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By Euronews Published on 25/09/2026 – 9:42 GMT+2 A video of a large crowd in the Greek city of Thessaloniki has been shared online alongside claims that protests have brought the country to a standstill. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “Greece is paralysed”, several posts say, claiming that airports, ports, factories and trains have stopped operating. Others describe massive protests erupting across the country. The footage shows a real demonstration, but it was filmed more than a year before the posts appeared. The same footage was posted online in February 2025, when large demonstrations across Greece marked the second anniversary of the Tempi rail…
Chinese President Xi Jinping will today wind-up a three-day summit with US President Donald Trump on American soil — the first in 11 years for Xi. Europeans are watching closely for any decisions that could directly affect their economic interests. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Not so heated rivalry: The world’s most powerful leaders tackled tricky issues such as artificial intelligence, the war in Iran and trade. On the latter issue, a fragile trade truce was set to expire in November, but the two countries agreed Wednesday to extend it for another two months. Ian Lesser, Distinguished Fellow German Marshall Fund, just told…
Brussels is dialling up the pressure on Kyiv to speed up the reforms indispensable for unlocking roughly €20 billion in financial assistance, which the country badly needs as the budget deficit swells and Russia escalates the war. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “It is essential that Ukraine continues to deliver on the reforms and policy conditions jointly agreed with the European Union,” a European Commission spokesperson said. “Their timely implementation is key to enabling the Commission to proceed with the corresponding disbursements as planned.” It comes as the Commission is engaged in intense talks with the Ukrainian authorities to pin down the precise…
Former RT France chief Xenia Fedorova has been placed under EU sanctions over her alleged role in spreading pro-Kremlin narratives, further complicating her efforts to return to French media. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The Council of the European Union added Fedorova to its sanctions list on Thursday, accusing her of being “active in the dissemination of pro-Russian narratives in France and the Union in the context of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine”. The decision extends measures already imposed by France against Fedorova, who has become a prominent media figure on outlets associated with conservative billionaire Vincent Bolloré. Under the EU sanctions,…
French President Emmanuel Macron has denied claims that the CIA had informed France of a possible Russian drone operation targeting southern Europe. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT In a joint interview aired on broadcasters France 2 and TF1 he said “We can deny this piece of information, the CIA did not inform France of this information and the Italian defence minister said the same thing”. On Thursday, Spanish daily newspaper El Mundo published an article which declared that the CIA had alerted several southern European governments to a possible Russian drone operation targeting Spain, France and Italy. Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto subsequently…
Published on 24/09/2026 – 12:14 GMT+2 Hundreds of trade union activists gathered outside the EU institutions in Brussels on Thursday to protest against EU Inc, a planned law designed to make it easier and cheaper to set up and run businesses across Europe. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), which organised the protest, argues that the proposal threatens worker rights by allowing companies seeking a lighter corporate regime to circumvent national labour laws and social standards. “The text contains no binding requirement to adhere to collective labour rights: no effective safeguards protecting collective bargaining, trade union rights, information…
Socialists and Democrats MEP Chloé Ridel said US President Donald Trump’s attacks on the International Criminal Court (ICC) are “unacceptable”, accusing him of seeking to “erase the court” because it is “out of his control”. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Ridel called on the European Commission to “act now” after a year of attacks against the Hague-based institution. She said the European Union has “the means to protect the court” through a blocking statute that could “block the effects of the American sanctions against the court”.
Montenegro’s ambitious goal of becoming the EU’s 28th member by 2028 could be jeopardised unless it resolves its outstanding bilateral disputes with Croatia soon. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Brussels was forced to postpone a pencilled-in intergovernmental conference with the bloc’s “frontrunner” candidate on Tuesday, after Croatia reiterated its opposition to closing several negotiating chapters over the ongoing disputes. Podgorica has already closed 18 negotiating chapters and aims to complete its homework on the remaining 15 by the end of the month, which would then leave it up to member states to sign off on them. But the long-running disputes with Croatia risk…
Published on 23/09/2026 – 20:30 GMT+2 Observing the events of last July in Ceuta, Spain, many in Athens were reminded of what happened in 2015, when hundreds of boats carrying refugees and migrants arrived on Lesvos and other islands each day. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The mass attempt by thousands of people to enter European territory ‘evoked memories’ of the 2020 events at Evros, when thousands also tried to cross from Turkey into Greece. The political debate has heated up, and the migration issue returned to the top of the agenda. Against this backdrop, MPs Dimitris Kairidis and Milena Apostolaki face off…
Just days before the arrival of Pope Leo XIV, who’s in France from 25 to 28 September, the decision to hold a “compulsory” school day devoted to the pontiff in Catholic schools is raising questions and has sparked a debate over secularism. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT In an internal memo dated 10 September, and revealed by the left leaning daily Libération, the General Secretariat for Catholic Education (Sgec), headed by Guillaume Prévost, asks state-funded private schools under contract to treat Friday 25 September, the day Leo XIV arrives, as a special day and to replace regular lessons with activities focused on the…