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“Please do not underestimate this was criminal. He’s not an idiot. He’s a KGB operative,” former Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yastenyuk said when asked about Russian President Vladimir Putin and a possible EU envoy at direct talks with the Kremlin. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING “Putin will choose someone he can recruit,” Yastenyuk said. In an interview with […]

Published on 05/27/2026 – 20:38 GMT+2 Canada is moving ahead with the Swedish firm Saab on procuring a new fleet of Arctic surveillance aircraft, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on Wednesday, choosing the Stockholm-based company over US competitors. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING For Carney, the move addresses two key priorities; improving Canada’s defense capabilities in the Arctic […]

Published on 05/27/2026 – 14:41 GMT+2 The European Commission might soon appoint an AI envoy — but what the job would actually entail remains undefined. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING The idea was floated last week by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen during a meeting with Europe’s top corporate executives gathered at the European Round Table […]

Published on 05/27/2026 – 13:29 GMT+2•Updated 13:43 European lawmakers are pressuring the European Commission to make environmental information from highly polluting data centers publicly available in upcoming rules, citing a deep-dive investigation by corporate watchdogs showing the EU executive is “copy-pasting” text suggested by Microsoft. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING “It is one thing for Microsoft to seek […]

Georgia on Tuesday marked its Independence Day with a parade attended by officials and new military service recruits taking their oath, and that saw thousands of Georgians take to the streets later in the day for a pro-Europe rally in the capital, Tbilisi. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING The rally comes during deep polarization within Georgian society and […]

Published on 05/27/2026 – 7:57 GMT+2•Updated 8:33 Also on today’s show: ADVERTISING ADVERTISING Interviews with Alain BersetSecretary General of the Council of Europe, and Benjamin HaddadFrench Minister for European Affairs. Euronews’ Rafael Salido reports live from Madrid on a corruption case in Spain involving Spanish PM José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. Euronews’ Fay Doulgkeri reports from […]

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that the spate of recent drone incursions into the airspace of European Union (EU) countries over the past few weeks are “not isolated incidents,” as Baltic leaders and EU officials caution that hybrid threats along Europe’s eastern border are intensifying. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING “This is a deliberate strategy […]

The tacit approval of permits for new energy projects has emerged as one of the most politically explosive issues in the EU’s negotiations over the renewal of its aging power grids, according to a document seen by Euronews. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING Under proposals for the EU’s new European Grids Package_,_ certain stages of the permit process […]

The European Commission will adopt a decision this week that would privilege European satellite operators in a move designed to curb the European expansion of Starlink, the flagship service of Elon Musk’s SpaceX. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING Starlink currently dominates the global satellite internet market with over 10,000 low-orbit satellites. Its closest competitor is Amazon’s Project Kuiper, […]