Author: Euronews

At least 10 people have been killed during immigration operations since the start of the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign, including four during vehicle stops.

The Hungarian parliament amended the constitution on Monday to remove the country’s president, Tamás Sulyok, as part of Prime Minister Péter Magyar’s plan — dubbed “purgatorium” — to dismantle the political legacy of his predecessor, Viktor Orbán. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The issue is considered the first political test for Péter Magyar’s Tisza Party, which came into power after its landslide victory in April’s election. While the attempted removal of the president enjoys popular support, the process could backfire legally, experts said. Euronews explains the details of the fight between the prime minister and the president of Hungary. Why is Magyar targeting…

Published on 13/07/2026 – 16:46 GMT+2 The European Union has sanctioned VK Company, which dominates Russia’s online sphere, for colluding with the Kremlin to identify critics of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine and curtail access to independent sources of information. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT VK Company runs VKontakte, the country’s most popular social media site. Often described as “the Russian Facebook”, it has an estimated 70 million users. The decision, taken on Monday by foreign ministers, points the finger at VK Company and an associated firm for developing and managing Max App, which is state-backed and comes pre-installed on all phones and…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to be in Paris on both Monday and Tuesday.

If approved by parliament, Tofan will be tasked with driving Moldova closer to realising its EU membership goal and reviving an economy that has experienced years-long decline.

The Orsec plan is an emergency response and relief mechanism for exceptional events, and has generally been activated in the case of natural disasters such as floods.

Ukraine opened a criminal investigation on Thursday after crowds of people in the western city of Lviv surrounded and overturned an army conscription vehicle the night before. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The incident drew a swift backlash from Ukrainian officials, some of whom called on citizens to direct their anger at Russia and not the army. The unrest erupted after officers detained a man suspected of evading military service and took him to a draft centre, authorities said. “An investigation has been launched into the circumstances of an incident that occurred in Lviv involving servicemen of the Ukrainian armed forces, police officers,…

The general feeling in the European Parliament is that the longstanding far-right leader has a better chance of becoming France’s president than her younger successor.

German defence giant Rheinmetall is to produce missiles designed by US aerospace firm Lockheed Martin, the two firms announced on Tuesday, marking the first time the weapons will be produced in Europe.

The European Commission is renewing its push to open Serbia’s accession clusters, arguing that Belgrade has made sufficient progress on a range of reforms to justify advancing its EU membership bid. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Ahead of a discussion among EU ambassadors on Wednesday, the Commission has presented member states with an information note outlining why it believes Cluster 3 should be opened after Serbia reversed controversial judicial reforms and made what Brussels describes as progress on media freedom, electoral reforms and alignment with the bloc’s foreign and security policy. The opening of Cluster 3 has been blocked since the Commission first…