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Published on 05/11/2025 – 11:50 GMT+1 Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has dismissed accusations from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that he is showing “specific support for Putin” by obstructing Ukraine’s EU membership talks. In an interview with Euronews on Tuesday, Zelenskyy said he had no intention of offering concessions to Budapest, arguing that Hungary should instead support Ukraine’s defence of Europe. “I don’t think that I have to offer something to Viktor Orbán,” Zelenskyy said. “I think that Viktor Orbán has to offer something for Ukraine, which is protecting the whole Europe from Russia, and even now, during this war,…
A central Wellington street has reopened after being closed by armed police who couldn’t locate a person with a warrant for their arrest.Officers arrived at an apartment block on Hopper St in the suburb of Mount Cook to execute an arrest warrant at around 10.30am.Wellington City area commander Inspector Dean Silvester said attending officers were led to believe a firearm might be present.”They withdrew from the immediate area and cordoned and contained the address.”A drone was used to clear the apartment at around 12.50pm, prior to the Armed Offenders Squad going in, he said.”The subject of the warrant was not…
After years of stalled progress in the enlargement of the European Union, several countries are now back on track to join the bloc within the next few years. Leaders from EU hopefuls gathered in Brussels for the Euronews Enlargement Summit on Tuesday, as the European Commission presented its latest progress report. “Unfortunately, it was needed an aggression in the European soil, a military aggression, to make Brussels wake up,” said Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama during his address at the summit, referring to the acceleration in accession talks since the start of Russia’s all-out war against Ukraine. Rama expressed hope…
Buyer confidence is picking up in Dunedin’s steady property market on the back of lower interest rates, sales agents say. The market has typically been described as stable after the latest valuations were released by Quotable Value, showing little movement overall since 2022. Nidd Realty owner Joe Nidd said some buyers in Dunedin had been cautious in recent years, but confidence was returning. He had noticed much more competition among house buyers around the middle of the market, and more unconditional offers. “And the upper end of the market has shown a real invigoration in the past two to three…
Locations for six new average speed safety cameras have been confirmed by the New Zealand Transport Agency. The new cameras, which calculate a vehicle’s average speed along a length of road between them, will be set up at six locations in the South Island and the lower North Island. It means drivers will be ticketed if their average speed between the two cameras is over the limit. They will join 11 other sets previously announced by the agency to be installed in the upper North Island.The new locations announced today were: Southland – SH6 Kingston to SH97 Five RiversCanterbury -…
Published on 05/11/2025 – 18:15 GMT+1 •Updated 18:20 Albania is committed to joining the European Union by 2030, Prime Minister Edi Rama told Euronews, labelling his country as “the most Euro-optimistic nation in Europe”. “2030 is not a date that I saw in a dream, but it’s a deadline that is the result of a very simple calculation,” he said during his interview at Euronews’ EU Enlargement Summit on Tuesday. He expects to conclude talks in the next two years, giving national parliaments across the EU another two years to ratify the decision, he added. The timeline is considered assertive…
Whanganui District Council has admitted it made a mistake in setting up its first citizens’ assembly, conceding members were not told they would be thrust into the public spotlight.The admission follows an Ombudsman investigation into the council’s refusal to name 39 people appointed to the citizens’ assembly on outdoor pools in mid-2025.The council has acknowledged shortcomings and apologised for a procedural error after failing to tell participants their involvement would be public.Former chief executive David Langford told Local Democracy Reporting (LDR) the assembly was a new initiative and that while care was taken to support participants, “not all aspects were…
Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić has confirmed that his country is ready to sell ammunition to the EU, even if it ultimately ends up with Ukrainian forces in their fight against Russia. “We need to sell it to someone, and we’ll sell it to whomever we can in order to earn some money, but we’ll try to take care and not see that ammunition end up in a war zone. But it happens from time to time,” Vučić said on Euronews’ flagship interview show The Europe Conversation. “At the end [of the day], we’ll have to pay our workers,” he added.…
The unemployment rate has risen to a near nine-year high of 5.3%, according to new figures released by Stats NZ today.It was another nudge up from the previous figure of 5.2% in the June 2025 quarter and 5.1% in the March 2025 quarter.”The unemployment rate has been over 5% for the last four quarters. The last time that the unemployment rate was 5.3% was in the December 2016 quarter”, said Stats NZ labour market spokesperson Jason Attewell.Which group’s hit hardest as unemployment rate hits 9-year high – Watch on TVNZ+There were 160,000 unemployed people in the September 2025 quarter. In…
Published on 05/11/2025 – 17:07 GMT+1 The EU’s environment ministers agreed on Wednesday on the bloc’s domestic climate target to cut CO2 emissions by 2040, after intense political pressure to deliver on climate commitments and maintain Brussels’ role as a climate action leader at next week’s COP30 UN climate summit. The EU27 agreed on a range to set a 2035 climate target to reduce net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 66.25–72.5% below 1990 levels, covering all sectors of the economy and all GHGs, including methane. The range takes into account the 2040 climate target, setting the path to cut emissions…