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On the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, former US Ambassador to the European Union Anthony Gardner says “diplomatic, financial and economic” means are also needed to fight terrorism. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Gardner pointed out that 9/11 showed the world the power of “asymmetric warfare” and the damage “a small but determined radicalised group of terrorists can do” against “a much bigger power”. Gardner also insists that “AI is going to make asymmetric warfare even more relevant.”
Published on 11/09/2026 – 8:01 GMT+2•Updated 14:41 On today’s show: Stefan Grobe speaks to Anthony Gardner, former US ambassador to the European Union during the second Obama administration, about how 9/11 changed America and the world, and what lessons political leaders should still be learning today. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Maria Tadeo reports live from the Rīga Conference in Latvia, where she speaks exclusively to the EU’s economy chief Valdis Dombrovskis about Russia’s aggression and whether the Baltic states are getting the Russian threat right. She also interviews Norway’s Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide. Also in Riga, Angela Skujins interviews Kyrylo Budanov,…
Published on 11/09/2026 – 14:46 GMT+2 The Hague and Madrid are pushing for an EU-wide minimum age for social media use, potentially extended to other online services, as the European Commission prepares to announce its own proposal next week. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The social media ban should be harmonised and enforced at European level, and extended to video games, AI chatbots and other risky digital services, the two countries said in a non-paper circulated on Friday. Restricting minors’ access to social media has become an increasingly hot topic in the EU and beyond. France, Greece, Austria, Denmark, Spain, Belgium, Italy, Germany,…
Published on 11/09/2026 – 12:40 GMT+2•Updated 15:32 The European Union is set to provide Ukraine with €6.1 billion in additional assistance to help the war-weary country purchase military equipment, notably the Patriot interceptors badly needed to shoot down Russia’s devastating ballistic missiles. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The funding, announcedon Friday, will come from the bloc’s €90 billion support loan, which reserves €28.3 billion for military aid and €16.7 billion for budget aid this year. The loan’s “Made In Europe” requirement will be lifted to procure Patriots, which are made in the United States, and drones, which depend on Chinese components. The newly…
Incidents of Russian-orchestrated hybrid war attacks across NATO territory are entering a new dangerous, kinetic phase, leaders across the continent agree. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT At a meeting in early September, EU Foreign Policy Chief Kaja Kallas said Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aim is to “scare us away from supporting Ukraine.” “He will not succeed,” she told journalists at a meeting of EU foreign ministers. However, others in European diplomatic circles have told Euronews that the lack of a powerful deterrent response is leaving the continent vulnerable to an escalation in Russian attacks. Germany’s decision to formally blame the Kremlin for planting…
Published on 07/03/2026 – 8:00 GMT+1•Updated 11/09/2026 – 22:42 GMT+2 France will push back against a European Commission plan to fast-track ratification of trade agreements by circulating only English-language versions during talks with EU governments and lawmakers, skipping translation into the bloc’s 24 official languages, according to several sources. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The slow ratification of the contentious EU–Mercosur trade deal has frustrated the Commission, which wants to accelerate negotiations and bring deals into force more quickly as it seeks new markets amid rising geopolitical tensions. Translating the agreements into every official EU language can take months due to the legal…
Published on 11/09/2026 – 22:02 GMT+2 Police in southern England have banned face coverings at an anti-immigration rally as well as in a counter-protest planned in Portsmouth on Saturday, amid concerns over potential unrest. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The demonstration, organised by protesters calling themselves “patriots”, is expected to begin at around noon. Hampshire Police, which has responsibility for Portsmouth, said the mask ban was to “reduce opportunities for violence, intimidation and criminality”. It said the move followed “recent incidents of violence and intimidation by a minority of those who have been intent on disrupting peaceful protest”. A separate order will allow…
Published on 11/09/2026 – 18:15 GMT+2 UK lawmakers on Friday rejected legislation that would have allowed terminally ill adults in England and Wales to choose to end their lives. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Following an impassioned four-hour debate in the House of Commons, the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill was rejected by 286 votes to 270. The outcome marked a notable reversal from last year, when an almost identical bill passed with a majority of 23 votes. The bill would have allowed adults in England and Wales with fewer than six months to live to apply for an assisted death,…
A French court has sentenced a man to six months in prison after he threatened to “cut off the head” of a teacher at his son’s school last week. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The defendant confronted his son’s teacher in the school car park in the southwestern town of Le Fauga last week, after the nine-year-old was moved to another class because of his behaviour. He threatened to decapitate the 58-year-old teacher before entering the school, where he repeated the threats in front of the headteacher. Remarks of ‘great violence’ The court sentenced the defendant to six months in prison, to be…
By Luca Bertuzzi & Maria Tadeo & Jorge Liboreiro Published on 11/09/2026 – 18:37 GMT+2•Updated 19:00 The French government has joined Slovakia in seeking the delisting of Russian-Uzbek businessman Alisher Usmanov, causing “huge frustration” among other EU countries, four EU diplomats told Euronews. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Slovakia has long pushed for Usmanov and another Russian oligarch, Mikhail Fridman, to be removed from the EU’s sanctions list targeting individuals close to Vladimir Putin’s regime and the military-industrial complex sustaining the war in Ukraine. But Bratislava is no longer alone. Paris has also called for Usmanov, who has been under EU sanctions since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022,…