Author: Euronews

Published on 31/08/2026 – 17:12 GMT+2•Updated 17:19 Germany and France have floated a joint plan to bring High Representative Kaja Kallas under the direct supervision of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen as part of an overhaul of the European Union’s foreign policy. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The plan is set to be discussed on Wednesday during an informal meeting of EU foreign ministers in Wicklow, Ireland. Kallas will chair the session. The Franco-German project aims to address one of the bloc’s most persistent weaknesses in external action: institutional cacophony. Under the complex design of the Treaty of Lisbon, the High…

Published on 30/08/2026 – 17:21 GMT+2•Updated 17:24 The European Commission has issued a muted reaction after Iceland rejected the reopening of accession negotiations with the bloc in a hotly contested referendum, a decision that risks dampening the momentum on enlargement. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The vote came down to the wire: 52.8% chose “no” and 47.2% chose “yes”. “The European Commission takes note of the outcome of Iceland’s referendum,” a Commission spokesperson said in a brief statement. “The Commission respects the choice of the Icelandic people. Iceland remains a close partner of the European Union.” Meanwhile, European Council President António Costa exchanged…

By&nbspLaura Fleischmann Published on 29/08/2026 – 12:02 GMT+2 Authorities in Nepal suspect that the recent devastating flash flood was triggered by a glacial lake outburst or a glacier collapse in the Himalayas – something experts say could also threaten the Alps. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT A torrent of water, mud and debris surged almost 170 kilometres through southwest Tibet and into central Nepal earlier this week, killing hundreds of people. Such disasters are also possible in Europe, particularly in the Alps, explains glaciologist Olaf Eisen, a professor at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research and at the University of…

Published on 28/08/2026 – 17:27 GMT+2 Four men admitted on Friday being behind an arson attack on London ambulances owned by a Jewish charity at a UK court hearing. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT British nationals Hamza Iqbal, 20, Rehan Khan, 19, Judex Atshatshi, 18, and British-Pakistani Saif Ali, 18, all pleaded guilty to criminal damage linked to the 23 March attack. Four ambulances run by the Hatzola charity were destroyed in the London neighbourhood of Golders Green that is home to a significant Jewish population, one of a spate of attacks in the British capital targeting Jewish or Israel-linked locations. Three of…

Two people were killed in a “violent incident” at a school near Berlin, local media reported on Thursday, saying an 18-year-old woman student and a 30-year-old man had died. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Regional public broadcaster RBB and a local daily said the alarm had been raised at a secondary school in the town of Gosen-Neu Zittau, just outside the German capital. The Märkische Allgemeine newspaper reported online that the man arrested was 19 years old and the ex-boyfriend of the victim. It said the 30-year-old man died while trying to intervene, without specifying whether a weapon was used or whether other…

Spain’s National Police have arrested a fugitive known as the “escape master” in Tarragona. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The man was the subject of a European arrest warrant issued by Italian authorities. His record includes escapes from prisons in Terni and Parma in Italy, as well as from a prison in Belgium. In his latest breakout in December, he managed to escape a high-security Italian prison after sawing through the bars of a window and climbing down the building using knotted bedsheets, according to police. In Belgium, he is also said to have climbed over a prison’s walls after forming a human…

John Ratcliffe reportedly arrived in the Russian capital on Tuesday for meetings, in what appears to be his first visit to Russia as CIA director.

Bitcoin is back in the spotlight after a week-long rally pushed the cryptocurrency above $79,000, with gains of more than 20% in just a few days. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The rally has been driven by fresh flows into spot Bitcoin ETFs, expectations of greater liquidity in the United States, a more favourable climate for cryptocurrencies in Washington and a squeeze on traders betting against Bitcoin. But there is a distinctly Italian twist to the story. While Bitcoin returns to centre stage, Italy’s richest man is someone who built his fortune at the heart of the crypto economy. At 62, Giancarlo Devasini,…

Russian forces also carried out a number of attacks on Ukraine’s railway network on Sunday as Ukrainians prep for the country’s Independence Day.

Published on 22/08/2026 – 17:09 GMT+2•Updated 17:16 Polish authorities have launched mesaures to deal with malicious food-delivery pranks after persistent harassment and threats issued via bogus orders for meals to be paid for on delivery began to resurface. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Officers from the Central Bureau for Combating Cybercrime (CBZC), under the supervision of the District Prosecutor’s Office in Szczecin, say they have detained a man suspected of organising the scheme. The 23 year old suspect faces up to eight years in prison for stalking, identity fraud, and causing massive financial harm to local restaurants by ordering hundreds of unpaid meals…