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Hundreds of shoppers queued outside Lidl supermarkets across France on Thursday after the retailer announced the sale of 200,000 fans and portable air conditioners, triggering long lines, scuffles and police intervention at several stores. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING Outside a Lidl store in Paris’s 19th arrondissement, around 200 people waited for up to two hours before opening, […]

United Nations Development Program (UNDP) administrator Alexander De Croo said on Thursday that the European Union’s long-term budget can balance defense and aid spending to ensure that Europe’s neighborhoods are safe, as they are “two sides of the same coin.” ADVERTISING ADVERTISING “We see more military spending, and we totally understand that in the current […]

Published on 03/07/2026 – 10:25 GMT+2•Updated 10:58 While US President Donald Trump “is always raging at something”, he might not create too much rancor at next week’s NATO summit in Ankara, a longtime US diplomat has said. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING Kurt Volker, a former US ambassador to NATO who also served as the first Trump administration’s […]

BySertac Aktan&EuronewswithAFP Published on 03/07/2026 – 5:25 GMT+2•Updated 6:10 United States President Donald Trump said Thursday it is “ridiculous” for the United States to continue its “one-sided” relationship with NATO, less than a week before a NATO summit in Ankara. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform: “They weren’t there for us!!!” and […]

End of the special economic zone in Cala Finanza, in north-eastern Sardinia. The Tavolara glamping site was in danger of turning into an Albanian-style national scandal. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING There are many similarities between the resort Donald Trump’s son-in-law wants to build in the lagoon near Vlorë and the Tavolara Bay project in Cala Finanza, in […]

A specter is haunting Europe, or at least, its external borders: the Entry/Exit System (EES), an automated mechanism for registering foreign nationals entering and leaving the Schengen Area, which risks ruining the holiday season for millions of travelers. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING The EES is gradually replacing passport stamps with a digital system that records when travelers […]

Published on 02/07/2026 – 12:32 GMT+2 EU countries must match Europe’s defense ambitions in the upcoming budget negotiations, European Commissioner for Defense and Space Andrius Kubilius said at a conference on Thursday. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING “If you want peace, prepare for war,” Kubilius said, citing an Ancient Roman proverb to argue that strength and readiness are […]

The Vatican has declared the automatic excommunication of leading figures of the Priestly Society of Saint Pius Xthe Lefebvrists, following the controversial ordination of four new bishops carried out without papal approval. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING The decree, issued by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith and signed by Prefect Víctor M. Fernández, describes the […]

Published on 02/07/2026 – 11:53 GMT+2 EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas announced that new sanctions targeting Russia’s military-industrial complex will be presented on Thursday, after Russian forces launched massive overnight strikes on Kyiv, killing at least 13 people and wounding dozens. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING “Today, I will propose to sanction more entities supporting Russia’s military-industrial […]

Updated: 02/07/2026 – 11:46 GMT+2 Bulgaria’s Deputy Prime Minister Atanas Pekanov said the EU must “retain policies like cohesion” in its next long-term budget. While acknowledging negotiations “will take months”, he backed reaching a deal by the end of the year, saying it is “better to reach a solution fast”. …More