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By Euronews Published on 31/07/2025 – 13:12 GMT+2 The eurozone’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 6.2% in June, stable on May’s reading and down from 6.4% in June 2024. According to Eurostat data released on Thursday, the EU’s unemployment rate was 5.9% in June 2025, also stable compared with May 2025 and down from 6.0% in June 2024. In total, around 12.97 million people in the EU were unemployed this June, of whom 10.7 million were in the eurozone. Among member states, the jobless rate was lowest in Malta (2.5%), while the highest rate of 10.4% was seen in Spain. Job…
With the EU’s competitiveness push gaining urgency amid growing trade tensions with the U.S., plans to tighten pharmaceutical rules could soften — making the final legislation more industry-friendly than originally envisioned. Jun 24 7 mins read
The Russian strike — which destroyed part of an apartment block in the Ukrainian capital and damaged one of Kyiv’s mosques — came just two days after U.S. President Donald Trump set a 10-day deadline for Russian President Vladimir Putin to agree to a ceasefire or face new sanctions. Trump had previously set a 50-day deadline for an agreement with Ukraine, threatening tariffs if a deal was not reached. During his meeting with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer earlier this week, Trump said he was shortening the deadline to “10 or 12 days.” “We get a lot of bullshit thrown…
The international authority on food crises warned this week that famine is now unfolding in Gaza, with “widespread death” expected without immediate action. The situation has worsened sharply due to ongoing Israeli blockades and conflict. Witnesses say that at least 48 people were killed on Wednesday as people crowded around aid trucks entering through the Zikim crossing. Israel has eased some restrictions, but chaos and violence continue to hamper deliveries. Meanwhile, Israeli right-wing activists rallied near the Gaza border, calling for the construction of settlements inside the territory. More than 60,000 Palestinians have been killed since the war began, according…
By Theo Farrant & AP Published on 31/07/2025 – 10:36 GMT+2 •Updated 11:00 A New Mexico judge has dismissed Alec Baldwin’s lawsuit against prosecutors and law enforcement, claiming malicious prosecution and civil rights violations in the fatal on-set shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in 2021. The ruling, made public Wednesday, tossed the case without prejudice,* meaning Baldwin’s legal team can refile it – and likely will. According to court records, the lawsuit had seen no significant movement since it was filed earlier this year in state district court. But Baldwin’s lead attorney, Luke Nikas, called the dismissal a “nonevent,” telling AP that they’ve…
Such cash-for-clout deals are a common feature of the political conference circuit. Reform’s MacKinnon admits firms may not have the “urgency” at this stage in the election cycle to warrant that bigger showing, and public affairs professionals agree that putting budgets toward lobbying the incumbent Labour administration remains the wisest choice. Towler — now running for a seat on Reform’s governing board — insists some firms are still scared to even attend the conference due to the potential reputational risk of associating with Farage. There remains a perception, Towler says, that those on the winning side of the Brexit referendum…
U.S. President Donald Trump threatened former Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev — and dismissed him as a “failed president.”“Russia and the USA do almost no business together. Let’s keep it that way, and tell Medvedev, the failed former President of Russia, who thinks he’s still President, to watch his words. He’s entering very dangerous territory!” Trump wrote in the early hours of Thursday morning. Medvedev, another social media motormouth, has ridiculed Trump’s ultimatum to the Kremlin, in which the U.S. president shortened his deadline for the Kremlin to end the war in Ukraine or face crippling economic consequences. “Trump’s playing the…
Local democracy, in particular, is a forgotten frontline against authoritarianism. In Turkey, for example, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government has increasingly been targeting opposition mayors, turning the protection of municipal autonomy into a rallying cry for the democratic opposition. Starting with the imprisonment of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu in March, Erdoğan has stepped up his campaign of repression, arresting more than a dozen opposition mayors on politically motivated or unsubstantiated charges. Yet, across the bloc, the response to these politically motivated prosecutions remained muted. In Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government has increasingly been targeting opposition mayors, turning the protection…
U.S. manufacturers wanted to keep the shale revolution’s rewards for themselves. While in Western Europe at least, Wandel durch Handel (the lofty German foreign policy assumption that troublesome neighbors like Putin would “change through trade”) was conveniently aligned with the roaring economic benefits of cheap Russian gas. “The Germans, the French, the Italians, the Austrians, everybody from Western Europe was content with the status quo,” said Hutchison in an Idaho farm-boy drawl. But countries like Lithuania, Poland and the Czech Republic “understood their vulnerability. And having been former Soviet satellites, understood the risk they faced.” Russian gas will always win…
The EU’s “attack on our tech companies, that’s going to be on the table,” U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told CNBC on Tuesday, asked whether Sunday’s deal warranted further trade talks with the EU. This underscores how the U.S. doesn’t seem intent on backing down from its months-long campaign against the EU’s rules on content moderation, digital competition and artificial intelligence — despite the bloc’s insistence that its regulations are not up for negotiation as part of the trade talks. Even worse, lawmakers fear that the EU’s executive has already given up some ground or that the U.S. will…