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Larysa Hnatchenko has been at the helm of Slobidskyi Kray, the Kharkiv region’s oldest newspaper, for more than 14 years. However, following the Trump administration’s decision to slash 90% of USAID grants in January, she has been doing something she did not expect she would have to do, just to keep working.Hnatchenko has been dipping into her personal savings to ensure the publication’s survival — using her money to pay salaries, office rent and fuel expenses. “On top of this all, we were already owed two months’ money when they paused the funding,” she told Euronews.While most of Slobidskyi Kray’s team…

Russia is a close ally of Iran: Tehran supplied Moscow with military drones to strike Ukraine and, in return, has received help with its civilian nuclear program. The Kremlin has also maintained warm relations with Israel, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu frequently visited Moscow before 2022, which could put Putin in position to play power broker in the region.  However, European leaders have pointed out the hypocrisy in Putin’s peace quest in the Middle East, where he recently lost one key regional ally when rebels toppled Syrian ruler Bashar Assad in December. “I do not believe that Russia, which…

Published on 19/06/2025 – 13:32 GMT+2•Updated 13:40The European Parliament’s political leaders agreed on Thursday to form a working group within the Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT) to scrutinise how the European Commission funds non-governmental organisations.The group will include 13 MEPs chaired by German lawmaker Niclas Herbst with two co-rapporteurs, from the centre-right European People’s Party and the right wing European Conservatives and Reformists, Parliament sources told Euronews.The decision came after a spat over the financing of environmental NGOs by the European Commission, accused by the German newspaper Welt Am Sonntag of having secretly paid up to €700,000 to promote the bloc’s climate…

“We have long said that not enough is being done to ensure transparency in NGO funding — and we meant it,” said Tomáš Zdechovský, lead EPP lawmaker in the budgetary control committee.  The EPP said the working group will count with staff to check all the contracts awarded by the Commission to NGOs. Europe’s right-leaning political forces have been calling for more scrutiny on how NGOs are funded and use Commission money in recent months,  creating divisions among political groups in the Parliament. The idea for the scrutiny body started when EPP lawmakers in the budgetary control committee accused the Commission of financing…

Should an artist’s faith determine what happens to their work when they die? The death of one of France’s most successful rappers has raised this question.French rapper Werenoi, whose real name was Jérémy Bana Owona, died on 17 May 2025, aged 31. He was France’s top album seller in 2023 and 2024, and his death shocked both the music industry and the public.“Rest in peace my man. A news that saddens me and courage to the loved ones especially”, popstar Aya Nakamura wrote on social media.Following the release of his first song ‘Guadalajara’ in 2021, Werenoi quickly rose to great…

Green Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony, however, announced Monday that the march will be organized by the municipality, which, he said, means the police can’t stop it. “It’s time to show that we are proud of our freedom, and to show that in this city, no one can be a second-rate citizen,” the mayor said on social media.  Lahbib will join around 70 members of the European Parliament, including Socialists and Democrats (S&D) Chair Iratxe García, liberal Renew Europe Chair Valérie Hayer and Greens Co-Chair Terry Reintke. The Dutch secretary of state for education and several mayors from big European capitals…

Kokott’s opinion reinforces the Commission’s view that Google’s conduct — including pre-installing its search app and Chrome browser, and preventing manufacturers from selling devices running modified versions of Android — constitutes a form of market abuse. While her recommendations aren’t binding on the top court, judges frequently follow advice from advocates general. A final ruling could come later this year. The search giant originally received a €4.34 billion fine in 2018, the largest in a string of investigations into its businesses. This number was reduced to €4.125 billion by the General Court in 2022. Kokott said that the lower court was…

With the Middle East teetering on the brink of another devastating war, U.S. President Donald Trump is seriously considering joining the Israeli attack on Iran. The American military possesses the firepower Israel would need to target a vital underground nuclear facility. Thursday morning, patients and staff hid in shelters at the Soroka Medical Center in southern Israel where the Iranian strike caused significant damage, according to The Times of Israel. “We will exact the full price from the tyrants in Tehran,” Netanyahu vowed Thursday morning in response to the Iranian strikes.  Meanwhile, Israel hit Iran’s Arak heavy water reactor on…

“Then, if the deal is ‘papered up’ in law by that stage, this bureaucratic labeling won’t be required at all.”  But a figure close to discussions about the future of the scheme — granted anonymity to speak freely — called for realistic expectations of when an SPS deal was likely to happen. “First of all, the U.K. needs to align itself to EU standards, where it has diverged,” they said. For example, the U.K. has authorized emergency use of certain pesticides that are banned in the EU. Some suppliers may decide to drop out of the Northern Ireland market altogether.…

Divisions over the justification for Israel’s attack on Iran last Friday are set to surface among ambassadors in Brussels on Thursday, stymying EU attempts at finding a common response to the crisis, according to sources Euronews has spoken to.”It’s definitely an issue that is being discussed – what is the extent to which this right of self-defence is acceptable,” one source said.The EU issued a statement on Saturday calling “on all sides to abide by international law, show restraint and refrain from taking further steps which could lead to serious consequences such as potential radioactive release”.Sources close to the discussion say a…