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The Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez and French president Emmanuel Macron highlighted the close relationship between their two countries and urged greater European unity to confront key migratory, economic and geopolitical challenges. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The joint press conference at the Moncloa Palace was also marked by the Spanish Senate’s rejection of the Treaty of Friendship between Spain and France. Sánchez apologised to Macron for the Upper House’s no vote and promised that parliament would approve an agreement of this kind before the end of the current term. “All I can do is apologise,” the Spanish premier said of Tuesday’s rejection,…

Published on 30/09/2026 – 19:28 GMT+2 The UK’s Home Office said on Wednesday that its year-old deal with France to return migrants crossing the Channel on small boats had ended. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “The government’s pilot with France to remove asylum seekers in exchange for an equal number of legal migrants is no longer processing new cases,” the Home Office said, confirming the end of the so-called “one in, one out” deal, which was launched in August last year and was due to expire on Thursday. The scheme, known as Operation Hillmore, was part of efforts by London and Paris to…

Published on 30/09/2026 – 21:19 GMT+2 British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on Wednesday there were “strong indications” that Iran was involved in suspicious activity near a UK airbase used by the US military, which sparked a major security alert. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “There are strong indications that Iran played a part in what happened over the weekend at RAF Fairford,” Burnham told the BBC, referring to Sunday’s bomb scare near the base in southwest England, which the US has been using in its war against Iran. “Of course it remains an ongoing, complex, and serious police investigation,” he added. Speaking…

Is Europe ready to defend itself? ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT That was the central question at the Euronews Defence and Space Summit, which brought together policymakers, lawmakers and industry leaders as Europe grapples with the need to rearm and deter potential threats. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has transformed Europe’s security landscape, exposing longstanding weaknesses and forcing governments to rethink defence spending, military capabilities and industrial capacity. As Russia continues its war in Ukraine and hybrid attacks against European allies increase, the pressure to act is growing. Here are five key moments from Wednesday’s summit. Radev raises the alarm Bulgarian Prime Minister…

For years, Ukrainians have lived with a war raging not only along the front line, but above their heads. In Kyiv, the battle in the sky has become part of daily life, measured in air-raid alerts, the sound of air defence and the explosions that follow. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT At an air-defence position protecting the capital, the work begins before anything appears overhead. Soldiers prepare their weapons and scan for threats that can arrive at radically different speeds and from different directions. The challenge is no longer simply the number of weapons Russia can put into the air. Its attacks increasingly…

Published on 30/09/2026 – 14:17 GMT+2 The Bulgarian parliament passed a law on Wednesday aiming to better protect journalists, activists and others from abusive lawsuits designed to censor or intimidate critics. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT In doing so, Bulgaria has gone beyond the minimum European Union requirement in a bid to protect the media in a country where the freedom of the press has come under sustained pressure. Known as strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPP), the use of legal action is intended to silence or financially bankrupt reporters, whistleblowers and rights groups, rather than win the case outright. Most SLAPPs are…

A migrant in a wheelchair, with serious injuries to his ankles, arms and torso, says he was pushed by soldiers from a height of more than six metres. When Amnesty International spoke to him in Ceuta, he complained that he had not even been given an X-ray and had only received an emergency bandage. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT His is one of the accounts included in an investigation that describes beatings, humiliations and summary expulsions from Cueta and which, according to the organisation, reveals abuses that could amount to torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. Blows with batons and boots,…

Ukraine is already using its new interceptor technology in combat and is now racing to scale up production before the hardest part of the winter, according to Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Office of the President of Ukraine. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Budanov told Euronews in an exclusive interview that the technology is intercepting Russian jet-powered drones in most cases, but that producing it on a large enough scale remains the main challenge. The technology could also become available to countries that have already established drone partnerships with Ukraine under agreements known as “Drone Deals.” Ukraine has signed such agreements with a…

Published on 30/09/2026 – 13:08 GMT+2 The UK could “go all the way” and rejoin the European Union, British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said, as his government prepares to weigh a range of options for redefining the country’s relationship with the bloc. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Speaking to the BBC a day after he told a Labour Party conference that he would present “options” for the future EU-UK relationship, Burnham acknowledged that reversing Brexit would be one of the proposals under consideration. “We could stay as we are. We could look at what George Osborne has said about a customs union,…

Published on 30/09/2026 – 11:18 GMT+2 Russian strikes killed at least four people in and around Ukraine’s capital on Wednesday, authorities said, in a barrage of attacks which hit the city’s energy infrastructure and cut power. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Heavy explosions rang out across Kyiv throughout a night of almost continuous air alerts warning people to take cover in bomb shelters from ballistic and cruise missiles backed up by drones. Kyiv, home to some 3 million people, has faced several nights of sustained aerial barrages, as well as increasing daytime strikes in an escalation of the more than four-and-a-half-year-long war. In…