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Published on 08/07/2026 – 14:18 GMT+2 A former school building in Budapest is being converted into the city’s first new social housing in 25 years, with support from the European Union and the city administration. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The €6.2 million project at 39–43 Baross Street in Újpest is 80% funded by the EU, with the first tenants expected to move in early next year. Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony said the development comes as the Hungarian capital faces a worsening housing crisis. “In terms of property prices, nowhere in the European Union has seen such sharp increases in recent years as…

Eight out of 27 member states opposed opening another round of accession talks with Serbia at a meeting attended by European Union ambassadors in Brussels on Wednesday, three EU diplomats confirmed to Euronews. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The member states that oppose opening Cluster 3 –which centres on competitiveness and inclusive growth – were the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Belgium, Estonia, Lithuania, Bulgaria and Croatia. The three member states that remain less opposed but not convinced are Denmark, Luxembourg and Latvia, while general supporters of Serbian accession include power brokerFrance. French President Emmanuel Macron previously stated that the bloc requires a “strong and…

Published on 08/07/2026 – 14:34 GMT+2 Norwegian police said on Wednesday that 28 men across seven countries had been arrested in an operation targeting buyers of material depicting sexual abuse of children. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Norway’s National Criminal Investigation Service (Kripos) said the men had used the cryptocurrency Monero to pay for access to several forums on the dark web. “We have worked closely with six countries to coordinate the arrests of the identified users who paid with cryptocurrency to gain access to the forums,” police prosecutor Terje Nedrebo Michelsen said in a statement. The operation had been carried out in…

Published on 08/07/2026 – 14:45 GMT+2•Updated 14:53 The European Union is discussing a narrower version of its proposal to ban the issuing of visas to Russian soldiers and military veterans after pushback from France and Italy, limiting the measure to short-stay visas and to those who directly took part in the fighting in Ukraine. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The ban will form part of the EU’s 21st package of sanctions against Russia over its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. EU ambassadors are due to discuss the package on Wednesday, with the aim of adopting it by mid-July to avoid an automatic revision of…

Published on 08/07/2026 – 15:12 GMT+2•Updated 16:54 British anti-immigrant politician Nigel Farage faces the embarrassing prospect of going head-to-head with perennial joke candidate Count Binface in a snap election after he decided to quit parliament. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT His surprise move threatened to backfire on Wednesday after other heavyweight parties confirmed they would not contest a by-election. Count Binface, a self-described “intergalactic space warrior” is the only other person to have said so far that they would run. What did Farage announce? In a televised address on Tuesday, the leader of the hard-right Reform UK party said he was resigning as…

Published on 08/07/2026 – 15:37 GMT+2•Updated 18:17 US president Donald Trump said the US plans to provide Ukraine with licence to produce US-made Patriot air defence interceptors. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Speaking alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the NATO summit in Ankara, Trump said Washington would give Kyiv “the right to make Patriots”, referring to the long‑range air defence missiles Kyiv has repeatedly requested to protect its cities and energy grid from Russian strikes. “We’ll show them how to do it,” Trump said, describing the system as “very complex” but insisting Kyiv would “figure out the complexity quickly”. He said US…

At least two girls have been seriously wounded and a 16-year-old suspect arrested after an attack at a secondary school in the southern German state of Bavaria on Wednesday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The perpetrator appeared to have deliberately targeted the Welfen grammar school in the town of Schongau in a suspected “rampage,” a police spokesperson told the AFP news agency. She was unable to confirm press reports which claimed the assailant used a knife in the attack. Local police said on their X account that “a suspected perpetrator has been arrested,” later adding that this was a “16-year-old boy.” Initially the…

Published on 08/07/2026 – 21:54 GMT+2 More than 6,500 people gathered at dawn in Bosnia and Herzegovina on Wednesday to set off on a march in memory of the victims of the Srebrenica genocide. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT They came from around the country as well as from abroad to pay tribute not only to the victims but also to those who walked for days to save their lives in July 1995. Ibis Husejnovic is here “to feel the pain, to feel the silence,” he explained. Raifa Duzic said she joined the march to “feel a small part of what those who…

For two years, farmers’ anger has been spilling over into protests across Europe, amid frustration over high operational costs, stringent green rules, and new European Union trade deals that farmers say put their livelihoods at risk. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Now, the challenges they face seem to be multiplying. In this episode of The Ring, Euronews’ weekly debate show, Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) Ciaran Mulloly of the Renew Europe group and Pekka Toveri of the European People’s Party (EPP) go head-to-head on how the EU can continue to protect farmers in a more complex geopolitical climate. For Ciaran Mulloly, the…

US President Donald Trump offered NATO allies an unexpected warm embrace as they wrapped up a key summit on Wednesday after earlier lashing out at them over their response to his war on Iran. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT It was an abrupt swing from antagonism to affection within the space of a few short hours, illustrating the wide range of emotions exhibited by the mercurial US leader. “It was amazing, actually. The unity in that room was incredible, really a love, it was sort of pretty wild,” Trump told reporters after the closed-door meeting of 32 leaders at the NATO summit in…