ByMaia de la Baume&Meabh McMahon Published on 01/23/2026 – 9:55 GMT+1 •Updated 10:36 Most of Europe can’t join Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” because it “goes way beyond” the UN Security Council mandate, Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told Euronews’ flagship program, Europe Today. “The consensus is that what has been announced by Donald Trump […]
Continue ReadingIn Davos, Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz gave a preview of the intergovernmental summit that awaits him in Rome on Friday with Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. In his speech at the World Economic Forum, Merz said he had worked out “new ideas” together with Meloni to transform the European Union “which will be proposed soon,” […]
Continue ReadingGood Morning. It’s Friday and I’m Mared Gwyn, writing in the early hours from Brussels. There was a palpable shift in the mood music when EU leaders gathered over dinner here last night for talks on the future of the transatlantic relationship. Despite relief at Trump’s sudden retreat from his tariff threats over Greenland, an […]
Continue ReadingPublished on 01/23/2026 – 7:30 GMT+1 EU leaders gathered in Brussels last night for a lengthy dinner and tense talks. Despite the tasty food, the mood was grim as they discussed trade, Greenland, Mercosur and Trump’s Gaza Board of Peace. For more on whether this summit was worth the trip, we crossed over to Shona […]
Continue ReadingThe leaders of the European Union have demanded respect from Donald Trump after the United States president brought the transatlantic alliance to the precipice of collapse with his threat to seize Greenland through the use of punitive tariffs. Trump suddenly backtracked on Wednesday, opting instead for a long-term deal on Arctic security brokered by NATO […]
Continue ReadingPublished on 01/22/2026 – 22:10 GMT+1 This year, the world’s biggest conference revolved around one man. And he kept the world waiting. An electrical fault forced presidential Air Force One to make a U-turn mid-flight. But once he finally landed, his pull didn’t just change the mood; it changed the schedule. Hundreds of CEOs and […]
Continue ReadingThe chief of Spain’s diplomacy, José Manuel Albares, said in an interview with Euronews on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos that the EU should stand firmly behind its values, as some countries are threatening the use of force as foreign policy. He called on Europe to take full control of its […]
Continue ReadingThe chief of Spain’s diplomacy said that the deal cut bilaterally between Rutte and the United States President Donald Trump is a bilateral arrangement, “not NATO, (…) it is the Secretary General of NATO talking to one of the allies.” Details of the arrangement are yet to emerge. “The only thing I know is the […]
Continue ReadingEuropean Union overwhelmingly backed a decade-long proposal on Wednesday that will require airlines to pay passengers financial compensation for a three-hour delay and allow them to carry a small amount of hand luggage for free. While consumer groups have greeted the outcome backed by EU legislators in Strasbourg, which includes clearer obligations for airlines to […]
Continue ReadingByeuronews Published on 01/20/2026 – 17:19 GMT+1 In an exclusive interview in the margins of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Azerbaijan’s president Ilham Aliyev said that the world order is changing. “International relations are entering a new era, an era where it is not the rule of law, but the rule of strength that […]
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