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Published on 02/07/2026 – 14:21 GMT+2 Kyiv has urged its Western partners to take immediate decisions on air defence and sanctions after a large-scale Russian missile and drone attack on the Ukrainian capital killed at least 20 people, with the death toll expected to rise. Residential buildings and civilian infrastructure were hit in what is described as one of the most intense assaults on Kyiv in recent months. Emergency services were continuing rescue operations on Thursday. “War criminal Putin can only wage a vile and terroristic war against civilians, women and children,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha wrote on X.…

Ça ne lui fait pas peur, assure-t-elle, mais en 2027, entre une union de la gauche inexistante et des rédactions qui peinent à garantir l’indépendance éditoriale, Julia Cagé aura fort à faire. La professeure d’économie à Sciences Po est engagée, de longue date, en faveur d’un rassemblement des électeurs de gauche. En 2024, quelques heures après l’annonce de la dissolution par Emmanuel Macron, elle fédérait des centaines de signatures autour d’un appel à l’union et au sursaut. Une tribune doublée de nombreuses rencontres avec des personnalités de gauche. L’union s’est faite quelques jours plus tard (et pour quelques mois). Celle…

Published on 02/07/2026 – 15:24 GMT+2 European car suppliers and manufacturers are divided over Brussels’ “Made in Europe” strategy, an effort to shield the EU market from Chinese competition. The EU car industry is facing fierce competition from China, threatening hundreds of thousands of jobs across the bloc. To address the issue, the EU is preparing the so-called Industrial Accelerator Act, which is designed to favour electric vehicles constructed mostly with European components in public procurement and public support schemes. However, EU car suppliers and manufacturers disagree over the proposed law, currently under discussion by EU countries and the European…

Son passage à plein temps au RN, dont il était conseiller officieux depuis 2021, a été quelque peu chahuté par les mauvais échos sur sa gestion d’Otium, le fonds d’investissement de Pierre-Edouard Stérin. Le milliardaire a néanmoins défendu son ancien bras droit, tout en le dépeignant en étatiste peu libéral. Qu’importe, le polytechnicien est vite passé à autre chose, s’attelant à rapprocher le parti à la flamme du monde des affaires. D’abord avec un fameux dîner entre Marine Le Pen et des patrons du CAC 40, puis en contribuant à une concertation des entreprises sur la simplification — une idée…

Violent clashes erupted between police and demonstrators outside Albania’s parliament on Thursday, as protests against a controversial resort development linked to US President Donald Trump’s family continue. Since late May, protests have been held against the construction of a luxury hotel linked to Trump’s daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner in a nature reserve in Zvernec, on Albania’s southwestern coast. For the second time this week, large groups of protesters had gathered outside the country’s parliament in an attempt to confront lawmakers and block entry to the building. Hundreds of demonstrators were met with lines of riot police who…

Alors que l’entreprise d’intelligence artificielle qu’il a cofondée a soufflé sa troisième bougie, Arthur Mensch poursuit sa mutation de chercheur en intelligence artificielle à oracle des dépendances européennes en matière technologique. Devant l’Assemblée, début mai, il a enchaîné une série de constats et de recommandations en faveur d’une meilleure autonomie européenne dans ce domaine. La séquence est devenue virale, car elle questionne l’intérêt réel des politiques face aux enjeux de la course mondiale au meilleur modèle d’IA. Le patron de Mistral AI porte ses messages dans les rendez-vous officiels et les sommets internationaux, qu’il enchaîne — il était à la…

Published on 02/07/2026 – 17:07 GMT+2 A handshake, €150,000 in cash and a coded text: Maltese prosecutors on Thursday set out their case against a tycoon accused of ordering the murder of a prominent investigative journalist. Yorgen Fenech is accused of masterminding the 2017 killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia in a case that shook the island nation and brought down a previous government. After the defendant attempted to escape on his yacht in 2019 and many procedural delays, Fenech’s trial finally began on Wednesday. He denies the charges. According to the indictment, cited by the Times of Malta, the 44-year-old…

Dans la vie de ce constitutionnaliste, il y a eu un avant et un après 9 juin 2024. La dissolution de l’Assemblée nationale l’a transformé, à 38 ans, en distributeur d’analyses et de remèdes juridicopolitiques. Un brin cocasse, quand on sait que sa thèse, préfacée par Gérard Larcher, porte sur la légitimité du Sénat. L’encre de son dernier livre Crise politique, Crise de régime (Odile Jacob) à peine sèche, il finalise déjà son prochain manuscrit sur la crise… de l’Etat. Entre deux cours de droit public à Assas, quand on ne le croise pas près du Palais-Bourbon, plaidant pour la…

EU Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi is facing renewed scrutiny after a leaked European Commission document indicated that Hungary’s Permanent Representation operated a spy ring during his tenure as Hungary’s permanent representative. Last October, several media outlets reported that Hungary’s Permanent Representation to the EU in Brussels had allegedly run a network of intelligence officers posing as diplomats, who targeted Hungarian nationals working at the Commission between 2012 and 2018. Várhelyi was drawn into the investigation because he served as Hungary’s ambassador to the EU between 2015 and 2019, which overlapped with part of the period under scrutiny. He was later nominated…

Published on 02/07/2026 – 21:52 GMT+2•Updated 22:06 A year after being chosen to deliver the speech on Portugal Day, Portuguese writer Lídia Jorge, one of the country’s leading contemporary literary figures, has received the highest distinction awarded to authors writing in Portuguese, the Camões Prize. Jorge thus succeeds the Angolan poet Ana Paula Tavares, who received the prize last year. Born in Tavira in 1946, Lídia Jorge is the author of more than a dozen titles, mainly novels, beginning in 1979 with the publication of O Dia dos Prodígios. Her most recent novel, Misericórdia, published in 2022, is largely autofiction,…