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Updated: 07/12/2025 – 7:00 GMT+1 Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this December 7th, 2025 – latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel. … More
Published on 07/12/2025 – 7:00 GMT+1 European economies could be left bearing the brunt of intensifying global trade competition as Beijing renews its push into an export-led recovery. That’s the stark warning from a series of Goldman Sachs reports, as the investment bank cuts its European growth forecasts in response to China’s renewed export drive. “The euro area is particularly exposed to the negative effects of increased Chinese goods supply, which threatens to widen the euro area bilateral goods trade deficit with China and to challenge its already weakened international competitive position,” said Goldman Sachs economist Giovanni Pierdomenico. “We expect…
With the climate agenda taking a back seat after the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine hit the economy and changed priorities, the European Greens arrived in Lisbon with a message, presented at an event attended by several personalities: they declared the European People’s Party of Ursula von der Leyen and Manfred Weber to be enemy number one. Faced with the dilemma of continuing to ally with the centre-right group, even if it means making concessions whenever it allies with far-right groups, or distancing themselves, the Greens chose the first option. At the start of the second day of…
By euronews with ertnews Published on 06/12/2025 – 21:05 GMT+1 A tragic shipwreck with migrants has occurred off Lerapetra in Crete, 26 nautical miles south of Chrysi Island, when a boat carrying migrants capsized. The boat was found half-submerged by a Turkish-flagged cargo ship. According to an update from the Greek authorities, two Coast Guard ships, a Frontex vessel, three coastal vessels, as well as a Super Puma helicopter and a Frontex aircraft, immediately rushed to the spot to locate any missing persons. Two occupants were rescued, but 18 people have been found dead. There are no other missing persons, as the search…
By Aadel Haleem & Euronews Published on 06/12/2025 – 18:28 GMT+1 •Updated 18:47 The EU’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has said the US remains Europe’s biggest ally despite criticism of the bloc’s current trajectory. In an interview with Euronews at the Doha Forum in Qatar, she encouraged the globe to focus on unity, and insisted the two continents should “stick together.” “Let’s focus on the things that we can do together. I mean, what we can take from that security strategy is that we are still allies with America. We don’t always see eye to eye on everything,” she said. “Let’s focus…
Merz echoed the sentiment in German media. “Belgium’s particular concern about the question of how to make use of frozen Russian assets is undeniable and must be addressed in any conceivable solution in such a way that all European states bear the same risk,” he said. De Wever offered no comment and the leaders offered no indication that any conclusive agreement had been reached with the Belgian premier. The lion’s share of the assets is under the stewardship of Brussels-based financial depository, Euroclear. De Wever fears that Russia will retaliate against Belgium at home and abroad, and is demanding ironclad financial…
A structure designed to prevent radioactive leakage at the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine is no longer operational after Russian drones targeted it earlier this year, the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog has found. The so-called new safe confinement was built as part of a €1.5 billion Europe-led initiative in 2019 to replace the reactor destroyed in the plant’s 1986 meltdown, in which over 30 people died. But the large steel structure “lost its primary safety functions, including the confinement capability” after a Russian drone strike in February and set its outer cladding ablaze, according to a new report by the…
By Euronews with IJF Published on 06/12/2025 – 17:05 GMT+1 Welcome to Japan, the home of Judo. It’s day one of the Park24 Group 2025 Tokyo Grand Slam in the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium. With 6 reigning world champions today, the stage was set for an incredible day of action. At -48kg, Sachiyo YOSHINO faced Wakana KOGA In the first all-Japan final. A yuko score into a hold down gave Koga, Japan’s first Gold medal of the tournament. She was awarded her medal by IJF Vice President Mr Obaid AL ANZI. The -90Kg final saw local hero and current world champion Sanshiro MURAO take…
Landau said the fine was only the “tip of the iceberg” and that the EU had continuously undermined its credibility with the U.S. with its focus on policies that he described in a separate post on Saturday as adverse to U.S. interests and a form of “civilizational suicide” — echoing comments directed toward the EU in Trump’s recent withering foreign policy blueprint. “When these countries wear their NATO hats, they insist that Transatlantic cooperation is the cornerstone of our mutual security. But when these countries wear their EU hats, they pursue all sorts of agendas that are often utterly adverse to…
By Euronews Published on 06/12/2025 – 15:45 GMT+1 The journey of the Olympic flame has begun on the streets of Rome. It will tour Italy before arriving in Milan on 5 February for the start of the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Games. Friday afternoon saw the lighting of the Olympic brazier by President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, who called for peace around the world in respect of the values of the Games. The torch tour in Rome The tour in Rome started on Saturday morning at the Stadio dei Marmi, in the presence of Presidents Buonfiglio and Malagò, who lit the…