Author: Euronews

There are “no plans” for Ursula von der Leyen to attend the inauguration of Donald Trump, the European Commission has confirmed. ADVERTISEMENTUrsula von der Leyen has not received an invitation to attend the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th US president but she is seeking to establish “early contacts” with the new administration, the European Commission confirmed on Friday.Von der Leyen, a staunch advocate of transatlantic relations, is currently recovering from severe pneumonia in Hanover, Germany. As a result, the Commission president has cancelled all her external engagements for the first half of January.She is working from home and…

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This article was originally published in Spanish Last year, more than 43,000 migrants arrived in the Canary Islands, a record-breaking figure that exceeds that of 2006, during the so-called ‘Cayuco crisis’. ADVERTISEMENTAround 780 new migrants have arrived in the Canary Islands, local officials in the Spanish archipelago say. Authorities said the migrants arrived in ten boats on the islands of Lanzarote and El Hierro and included 36 minors and 86 women of sub-Saharan and North African origin.Salvamento Marítimo, Spain’s sea and rescue agency, said in a post on X that it rescued “84 sub-Saharan people (13 women and 4 minors) from…

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Schallenberg has served as Austria’s foreign minister under outgoing chancellor Karl Nehammer since 2021. ADVERTISEMENTAustrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg will be named caretaker chancellor on Wednesday, taking over from outgoing Karl Nehammer, who quit after the first post-election coalition talks collapsed. Schallenberg previously acted as Austrian chancellor in 2021 after Sebastian Kurz stepped down amidst corruption allegations. Austria’s conservative Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP)-led government will remain in power as caretakers until a new coalition is formed. Far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) leader Herbert Kickl’s party secured victory in recent parliamentary elections, winning 28.8% of the vote and surpassing outgoing Nehammer’s ÖVP, which came in second. However,…

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