Enlargement dominated the start of Ireland’s six-month presidency of the EU Council, with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy declaring that Ukraine has done “everything” needed to open all the clusters of negotiations. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING “It’s in the interest of all the countries to have Ukraine in the EU as quickly as possible,” Zelenskyy said on Wednesday at […]
Continue ReadingEU redistributes Western Balkans funding: First this morning, a scoop from my colleague Luca Bertuzzi. The European Commission is set to redistribute funding it has allocated to Western Balkan candidate countries, with frontrunners Montenegro, Albania and North Macedonia poised to receive cash at the expense of other countries in the region, two EU officials told […]
Continue ReadingPublished on 02/07/2026 – 7:59 GMT+2•Updated 8:03 On today’s show: Euronews’ Angela Skujins reports on today’s Annual EU Budget Conference, the debate taking place there over the EU’s long-term budget, and the fight for cash between member states. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING Euronews’ Meabh McMahon speaks to Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister Atanas Pekanov. Euronews’ Jorge Liboreiro reports […]
Continue ReadingPublished on 02/07/2026 – 7:13 GMT+2 The European Commission is set to redistribute funding under the tool designed to financially incentivize Western Balkan countries to carry out the reforms required for EU accession in favor of ‘frontrunner’ countries, two EU officials told Euronews. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING The Reform and Growth Facility for the Western Balkans was […]
Continue ReadingByIrina Aleksandrova Published on 02/07/2026 – 7:00 GMT+2 Russia’s unprecedented months-long petrol crisis has made the consequences of the country’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine palpable for ordinary citizens. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING Continued Ukrainian attacks have been causing fires at refineries and disrupting petrol supplies nationwide. Queues at petrol stations are growing, along with public anger and […]
Continue ReadingBySertac Aktan&EuronewswithAFP Published on 02/07/2026 – 4:21 GMT+2•Updated 9:43 Russian forces launched massive overnight strikes on Kyiv, killing at least 13 people and wounding dozens, city authorities announced. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING The attack came after Ukraine’s air force warned that ballistic missiles were headed towards the capital and followed Zelensky cutting short a visit to Dublin […]
Continue ReadingPublished on 01/07/2026 – 18:13 GMT+2 The European Parliament is set to trigger a procedure against the Europe of Sovereign Nations (ESN) party, home of Alternative for Germany (AfD) and other far-right political forces across Europe. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING If ESN is found to have failed to uphold the core values of the European Union, it […]
Continue ReadingPublished on 01/07/2026 – 16:17 GMT+2 A Finnish court found an entrepreneur guilty of exporting trucks and trailers to neighboring Russia in violation of European sanctions on Wednesday, sentencing him to three years and eight months in prison. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING Risto Riihimaki’s company, registered in the town of Lappeenranta near Finland’s border with Russia, exported […]
Continue ReadingRussia has suspended traffic through several railway border crossings with Finland, Estonia and Latvia starting from Wednesday, Moscow said. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING The Kremlin’s order released on Tuesday did not provide a reason for the closures. The statement mentions only a “temporary suspension” of the movement of people, vehicles, goods and cargo through selected railway crossings […]
Continue ReadingAs Europeans become increasingly worried about rising prices, many believe that their standard of living will worsen in the future. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING Almost one-third of citizens (29 percent) believe that their personal standard of living will decline over the next five years, while only 18 percent expect it to improve, according to a Eurobarometer poll […]
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