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ADVERTISEMENTAfter the funeral of Pope Francis in the presence of numerous world leaders, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at Palazzo Chigi.The conversation between the two lasted just under an hour. According to a note released by Palazzo Chigi, during the talks “the leaders reiterated their support for President Trump’s efforts to achieve a just and lasting peace, capable of guaranteeing a future of security, sovereignty and freedom for Ukraine.””Meloni expressed, also on behalf of the government, her condolences for the victims of the recent Russian attacks, renewing her firm condemnation of such acts and…

ADVERTISEMENTAhead of Saturday’s funeral, the coffin of Pope Francis was sealed in St Peter’s Basilica on Friday evening.The three-day viewing period ended at around 7 pm, signalled by a changing of the guards at the pontiff’s open coffin. Thousands of people had lined up to see the pope lying in state, and the Vatican had extended the basilica’s opening hours, welcoming visitors to pay their respects throughout the night due to the higher-than-expected turnout. St Peter’s Basilica closed for just an hour and a half on Thursday morning for cleaning.The Vatican said over 90,000 people had paid their respects by…

London, Paris and Berlin have consistently retained their position. But what makes them so special?

ADVERTISEMENTFrontex Executive Director Hans Leijtens has told Euronews he wishes that no migrants arriving in Europe had to be returned to Libya, where they often face human rights abuses — but said his agency sometimes “has no choice”.Frontex, the EU’s external border and coast guard agency is regularly challenged by human rights groups for not doing enough to save lives at sea.  It uses drones or planes to detect boats, often packed to the brim with people, heading in the direction of the European coastline. A coordination centre is then alerted, and the migrant boats often intercepted and returned to other Mediterranean…

ADVERTISEMENTWith the war in Ukraine entering a new phase, the number of Ukrainians heading to Europe to seek asylum appears to be in decline.Currently, the EU hosts over 4.3 million Ukrainian refugees, with 254,000 others in the UK alone, and tens of thousands more across other extra-EU countries.February saw the lowest number of new asylum decisions (41,435) made by the EU since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, according to Eurostat, a 25% drop since February 2024.Germany has the highest share of Ukrainian refugees, nearly 1.8 million, or 27.3% of the bloc’s total. Two weeks ago, Berlin became the latest…

Thales’ sales in the first quarter were supported by increased European defence spending. However, new orders lagged mainly due to a very high comparison base, especially for defence.

The Constitutional Court is one of Kazakhstan’s legal institutions supporting a modernising agenda through which the central Asian state is seeking to deepen ties with the EU, the chair of the court told Euronews on a recent visit to Strasbourg.

ADVERTISEMENTEconomic momentum in the eurozone stalled in April, as recent trade tensions battered the services sector, undermining fragile optimism for the bloc’s recovery path.The eurozone’s Composite Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI), a closely watched gauge of private sector health, dipped to 50.1 in April from 50.9 in March, falling short of consensus expectations of 50.3.The figure, barely above the 50.0 threshold that separates growth from contraction, suggests stagnation across the bloc’s economy as the second quarter began.April’s performance marked a divergence between a mildly resurgent manufacturing sector and a services sector that slid into contraction. The flash Services PMI fell from…

The Spanish Prime Minister confirmed an additional €10.4 billion investment in defence and security to bring the country’s spending from 1.28% of GDP to the 2% NATO target agreed in 2014.

ADVERTISEMENTDonald Trump has stepped up his attacks on US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, while the Supreme Court is simultaneously considering a case that could make it easier for the president to fire him.It comes after Trump suggested on Thursday that he has the power to remove Powell and criticised him for not aggressively cutting interest rates.“If I want him out, he’ll be out of there real fast, believe me,” Trump said. “I’m not happy with him.”In a post on his social media platform, Truth Social, on Monday, Trump called Powell “a major loser” and said that energy and grocery…