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The Left’s leaders said they were acting not to help the coalition, but rather to protect pensioners from cuts. Conservatives “have been playing power games at the expense of millions of pensioners across the country,” The Left’s parliamentary group leader Heidi Reichinnek said in a statement. “It is absolutely disgraceful that the conservative bloc does not even allow pensioners to have butter on their bread.” The Left’s decision to abstain bails Merz out of an immediate political mess that casted doubt on the ability of his coalition — an ideologically divergent alliance between Merz’s conservatives and the center-left Social Democratic…
Published on 03/12/2025 – 21:11 GMT+1 Police in Moldova deployed bomb disposal experts on Wednesday to a community miles from the Ukrainian border after a resident mistook a grounded drone for “a toy” and took it home. When police arrived in Pepeni in the Sîngerei district, around 100 kilometres north of the capital Chișinău, they discovered that the drone found four days earlier had already been stripped of its parts. Police had been tipped off by Pepeni’s mayor. Video footage posted by city hall on social media showed the drone atop a trailer hooked to a small tractor commonly used…
Published on 01/12/2025 – 9:00 GMT+1 Oxford University Press, which publishes the Oxford English Dictionary, has named “rage bait” as its Word of the Year. Defined as “online content deliberately designed to elicit anger or outrage by being frustrating, provocative or offensive”, the term refers to the manipulative tactics used to increase traffic or engagement online. It’s like clickbait, but luring the reader is done with the intent of making them angry. Usage of the term has increased threefold in the last 12 months, according to the Oxford Dictionary’s language data, and its choice joins the likes of “AI slop”…
“La crédibilité de nos institutions est en jeu”, a estimé Manon Aubry, coprésidente du groupe La Gauche au Parlement européen. Si elles venaient à être prouvées, ces accusations déclencheraient le plus grand scandale à Bruxelles depuis la démission de la Commission Jacques Santer en 1999 à la suite d’allégations de mauvaise gestion financière. La police a procédé au placement en garde à vue l’ancienne vice-présidente de la Commission, Federica Mogherini, une ancienne responsable politique italienne de centre gauche qui a dirigé le service de la politique étrangère de l’UE, le Service européen pour l’action extérieure (SEAE), de 2014 à 2019,…
Published on 03/12/2025 – 20:30 GMT+1 Above is the fifth episode of Euronews’ new debating show “The Ring” that aspires to bring a flavour of the European Parliament chamber to your couch. In this edition, brought to you from the European Parliament in Brussels, we are joined by liberal Irish MEP Cynthia Ní Mhurchú (Renew Europe) and conservative Romanian MEP Cristian Terheș (ECR). Despite their polar opposite political beliefs, the two politicians agreed a lot on the EU’s role in ending the war in Ukraine. According to Cristian Terheș, the EU needs to quickly boost its defense capabilities and prepare…
Published on 03/12/2025 – 20:02 GMT+1 China blasted the UK government on Wednesday for its latest delay in deciding whether to approve the construction of a huge new embassy in London. British authorities said on Tuesday that a planned decision by 10 December would be pushed back to 20 January following mounting security concerns. “The UK’s repeated delay in granting approval is completely unjustified and the reasons they cited are untenable,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said. The government is “strongly dissatisfied,” he added. The plans for the embassy close to London’s financial district and sensitive data cables have…
By David Mouriquand with AP Published on 01/12/2025 – 9:57 GMT+1 •Updated 14:50 A long-lost painting by Peter Paul Rubens has sold at auction for €2.3 million in Versailles. The painting depicting the crucifixion of Jesus by the Flemish Baroque master (1577 – 1640) was hidden for more than four centuries. It was recently found in a private townhouse in Paris. “I immediately had a hunch about this painting, and I did everything I could to try to have it authenticated,” auctioneer Jean-Pierre Osenat told AP. “And finally, we managed to have it authenticated by the Rubenianum, which is the Rubens committee in…
Belgium is demanding that the guarantees exceed the total value of the EU loan and extend beyond the expiry of the Russian sanctions package — and will continue to push for this during the technical negotiations in Council. In further reassurance to Belgium, the Commission will set up a “liquidity mechanism” that can lend money to governments to ensure that the guarantees can be paid out at a moment’s notice. The EU’s next seven-year budget will take over from national guarantees from 2028, and shoulder the burden through its “headroom,” a financial cushion that ensures Brussels can meet its obligations. How…
In the EU, women are killed nearly twice as often as men when the perpetrator is a partner or family member. The latest figures from Eurostat show a rate of 4.1 women killed per million people, compared with 2.2 men. Latvia consistently reported the highest femicide rate across the bloc in both 2022 and 2023 — around 17 women every one million people — a further analysis by Europe in Motion found. Neighbouring Lithuania had the second-highest rate in both years, with 10 women every one million people, followed by Austria with nearly five in both 2022 and 2023. Which…
Published on 03/12/2025 – 19:26 GMT+1 Opium poppy cultivation in Myanmar surged to its highest level in a decade this year as the nation crippled by civil war remains one of the world’s primary suppliers of illicit drugs, according to a new United Nations report. The growth solidifies Myanmar’s position as the world’s main known source of illicit opium, particularly following a sharp decline in production in Afghanistan after the Taliban imposed a ban following their 2021 takeover. The Myanmar Opium Survey 2025, issued on Wednesday by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), found the area where…