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Romania’s pro-European coalition government collapsed on Tuesday after lawmakers voted in favour of a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan, triggering a fresh period of turmoil in the less than a year after the coalition was sworn in. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The joint effort was launched last week when the leftist Social Democratic Party (PSD), which withdrew from the coalition in late April, and the hard-right opposition Alliance for the Unity of Romanians (AUR), submitted the motion to Parliament. After a parliamentary debate, 281 lawmakers voted in favour of the motion and four against. Lawmakers from Bolojan’s centre-right National Liberal…
Published on 05/05/2026 – 13:52 GMT+2 Sweden’s government said on Tuesday it would push forward with a plan to form a new spy agency targeting overseas threats, part of a wider rethink prompted by Russia’s war in Ukraine. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The new agency would be called Sweden’s foreign intelligence service (UND) and would start operations in January 2027, Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard said at a press conference. “During the ongoing war in Ukraine, it has become very clear that an information advantage and the ability to rapidly and continuously adapt various technical systems are just as crucial as advanced…
Dutch social media users and activists claim that the country’s Senate has rejected a law that would have made residing in the Netherlands irregularly “illegal”. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The Senate did recently throw out a bill, designed by the far-right populist PVV party, to take a harder line on illegal immigration. The controversial bill, dubbed the Asylum Emergency Measures Act, was devised during the previous government in a bid to tighten Dutch asylum policy before the broader EU Migration Pact fully comes into force in June. But online narratives suggest that striking down the bill would entail a major legal reversal…
The EU’s 27 finance ministers have so far reacted cautiously to US President Donald Trump’s threat to impose 25% tariffs on EU cars. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Meeting for an Economic and Financial Affairs Council in Brussels on Monday and Tuesday, the ministers said they would adhere to the framework agreed with the US in July 2025, which limits US tariffs on EU goods to 15%. The EU-US trade deal signed by Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is currently being negotiated by EU governments and MEPs ahead of its implementation, with the bloc committed to removing tariffs on…
The international order cannot be rebuilt by Europe alone, Brazil’s EU Ambassador Pedro Miguel da Costa e Silva has told Europe Today, after Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney suggested Europe should lead efforts to restore the multilateral system. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Instead, he argued all countries will have to participate in an increasingly multipolar world. “If we’re going to rebuild something, it has to be rebuilt by everybody. Europe will have an important place at the table, but you’ll need to have all other voices speaking,” Ambassador da Costa e Silva said. “Europe has a place, but I’m not convinced that…
Published on 03/05/2026 – 9:09 GMT+2•Updated 04/05/2026 – 13:52 GMT+2 US President Donald Trump said late on Saturday that Washington will significantly reduce its troop presence in Germany, escalating a dispute with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The Pentagon announced on Friday that it would cut 5,000 troops from its NATO ally withing the coming six to 12 months, and comes after Merz criticised the US-Israeli war in Iran, saying Washington did not appear to have a viable strategy in place. Asked on Saturday on the reason behind the reduction in troop presence in the country, Trump declined to…
Published on 04/05/2026 – 14:17 GMT+2•Updated 17:53 European Commissioner for Trade Maroš Šefčovič is scheduled to meet his US counterpart Jamieson Greer on Tuesday amid rising tensions between the bloc and the US following President Donald Trump’s announcement of a potential 25% tariff on EU automobiles. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The discussions, scheduled ahead of a G7 trade ministers’ meeting in Paris, were planned before President Trump’s latest tariff threat, Euronews has learned. But they now give both sides an opportunity to ease tensions after Trump signalled measures that would breach the EU-US trade deal agreed last summer in Turnberry, Scotland, between…
By Johanna Urbancik Published on 04/05/2026 – 14:23 GMT+2 Germany’s Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt has claimed a “migration turnaround” as he approaches a year in office, but courts have begun striking down the border controls at the centre of his policy and migration researchers have questioned whether his figures prove anything at all. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Dobrindt of the centre-right CSU announced tighter border controls on his first day in office, fulfilling a key campaign pledge of the CDU/CSU coalition. Federal police have since turned back asylum seekers at the border, around 1,340 people between Dobrindt’s appointment and April 2026, according to…
Published on 04/05/2026 – 14:51 GMT+2 Spanish police have impounded what is believed to be a national record haul of cocaine from a ship in the Atlantic Ocean, with the seizure potentially reaching 40 tonnes, a union said on Monday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The Civil Guard intercepted the vessel in international waters off Spain’s Canary Islands on Friday, with around 20 people arrested, sources from the force’s main AUGC union said. It is estimated that “between 35 and 40 tonnes of cocaine have been seized” because the hold “was completely stuffed” with bales of the drug, making it “a historic seizure,”…
Published on 04/05/2026 – 17:49 GMT+2 Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides has led the charge for EU leaders to pin down what the bloc’s mutual defence clause could look like – and how it could be used to support the security of the union. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT That push has now moved from political debate into formal EU structures, with the issue discussed on Monday afternoon at a behind close doors meeting of the Political and Security Committee—an ambassadorial body responsible for foreign affairs and security matters— according to several EU officials. One of them confirmed the meeting to Euronews but declined…