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Published on 07/05/2026 – 21:01 GMT+2•Updated 21:11 The winner of Bulgaria’s parliamentary elections last month, Rumen Radev, was named the country’s new prime minister on Thursday. His landslide win in last month’s parliamentary election raises hopes for a stable government in the Balkan nation, which has seen eight elections in the space of five years. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Radev ran on a ticket focused on fighting corruption and “cleaning up” what he described as Bulgaria’s “oligarchic model”. Radev, who resigned earlier this year as president to participate in the election, is a staunch EU critic, and has campaigned on resuming dialogue…
Published on 07/05/2026 – 19:57 GMT+2 The European Commission insisted on Thursday that “progress” had been made in late-night talks with MEPs and member state officials on implementing last August’s EU-US trade deal, and that the process remained “fully in line with standard legislative practice”. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT But inside the room, negotiators were far apart on what is still needed. Nine months after the controversial agreement was struck at the Turnberry golf course between Brussels and Washington, the deal remains bogged down in fraught negotiations between MEPs, the Commission and EU member states, with divisions hardening just as Donald Trump…
Published on 07/05/2026 – 17:26 GMT+2 Ukraine’s top negotiator Rustem Umerov will hold talks with US officials in Florida on Thursday on how to end the full-scale Russian invasion, Kyiv said on Thursday, amid stalled negotiations during the Iran war. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “The Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine will hold a series of meetings today with envoys of the President of the United States,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote in a post on X. Zelenskyy said Kyiv had “defined the key tasks,” which includes discussing a potential prisoner exchange with Russia and security guarantees for…
In light of the worsening energy crises, EU Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra has said the EU must step up its transition to alternative energy sources in the European Union. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “That means more electrification, more renewables, more heat pumps, more interconnectors between our member states, more nuclear,” Hoskstra said on Euronews’ interview programme The Europe Conversation. “That whole mix is needed.” Starting with the oil crises in the 1970s, Europe has demonstrated its vulnerability given the scarcity of energy sources on the continent, according to Hoekstra. “The lesson is also that, after every previous crisis, we actually should have…
Published on 07/05/2026 – 17:14 GMT+2 Sweden said on Thursday that it planned to introduce electronic bracelets to monitor children at risk of being recruited by criminal gangs, the government’s latest measure aimed at cracking down on deadly gang violence. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Authorities would be able to assign the bracelets to children and youths aged 13 and up, the government said, estimating that around 50 to 100 youths would be monitored to ensure they were respecting curfews decided by social services. Criminal gangs in Sweden increasingly recruit children and youths to commit murders and other violent acts, knowing they will…
Published on 07/05/2026 – 15:53 GMT+2 One person has died and 43 were rescued when a migrant boat got into difficulties in the Aegean Sea, Turkish authorities said on Thursday, while an NGO accused the Greek coastguard of endangering the vessel. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The migrants were around 30 kilometres from the Greek island of Lesbos when their inflatable boat became “partially submerged” on Wednesday, the Turkish coastguard said. Forty-three people were rescued by the Turkish coastguard, including four who were in the water. “The body of an irregular migrant was recovered and a suspected smuggler was apprehended,” the Turkish coastguard…
The European Union’s trade relations with China have deteriorated in recent weeks, as the bloc attempts to address its ballooning trade deficit with Beijing and reduce its reliance on key goods and services. European leaders are also concerned about what they see as China’s unfair competition, which they blame for industrial woes and job losses across the continent. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT One of the EU’s responses to these challenges is the Industrial Accelerator Act, launched by the European Commission in March, which aims to “strengthen EU industrial competitiveness” by focusing on a range of measures, including a ‘Made in Europe’ procurement…
The European Commission is considering suspending methane fines for oil and gas producers during gas shortages, emergency storage situations, or major oil supply shocks, according to a leaked document seen by Euronews. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The draft text, circulated to EU member states, says penalties should not jeopardise gas or oil supplies during periods of market stress or crisis — a move likely to be seen as a concession to mounting pressure from industry and international partners. Oil and gas producers, along with US Energy Secretary Chris Wright, have previously called on Brussels to scrap or soften the methane rules, warning…
By Eduard Wolter Published on 07/05/2026 – 12:28 GMT+2 Reinhold Würth describes the period from 1945 to 2026 as Germany’s 80 golden years, without war, with increasing prosperity and a functioning democracy. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “My professional development and career can also be compared with the development of the Federal Republic of Germany. My father Adolf was able to found the Würth company in Künzelsau a few days after the end of the Second World War. I joined this two-man company as an apprentice in 1949 and had to continue running it as a 19-year-old after my father’s rapid death in 1954,…
Around 90 million people in the European Union live with a disability. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “It could be you, it could be me,” Hadja Lahbib, European Commissioner for Equality, told Euronews’s flagship morning show, Europe Today. Lahbib presented the European Commission’s “Enhancing the Strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities up to 2030” communication, a halfway check of its 2021-2030 Strategy for the Rights of persons with disabilities. “We have achieved a lot in the five previous years, but there are a lot of things that need to be fixed,” said Lahbib. The reinforced EU strategy, presented on Wednesday, aims…