Author: Euronews

The EU has been unable of sanctioning Russia’s Patriarch Kirill since 2022. The change of power in Hungary offers an opportunity to revisit the issue.

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez presented what he called Spain’s biggest-ever campaign against forest fires on Thursday after deadly blazes devoured a record amount of land last year. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Spain is one of the southern European countries on the front line of climate change as higher average temperatures stoke heatwaves, droughts and forest fires. The country sweltered through its hottest summer on record in 2025, when almost 4,000 square kilometres of land went up in smoke, the highest figure registered by the European Forest Fire Information System. “We will put in place all the resources” available to the government “to…

Brussels is testing the waters with G7 allies to introduce a full ban on maritime services for Russian oil tankers. But recent decisions taken by the US and the UK suggest an uphill struggle to secure the green light.

An F-16 fighter jet deployed with NATO air policing forces in the Baltics shot down what is believed to have been a stray Ukrainian drone over southern Estonia on Tuesday ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Estonian Defence Minister Hanno Pevkur said that, given the drone’s trajectory, “we decided that we needed to take it down”. “Most probably, today we can say that it was a drone that was, let’s say, meant to hit Russian targets.” Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Heorhii Tykhyi said experts from Ukraine and Estonia were working on measures to prevent similar incidents in the future. “We apologise to Estonia and…

A series of regional votes, capped by a conservative win in Andalusia on Sunday, has cemented Spain’s rightward shift, even as Pedro Sánchez builds his international profile as the leader of the progressive left in defiance of President Donald Trump. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Successive regional votes in Aragon, Castilla y León and Andalusia this year saw Spain’s Socialist Party lose seats, with the conservative People’s Party coming out on top and the hard-right Vox emerging as kingmaker. The ballots paint a complex picture of Spanish society, where the coexistence of the mainstream right, backed by the hard right, is becoming the…

Published on 17/05/2026 – 13:15 GMT+2 Former British health secretary Wes Streeting has labelled the UK’s decision to leave the European Union a “catastrophic mistake” as he launches his bid to become the country’s next prime minister. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Streeting, who quit his Cabinet position earlier this month, has openly called for Keir Starmer to resign as leader, and told reporters on Saturday that he would stand in any leadership race. Speaking at the Labour Party’s Progress conference, Streeting also took aim at Brexit. “At the core are three big important choices we have to make as a country that…

For a long time it was unclear whether the whale found off Denmark was Timmy. Authorities have now confirmed that the famous humpback whale did not survive his journey through the Baltic Sea.

Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz has acknowledged shortcomings in the conservative-Social Democrat coalition and announced that he intends to communicate his political course more clearly in future. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT At the German Catholic Convention in Würzburg, the CDU leader said that while dispute is part of democracy, it has to lead to results. At present, he said, there may be too many arguments and too little being achieved. The federal government is planning a reform package on tax, the labour market, pensions and cutting red tape before the summer recess. In recent weeks, however, there have been repeated conflicts within the…

In November, the European Union’s highest court ordered Poland to register same-sex marriages that were entered into in other EU countries even if Polish law does not currently permit them.

From conspiracy theories claiming that the term “hantavirus” is derived from Hebrew, to claims that big pharma groups created the virus to drive up vaccine profits, a slew of false claims about the pathogen have emerged on social media in recent weeks. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The hantavirus outbreak occurred aboard the MV Hondius ship, which set sail from Argentina on 1 April, before it docked on the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands on 10 May. Eleven people aboard the MV Hondius fell ill, with at least nine confirmed cases. Three passengers on the cruise died, including a Dutch couple…