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Published on 23/09/2026 – 7:00 GMT+2 The European Commission will not extend its November 1 deadline for phasing out Chinese-made power inverters from EU-funded energy projects, despite calls from investors and the renewable energy industry for more time. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Industry groups and institutional investors had hoped Brussels would delay the deadline amid concerns over the availability and cost of alternatives. But EU officials told Euronews the Commission intends to stick to its timetable. From November 1, projects connected or due to be connected to the EU electricity grid will have to exclude high-risk suppliers or progressively switch to inverters…

Ukraine’s publishing industry is facing its worst crisis yet, driven by targeted Russian attacks, part of a broader culture war in which nearly 5,000 cathedrals, churches, museums, theatres and other cultural sites have been destroyed or damaged and 35,000 art objects looted. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT More than 13 million books, a third of the country’s annual print run, were destroyed in two months this summer, causing at least $39.3 million (€34.2 million) in damage, the Ministry of Culture said. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov did not respond to press requests for comment about the Russian strikes on Ukraine’s publishing infrastructure. Despite a…

Published on 22/09/2026 – 15:41 GMT+2 British Prime Minister Andy Burnham declined to rule out including a pledge to rejoin the European Union in Labour’s next election manifesto, according to UK media reports. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Burnham, who has been in office since late July, made the comments to reporters as he was travelling to New York for the United Nations General Assembly this week. Asked whether he could rule out such a promise in a manifesto, Burnham was quoted as saying questions about rejoining the bloc were “for another day” and that his current focus remained a long-awaited UK/EU summit…

Latvian Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs said his country “stood to the end” to prevent two Russian oligarchs from being delisted from a sanctions package but concluded alongside Ukraine it was best to compromise for a salvo. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT But he warned that the exemption should be a one-off occurrence and not be par for the course when debating EU sanctions in the future. “Either it is sports, what we’ve seen, either culture, and now one by one cherry-picking out of sanctions, that is not the way to go,” he said. “That is normalising Russia.” After two weeks of drawn-out talks…

Published on 22/09/2026 – 18:32 GMT+2•Updated 19:21 US President Donald Trump has signed a new Greenland security deal with Denmark and the island territory. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Trump, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, and Greenland PM Jens-Frederik Nielsen signed the agreement on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday. Under the terms of the deal, shared online by the Danish Foreign Ministry, the US will be permitted to expand its military presence on Greenland through the modernisation and enlargement of its current Pituffik Space Base and the establishment of new defence areas at Narsarsuaq and…

A fake photo circulating online of two alleged Israeli passports belonging to Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his wife, Olena Zelenska, allegedly shows that the Ukrainian president and his family have chosen Israel as their homeland instead of Ukraine. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The Facebook post was published at the beginning of September alongside the caption: “You can twist it any way you like, but we always come back to the same point: Zelenskyy and his family have a homeland of choice that inspires, protects and supports him in everything he does, and that homeland is certainly not Ukraine. This is common knowledge, just…

Authorities in Poland have detained a 17-year-old accused of preparing an attack on a school and a mosque. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT A court has ordered that the teenager, named as Paweł G, be held in pre-trial detention for three months. The case is part of an ongoing investigation by Poland’s Internal Security Agency (ABW) looking into individuals active in online neo-Nazi and extremist circles. On 18 September, ABW reported the detention of two minors who were active in groups bringing together people linked to such ideologies. At the time, officials stressed that the investigation was ongoing, with officers analysing the detainees’…

The European Union has agreed to remove Uzbek-Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov from its sanctions list after fraught negotiations that saw France link his delisting to a prisoner release with Azerbaijan, unsettling Brussels. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT A second Russian oligarch, Mikhail Fridman, was also removed after Slovakia vetoed his continued listing, several diplomats told Euronews. Luxembourg had argued that if Usmanov was removed, Fridman should be too. Fridman has filed a $16 billion claim against Luxembourg over his frozen assets. Ambassadors sealed the compromise on Tuesday afternoon after two weeks of drawn-out talks that brought the bloc’s sanctions regime to the brink…

Published on 22/09/2026 – 13:46 GMT+2•Updated 14:01 Soldiers returning from the front line in Ukraine are bringing back weapons and military equipment, raising concerns that battlefield components could start circulating within the European Union, according to a confidential EU document seen by Euronews. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The risk of firearms being diverted from the battlefield will be discussed by EU ambassadors on Wednesday, as European authorities step up efforts to track weapons entering the bloc. “Member states have reported weapon components and military equipment in the possession of returning combatants,” reads the EU Council document, which focuses on the war in…

Published on 22/09/2026 – 14:50 GMT+2•Updated 15:00 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has publicly called on the European Union and its member states to keep oligarchs Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman under sanctions, as talks on renewing the blacklist enter their final stages in Brussels. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The entire list will expire if ambassadors fail to find a deal by the end of Tuesday. “The world needs not a political delisting, but timely and unconditional rollover of individual sanctions, until Moscow engages in serious peace negotiations and takes concrete steps to end its war against Ukraine,” Zelenskyy wrote on social media.…