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The leaders of over a dozen European right-wing parties gathered in Budapest on Monday in a show of support for Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. The gathering was an assembly of Patriots for Europe, a group set up in 2024 by Orbán and other nationalist allies. The event included figures such as France’s Marine Le Pen, Italy’s Matteo Salvini and Geert Wilders of the Netherlands. One by one, each of the 13 speakers took the stage to praise Orbán and urge Hungarians to vote for him and his Fidesz party at the April 12 election. In a speech to the crowd,…
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The father of Marine Vlahovic, a French journalist who was found dead on the roof of her Marseille apartment in November 2024, has rejected mounting social media speculation that his daughter was murdered by Israel. Jean-Yves Vlahovic, the father of Marine Vlahovic — a journalist celebrated for her documentary podcasts and work as a correspondent reporting from Ramallah in the West Bank — told Euronews in an exclusive interview that he wanted to “take the time to put an end” to rumours he said were “based on nothing.” In recent weeks, a series of social media posts – some of…
Estée Lauder and the perfume maker Puig are in merger talks that would potentially put brands such as MAC, Clinique, Charlotte Tilbury and Jean Paul Gaultier under one roof. Estée Lauder confirmed the discussions but said that no agreement has been reached with the century-old Spanish company. The American cosmetics multinational has been attempting to stem a slide in sales, with revenue falling in each of the past three years. In 2025, they said they would cut as many as 7,000 jobs by the 2026 fiscal year, more than 11% of its workforce. CEO Stéphane de La Faverie said at…
The European Patent Office has for the first time in its five-decade history received more than 200,000 patent applications in a year, according to the Office’s annual Patent Index published on Tuesday. The Office’s annual Patent Index shows that demand reached 201,974 filings in 2025, which is up 1.4 per cent on the year before as innovation in artificial intelligence (AI), quantum computing and next-generation wireless communications drives a new wave of intellectual property. The United States kept its place as the largest applicant for European patent filings, with American companies and inventors submitting 47,008 applications. Germany was Europe’s leader…
The French President Emmanuel Macron inaugarated a major historical exhibition in Paris about the ancient Lebanese city of Byblos. Byblos: The Millennial City of Lebanon at the Arab World Institute, traces more than 7,000 years of history from one of the world’s oldest continuously inhabited cities. But as Macron spoke alongside Lebanon’s Culture Minister Ghassan Salamé, the message moved well beyond archaeology to the unfolding war in Lebanon. “At a time that certain people want to have us believe that security can only be achieved by invading a scary neighbour,” Macron said, “Lebanon reminds us of just one thing: the…
A different way Four diplomats, granted anonymity to speak frankly about the sensitive talks, told POLITICO that countries are now in the process of developing their own proposals to share with the Commission. These would set out alternative mechanisms, likely focusing on how candidate countries can feel the benefits of alignment with the EU’s market and access to its investment schemes. “If member states don’t like ‘reverse enlargement,’ that is fine,” said one EU official, “but they can put their proposals on the table too.” In a rare show of unity last month, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama and Serbian…
Published on 24/03/2026 – 15:03 GMT+1 After a few rounds of trilateral talks between the US, Ukraine and Russia, the diplomatic process aimed at putting an end to Moscow’s full-scale invasion has largely stalled with no clear progress in sight. Kyiv’s delegation returned from two days of meetings in Miami with few tangible results, following what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described as a discussion over “the key points, opportunities and challenges”. “The most important thing is to work out security guarantees in such a way that they bring us closer to ending the war. Security is the key to peace.”…
They added that cooperation between like-minded partners would include a security conference on the topic, which could be hosted in London or Portsmouth, the home of the Royal Navy on the south coast of England. NATO chief Mark Rutte and British PM Keir Starmer now appear to be leading the push to restart traffic through the Strait, despite skepticism from other allies. The same British official discussed options for securing the channel, such as deploying autonomous minehunting systems from a mothership in the Gulf, while conceding this would not be possible while the current level of hostilities continue. They expressed…