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By Alessio Dell’Anna & video by Maud Zaba Published on 01/07/2026 – 9:32 GMT+2•Updated 10:08 University degrees are supposed to give graduates an edge in the job market. But in an increasingly competitive economy, that’s often far from guaranteed. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT In Europe, the boost a bachelor’s degree or master’s degree gives to your CV can largely depend on where you live. Our analysis of Eurostat employment data found that graduate unemployment is close to zero across much of central and eastern Europe. In Romania, the Czech Republic, Poland and Bulgaria, less than 1.5% of people aged 25 to 54 with tertiary education…
Attackers targeted the homes of three politicians from Greece’s ruling party with homemade explosives on Wednesday, leaving one person dead and four wounded, police told the AFP news agency. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The attacks, which happened in the early hours in the northern city of Thessaloniki, were carried out using devices made from gas bottles. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the New Democracy leader, expressed “outrage and anger” at what he termed a “cowardly, terrorist and murderous attack” and said he would visit Thessaloniki later to support his party colleagues. The Kathimerini news website reported that the parents of former party candidate…
Former Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine’s Armed Forces and current Ambassador to the UK Valerii Zaluzhnyi intends to run in the next presidential elections, according to the latest domestic reports. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT According to Ukrainian media outlet Ukrainska Pravda, Zaluzhnyi was summoned to Kyiv in mid-June, when incumbent President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reportedly asked his former top military commander whether he would take part in presidential elections if they were held in autumn. According to the reports, Zaluzhnyi confirmed his intentions and explained that he had previously never sought a political career, “but many people are placing their hopes in him and he…
Published on 01/07/2026 – 17:01 GMT+2 England chalked up its warmest June since records began in 1884, the United Kingdom’s weather agency said on Wednesday, after a month that saw temperatures soar to new highs. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Rare extreme heat warnings were issued for several days last month, which was also the second-warmest June on record for the UK as a whole, with “exceptionally warm overnight temperatures,” the Met Office said. England registered an average temperature of 17.1C last month compared to 16.9C in June 2025. “The exceptional warmth was driven by an intense and record-breaking heatwave at the end…
Published on 01/07/2026 – 22:49 GMT+2 The Palestinian technocratic committee tasked with administering post-war Gaza said on Wednesday it concluded two days of “highly productive” talks in Cyprus on easing humanitarian suffering and advancing plans to rebuild the territory. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG) said in a post on X that it held “a series of working meetings in Cyprus with experts and advisers of the Board of Peace, the Office of the High Representative for Gaza (Nikolai Mladenov) and the Tony Blair Institute.” The talks focused on efforts to “relieve the suffering” of…
Published on 01/07/2026 – 18:03 GMT+2 A Maltese tycoon went on trial on Wednesday accused of ordering the murder of a hard-hitting investigative journalist that rocked the island nation, brought down a government and drew global condemnation. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Suspect Yorgen Fenech is charged with orchestrating the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia, 53, a prominent public figure and vocal critic who was killed by a bomb placed in her car near her home. “Nine years after my mother’s murder, the man accused of commissioning it stands trial,” the journalist’s son, Paul Caruana Galizia, wrote on social media. A lawyer for…
Published on 01/07/2026 – 20:50 GMT+2 Ukraine approved a state mechanism to export its weaponry on Wednesday, seeking to raise funds in a fifth year of fighting Russia, while saying its own defence needs will remain a priority. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT This year, Kyiv offered its military experience fighting Russia to European and Middle Eastern countries, who are interested in Ukrainian drone and anti-drone technology. “The government has approved the first transparent mechanism for exporting Ukrainian weapons,” Ukraine’s defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov said, adding countries would “be able to purchase Ukrainian weapons and technologies and work directly with Ukrainian manufacturers.” Last…
Published on 01/07/2026 – 19:07 GMT+2 Albania’s position as host of next year’s NATO summit is in doubt thanks to the country’s failure to meet key spending milestones. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Euronews previously reported that the draft conclusion for next week’s NATO summit in Ankara omits any mention of holding the next gathering in Albania, despite the summit’s location being previously announced. The withholding of any mention from the final summit declaration is a purposeful move by NATO officials to pressure Albania to step up. A NATO source confirmed on Wednesday that the situation hasn’t changed, and the alliance was sending…
German prosecutors said on Wednesday they had brought charges against a suspect in the 2022 sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipeline linking Russia with Europe. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Federal prosecutors confirmed to the AFP news agency that a man had been charged over the explosion, with German media reporting that he was a Ukrainian national said to be the head of the team that carried out the operation. They named the man as Serhii K. and said he was the same suspect who was arrested in summer 2025 in Italy and extradited to Germany the following November. The reports say…
Published on 01/07/2026 – 18:13 GMT+2 The European Parliament is set to trigger a procedure against the Europe of Sovereign Nations (ESN) party, home of Alternative for Germany (AfD) and other far-right political forces across Europe. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT If ESN is found to have failed to uphold the core values of the European Union, it could be stripped of its right to be registered as a European political party and lose its funding. More than 180 lawmakers have signed a request to activate a verification mechanism by which the Authority for European Political Parties and Foundations (APPF) is tasked to…