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Portugal is preparing for this year’s wildfire season with an exercise involving a fire similulation tackled by more than 700 operations from six European countries. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING Crews from Cyprus, Spain, France, Poland and the Czech Republic joined their Portuguese colleagues for the almost week-long exercise set against the backdrop of a large, fast-spreading rural […]

European Commissioner for Defense Andrius Kubilius and European Commissioner for Budget Piotr Serafin are due to travel to the capitals of Poland and Lithuania on Friday to finalize EU defense loan agreements with both countries. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING The loans form part of the EU’s SAFE (Security Action for Europe) program, an initiative spearheaded by the […]

Updated: 08/05/2026 – 11:27 GMT+2 Disarming Hezbollah will require a lot of “will, courage and decision” from Lebanon. A difficult mission, as the country has “no state” and the Lebanese are “paying the price” of the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, MP Nadim Gemayel said in an interview on Euronews’ morning show Europe Today. …More

Published on 08/05/2026 – 11:13 GMT+2 A large forest fire was burning through the Chernobyl exclusion zone on Friday following a drone crash near the defunct nuclear plant the previous day, Ukrainian authorities said. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING Radiation levels at the site were within “normal limits,” authorities reported, adding that firefighters were working to contain the […]

Published on 08/05/2026 – 10:25 GMT+2 It was a bold move by Giorgia Meloni. This week, the Italian Prime Minister posted an AI-generated image of herself in underwear, a picture that had already been circulating on social media. It was intended as a warning: if this can happen to a head of government, it can […]

Prime Minister Keir Starmer insisted on Friday that he will not resign after bruising elections that saw his governing Labor Party suffer big losses and the hard-right party Reform UK make major gains. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING With about a quarter of the votes counted on Friday morning, Starmer said he took responsibility for the “very tough” […]

Good Morning. It’s Maïade La Baume and Angela Skujins, joining forces for the final newsletter of the week. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING ​While you were sleeping, US president Donald Trump was back to using his favorite tool — threats. After speaking with Commission president Ursula von der Leyen on Thursday evening, Trump said the European Union has […]

Published on 08/05/2026 – 9:42 GMT+2•Updated 10:15 Hungary’s incoming Prime Minister Péter Magyar’s pick for Justice Minister, Márton Melléthei-Barna, has withdrawn his name from consideration for the post. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING Melléthei-Barna, who is Magyar’s brother-in-law, announced the decision in a post on social media. “In order not to cast the slightest shadow on the regime […]

Things are looking bad for Berlin: the German capital seems to be becoming less and less interesting for tourists. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING Visitor numbers rose for years, peaking in the record year of 2019, when Berlin recorded 34.1 million overnight stays. But a few years later, the trend seems to be reversing: in 2025, there were […]

On May 8, 1945, Nazi Germany’s armed forces – the Wehrmacht – surrendered unconditionally, marking the end of World War II in Europe. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING Eighty-one years later, a development that at first seems paradoxical is becoming increasingly visible: growing numbers of descendants of Holocaust survivors from Israel, the US and across the world are […]