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Up to 500 secondary schools in France are expected to be fully or partially closed on Monday as a new day of mobilisation by pupils gets under way, following several days of protests marked by clashes with police, damage to schools and street violence. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The demonstrations, which have spread across several major cities, have seen rubbish bins and other objects set on fire, projectiles thrown at security forces and damage to school buildings and street furniture. The Ministry of Education said on Sunday that classes would be “totally or partially” suspended in 400 to 500 secondary schools where…
Two people have died and another is missing after heavy rain and flooding hit Catalonia, in north-eastern Spain, authorities said on Sunday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Catalan regional president Salvador Illa confirmed the second death in a social media post on Sunday. Firefighters said the missing person had been swept away by a stream in Pineda de Mar, a town north of Barcelona. Catalan Civil Protection has sent a new Es-Alert on Sunday to the mobile phones of residents in Vallès Oriental, Maresme, la Selva, Baix Empordà and Gironès. The message urges people to comply with travel restrictions while the torrential rain…
Friedrich Merz arrived in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv by special train on Sunday morning. The visit had not been publicly announced beforehand. Alongside Economy Minister Katherina Reiche, the delegation includes around ten representatives of German companies from the defence and energy sectors. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The focus of the trip is further support for Ukraine in its war against Russia. According to German government sources, thousands of interceptor drones are to be delivered to the Ukrainian armed forces in the coming months. The systems are intended in particular to counter Russian jet-powered drones, which are difficult to intercept because of their…
Russian drone attacks on Ukraine are spilling into Romanian airspace and along the Black Sea, while Bucharest is warning of a broader campaign of cyberattacks, sabotage and other forms of hybrid warfare. Romania is calling for stronger NATO deterrence on the eastern flank and closer cooperation among European allies. How serious is the Russian threat, especially the one posed by drone attacks? Romanian Foreign Minister Oana-Silvia Toiu speaks to Euronews. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT
Welcome back to Off the Record, after a hectic week in our newsroom. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The Brussels media loves to talk about itself, but we prefer to speak with the newsmakers. This week, Euronews hosted its first defence summit -and it made news. That’s how I measure success and impact, and it’s the only metric I care about. Talking about yourself is fine, but making news is better. On stage, I sat down with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. I have covered the Dutchman for years, going back to his four terms as prime minister of the Netherlands, when he…
The EU’s energy chief has warned that volatility in the energy market is here to stay — and prices could get even worse. Dan Jørgensen is urging European governments to use existing flexibility to ease the pain at the pump for millions of Europeans. That comes as the Trump administration presses EU countries to release millions of barrels from their emergency oil stocks. Euronews’ chief editor Maria Tadeo spoke to the Energy Commissioner in Brussels in an exclusive interview. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT
Published on 02/10/2026 – 14:57 GMT+2 After Finnish Defence Minister Antti Hakkanen’s trip to Israel, Finnish MPs initiated a parliamentary vote of confidence challenging the government. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Opposition parties have accused the right-wing government of internal policy differences and inconsistency on the Middle East, leading the Social Democratic Party (SDP) to call for a motion of no confidence against the government. A motion of no confidence had also been tabled against Defence Minister Antti Hakkanen. Hakkanen won the confidence vote by 114 votes to 61, while the government survived by 93 votes to 62. Criticism over meeting Israel Katz…
There are almost 5,000 fishermen and one not-for-profit foundation behind Spanish sustainable fashion brand Ecoalf. Every day, the fishermen recover waste caught in their nets, while the Ecoalf Foundation has developed a system to give that waste a second life, turning it into raw material, ultimately, fabric. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “Plastic alone now accounts for around 80% of everything we bring up. This is our daily reality,” says fisherman Tony Beltrán, while showing the waste that got caught in his nets off the coast of Gandía, south of Valencia. **“**Even before recycling became popular, we were already collecting it, the only…
Published on 02/10/2026 – 15:00 GMT+2 In the Grésivaudan Valley near Grenoble, sometimes dubbed the “Silicon Valley of the Alps”, millions of highly sophisticated silicon wafers are produced every year. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT They come from Soitec, a French company little known to the general public, but a world leader in advanced substrates for the semiconductor industry. Founded 33 years ago around an invention developed at French technological research institute CEA-Leti, Soitec started with just a dozen or so people. Today, it employs more than 2,000 and holds more than 4,700 active patents worldwide, with production facilities in France and Singapore.…
Published on 03/10/2026 – 8:46 GMT+2 A Russian strike hit Kyiv’s Northern Bridge on Saturday, halting traffic from the left bank to the right and deepening a transport crisis that began when the Southern Bridge was shut a day earlier. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Mayor Vitali Klitschko announced the strike on Telegram after a drone alert in the capital. “Northern Bridge has been hit,” he wrote. “Emergency services are heading to the scene.” He later reported damage to the road surface and to the overhead wires that power trolleybuses on the bridge. “Traffic across the bridge from the left bank to the…