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Published on 13/07/2026 – 9:38 GMT+2 Countries in Europe reported over 10,000 excess deaths during the extreme heatwaves that baked the west of the continent towards the end of June, new data shows. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING The vast majority of the fatalities, in excess of 9,000, were recorded among those aged 65 and over, according to […]

Updated: 13/07/2026 – 9:12 GMT+2 Martin Heydon, Irish agriculture minister, speaks to Europe Today ahead of the EU ministers’ vote on the EU’s fertilizer plan, describing it as a “very decisive clear action to support farmers”. …More

Published on 13/07/2026 – 8:30 GMT+2•Updated 8:30 The British government has announced a £250 million (€293.5m) package to strengthen police protection for Jewish communities following a series of anti-Semitic attacks across the country. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING The funding, spread over three years, will pay for more than 500 additional police officers in areas with significant Jewish […]

Capitals set to clash on settlement trade: EU Foreign Ministers are in town today with a range of issues, from Ukraine to the Middle East, on their agenda. They will also discuss the Commission’s proposal – scooped by Euronews last week – to further restrict or fully ban EU trade with Israeli settlements, which the […]

Published on 13/07/2026 – 8:01 GMT+2•Updated 8:12 On today’s show: Laila Humairah reports from Doha renewed US-Iran exchange of attacks as the war escalates. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING Angela Skujins breaks down the meeting of EU foreign ministers today and the main discussion to be discussed: sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Sandor Zsiros […]

EU foreign ministers will discuss proposals on Monday to partially or fully ban trade with Israeli settlements, but the path to implementing any restrictions is fraught with difficulty, with some capitals accusing the European Commission of employing “delay tactics”. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING As first reported by Euronews, the Commission last week pitched a paper outlining three […]

Using fashion to counter tracking and AI surveillance – that is the concept behind Leipzig start-up Urban Privacy. For several years, Nicole Scheller and Daniel Preuß have been developing products such as anti-tracking jackets. They do not make their wearers invisible, but they do make them harder to track. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING On the jackets there […]

Published on 13/07/2026 – 6:50 GMT+2 Firefighters were rushing to contain a fire that erupted in the sprawling Fontainebleau forest just south of Paris on Sunday. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING Officials described the fire as “very virulent” and of “exceptional scale” as it raced across 800 hectares and was still spreading. The spread caused the partial closure […]

Published on 11/07/2026 – 16:39 GMT+2 Moldova’s pro-European President Maia Sandu nominated businessman Vasile Tofan on Saturday as the country’s next prime minister to replace Alexandru Munteanu, who resigned earlier this month over differences with the ruling majority. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING In a video posted to social media, Sandu said Tofan’s primary responsibility, after his candidacy […]

Published on 11/07/2026 – 14:57 GMT+2•Updated 3:15 p.m Paris’ Eiffel Tower and Louvre Museum will close early this weekend as yet another heatwave grips western Europe. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING The Eiffel Tower said it would “exceptionally close” at 4 pm on Saturday and Sunday due to high temperatures forecast in the French capital, while the Louvre […]