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Published on 23/01/2026 – 7:30 GMT+1 •Updated 8:19 EU leaders gathered in Brussels last night for a lengthy dinner and tense talks. Despite the tasty food, the mood was grim as they discussed trade, Greenland, Mercosur and Trump’s Gaza Board of Peace. For more on whether this summit was worth the trip, we cross over to Shona Murray who was there till the early hours of the morning. The 27 EU leaders debated deep into the night on all the challenges facing the Union. And we are joined today by one of them – Greece Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. In…
The leaders of the European Union have demanded respect from Donald Trump after the United States president brought the transatlantic alliance to the precipice of collapse with his threat to seize Greenland through the use of punitive tariffs. Trump suddenly backtracked on Wednesday, opting instead for a long-term deal on Arctic security brokered by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. “We believe that relationships between partners and allies should be managed in a cordial and respectful way,” António Costa, the president of the European Council, said on Thursday evening at the end of an extraordinary summit in Brussels. “The European Union…
The chief of Spain’s diplomacy, José Manuel Albares, said in an interview with Euronews on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos that the EU should stand firmly behind its values, as some countries are threatening the use of force as foreign policy. He called on Europe to take full control of its own security, arguing that the continent must move “towards a European army” at a moment of growing geopolitical pressure and uncertainty in transatlantic relations. “If we want to continue being a peaceful continent (…), we need to have the deterrence in our hand, and we…
The chief of Spain’s diplomacy said that the deal cut bilaterally between Rutte and the United States President Donald Trump is a bilateral arrangement, “not NATO, (…) it is the Secretary General of NATO talking to one of the allies.” Details of the arrangement are yet to emerge. “The only thing I know is the announcement that was made yesterday,” Albares said. “I talked to the ministers of foreign affairs of all those allied countries, and they have the same information as I, just the announcement. And I’m sure that whatever has been discussed will be brought to the Council…
Published on 22/01/2026 – 16:17 GMT+1 NATO military planners said on Thursday afternoon that they have not yet received any direction regarding the framework deal agreed between the US and Denmark for Greenland, but stand ready to start planning as soon as they do so. “We’re still at the very early stage,” Admiral Guiseppe Cavo Dragone, the chair of NATO’s Military Committee, told reporters after a Military Committee in Chiefs of Defence Session at NATO headquarters in Brussels. “We are still waiting for direction and then from then on we will start doing our business, which is military planning,” he…
A core tension underlies the EU’s support for LKAB’s Per Geijer rare-earth mine in northern Sweden. The EU wants to fast-track projects critical to its green and industrial policies. Its strict environmental and Indigenous rights laws can slow or block these efforts, especially because of permitting requirements, biodiversity protections, and Sami rights obligations. LKAB’s Per Geijer deposit near Kiruna has been granted “strategic project” status under the EU’s Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA), making it eligible for EU-backed loans, guarantees and other de-risking instruments. The designation aims to accelerate domestic mining of materials essential for electric vehicles, wind turbines and…
Europe regularly positions itself as a prime place to invest: direct investment stocks held by foreign investors amount to nearly 10 trillion in the EU alone, the world’s largest single market by number of consumers. With that in mind, outside companies are always on the lookout for where best to grow their business, but the old continent’s political, legislative and administrative fragmentation makes it harder to work out exactly which country might be best. A new study may be able to help point them in the right direction, however, as it ranks the best and worst places for companies looking…
Published on 22/01/2026 – 12:08 GMT+1 Ursula von der Leyen’s Commission survived on Thursday a vote of confidence in the European Parliament, tabled by far right Patriots for Europe (PfE) and rejected with 390 MEPs voting against, 165 in favour and 10 abstentions. A threshold of two-thirds of the votes cast, representing a majority of all sitting MEPs, was needed to topple the Commission. The Parliament decided not to unseat von der Leyen the day after a significant setback for her Commission, with MEPs voting to refer the EU-Mercosur trade agreement to the EU Court of Justice. The motion of…
EU leaders will meet tonight for an emergency summit in Brussels to discuss the uneasy truce which has broken out among Europe and the US after President Trump backed down from his plans to “take” Greenland from Denmark. An eleventh-hour agreement to move the fate of the Danish protectorate to a diplomatic framework aimed at increasing US influence over Arctic security has deescalated the situation, at least for now. But EU sources have told Euronews that while they are relieved at the latest developments, there’s no guarantee the matter won’t re-emerge in a similarly hostile manner in the future. “For…
Good morning from Brussels, where the EU’s 27 leaders will gather later tonight for what were convened as emergency talks on the transatlantic relationship. But last night, Trump stepped back from the precipice, saying he will no longer impose the tariffs he had threatened on eight European countries over their support to Greenland. “Based upon a very productive meeting that I have had with the Secretary-General of NATO, Mark Rutte, we have formed the framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland and, in fact, the entire Arctic Region,” Trump said on his Truth Social platform. “Based upon this…