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Published on 01/07/2026 – 19:07 GMT+2 Albania’s position as host of next year’s NATO summit is in doubt thanks to the country’s failure to meet key spending milestones. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Euronews previously reported that the draft conclusion for next week’s NATO summit in Ankara omits any mention of holding the next gathering in Albania, despite the summit’s location being previously announced. The withholding of any mention from the final summit declaration is a purposeful move by NATO officials to pressure Albania to step up. A NATO source confirmed on Wednesday that the situation hasn’t changed, and the alliance was sending…
German prosecutors said on Wednesday they had brought charges against a suspect in the 2022 sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipeline linking Russia with Europe. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Federal prosecutors confirmed to the AFP news agency that a man had been charged over the explosion, with German media reporting that he was a Ukrainian national said to be the head of the team that carried out the operation. They named the man as Serhii K. and said he was the same suspect who was arrested in summer 2025 in Italy and extradited to Germany the following November. The reports say…
Published on 01/07/2026 – 18:13 GMT+2 The European Parliament is set to trigger a procedure against the Europe of Sovereign Nations (ESN) party, home of Alternative for Germany (AfD) and other far-right political forces across Europe. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT If ESN is found to have failed to uphold the core values of the European Union, it could be stripped of its right to be registered as a European political party and lose its funding. More than 180 lawmakers have signed a request to activate a verification mechanism by which the Authority for European Political Parties and Foundations (APPF) is tasked to…
Gas imports from Russia into the European Union increased during the first months of 2026, a new report has revealed, even as the bloc formally begins a historic withdrawal from Russian natural gas. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The EU banned Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) from entering the bloc by the beginning of 2027 and mid-2027, albeit with exceptions for Hungary and Slovakia, which were allowed to tap Moscow’s gas in case of supply disruption given their landlocked position. Yet according to the report from the EU’s agency of energy regulators (ACER), which was published on Wednesday, Russian gas imports have increased…
The European People’s Party (EPP) has urged Climate Action Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra to significantly recalibrate the bloc’s carbon market, the Emissions Trading System (ETS), by allowing more free pollution allowances to heavy industry beyond 2030. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Issued in an internal document detailing the EPP’s position and seen by Euronews, the plea comes ahead of the European Commission’s proposal to revise the ETS rules, due on 15 July. The EPP contends that protecting Europe’s manufacturing base has become as important as driving emissions reductions. “The system has achieved these emission reductions in a market-based and economically efficient manner,” reads the…
Updated: 01/07/2026 – 15:06 GMT+2 Ireland’s Minister of State for European Affairs and Defence, Thomas Byrne, said the country’s six-month EU presidency will be a “generational moment” with key priorities, including opening more negotiation clusters with Ukraine and strengthening the EU’s economy. … More
Published on 01/07/2026 – 14:24 GMT+2 Several people have died after a fire broke out at an apartment block in Antwerp on Wednesday, Belgian police said. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT A report came in of a blaze on the eighth floor of a building in the city’s Linkeroever neighborhood at 9:53 am, Antwerp police said in a statement. Video footage circulating on social media appears to show the fire, with plumes of black smoke billowing from a balcony. Police and firefighters were dispatched to the scene along with a drone crew. “The building has a total of ten floors and is home…
Published on 01/07/2026 – 11:34 GMT+2•Updated 12:40 Spain’s massive plan to regularise undocumented migrants is “an issue” for all of Europe, according to senior MEP Manfred Weber. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT In an exclusive interview with Euronews, the president of the European People’s Party (EPP) slammed Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s initiative, which has attracted more than 1 million applications from people already residing in Spain. Weber said that even though the Spanish law granting residence permits that are not valid in other member states, the move would effectively enable migrant people to move around Europe and thus affect other Schengen countries. “They…
Russia has suspended traffic through several railway border crossings with Finland, Estonia and Latvia starting from Wednesday, Moscow said. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The Kremlin’s order released on Tuesday did not provide a reason for the closures. The statement mentions only a “temporary suspension” of the movement of people, vehicles, goods and cargo through selected railway crossings along sections of the Russian state border. Russia’s Foreign Ministry was instructed to notify Finland, Estonia and Latvia of the decision. The largest number of closures will affect the Finnish border, including the Vyborg, Vartsilya, Lyuttya, Saint Petersburg-Finlandsky and Svetogorsk railway checkpoints. Rail traffic will…
Published on 01/07/2026 – 10:45 GMT+2•Updated 10:51 The European Union is heading into a “phase of conflict” with Beijing unless it reaches a deal by the autumn to curb its widening trade deficit, European People’s Party chairman Manfred Weber has told Euronews’ flagship morning programme, Europe Today. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The EU’s trade chief, Maroš Šefčovič, said on Monday that Brussels aims to reach an agreement with China by October to address trade imbalances, amid growing concern that Chinese industrial overcapacity is undercutting Europe’s already struggling industries. Brussels is calling for tangible results as it readies new defence tools. “We have…