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Published on 02/10/2026 – 11:53 GMT+2•Updated 11:54 Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is urging Brussels once again to give capitals more room to cushion households and companies from the latest energy-price shock, arguing that European Union fiscal rules are becoming increasingly restrictive as inflation drives up government spending. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT In a letter addressed to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, seen by Euronews, Meloni said the prolonged Middle East crisis has left European energy markets “extremely tight,” with oil prices up almost 80% and gas up to 156%. “Against this backdrop, the agreed net expenditure paths under the…
By Jean-Philippe Liabot & Andreas Rogal with AFP Published on 01/10/2026 – 20:15 GMT+2 A protest movement in France’s high schools intensified on Thursday, with students setting fire to bins and erecting blockades outside schools in an increasing number of cities. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The students have been protesting overcrowded classrooms, teacher shortages and crumbling facilities. Several school principals have been injured, harassed or assaulted at high schools, according to reports from regional education authorities, prefectures and union representatives. Police have already detained hundreds of protesters at the lycées, which students aged 15 to 18 attend for their final three years of secondary education in France.…
Published on 02/10/2026 – 8:01 GMT+2 On today’s show: In an exclusive interview with Euronews, EU energy chief Dan Jørgensen urges European governments to use existing flexibility to ease the pain at the pump for millions of Europeans as Trump presses EU countries to release millions of barrels from their emergency oil stocks. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Osama Rizvi, Global Market & Product Strategist at Primary Vision, analyses the latest energy price increase. Javier Iñiguez reports from Madrid on a crucial vote happening today in Spain’s Congress, where, after days of protests in the streets, MPs will have their say on two…
Published on 01/10/2026 – 20:15 GMT+2 Both when it comes to defence capabilities and industry capacities, Europe is in a very difficult position, Belgian Defence Minister Theo Francken told Euronews. He pointed to the bloc’s decades-long prioritising of soft power as one reason for this. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT His comments come as the European NATO members are ramping up defence spending and Brussels is rolling out policies to bolster the defence industry. While Francken sees progress being made, he warned Europe does not have all the capabilities it needs. “Europe has been very good at investing in soft power, in social…
French media outlet Mediapart has published new material in the case of the antisemitic messages attributed to Jordan Bardella. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The investigative outlet on Thursday published screenshots of Facebook Messenger conversations involving him from 2013 and 2014, whose authenticity it says was established through a data extraction supplied by Meta and certified by a court bailiff, as Edwy Plenel, the outlet’s co-founder, explained on Twitter. The investigation, conducted over several months, draws on dozens of written conversations and interviews with 18 people. The exchanges from 2013 and 2014 were passed on to Mediapart by two separate sources, both from…
Russia’s intensifying aerial attacks on Ukraine are aimed at exhausting and intimidating the civilian population, Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, told Euronews in an exclusive interview. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “Civilians are being killed – women, children, elderly people, veterans of the Second World War,” Budanov said. “It is all truly terrible, especially when children are killed.” Budanov described Russia’s approach as “classic terrorism”, saying its purpose was not only to inflict damage but to frighten the population. Asked whether Moscow believed sustained attacks could exhaust Ukrainians and ultimately increase pressure on the government to make…
By Andreas Rogal with AFP Published on 01/10/2026 – 23:01 GMT+2 The Danish Armed Forces have admitted to have made errors in their initial report on suspected drones of unknown origins that flew over the country in the autumn of 2025. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT In the run-up to a EU summit in Copenhagen at the beginning of October, drones had been sighted both above civilian and military air bases, causing heightened security measures, temporary airport shutdowns and a private drone ban. The sites affected included Skrydstrup air base — where Ukrainian pilots are trained on F-16 fighter jets. Following some scepticism about the official…
Published on 01/10/2026 – 14:18 GMT+2 Finnish authorities said on Thursday they were investigating a slew of suspected break-ins at the homes of members of parliament, which President Alexander Stubb said would be “an attack on democracy” if confirmed. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Following media reports of the break-ins, speaker of parliament Jussi Halla-aho confirmed that parliament had been made aware of a “significant” number of break-ins and signs of attempted intrusions at the homes of several politicians. “I cannot comment precisely on the number of suspected cases known to us, but in any event, it is significant,” Halla-aho said at a…
“Let’s go to war!” shouted six-year-old Giorgos at his older cousin, Minas, as the two chased each other with claw-like geranium stalks around the schoolyard on the tiny Greek island of Thymaina. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The two boys are the last primary school children on the far-flung eastern Aegean island, 40 kilometres from the Turkish coast. “When I was a boy, the school had nearly 70 children,” 77-year-old Manolis Mitikas, owner of Thymaina’s portside cantina, mused over a game of backgammon. Like the rest of Greece, the former pirate hideout is facing the effects of an ageing population. The education ministry…
Nuclear tensions: In an interview with Euronews, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte has told Russia to stop issuing nuclear threats, after Moscow sent a letter to the alliance saying it is prepared to deploy its nuclear arsenal if its territory – including the enclave of Kaliningrad – comes under attack. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT ‘Stop’: “We are a defensive alliance. Stop the nuclear threats. This is absolutely not called for and not helpful,” Rutte exclusively told the Euronews Defence and Space Summit on Wednesday, at a moment of heightened tension between Russia and the West. Rutte, however, dismissed the immediate threat to the…