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Published on 27/05/2026 – 12:56 GMT+2 A map shared widely online has been used to falsely claim that the Andes strain of the hantavirus is spreading rapidly across Europe and North America. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The pictures are screenshots of a map from HantavirusMap.com, which have spread on X and TikTok in the aftermath of a hantavirus outbreak on the cruise ship MV Hondius. Social media users are claiming that the red and orange markers on the map show confirmed hantavirus cases across the world, particularly in Europe and North America. This is, however, misleading. The screenshots from the website do…

In 2025, just under half of internet users across 20 EU countries encountered online messages they considered hostile and degrading towards specific groups or individuals, according to the latest figures from Eurostat. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The highest shares were recorded in Ireland, Hungary, Finland and Slovakia, while the lowest shares were in Latvia, Greece, Germany and Lithuania. The messages targeted a wide range of groups and individuals. Most people saw hostile content aimed at others for their political or social views, racial and ethnic origin, sexual orientation, or religion and beliefs. Hostile messages also targeted people based on sex, disability, age,…

Officers from the Spanish Civil Guard’s Central Operative Unit (UCO) have raided Spain’s ruling Socialist Party’s (PSOE) national headquarters to carry out a search ordered by a judge in connection with a sealed section of the Leire Díez case. Díez, the party’s former “fixer,” is currently under investigation for influence peddling. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The Civil Guard has been at the Ferraz street building since early this morning as part of a special operation focusing on a separate and secret aspect of the case, which is also said to involve Vicente Fernández, the former president of the State Company for Industrial…

Updated: 27/05/2026 – 9:01 GMT+2 Heatwaves have become “much more common” and are affecting all Europe, not just the south, Carlo Buontempo, from the Copernicus Climate Change Service, says. He warns that climate change is making these events “last longer” and increasing their “intensity”. … More

Published on 27/05/2026 – 7:57 GMT+2•Updated 8:33 Also on today’s show: ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Interviews with Alain Berset, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, and Benjamin Haddad, French Minister for European Affairs. Euronews’ Rafael Salido reports live from Madrid on a corruption case in Spain involving Spanish PM José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. Euronews’ Fay Doulgkeri reports from Athens on Alexis Tsipras’ new political party as the former Greek prime minister eyes coming back to power. Interview with Carlo Buontempo, Director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service, on heatwaves across Europe. When and where to watch Europe Today? You can join…

Europe’s railways are about to get an upgrade on paper. The European Commission has launched its “One Journey, One Ticket, Full Rights” proposal. It targets one of rail travel’s most persistent headaches: fragmented cross-border booking. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Under the current system, a journey from Brussels to Vienna means juggling tickets from multiple operators on separate websites. Each has different rules and offers no protection if a delay causes a missed connection. The Commission’s package would let passengers search, compare, and buy a single ticket covering every leg of a cross-border journey. It includes full rights to rerouting and compensation if…

Good morning from a scorching Brussels. I’m Mared Gwyn. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Just in: Belarus’s opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya has told Euronews that “democratic Belarus is with Ukraine” and that President Aliaksandr Lukashenka is willing to sacrifice Belarus’s “independence and sovereignty to stay in power”. Watch. Tsikhanouskaya spoke from Kyiv, which over the weekend was targeted by an Oreshnik missile in what was one of Russia’s biggest attacks in the war to date. More on that below. But we start today with the drone crisis rocking the Baltic nations – with European Commission boss Ursula von der Leyen and defence chief…

Published on 26/05/2026 – 11:16 GMT+2•Updated 15:05 A train hit a school minibus killing four people, including two children, in a “horrific accident” in northern Belgium, authorities said on Tuesday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Another five schoolchildren were injured in the crash at a railway crossing in Buggenhout, a Dutch-speaking municipality about 25 kilometres northwest of Brussels. “A tragic collision between a train and a school bus took place in Buggenhout this morning. Four people have been killed, including two children,” Belgium’s deputy prime minister Maxime Prevot wrote on X. Images from the scene in the Flanders region showed a badly damaged…

Jonathan Andic, the eldest of the Andic children, has told Mango employees that he is stepping down from his responsibilities as vice-president of the fashion company founded by his father Isak Andic. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT It follows him being charged last week with the suspected murder of his father. In an open letter to staff, however, he stated his intention to maintain his “family, social and business projects.” In December 2024, the Turkish-Catalan businessman fell, or was pushed, down a 100-metre embankment on the route to the Salnitre caves in Collbató, on the southern side of the Montserrat mountain range in…

Published on 26/05/2026 – 13:48 GMT+2•Updated 14:01 In a renewed effort to speed up its EU accession process, Kyiv is calling on Brussels to open all of Ukraine’s negotiation clusters in June, ahead of the previously indicated July timeline. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “We believe that all six clusters can be open already in June,” Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Taras Kachka told Euronews in an exclusive interview. “Our timeline is that we are already behind the deadline.” Kachka’s remarks come after European Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos said the first negotiation cluster could be opened in June…