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Italy’s Chamber of Deputies approved a new electoral law on Thursday, clearing the way for its use in the next general election, due in 2027. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The legislation, backed by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government and formally known as the Stabilicum, – dubbed the Melonellum by opposition parties, – passed by 227 votes to 164 in a secret ballot. The vote effectively marks the unofficial start of the election campaign. While the current legislature runs until September 2027, speculation about an early election is already circulating in the corridors of parliament, though as we explain below, a vote before…

Published on 08/10/2026 – 15:36 GMT+2•Updated 15:38 The European Commission has stepped up pressure on Russia to provide full details of a suspected plague case in Siberia, echoing calls for transparency from the United States and the World Health Organisation (WHO). ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Moscow has pushed back,insisting there is no risk of an epidemic. “Let me say, for the third time this week in the press room: Russia should make information about the plague available as soon as possible,” Eva Hrncirova, the Commission’s health spokesperson, said on Thursday. “We don’t have enough information to assess the epidemiological situation, to assess…

France is braced for another day of protests as high school students across the country continue to demonstrate against teacher shortages, poor facilities, and overcrowded classrooms. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Students and unions are taking to the streets once more on Thursday as they say the government is failing to listen to their demands, with a major rally planned in Paris. Students have blocked access to high schools since late September, setting fire to bins and erecting blockades as part of the movement. A Euronews journalist on the ground in Paris’ 5th arrondissement on Thursday morning reported that the streets were already…

The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not represent in any way the editorial position of Euronews. Ukraine is preparing for a fifth difficult winter under hostile fire. But for the cities and communities closest to the front, the greatest danger is not simply losing electricity or heat. It is the continued loss of people, businesses and economic life — the foundations without which there can be no meaningful recovery. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT As chair of Ukraine’s Association of Frontline Cities and Communities of Ukraine, representing more than 300 communities in the direct midst of…

Published on 08/10/2026 – 10:22 GMT+2 British Prime Minister Andy Burnham is set to meet with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Berlin on Thursday, with the pair expected to discuss the growing threats from cyber-attacks and sabotage across Europe. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT According to Downing Street, the UK and Germany are to commit to deepening cooperation on cybersecurity and countering sabotage and other hybrid threats. “The hybrid threat from our adversaries – especially Russia – extends across Europe and beyond, threatening our collective security,” a government press release said. “The UK and Germany will jointly act on identifying and disrupting hybrid…

The Left MEP Marc Botenga said his group’s proposal to halve MEPs’ salaries would bring them “down to earth” and make it easier for them to “realise what a normal European is going through”. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Botenga believes many MEPs are only “stressed about their own privilege”. He argues that the way people live “influences the way you vote and the kind of proposals you make”. MEPs currently receive a monthly salary of €8,800, while The Left’s proposal would reduce it to €4,400. Faced with allegations of populism, Botenga argues that the European Parliament is used to discussing “anything”. However,…

María del Carmen Abascal, the 87-year-old woman whose eviction from her longtime Madrid home sparked nationwide protests across Spain and unleashed a political crisis in the country culminating in the government calling for snap elections, died on Wednesday while hospitalised. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez led the way on social media offering his condolences after housing activists and Abascal’s lawyer announced her death. Known widely as “Maricarmen,” she had become a symbol for renters struggling with Spain’s housing affordability crisis. “All my love to Maricarmen’s family and loved ones,” Sánchez wrote in a post on X. “A hug…

Published on 08/10/2026 – 6:14 GMT+2 Lawmakers in Kosovo elected economist and academic Justina Shiroka Pula as the country’s new president in a marathon late-night session, moments before a constitutional deadline that would have forced a snap election. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The election late on Tuesday was a significant moment in a political crisis in the small Balkan nation that has caused legislative deadlock for over 19 months and two early parliamentary elections. Just before Shiroka Pula was elected, lawmakers also approved a law limiting the powers of a special court in The Hague, which was set up to investigate and…

Maricarmen Abascal, whose resistance to eviction from her flat in Madrid sparked a growing nationwide protest has died. Her plight brought hundreds of thousands onto the streets and ultimately brought forward a general election after mass demonstrations across the country. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The elderly woman, who had lived in her flat in Madrid’s Retiro district for 70 years, was eventually evicted at the fourth attempt under the gaze of the media, after she was unable to pay the increased rent. She was admitted to hospital, but she managed to force the property fund that expelled her from her home to…

Published on 08/10/2026 – 0:45 GMT+2 A Russian court sentenced a 68-year-old man who swam across the Nemunas River from Kaliningrad to Lithuania in an attempt to seek asylum to six years in prison, according to Lithuanian media Lrytas. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT He was sentenced to six years in a maximum-security penal colony and barred from administering websites or online channels for three years following his release. The man, identified by Russian media as Igor Yuryevich Odintsov, was convicted by the Baltic Fleet Military Court of “publicly justifying terrorism,” according to the court. He also holds “a negative attitude towards the…