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We’ve had the World’s 50 Best Bars, a list compiled annually since 2009 by UK-based business media company William Reed. Now – for the first time – Europe’s 50 Best Bars have been revealed… and Greece is doing very well in the watering hole department. The inaugural list was revealed yesterday in Amsterdam at a live awards ceremony. It was the result of the vote of more than 300 drinks experts from across the region. While London still had the most entries in the Top 50 with a total of seven bars, followed by Barcelona with six and Paris with…
Budget, justice, sécurité, logement, agriculture, violences aux enfants… la liste des lois à examiner s’allonge à mesure que le temps imparti pour en débattre diminue. Les députés arrêteront leurs travaux le 28 février 2027, deux mois avant la présidentielle. Pourront-ils discuter de tout ? Combien d’élus pensent déjà à la suite ? Sébastien Lecornu peut-il encore espérer accrocher le vote d’un texte à son tableau de chasse ? Anthony Lattier en discute avec Jason Wiels, responsable du service Influence de POLITICO.
Published on 01/07/2026 – 17:01 GMT+2 England chalked up its warmest June since records began in 1884, the United Kingdom’s weather agency said on Wednesday, after a month that saw temperatures soar to new highs. Rare extreme heat warnings were issued for several days last month, which was also the second-warmest June on record for the UK as a whole, with “exceptionally warm overnight temperatures,” the Met Office said. England registered an average temperature of 17.1C last month compared to 16.9C in June 2025. “The exceptional warmth was driven by an intense and record-breaking heatwave at the end of the…
Tourists visiting Rome’s Colosseum continued to explore the landmark despite temperatures approaching 40C. The footage shows civil protection teams spraying water over visitors gathered outside the monument, while others hand out bottles of drinking water to help people cope with the intense heat. Many pause to cool off before continuing their visit. Italy is among several European countries experiencing a prolonged heatwave, with high temperatures affecting both residents and visitors. Around the Colosseum, these cooling measures offer some relief as large crowds continue to arrive throughout the day.
A planned EU-U.K. summit originally scheduled for July 22 was postponed following Starmer’s resignation earlier this month. The embattled Labour Party leader had hoped to announce a major “reset” in relations. However, one of the officials said, the EU intends to get it back on the agenda “as soon as possible” after a new administration is in place so as not to lose momentum. No date has yet been identified, but mid-October is seen as the most likely. The speed reflects an awareness in Brussels that, with Nigel Farage’s Reform party riding high in the polls, locking in mutually beneficial…
The European People’s Party (EPP) has urged Climate Action Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra to significantly recalibrate the bloc’s carbon market, the Emissions Trading System (ETS), by allowing more free pollution allowances to heavy industry beyond 2030. Issued in an internal document detailing the EPP’s position and seen by Euronews, the plea comes ahead of the European Commission’s proposal to revise the ETS rules, due on 15 July. The EPP contends that protecting Europe’s manufacturing base has become as important as driving emissions reductions. “The system has achieved these emission reductions in a market-based and economically efficient manner,” reads the document. “Nevertheless,…
Ukrainian forces struck Russia’s major Ufa oil refinery for the second time in a week, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Wednesday. The Ufa refinery is one of Russia’s largest producers of lubricants and is located more than 1,000 kilometres from Ukraine, Zelenskyy said in a post on X. “This is an entirely just response to everything Russia is doing against us. Peace is needed, and this is exactly what Russia’s leadership must realise,” Zelenskyy wrote. “Russia must end its war. And Russia’s leadership has every opportunity to do so. I thank every Ukrainian warrior who ensures our long-range accuracy.” Ukraine…
Andrés Hurtado didn’t go to Seville looking for art. He was there for a short break, and on Saturday, at around 4.30 p.m., in the kind of unforgiving heat that gives no respite, he came across something lying on the pavement that caught his eye for the least artistic of reasons: the frame. “I saw some lads dumping a picture in the street.” And he thought: “What a cool frame.” “To be honest, I didn’t even look at the painting, I just took it up to the hotel with me,” he told the EFE news agency. He carried it off,…
Die AfD rüstet sich für ihren Bundesparteitag am Wochenende, der von massiven Protesten und bis zu 50.000 erwarteten Gegendemonstranten begleitet wird. Die Doppelspitze aus Alice Weidel und Tino Chrupalla tritt zwar ohne Gegenkandidaten an, muss aber aufgrund interner Machtkämpfe in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Baden-Württemberg und Sachsen mit Dämpfern bei der Wiederwahl rechnen. Pauline von Pezold und Frederik Schindler berichten über die Gründe, warum die beiden Parteichefs teils den Unmut von Landesverbänden auf sich gezogen haben. Dazu blicken die beiden auf zwei wichtige Personalien bei den Wahlen zum Bundesvorstand auf dem Parteitag, und sie sprechen über einen Antrag von Björn Höcke und anderen,…
Updated: 01/07/2026 – 15:06 GMT+2 Ireland’s Minister of State for European Affairs and Defence, Thomas Byrne, said the country’s six-month EU presidency will be a “generational moment” with key priorities, including opening more negotiation clusters with Ukraine and strengthening the EU’s economy. … More