Author: Euronews

Italy has been battered by a severe weather front, with violent storms, gale-force winds and intense lightning, hitting Liguria, Lombardy and northern Tuscany, causing floods and damage.

Morocco is set to benefit from increased funding for border control and migration management following the Ceuta crisis at the end of July, as part of a long-awaited partnership agreement with Brussels, EU officials have told Euronews. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The EU is set to finalise a deal for a strategic and comprehensive partnership with Morocco by the end of the year, similar to the one the European Commission concluded with Egypt in 2024, which included a €7.4 billion financial and investment package to boost the country’s economy, manage migration, and secure regional stability. The deal with Rabat had been in…

The Party of European Socialists (PES) is heading towards an internal showdown as divisions among national delegations over migration policy deepen in the wake of the Ceuta crisis, in which over 72,000 people illegally crossed into the Spanish enclave from Morocco at the end of July. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT During the crisis, Denmark’s centre-left Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen joined Italy, Germany, Finland and Sweden in criticising Pedro Sánchez’s government over its handling of the situation. “These are violent images from Ceuta. We will not accept a repeat of 2015,” Frederiksen told Danish news agency Ritzau at the time. “It goes without…

The measures tighten restrictions on trade and technology that could support Belarus’s military and industrial capabilities.

Published on 17/08/2026 – 17:00 GMT+2 Britain’s hard-right Reform UK party has vowed to scrap benefits for foreign nationals as part of a proposed overhaul of the nation’s welfare system. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The policy would include European Union citizens with settled status in the UK, meaning renewed negotiations would need to take place over the UK’s Brexit withdrawal agreement. Outlining the plan in a speech on Monday, Robert Jenrick, Reform’s economics spokesperson and Member of Parliament for Newark, pledged to put an end to what he called the “foreign welfare ripoff.” “The British taxpayer is acting as the welfare state…

Long-range attacks have been stepped up as talks between the two countries remain stagnant.

By&nbspLucy Davalou&nbspwith&nbspAFP Published on 15/08/2026 – 15:30 GMT+2•Updated 16:36 Europe is continuing to battle a series of devastating wildfires as the continent faces more sweltering conditions and worsening droughts, with thousands forced to flee their homes. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT In France, authorities said a further 100 residents and holidaymakers evacuated from around the town of Luglon in the southwestern Landes department on Saturday as a fire that broke out on Thursday continued to burn. In an update on Saturday morning, the Landes Prefecture said the blaze had burned through around 1,580 hectares so far and that it was “particularly active” to…

A wildfire on Croatia’s coast has left at least 10 people in intensive care and dozens more injured after fire crews battled overnight with “one of the worst” blazes in the country’s history, according to officials. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Around 2,000 had been evacuated from nearby villages as the fire ripped through the surrounding hills, damaging homes and destroying cars in the early hours of Friday. As access reopened mid-morning, the AFP news agency saw the blackened remains of several burnt out cars along roads near Omiš, some ringed by silver puddles of metal that had melted under the intense heat…

Published on 13/08/2026 – 16:16 GMT+2•Updated 16:20 An explosion at the Dutch port of Rotterdam on Thursday killed at least one person and injured several others, city police said. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Police said the blast at Europe’s biggest port happened late on Thursday morning and that a crime scene has been set up to try to establish what caused it. The explosion happened at a refinery and fuel terminal run by Gunvor Energy in an industrial section of the vast port premises. Dutch broadcaster NOS said that a maintenance team had been working on a section of pipes there. Rotterdam…

Three Moroccan nationals who arrived in Ceuta during the recent mass crossing from Morocco have been arrested over their alleged involvement in sexual assault offences, against a backdrop of courts and law-enforcement agencies investigating several complaints filed since the end of July. The alleged victims are also migrants. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The arrests come after several underage Moroccan girls reported having been sexually assaulted after crossing the border and staying in the autonomous Spanish city. By 11 August, the National Police had recorded six complaints lodged by minors, the force confirmed to the maldita.es news portal. Both the complainants and the…