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The Russian assets are back on the table. And with them, the same old problems. Sweden, the Netherlands, Spain and Poland, backed by the Baltics, are leading a new push to channel the Russian Central Bank’s immobilised assets into additional financial support to Ukraine as the war-weary country faces ballooning costs. It did not take long for the campaign to collide with a familiar opponent: Belgium. The country holds the bulk of the €210 billion in Euroclear, a depository based in central Brussels, and fears any move to channel the funds to Ukraine would leave it exposed to unpredictable dangers…
Published on 05/09/2026 – 8:04 GMT+2 US peace envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are set to visit Kyiv and Moscow this weekend, armed with a “proposal to end the war,” US President Donald Trump has announced, in the latest push to break a diplomatic deadlock over the war in Ukraine. “I sent Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, two great negotiators. They’ve done a great job, and we sent them over to see whether or not we can get something done. And there may be a good chance that we’ll do it,” Trump told reporters on Friday. The pair are…
The prospect of peace between Iran and the US has sent oil prices sharply higher and lower in recent months. Brent crude, the international benchmark, has traded between about $73 and $126 a barrel since the end of February and was around $95 on Friday. European fuel prices have followed these movements. But petrol and diesel have remained particularly expensive because their prices also reflect the cost and availability of refining—not only the price of crude oil. Although electric cars account for a growing share of new registrations, petrol and diesel still power almost nine in 10 passenger cars on…
Do you know the two countries you can reach by ferry from Sicily? Even boat travel geeks might struggle with this one. One is Tunisia – reachable from Palermo in 11 hours (in the six years I’ve lived in Sicily, I’ve still only known one person who’s ever taken that boat). The other is Malta. Luckily for me, the most frequent ferry to Malta goes from my local town. Pozzallo to Valletta is a pleasant 1hr45 minute journey, on a catamaran mostly staffed, curiously, by people from the Philippines. With three or four crossings a day, Malta is quicker to…
Speaking on Euronews’ morning flagship show Europe Today this Friday, Spanish EPP MEP Antonio López-Istúriz said the government of Pedro Sanchez was ‘weak’ and should have reacted earlier to reports from the national police and intelligence services that had warned that thousands of irregular migrants were preparing to enter Ceuta. López-Istúriz also thinks Morocco could be behind the irregular crossing despite Pedro Sánchez insisting there is no evidence to support this. The MEP said the authenticity and significance of the material would have to be determined through a judicial investigation. The ongoing dispute comes against the backdrop of already strained…
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The European Union is expected to make a last-minute decision on banning new oil and gas exploration in the Arctic during a weekly meeting of the bloc’s 27 commissioners in October, according to two EU officials who spoke to Euronews on condition of anonymity. Earlier media reports suggested that the EU is considering dropping its ban on new drilling in the Arctic in its revision of the 2021 Arctic strategy as the bloc is enduring an energy crisis triggered by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, where 20% of the world’s gas and oil transit. The Artic has become…
The far-right National Rally Party’s Jordan Bardella is set to host a joint press conference with Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage on Friday afternoon, as the party’s annual conference kicks off in Birmingham. Speaking to Euronews, a National Rally spokesperson said the pair are set to discuss illegal migration, as well as joint cooperation between the UK and France targeting small boat crossings, a day after British Prime Minister Andy Burnham and French President Emmanuel Macron discussed how to “scale up” efforts to tackle illegal crossings and strengthen the UK’s relationship with Europe. The 30-year old firebrand was once…
That being said, it’s impossible now to bring back the Russian teams. Because of the way they are used, the national teams, it’s so hard to separate from the propaganda. But that is a failure, I’m not happy to say that it’s impossible; it’s sadly so, even though we are in 100 percent solidarity with Ukraine. It’s never good to make kids never play with each other. That is the aim, that they could play with each other and not be affected by the war. But that’s not possible now, football would stop and Ukraine would not play. So then…
Senior EU officials have issued a warning to the Serbian government over the funeral of war criminal Ratko Mladić, with the bloc’s enlargement chief saying that it “will be a very important test” in Belgrade’s bid to join the European Union and its future path. “Ratko Mladić was convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. The return of his remains to Belgrade reminds Europe of the darkest pages in our recent history,” European Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos wrote on X. “The glorification surrounding his death is incompatible with the values on which the EU path is built,”…