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The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not represent in any way the editorial position of Euronews. As Brussels enters the final stretch of negotiations over its next seven-year Multiannual Financial Framework, hidden within the budget debate is a strategic question: whether the EU is willing to invest in the partnerships and processing capacity needed to secure the critical raw materials on which its industrial future depends. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Decisions taken this autumn will help determine whether the EU remains dependent on Chinese-controlled processing technology well into the next decade or begins its diversification…
Supporters queue in lines stretching dozens of metres for a photo with him: AfD lead candidate Ulrich Siegmund. The 35-year-old is standing for the party in Sunday’s state election in Saxony-Anhalt. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The state’s Office for the Protection of the Constitution — a department of the Germany’s interior ministry — has classified the Saxony-Anhalt AfD as a confirmed far-right extremist organisation. Siegmund is the young rising star of the AfD in eastern Germany. “I finally want to make policy for our own country again,” Siegmund tells Euronews. He wants to overhaul migration policy, freeing up money he says is…
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not represent in any way the editorial position of Euronews. The state of the German economy is serious, very serious. Over the past eight years, we’ve lost approximately 15 percent of our industrial production. Month after month, Germany loses around 15,000 industrial jobs. And the industrial base that underpins our prosperity is starting to erode. Private net investment has fallen to almost zero. On balance, companies are doing nothing more than replacing what wears out. High costs are paralyzing companies’ willingness to invest. Even the special depreciation…
Published on 04/09/2026 – 10:42 GMT+2 Frontloading parts of the EU support loan would not be a ‘silver bullet’ for Ukraine’s budgetary needs, Deputy Prime Minister Vsevolod Chentsov said on the margins of a ministerial meeting on Friday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “We are talking to both the EU and other partners to cover the gap, first of all for our defence needs this year, but also looking at the 2027 financial strategy,” Ukraine’s Deputy PM for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration told reporters. The remarks come after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said last month that Kyiv is facing a massive €23 billion…
The Russian assets are back on the table. And with them, the same old problems. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Sweden, the Netherlands, Spain and Poland, backed by the Baltics, are leading a new push to channel the Russian Central Bank’s immobilised assets into additional financial support to Ukraine as the war-weary country faces ballooning costs. It did not take long for the campaign to collide with a familiar opponent: Belgium. The country holds the bulk of the €210 billion in Euroclear, a depository based in central Brussels, and fears any move to channel the funds to Ukraine would leave it exposed to…
Speaking on Euronews’ morning flagship show Europe Today this Friday, Spanish EPP MEP Antonio López-Istúriz said the government of Pedro Sanchez was ‘weak’ and should have reacted earlier to reports from the national police and intelligence services that had warned that thousands of irregular migrants were preparing to enter Ceuta. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT López-Istúriz also thinks Morocco could be behind the irregular crossing despite Pedro Sánchez insisting there is no evidence to support this. The MEP said the authenticity and significance of the material would have to be determined through a judicial investigation. The ongoing dispute comes against the backdrop of…
The far-right National Rally Party’s Jordan Bardella is set to host a joint press conference with Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage on Friday afternoon, as the party’s annual conference kicks off in Birmingham. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Speaking to Euronews, a National Rally spokesperson said the pair are set to discuss illegal migration, as well as joint cooperation between the UK and France targeting small boat crossings, a day after British Prime Minister Andy Burnham and French President Emmanuel Macron discussed how to “scale up” efforts to tackle illegal crossings and strengthen the UK’s relationship with Europe. The 30-year old firebrand…
By Frances Lopez & Video by Maud Zaba Published on 04/09/2026 – 12:03 GMT+2•Updated 12:12 For millions of families across Europe, the monthly budget is tight. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Essential goods like food, housing, energy, and transport consume roughly 46% of every euro spent by EU households, forming the non-negotiable baseline required to cover daily survival, commuting, and utilities. With eurozone inflation sitting at a three-year high of 3.3% and energy costs jumping 14.3%, fresh Eurostat numbers show a strange counter-trend. Instead of shutting their wallets completely, people are quietly shaving pennies off their daily routines so they can still afford a normal and…
The captain of an oil tanker that collided with a cargo ship and sank off Istanbul leaving 10 crew missing has been arrested along with his third-in-command on charges of negligent homicide, prosecutors said on Friday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The pair were arrested by a court late on Thursday, a day after the pre-dawn collision in which the ALSU, an empty oil tanker, struck the Tuğberk İmamoğlu, a cargo vessel carrying rolled steel, in the Sea of Marmara near Istanbul. The case is being handled by prosecutors in Silivri on the western outskirts of Istanbul province. According to the prosecutors’ statement,…
Senior EU officials are downplaying the fallout from Iceland’s referendum defeat, as Brussels tries to keep the momentum for enlargement alive at a high-level meeting on Friday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT European affairs ministers from EU member states and candidate countries are meeting in Dublin for the first informal gathering hosted by Ireland’s EU Council presidency, to discuss the enlargement process in the wake of Iceland’s vote. On Saturday, Icelandic voters rejected reopening accession talks with Brussels, frozen since 2013, by a narrow margin, 52.8% to 47.2%, a significant blow to the EU’s enlargement ambitions, particularly towards its wealthier neighbours. Asked whether…