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Updated: 29/10/2025 – 7:00 GMT+1 Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this October 29th, 2025 – latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel. … More
By Euronews Published on 29/10/2025 – 7:01 GMT+1 Nike is launching a powered shoe that will help everyday runners and walkers go further with less effort. Dubbed “Project Amplify,” Nike said in a statement that their shoe is designed to “augment natural lower leg and ankle movement”. The shoe has a light-weight motor, drive belt and a rechargeable cuff battery that fits within a carbon fibre-plated shoe that can be worn with or without the system, the statement said. The shoe will eventually give people an “unparalleled boost” to the future of running, jogging and walking. The shoe is “it’s intended…
Salvini, who is infrastructure minister as well as leader of the far-right League party, has called the project “the most important public work in the world,” and said construction could start in November. If built, the 3.7-kilometer suspension bridge spanning the strait of Messina would be the longest of its kind, connecting the toe of the Italian peninsula to the northeastern tip of Sicily. It would provide the island’s 4.8 million inhabitants, who have until now relied on ferries and planes for access to the outside world, with road and rail lines to the rest of Europe. The firebrand politician…
Serbia’s journey toward the European Union began in January 2001, when pro-European parties won parliamentary elections following the fall of Slobodan Milošević in October 2000. At the time, some observers even speculated that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia — which would cease to exist in 2006 after Montenegro’s withdrawal — could join the EU as early as 2007. Reality soon proved more complicated. Kosovo, under UN administration after the 1999 war, is legally part of Serbia under UN Resolution 1244. It declared independence in 2008, a move that Serbia does not recognise. Long before signing the Stabilisation and Association Agreement…
By Jerry Fisayo-Bambi with AP Published on 29/10/2025 – 6:46 GMT+1 •Updated 7:02 A US federal agent had a daring pitch for Nicolás Maduro’s chief pilot: all he had to do was surreptitiously divert the Venezuelan president’s plane to a place where US authorities could nab the strongman, according to media reports published on Wednesday. According to the AP report, the agent told the pilot in a secret meeting that the aviator would be made a very rich man. The conversation was tense, and the pilot left noncommittal, though he provided the agent, Edwin Lopez, with his cell number—a sign he might be…
Friedrich Merz reist als Kanzler in die Türkei. Es wird ein Besuch zwischen Realpolitik und Risiko. In Ankara trifft er Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, um über Sicherheit und Migration zu sprechen. Ein Gespräch, das Kooperation und Konflikt zugleich bedeutet; über Waffenlieferungen, Rechtsstaat und das Verhältnis zu Russland. Die Analyse dazu von Gordon Repinski. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview spricht Ines Schwerdtner, Parteichefin der Linkspartei, über rote Linien und den Umgang mit der CDU. Sie erklärt, warum die Linke trotz inhaltlicher Differenzen bei zentralen Reformen wie der Schuldenbremse mitreden will und wo sie sich klar von Friedrich Merz abgrenzt.Zum Schluss analysiert Hans von der Burchard…
Polanski, however, thinks the government should go further on building ties with the EU in other areas. “I think rejoining the customs union is something we should be doing as soon as possible,” he said. “It’s just resulting in higher prices for people.” It’s a policy also backed by the opposition Liberal Democrats, with whom the Greens are bidding for disillusioned Labour voters. As for rejoining the bloc altogether? “Over longer term, absolutely we should be rejoining the European Union. But we’ve got to make sure that that conversation is a conversation all the public’s involved with. I think one…
“We have no interest in young Ukrainian men spending their time in Germany instead of defending their country,” Jürgen Hardt, a senior foreign policy lawmaker from Merz’s conservatives, told POLITICO on Tuesday. “Ukraine makes its own decisions, but the recent change in the law has led to a trend of emigration that we must address.” Poland’s far-right Confederation party went further, saying in a statement: “Poland cannot continue to be a refuge for thousands of men who should be defending their own country, while burdening Polish taxpayers with the costs of their desertion.” Ukrainian arrivals in both countries have increased…
According to the TAO, “this change cannot come about without discussing with staff to co-build new ways of working.” The email warns “it is impossible to pave the way for a new Commission organization based on simple polls or consultations — we must therefore involve staff through its representative trade unions from the outset.” The working group responsible for the restructuring, advised by former Commission Secretary-General Catherine Day, has held a series of workshops with staff. However, internal documents obtained by POLITICO reveal they have encountered “resistance and cynicism” from colleagues, “hierarchical and rigidity issues” as well as “poor communication…
A verdict is expected later Tuesday evening. Auzières said the conspiracy theories had made it “impossible” for her mother “to have a normal life.” When asked about her uncle Jean-Michel, she testified she had seen him “a few months ago” and that he was “doing very well.” The 10 defendants — eight men and two women from their 40s to their 60s — cut an unlikely cross-section of France. They range from a well-off computer scientist working in Switzerland to a heavily disabled man “who spends a lot of time on Twitter,” a self-described spiritual medium crippled by debt and…