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Published on 14/09/2026 – 16:18 GMT+2•Updated 17:40 The first ministers of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have said they believe the future of their nations belong “in the European Union”. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The three leaders met in the Welsh capital, Cardiff, where their parties signed a joint agreement asserting the right of their nations to self-determination. The three leaders met in their capacity as party leaders rather than as representatives of their respective governments. Scotland’s John Swinney leads the Scottish National Party (SNP), Wales’ Rhun ap Iorwerth leads Plaid Cymru, meaning “the Party of Wales”, and Northern Ireland’s Michelle O’Neill…

Back in her political stronghold in northern France, Marine Le Pen is delivering her first major campaign speech this Sunday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The far-right candidate for 2027 is relaunching her presidential election campaign in Hénin-Beaumont, after her party’s MPs in Le Touquet (Pas-de-Calais) on Saturday. Le Pen is leading in the polls, with 34% of voters signalling their intention to vote for her in the first round, regardless of the scenario, according to a survey carried out on 8 and 9 September by OpinionWay for Les Échos. Despite this, recent weeks have been marked by a series of mishaps, amid…

US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that a unified Ireland would be “fantastic,” wading into a complex and politically charged subject during a two-day visit to a major tournament at his private Irish golf course. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT At a meeting with Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin in Dublin, Trump said he would love to see the reunification of the Republic of Ireland with the UK’s Northern Ireland. “I don’t want to cause any problems but I’d love to see it unified,” Trump offered when asked for his opinion on the issue by a reporter. “It’s going to happen eventually. It…

Published on 11/09/2026 – 17:14 GMT+2 Norway’s Princess Astrid, the older sister of the late King Harald, died on Friday at the age of 94, the Norwegian Royal Palace said in a statement. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “Aunt Astrid was an important source of support for King Harald and the rest of our family. We learned a great deal from her, and she was never afraid to speak her mind,” King Haakon VIII ⁠said ​in the ​statement. “Her passing is a great loss to us. We will miss her.” The King added that Princess Astrid had stepped into the role of First…

Published on 10/09/2026 – 16:50 GMT+2 Russian military bloggers have acknowledged that Ukrainian forces have gone on the counterattack around Lyman in eastern Ukraine, with some claiming that Russian troops have been forced to withdraw from forward positions as the situation for Moscow deteriorates. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT One Russian military blogger said Ukrainian forces had been counterattacking in the area for months, while accusing Russia’s military command of presenting an overly optimistic picture of the frontline. According to the Washington-based think tank Institute for the Study of War (ISW), Russian bloggers criticised what Russian military commentators call “beautiful reports,” referring to…

Published on 09/09/2026 – 17:31 GMT+2 The European Commission has granted the Spanish government 114.7 million euros from its emergency aid fund to deal with the migration crisis that Ceuta has been facing since the end of July, in what the institution describes as an act of “solidarity” with Spain. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “This financial assistance comes on top of the Commission’s immediate response from day one, when it offered Spain both financial and operational support,” the Commission said in a statement. “The decision once again demonstrates the Commission’s full solidarity with Spain in dealing with this difficult situation.” The funding…

The European Union is making a full-on effort to cut emissions at home, but 35% of its carbon footprint was generated abroad in 2023, according to data from the European Climate Foundation (ECF) and climate consultancy Matière. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The new figures, which show that more than one-fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions are now linked to global trade, create a political problem for Brussels, which is heavily investing in the decarbonisation of factories, power plants and cars even as the bloc still consumes goods whose production generates substantial emissions abroad. The new Traded Emissions Tracker reveals that in Ireland,…

In Berlin, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz appeared before the press on Monday, together with the CDU’s lead candidate in Saxony-Anhalt, Sven Schulze. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “Yesterday’s result has changed not only Saxony-Anhalt, but Germany as a whole,” Merz said following Sunday’s state election results. “We are all profoundly shocked. We did not expect it to turn out like this.” The far-right, anti-immigration AfD party won the election by a landslide, taking 43.8% of the vote. The CDU came in a distant second with 17.2%. Compared with the 2021 state election, the AfD more than doubled its vote share, while the CDU…

A bottlenose dolphin calf was found dead at around midday on Wednesday on Trampolín beach in Ceuta, according to ‘El Faro de Ceuta’, and in circumstances that the Association for the Defence of Urban Trees, Biodiversity and the Environment (DAUBMA) considers an attack. The organisation has filed a formal complaint with the Guardia Civil and requested that proceedings be opened to clarify what happened. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT According to the association’s account, the animal reached the shore alive, disoriented, possibly because of the fog in the area that morning. Once on land, DAUBMA says, several people dragged it out of the…

Published on 05/09/2026 – 15:52 GMT+2 Spain is extending its border checks on travellers arriving from Italy by air or sea for a further 15 days, pushing the measure’s expiry from 7 September to 22 September. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The decision follows the same pattern that has defined the stand-off between Madrid and Rome since the summer. Spain introduced these checks for the first time on 8 August, through Order INT/846/2026, as a direct response to Italy’s earlier suspension of the free-movement regime for travellers arriving from Spanish territory. Italy, for its part, had already extended its own checks until 15…