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Published on 13/05/2026 – 9:29 GMT+2 Estonian Defence Minister Hanno Pevkur told Euronews there is “no question” that accountability needs to be enforced when it comes to the bloc’s €90 billion loan, as the former chief of staff to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is investigated over graft allegations. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “We need to have accountability in place,” Pevkur told Euronews’ programme Europe Today. “It is definitely something Ukrainians are looking into very seriously because it is also important for them that there are no rumours or problems involved with that kind of assistance. “At the end of the day, they…
Good morning. Angela Skujins here, your resident Australian journalist working at Euronews, serving up a breakfast newsletter centred on the evolving politics of superpowers and how middle powers can adapt to them. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT On Thursday, US President Donald Trump will gear up for his first visit to China in nine years, holding court with President Xi Jinping. Talks are expected to cover the war in Iran, trade tensions and Taiwan – with promises of pomp. The highly anticipated visit between the world’s two largest economies – their relationship accounted for roughly 44% of the global GDP in 2025 –…
Published on 13/05/2026 – 7:54 GMT+2 Also on today’s show: ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Interviews with Estonia’s Foreign Minister Hanno Pevkur and Angus Campbell, Australia’s ambassador to Belgium and NATO. Explainer by Jakub Janas: Trump heads to China — what cards does he hold? Euronews’ Zoltán Siposhegyi on the key figures shaping Hungary’s new government. Professor Luke O’Neill from Trinity College Dublin discusses the hantavirus outbreak and whether comparisons to COVID-19 are justified.. When and where to watch Europe Today? You can join Euronews’ chief anchor Méabh Mc Mahon and our EU editor Maria Tadeo live on TV and Euronews’ website and…
Updated: 12/05/2026 – 9:15 GMT+2 Sixteen French families have launched an unusual collective complaint against TikTok, accusing the platform of a systematic “abuse of weakness.” According to Franceinfo, their lawyer describes the algorithm as “digital crack,” designed to trap teenagers in mental prisons. Let’s investigate. … More
Published on 12/05/2026 – 18:05 GMT+2 Between 40,000 and 70,000 people marched through the streets of Brussels on Tuesday. The demonstrators gathered at the call of the country’s three main trade unions to denounce the federal government’s reforms, which the trade unions consider to be “anti-social”. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The main issues and demands of the demonstration: pensions, purchasing power and automatic wage indexation. Unions have condemned a pension reform that leaves workers worse off. They have also condemned an attack on the automatic indexation of wages. The rally took place against a backdrop of soaring energy prices caused by the…
Published on 12/05/2026 – 18:19 GMT+2•Updated 18:26 A vast majority of EU member states criticised the reopening of the Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale during a “heated discussion” among the bloc’s culture ministers on Tuesday in Brussels. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Many ministers also expressed support for the European Commission’s move to freeze a €2 million grant to the Biennale Foundation for allowing Russia’s participation, several diplomats told Euronews. The issue was raised by Latvian Minister of Culture Agnese Lāce, who called for preventing what she described as “the instrumentalization of cultural institutions by Russia.” According to people in the room,…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has no connection to a major corruption investigation conducted by Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO), involving his former chief of staff, Andriy Yermak. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT On Tuesday, Oleksandr Klymenko, SAPO’s head stated that Zelenskyy “has not been and is not currently involved in the investigation,” which concerns Yermak but also Oleksiy Chernyshov, an ex-deputy prime minister and Timur Mindich, Zelenskyy’s former business partner. The suspects are accused of laundering around €9 million (460 million hryvnias) between 2021 and 2025 through a luxury property development project near Kyiv.…
Published on 12/05/2026 – 16:31 GMT+2 Swedish police said on Tuesday that a “central actor” in the country’s most notorious criminal network, Foxtrot, had been arrested in Tunisia. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Police said in a statement that a man around 30 years old, who is suspected of several violent crimes including murder, had been arrested over the weekend by Tunisian police. The operation was the result of close cooperation between law enforcement in Sweden and Tunisia. “We consider this to be a strategically important arrest which we believe will impact the criminal network’s ability to carry out violent crime,” Niclas Andersson,…
By Alessio Dell’Anna & video by Léa Becquet Published on 12/05/2026 – 10:03 GMT+2 Hundreds of thousands of people across Europe don’t get to treat the weekend as downtime. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT More than one in five workers across Europe — 21.3% — are regularly shifted on Saturdays and Sundays, according to the latest Eurostat data. And in some countries, the average is well above that, especially across the Balkans and the Mediterranean. In Greece, a striking 41% of employees and self-employed workers are active on the weekend, 33% in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and 32% Malta, Cyprus and North Macedonia. At the same time, the continent’s…
Last week, Austria expelled three Russian diplomats accused of using diplomatic cover for espionage activities in Vienna. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Soon after, Foreign Minister Beate Meinl-Reisinger said that Austria was taking a tougher approach to spying activities, calling it a “security issue” for the country. “We have communicated this clearly and unequivocally to the Russian side, including regarding the ‘antenna forest’ at the Russian representation,” she said in a statement. “It is clear that it is unacceptable for diplomatic immunity to be used to conduct espionage.” What was she referring to? Researchers and journalists have warned that several Russian diplomatic buildings…