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Published on 03/06/2026 – 17:25 GMT+2 The European Commission confirmed to Euronews on Wednesday that EU trade chief Maroš Šefčovič will meet his Chinese counterpart, trade envoy Li Chenggang, on the sidelines of an OECD ministerial meeting in Paris on Thursday. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING The visit comes as EU-China relations remain strained, with Brussels seeking to […]

Published on 03/06/2026 – 17:08 GMT+2 France, Italy and Spain have jointly proposed new rules aimed at easing cross-border banking operations and cutting red tape across the bloc, according to a document seen by Euronews. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING The three countries submitted their proposals as an input to the European Commission, which is expected to publish […]

Authorities in Germany said on Wednesday they had seized more than eight metric tonnes of cocaine from a container that was supposed to be carrying cacao beans and two suspects were later arrested in Spain. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING German customs investigators put the street value of the cocaine seized in the North Sea port of Wilhelmshaven […]

Byeuronews Published on 03/06/2026 – 16:45 GMT+2 Police bodycam footage has sparked controversy in the UK after showing the treatment of 18-year-old Southampton student Henry Nowak following a fatal stabbing. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING The footage shows Nowak being handcuffed after he was stabbed by 23-year-old Vickrum Digwa, who falsely claimed to officers that he had been […]

Published on 03/06/2026 – 16:03 GMT+2 Three members of the UK’s Royal Navy have died while taking part in a training exercise in the southwest of the country, the service announced on Wednesday. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING In a statement posted to social media, the Royal Navy said the incident took place in the early hours of […]

Up to 1.3 million jobs across the EU are at risk because of the ongoing war in the Middle East, European Commissioner for jobs Roxana Mînzatu said on Wednesday. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING The warning came during the presentation of the 2026 Spring Semester Package, a bi-annual publication by the EU executive that provides guidance to the […]

Donald Pols, the former director of Milieudefensie, the Dutch branch of major environmental NGO “Friends of the Earth,” sparked controversy last month when he accepted the position of Chief Sustainability Officer at multinational company Tata Steel. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING On Tuesday, however, Tata Steel announced the sudden termination of Pols’s contract after just one day on […]

Published on 03/06/2026 – 15:30 GMT+2•Updated 3:36 p.m The European Commission said on Wednesday that new US tariff threats linked to forced labor were “unjustified”, arguing that EU legislation is already robust enough to ban such products. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING The move comes as the EU prepares to implement a contentious trade deal struck last summer […]

The European Commission has presented a sweeping package to boost homegrown technologies and reduce dependency on American and Chinese companies. Whether it will make a meaningful difference — and how the two superpowers will react — remain open questions. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING The EU imports most of its tech services and products from abroad. The digital […]

The European Commission is set to allow limited energy-related spending from fiscal rules to give EU countries more leeway to address soaring prices. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING The measures announced by the EU executive on Wednesday are an attempt to reassure fiscally conservative capitals struggling with skyrocketing energy bills that are threatening industrial production. In particular, the […]