles the pressure on Kyiv to cede territory to Russia. For more on the outcome of all these meetings, we will be joined in the studio by our Ukraine correspondent, Sasha Vakulina. Also in our studio, we will be joined by the…
Syrians marked the first anniversary of the ousting of former President Bashar Assad on Monday with public gatherings across several cities. Participants waved the country’s new green flag, previously used by opposition groups, while officials and community leaders spoke about ongoing efforts to rebuild state institutions and restore international relations. Thousands later attended a military parade, where Interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa delivered a speech commemorating the fall of the Assad regime.
As tensions between world powers deepen, European leaders and the public are increasingly interested in new and high-tech military systems – including nuclear-powered submarines. A nuclear submarine is a sensitive technology that is currently used by only six countries: France, the United Kingdom, the United States, Russia, China, and India. But they have been attracting more attention lately. Last week, French military forces opened fire on unidentified drones that flew over a nuclear submarine facility in Brittany. And in November, the US government said it would support South Korea in building nuclear attack submarines to counter North Korea – a…
Der Konflikt zwischen der EU und den USA spitzt sich zu und trägt einen neuen Namen. Elon Musk. Die Strafe der EU gegen seine Plattform X löst eine Welle politischer Angriffe aus. Musk stellt die EU infrage, verbündet sich mit rechten Akteuren und verstärkt ein transatlantisches Spannungsfeld, das weit über die digitale Welt hinausgeht. Gordon Repinski ordnet ein, warum diese Auseinandersetzung eine Probe für die europäische Regulierungskraft ist und welche geopolitischen Muster sich darin spiegeln . Im 200-Sekunden-Interview spricht Damian von Boeselager, Mitgründer und EU-Abgeordneter von Volt, über die Regulierung von Plattformen. Er erläutert, warum der Digital Services Act aus…
Farmers on the Greek island of Crete clashed with riot police on Monday as anger over delayed European Union subsidies escalated. Demonstrators confronted officers near the Chania and Heraklion airports, throwing stones, damaging police vehicles, and overturning one after officers withdrew. Police used tear gas as tensions flared. The unrest is part of nationwide protests that have blocked major highways since late November. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis urged farmers to ease their blockades, saying payments and support would be delivered by the end of December.
After a historic 2025 that saw gold soar over 60% and break more than 50 record highs, investors are now turning their attention to whether the precious metal can sustain its upward trajectory into 2026. Despite leading major asset classes in year-to-date performance, putting it on track for its best year since 1979, experts think gold may still have room to climb next year. Others warn that risks remain. Unlike previous years when single events dominated gold’s trajectory, this year saw multiple drivers at play. Sustained central bank buying, persistent geopolitical friction, elevated trade uncertainty, lower interest rates, and a…
Babiš regularly speaks of reviving the so-called Visegrád Four group, something both Orbán and Fico hope for, after it became largely dormant following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. A new Visegrád grouping would likely count three rather than the four members it had after being founded as a cultural and political alliance in the 1990s. Poland’s current center-right prime minister, Donald Tusk, is staunchly pro-Ukraine and is thus unlikely to enter any entente with Orbán. Polish President Karol Nawrocki of the right-wing populist Law and Justice (PiS) party, though, has been talking up the prospects for Visegrád. Babiš’ government — his…
The word “omnibus” has since become a mainstay of the Brussels bubble vernacular with the Commission putting forward at least 10 more simplification bills on topics like data protection, finance, chemical use, agriculture and defense. Less paperwork The deal struck by negotiators from the European Parliament, EU Council and the Commission includes changes to two key pieces of legislation in the EU’s arsenal of green rules: The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD). The rules originally required businesses large and small to collect and publish data on their greenhouse gas emissions, how much water they use, the impact of rising temperatures on working conditions, chemical leakages and whether their suppliers…
Thankfully, despite the noise and the inadequacy of the bed — “I had never felt a harder mattress, not even during my military service” while “the pillows were made of a strange material, perhaps plastic, and the blankets were blankets in name only” — Sarkozy managed to sleep until 7 a.m. his first night behind bars. That’s despite knowing that “my future neighbors would be, depending on the case, Islamist terrorists, rapists, murderers, or drug traffickers. A delightful prospect!” There are some lovely details in the book, including that Sarkozy’s cell had been adapted for “inmates with reduced mobility, for example,…
The Fujitsu-led consortium, which includes Liz Truss ally Shanker Singham’s firm Competere, has raked in more than £500 million since 2020 developing and operating the platform, which helps firms navigate the complicated post-Brexit customs arrangements between Great Britain and Northern Ireland under the Windsor Framework. While a new supplier will be taking control of TSS, Fujitsu retains the intellectual property rights to a core part of the existing platform, four people with knowledge of the process — including those cited above — confirmed. This means the new system will have to be built from scratch. All of those cited in…