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By Euronews Published on 26/12/2025 – 14:42 GMT+1 NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte rejected proposals for independent European security structures, insisting the EU does not need to break from the US on defence matters despite calls from senior European politicians. Manfred Weber, head of the conservative EPP party and its European Parliament group, had called for deploying European troops under EU command to secure peace in Ukraine. “I wish that soldiers with the European flag on their uniforms, together with our Ukrainian friends, would ensure peace,” Weber told German media outlet Funke. Rutte disagreed with the proposal in an interview with…
By Méabh Mc Mahon & Alice Carnevali Published on 26/12/2025 – 8:00 GMT+1 2025 is coming to an end, and among the major developments that made international headlines was the turbulent relationship between the European Union (EU) and the United States (US). Together with Euronews’ Brussels correspondent and US expert Stefan Grobe, Brussels, My Love? tries to make sense of what happened between the EU and the US in the last year, looking ahead to 2026. What happened in 2025? 2025 started with Donald Trump entering his second term as US President. His administration brought significant changes to global politics, including gradually cutting…
The US State Department on Tuesday imposed visa bans on a former European Union commissioner and four others, accusing them of forcing American social media platforms to censor users and their viewpoints. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the five people targeted with visa bans “have led organised efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetise, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose”. “These radical activists and weaponised NGOs have advanced censorship crackdowns by foreign states – in each case targeting American speakers and American companies,” Rubio said in a statement. Rubio did not initially name those targeted, but US…
The real summit started the night before European leaders descended at the Europa building last Thursday for their final gathering of the year. As it often is the case in Brussels, the ordre du jour was only indicative, and the real business was done on the sidelines. On the table was an innovative plan to issue a reparations loan for Kyiv based on immobilised Russian assets held mostly in Belgium. It was an option preferred by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Commission President Ursula von der Leyen; the resistance from the Belgian Prime Minister Bart…
Published on 23/12/2025 – 14:34 GMT+1 Exactly one year after Donald Trump first announced his intention to integrate Greenland into US territory on grounds of “national protection”, he’s back for more. The US president has appointed Governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, as the new US special envoy for Greenland with the stated objective of “integrating Greenland into the United States” and repeated the US needs the territory for its national security. His comments have been taken seriously by EU heads of state and government, who are presenting a united front against what they describe as American expansionist ambitions towards the…
At a crunch summit earlier this month, European leaders turned to a tool that would have seemed unthinkable just a few months earlier to break an impasse: issuing joint debt backed by the common budget to keep Ukraine afloat as the war rages on. The trick? It bypassed the need for unanimity among member states, gathering those who wanted to work together while keeping Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic out of the deal as a condition for it to go forward. In doing so, the EU not only managed to secure €90 billion for Ukraine for 2026 and 2027…
It was billed as the scandal that threatened to shake the core of European democracy. Explosive allegations, a spectacular police operation and allegations of big money used by three non-EU countries to influence the European Parliament’s decisions. At the centre of the storm was then-MEP and Parliament Vice President Eva Kaili, young, glamorous, and well-connected. Three years later, the European Parliament corruption scandal remains unresolved, the trial date has not been set, and the methods used by Belgian authorities have come under scrutiny. Kaili, who was relieved of her duties as an EU lawmaker and declared persona non grata, says…
On a cold and dark Wednesday evening, Toni Comín walks through the corridors of the European Parliament in Brussels like someone who feels at home. People greet him warmly, like someone they don’t see often – a strange situation for a member of the Parliament. Except that Comín is an MEP only on paper. He has no office, no assistants, no tasks to perform, and of course, no payslip. Even the badge he uses to enter the Parliament is different from his colleagues’ ones. Due to a complex legal issue, this 54-year-old Spanish lawmaker is an elected member of the…
It was so bold that, at times, it seemed impossible — and in the end, it was. The European Union’s attempt to channel the immobilised assets of the Russian Central Bank into a zero-interest reparations loan failed when the bloc’s 27 leaders, faced with a leap into the unknown, chose to support Ukraine’s resistance with the tried-and-tested method of joint debt. “If you take money from (Russian President Vladimir) Putin, you are exposed,” said Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever, the chief opponent of the reparations loan, explaining its failure. “If you’re exposed, then people like certainty, and where can…
France’s President Emmanuel Macron discovered news of his own supposed overthrow, after he received a message of concern, along with a link to a Facebook video. “On Sunday [14 December] one of my African counterparts got in touch, writing ‘Dear President, what’s happening to you? I’m very worried’”, Macron told readers of French local newspaper La Provence on 16 December. Alongside the message, a compelling video: showing a swirling helicopter, military personneland crowds gathering, as a woman — who looks just like a news anchor —goes on to deliver a piece to camera. “Unofficial reports suggest that there has been…