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Published on 09/09/2026 – 16:01 GMT+2•Updated 16:04 The Hungarian government has formally notified the European Commission of the reforms it has passed to address the EU’s rule of law concerns, in a move that could unlock €4.2 billion in cohesion funding and restore access to EU programmes. “The European Commission has received Hungary’s written notification under the Rule of Law Conditionality Regulation. The notification sets out measures to remedy the situation that led to the adoption of protective measures,” the European Commissioner for Budget, Anti-Fraud and Public Administration, Piotr Serafin, wrote on X on Wednesday. The notification follows an agreement…

Published on 09/09/2026 – 16:17 GMT+2 A rescue operation is underway after a passenger train collided with a truck at a level crossing and derailed in Sokolniki Suche, near Warsaw, in Poland. There were 120 passengers on board the train. Twenty people were injured, four of them seriously. Karolina Jaworska, a press officer for the Warsaw State Fire Service, told Euronews that one person had died. “We know of four people who were seriously injured, one of whom has died. The injured include the train driver, the truck driver and two passengers,” she told Euronews, adding that the person who…

‘Who knows what will be in the next manifesto’ on Europe The TUC general secretary — who voiced support for a U.K.-EU customs union in 2025 — appeared to suggest that he believes Labour’s next election manifesto could end the party’s refusal to countenance either a customs union or single market relationship with Brussels. “We need the closest possible working relationship and closest possible economic relationship,” he said. Citing Donald Trump’s tariffs on the automotive industry, he added: “We’ve got to avoid a situation where we are effectively held hostage by which side of the bed the president of the United…

Published on 09/09/2026 – 16:48 GMT+2 The EU has announced an affordable housing plan aimed at encouraging long-term rentals and making housing more accessible for Europeans. Unveiled on Wednesday, the plan aims to create clarity and predictability in how rules are applied by local authorities, particularly in neighbourhoods popular with tourists where short-term rentals have displaced residents. “Lack of affordable housing is a matter of concern for so many of our European citizens,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in a press statement. “Essential workers and students cannot afford to live where they serve and study. But most…

Nous sommes le 11 juin 2025. Alors que s’ouvre VivaTech, le patron de Mistral AI, Arthur Mensch, monte sur scène pour l’une des tables rondes les plus attendues du salon : l’à peine trentenaire, impeccablement cravaté, doit prendre la parole au côté de Jensen Huang, tout puissant PDG du géant des puces Nvidia, pour annoncer un partenariat stratégique entre les deux entreprises. Alors que le président Emmanuel Macron les rejoint avec quelques minutes de retard, l’Américano-Taïwanais se tourne vers le jeune patron français et lui glisse, d’un air entendu : “Your president worked really hard for you” [“Votre président s’est…

Published on 09/09/2026 – 20:30 GMT+2 The same week that Ceuta’s president, Juan Jesús Vivas, travelled to Brussels in a cry for help, we are joined by Czech centre-right MEP Tomáš Svetechovský and German Socialist MEP Birgit Sippel for their points of view. One month on from the arrival of thousands of irregular migrants in the Spanish city, we hear how EU countries could have shown more solidarity and what more can be done to help Ceuta. Tomáš Svetechovský criticised the Spanish government’s handling of the situation, arguing that it should have acted sooner and requested more European support. “I…

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I am travelling to Latvia for a work trip centred on three d’s: drones, defence and debesmanna. Squeezing in time to the Rīga Conference and other sites relevant to the country’s upcoming EU council presidency is a must, too. Meanwhile, my colleagues in Brussels are holding down the fort, where one topic is stealing the spotlight. “Migration is very much back on the agenda,” one senior EU diplomat said to a crowd of journalists chewing on hors d’oeuvres Monday night at a rentrée party. What is clear is the migration horse certainly has bolted, with no signs of abating, and…

“All national budgets need to be respected,” he added. Costa’s visit came only three days after the far-right Alternative for Germany secured a historic landslide victory in the regional elections in Saxony-Anhalt. The Euroskeptics’ success risks hardening Merz’s stance in the budget negotiations, according to several EU diplomats. Speaking alongside Costa, the German Chancellor reiterated calls to cut “several hundreds of billions” from the Commission’s near-€2 trillion proposal. He described the budget increase as “simply prohibitive because at the end it is the European taxpayer who has to foot the bill.” Costa countered that EU-wide taxes, known as own resources,…

Six hours of footage and a torrent of racist, misogynistic and conspiratorial remarks. The local newspaper Midi Libre has published video from a night-time patrol by Carcassonne’s municipal police, recorded on 6 November 2025. Captured inadvertently by one officer’s body camera, which they thought was switched off, it contains, according to the daily, comments described as “of exceptional violence”. According to Midi Libre, a preliminary investigation has been under way since January 2026, when the footage is said to have been passed to the Carcassonne public prosecutor’s office. Following the video’s publication by the newspaper, the prosecutor’s office confirmed to…