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“It’s commendable that the federal government is tackling problems that have been left unaddressed for decades, but can all of this be accomplished at once?” Andreas Bovenschulte, the Social Democratic Party (SPD) mayor of Bremen, told German magazine Spiegel. “Tax reform, healthcare reform, long-term care, pensions, labor, energy — to put it mildly, that seems a bit much” to accomplish before the summer break. The other problem for Merz is that many of the reforms would be politically difficult even for a popular and ideologically-united government. Making the pension system more sustainable, for instance, will require proposals to increase retirement…
Published on 12/06/2026 – 7:58 GMT+2•Updated 8:30 On today’s show: Euronews’ Vincenzo Genovese reports on the start of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Euronews’ Maria Tadeo speaks to IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva. Euronews’ Angela Skujins on the EU Migration and Asylum Pact taking effect today and interviews Magnus Brunner, EU Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration. Former Vatican spokesperson Paloma García Ovejero joins to discuss Pope Leo XIV’s visit to Spain. When and where to watch Europe Today? You can join Euronews’ chief anchor Méabh Mc Mahon and our EU editor Maria Tadeo live on TV and Euronews’ website…
LONDON — The Liberal Democrats have already selected a raft of prospective parliamentary candidates in their target seats for Britain’s next general election, as part of a wider move to ready the centrist party for a potential return to government. Over the past month, Britain’s pro-EU liberal party quietly picked 28 candidates and built three-person activist teams around each of them. It’s a move that lays the groundwork for the next election — not currently due until 2029 — and marks the earliest in a cycle that the country’s third-largest party has ever picked candidates. POLITICO spoke to 12 Lib…
Mexican football fans celebrated late into the evening on Thursday after the national team opened its 2026 World Cup campaign with a victory over South Africa. Supporters gathered at fan zones across Mexico City, including the iconic Plaza Garibaldi, where crowds cheered, waved flags and performed the Mexican wave as the hosts secured their first win of the tournament. Fans inside and outside Mexico City Stadium also joined the celebrations after Mexico scored twice to claim all three points in the Group A opener.
SpaceX is set for the largest stock market debut ever. Elon Musk’s rocket company begins trading on the Nasdaq on Friday under the ticker SPCX. The company priced its shares at $135 each, raising $75 billion (€64.5bn) and valuing the business at $1.75 trillion (€1.5trn) in the biggest stock market flotation on record. The deal would comfortably eclipse Saudi Aramco’s previous record of $29.4bn, set in 2019 and later increased through an overallotment option. SpaceX made an unusually strong push to attract retail investors, including those in Europe. According to Bloomberg, individual investors placed roughly $100bn (€86.6bn) in orders through…
Donald Trumps aggressive Iran-Rhetorik sorgt für Nervosität an den Märkten und treibt die Ölpreise sowie die Inflation nach oben. Damit manövriert sich der US-Präsident mitten in ein wirtschaftspolitisches Dilemma: Eigentlich fordert er vor den Midterms im November dringend Zinssenkungen, doch der anhaltende Inflationsdruck zwingt die Notenbanken zum Gegenteil. Rixa Fürsen bespricht gemeinsam mit Jonathan Martin in Washington, ob Trump seine eigene Wirtschaftspolitik torpediert. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview: Der innenpolitische Sprecher der Union, Alexander Thom, zur Frage, ob die Reform des Gemeinsamen Europäischen Asylsystems ein echter Game Changer oder nur ein Weiter-so unter neuem Namen wird. Nach dem Fiasko um die gekippte Entlastungsprämie…
The two Brazilian mainland cities closest to Europe are making the most of this geographic advantage to attract a growing number of international visitors, thanks to air links with capitals such as Madrid, Lisbon and Paris. Less than eight hours from the Spanish capital, travellers can enjoy Fortaleza’s skyline of skyscrapers, which looks like a cross between Miami and Benidorm. The tall towers along the seafront give the city a modern urban profile that combines with the long coastal promenade (Beira Mar), in a tropical, holiday atmosphere that encourages you to make the most of the outdoors. Fortaleza: 300 years…
Forty years ago, on June 12, Spain formally anchored its future to the European Union. As the tremors of the 1979 energy crisis subsided and our new institutions dismantled decades of isolation, the European project was met with fierce optimism. For a generation born under a dictatorship but coming of age in freedom, integration unlocked unprecedented horizons, offering groundbreaking educational opportunities and pathways to global employment. Today, it is our responsibility to deliver that same level of opportunity to a new generation. Spain boasts the most educated youth in its history, yet faces one of the highest youth unemployment rates in Europe.…
Listen on Spotify Apple Music Amazon Music Across Europe, political instability, fragmentation and polarization are increasingly becoming the norm. But how are governments tackling these tensions? On this episode of the Brussels Playbook Week Ender, host Sarah Wheaton and her guests hone in on three countries: France, Greece and Denmark. Dialing in from Paris and Athens are our colleagues Clea Caulcutt and Nektaria Stamouli, and Jakob Moroza-Rasmussen, former secretary general of the centrist ALDE European political party, joins Sarah in the studio where he talks about his native Denmark.From the EU farm funds scandal in Greece, to the upcoming 2027 presidential election in France…
Published on 12/06/2026 – 2:58 GMT+2 Anthropic’s launch of a version of its artificial intelligence model that it previously claimed was too powerful to release has garnered excitement as well as criticism over the cost. Called Fable 5, which some are calling “Mythos Lite”, it is included in the Claude subscription but only until June 22. Users will then have to pay full price, which some online have said is too expensive. “A few prompts just to test it out and it ate 5% of my monthly allowance… I have no reason to use this without a trust fund,” one…