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Published on 24/04/2026 – 18:15 GMT+2 Four men charged with an arson attack on London ambulances owned by a Jewish charity appeared in a UK court for the first time on Friday, when the judge set a trial date. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The 23 March attack in Golders Green, north London, destroyed four vehicles parked near a synagogue and has been followed by a spate of similar incidents, mainly targeting venues in the capital linked to Israel or Jewish people. London police have arrested 25 people over the attacks and said they are investigating whether those involved were paid proxies. The…
Published on 24/04/2026 – 13:40 GMT+2 Posts shared on X feature what appears to be a BBC News report of an interview with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy from his office in Kyiv. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT In the background of the footage, a painting is visible, identified as Nature morte aux cerises, or “Still Life with Cherries” in English, by the French artist Paul Cézanne. The posts suggested that the painting, recently stolen in Italy, has somehow found its way onto the wall of Ukraine’s presidency. It is true that “Still Life with Cherries” was among three works stolen on the night of…
Published on 24/04/2026 – 13:44 GMT+2 A letter is circulating in the European Parliament warning of the concentration that might result from the system of quotas allocation contained in the EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement and the potential for major South American agricultural firms to abuse it. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The document, sent to EU Agriculture Commissioner Christophe Hansen and Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra, comes as the agreement is set to enter provisional force in a week (1 May), despite warnings from European farmers over unfair competition from Latin American imports. “In markets that are already highly concentrated, particularly in Brazil, there is…
There is no inherent contradiction between the European Union’s mutual assistance clause and NATO’s collective defence, High Representative Kaja Kallas told Euronews as Washington ramps up criticism against the transatlantic alliance over the war in Iran. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Article 42.7 of the EU treaties allows a member state under “armed aggression” to request assistance from the other member states, which can take various forms, such as military, economic, diplomatic and medical aid. Article 5 of NATO is worded differently. It says an armed attack against one ally “shall be considered an attack against them all” and explicitly mentions military force…
Published on 24/04/2026 – 14:44 GMT+2 A senior Swedish diplomat serving as special envoy to Syria was charged on Friday with unauthorised possession of classified documents which could have jeopardised Sweden’s national security in the hands of a foreign power, prosecutors said. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “This concerns highly-classified information that the defendant has unlawfully handled by taking home and then keeping the documents containing classified information in his residence and holiday home,” prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist said in a statement. The diplomat gained access to the classified information “through his previous duties, but which he then took with him without authorisation and…
The instrumentalisation of vetoes undermines the democratic principles of the European Union as it hijacks the interests of 26 in the name of one single holdout, High Representative Kaja Kallas told Euronews in an exclusive interview. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Kallas was reflecting on the end of Viktor Orbán’s 16 years in uninterrupted power, during which the Hungarian prime minister frequently frustrated his fellow leaders with his near-constant, overlapping vetoes. “We have to be clear that, actually, the EU treaties do not foresee the veto. The treaties are based on unanimity — that everybody agrees,” Kallas told Euronews in an interview recorded…
By Alessio Dell’Anna & video by Léo Arnoux Published on 24/04/2026 – 10:45 GMT+2 As the world waits for a new round of talks between Washington and Tehran, unlikely to take place imminently, oil prices spiked again on Thursday, hovering at more than $100 a barrel. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The standoff is choking off nearly all exports through the vital Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of the world’s traded oil passes in peacetime. In the year preceding the American-Israeli attack on Iran, prices at the pump had been drifting down across most of the EU, but the shock provoked by the blockade has…
The Irish government has asked Economy Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis to rethink plans to accelerate permitting procedures, stressing that faster approvals are vital to deliver housing and critical infrastructure. The request comes as the country faces a deepening housing crisis marked by soaring rents, widespread homelessness and chronic supply shortages. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Irish Housing Minister James Browne has recently called on housing developers facing financial strain on cost-rental developments to come forward and engage with his department, in a bid to keep projects viable. His remarks follow the recent collapse of a north Dublin cost-rental scheme, which was deemed financially unworkable.…
The European Union’s failure to sanction Israel over its military action in Gaza and Lebanon weakens the collective “credibility” and “legitimacy” to defend Ukraine against Russia’s full-scale invasion, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has said. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “Something that is delegitimising us, not only in the eyes of the outside world but also in the eyes of our own societies, is this double standard, this double yardstick that Europe is using in Ukraine and the Middle East,” Sánchez said on Friday. His warning comes a few days after Spain’s renewed push to terminate the EU-Israel Association Agreement in response to…
Russian soldiers who took part in the full-scale invasion of Ukraine should be barred for life from the passport-free Schengen area, Estonia’s Prime Minister Kristen Michal has told Euronews, as he seeks to turn the proposal into EU-wide policy. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The Estonian government argues that the Kremlin’s expanded mobilisation — aimed at sustaining its assault on Ukraine and replenishing battlefield losses — raises the likelihood that, even after hostilities end, former combatants could pose a risk for the EU. “What will those people do? Most of them are criminals, but they have to be treated as heroes inside Russia,”…