Author: Euronews

Intersex people in Europe face disproportionately high levels of violence and discrimination. Disinformation and online hate speech fuel abuse.

Several European countries have repealed wealth taxes in recent decades. As of 2025, only three still impose a tax on individual net wealth, while a few others levy taxes only on selected assets.

Published on 27/09/2025 – 7:00 GMT+2 •Updated 9:09 ADVERTISEMENT Fat, lazy and complacent, that is how Dharmendra Kanani from Friends of Europe describes centrist and leftist politicians today. “The voter should never be taken for granted,” says Kanani who works as the Chief Spokesperson for the think tank Friends of Europe. Joined by Suzanna Carp the EU Climate & Industrial Policy Specialist and Jacob Reynolds, the head of policy at MCC Brussels, the discussion on “Brussels, my love?” this weekend centres around the rise of polarisation in Europe and the reactions across Europe to the death of the right wing…

Unpaid work is a significant aspect of gender inequality in Europe, with women on average spending two hours more per day on it than men. Differences in the gap follow regional trends, shaped by gender stereotypes and norms.

ADVERTISEMENT Despite the Family Boat suffering an engine failure and pressures from the Italian government, the group of boats aiming to break the Israeli siege, the Global Sumud Flotilla, has decided that it will not stop its journey to the Gaza Strip. In a video published in the night between Friday and Saturday, one of the Flotilla’s spokespersons, Thiago Ávila, said that the Family Boat had suffered a “catastrophic technical failure” in the engine, preventing it from continuing its journey. The boat had been hit in recent weeks by “incendiary drone attacks” and had to overcome technical difficulties, but due…

ADVERTISEMENT A government’s levy taxes on the net income, profits, and capital gains of enterprises are called corporate income tax (CIT). On average, corporate income tax makes up about 4% of GDP in OECD countries. According to the OECD, among 27 European countries (22 EU members plus the UK, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, and Turkey), the share of corporate income tax in total tax revenues in 2023 ranged from 4.2% in Latvia to 28.3% in Norway, based on the most recent data.  How important is corporate income tax for European countries and what share does it represent in GDP across Europe?…

The drone wall will focus on detection and intervention, said Andrius Kubilius, the European Commissioner for Defence.

Amazon said it was confident it would the win case but that it chose to resolve it quickly instead of going through potentially years of trial and appeals.

Published on 25/09/2025 – 15:02 GMT+2 ADVERTISEMENT A €400 million financing facility was formalised for Palestine during a signing ceremony in New York on Wednesday, held alongside the UN General Assembly. The program is structured as an intermediated facility, channelled through the PMA and local financial institutions, to improve access to finance for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as well as mid-cap companies. The plan is part of an overall €1.6 billion EU facility over 2025–2027. European Commissioner for the Mediterranean Dubravka Šuica and EIB Vice-President Ambroise Fayolle sealed the agreement, together with the Palestinian ambassador to the UN…

ADVERTISEMENT US President Donald Trump has called for an investigation after claiming he was the victim of “triple sabotage” during his visit to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday. In a long message posted on his Truth Social platform on Wednesday, Trump insisted that he had experienced “three sinister events”, which included the sudden halting of an escalator he and First Lady Melania Trump were on. Trump argued that the incident was not a coincidence, citing a report in the Times of London that UN staffers had joked about turning off an escalator during his visit. “The people that did…