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The draft also reveals that a future Babiš government views an EU ban on the sale and production of cars with combustion engines from 2035 as “unacceptable.” “The European Union has its limits — it does not have the right to impose decisions on member states that interfere with their internal sovereignty,” the draft reads. The ban was approved in 2023 by all member countries (despite last-minute resistance from Germany) but has proven controversial. Babiš is not alone in wanting to challenge EU Green Deal rules. The previous Czech government also requested a delay in ETS2 implementation, and Estonia called for it…
Key diary dates Tuesday 4 November: Euronews’ Enlargement Summit European Commission presents 2025 Enlargement package Meeting of Environment ministers Wednesday 5 November: The Budget Committee will exchange views with Commissioner Piotr Serafin on the EU’s next long-term budget, the Interinstitutional Agreement, and the Own Resources Decision. In spotlight On Tuesday, the European Commission will present the 2025 enlargement package, an annual report assessing the progress made by candidate countries to join the EU candidates to the European Union. This year, the package will include the “pre-enlargement policy review” on the reforms that established member states should adopt to accommodate the…
Nigeria is on edge over the longstanding and controversial subject of alleged Christian persecution and the threat of military action from US President Donald Trump, something Abuja has rejected. On Sunday, many Nigerians woke up to the news of Trump’s order to the Pentagon asking it to begin planning for potential military action to deal with the decades-long problem. “If the Nigerian government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria and may very well go into that now disgraced country, ‘guns-a-blazing,’ to completely wipe out the Islamic terrorists who…
European benchmarks began the week with gains. Oil and gold prices increased, but the euro weakened against the dollar. Sentiment was influenced by OPEC+’s decision to pause production hikes in the first quarter of next year, which led to a modest rise in oil prices as fears of oversupply eased. Gains were, however, mostly lost by late morning. The international benchmark, Brent crude futures, traded at $64.76, while US West Texas Intermediate cost $60.92 a barrel. Alongside pauses in the new year, OPEC+ countries agreed on Sunday to increase output by a small 137,000 barrels per day in December, maintaining…
Czechia’s likely next prime minister, populist Andrej Babiš, on Monday signed a coalition agreement with the far-right Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) and right-wing Motorists for Themselves (Motoristé sobě) parties. The coalition will hold 108 out of 200 seats in parliament’s lower house. ANO holds 80 seats, with SPD on 15 and the Motorists on 13. Babiš is a billionaire agricultural tycoon whose success in recent parliamentary elections has sparked fear in Brussels, and among his opponents, over antiestablishment alliances he could form at European level.And despite domestic concerns the mogul might have a potential business conflict of interest, Czech…
It might still be too early for some, but with Halloween over, Christmas is well and truly on the way, and a wave of misinformation about the festive season is also on its way. A picture going around online and shared on social media in multiple European languages, allegedly shows a small German Christmas market surrounded by police, vehicles and fences. The captions shared with the photo lament that Christmas markets in Europe now have to be so heavily protected from terrorist attacks, with some baselessly blaming immigration or “diversity”. However, the image has clearly been AI-generated: zooming into people’s…
By Euronews Published on 03/11/2025 – 12:33 GMT+1 Part of the medieval Torre dei Conti collapsed Monday morning during renovation work near the Imperial Forums, with firefighters rescuing four workers while one remained trapped under rubble. The tower, built in 1238 by Pope Innocent III and located near the Colosseum and the Roman Forum in Rome’s historic centre, was undergoing restoration funded by Italy’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan when the partial collapse occurred around 11:30. Rome Fire Brigade deployed three operational teams, two ladder trucks and specialist units to the scene. Three workers trapped atop the tower were evacuated through…
President Donald Trump sees tariffs — or the threat of them — as a powerful tool to bend nations to his will. He has used them in an unprecedented way, serving not only as the underpinning of his economic agenda but also as the cornerstone of his foreign policy during his second term. He has wielded import taxes as a threat to secure ceasefires from countries at war. He has used them to browbeat nations into promising to do more to stop people and drugs from flowing across their borders. He has used them, in Brazil’s case, as political pressure…
By Theo Farrant & AP Published on 03/11/2025 – 11:37 GMT+1 Look up to the sky on Wednesday evening and you might notice something quite extraordinary: the moon will shine a little brighter, hang a little larger and feel a little closer to home than usual. That’s because we’re about to witness the closest supermoon of the year. Here’s everything you ought to know before the phenomenon occurs: What is a supermoon and why should we care? A “supermoon” happens when a full moon coincides with the point in its orbit closest to Earth, known as perigee. The furthest point is called the…
However, the intervention was criticized by Mamdani’s main opponent, the independent candidate Andrew Cuomo, who attacked Corbyn’s controversial tenure as Labour leader. After defying the odds to deprive former Conservative prime minister Theresa May of a majority in 2017, Corbyn took Labour to a calamitous defeat in the 2019 election. His stint at the top of Labour drew frequent criticism of the way the party dealt with allegations of anti-semitism in its own ranks, with Britain’s human rights watchdog finding that Labour under his leadership was “responsible for unlawful acts of harassment and discrimination.” Corbyn was booted from Labour by…