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Published on 30/12/2025 – 8:00 GMT+1 •Updated 9:10 European affairs and EU policy affect daily life all over the continent, but they can feel far away for many European citizens. The decisions that are made in Brussels impact energy prices, data protection, border rules, and how Europe handles crises – amongst many other key things. Still, many people find EU politics hard to follow. The language is technical, the processes are complicated, and the decisions often seem disconnected from everyday life. With a team of expert reporters and using AI, Euronews’ newest project, EU.XL addresses this disconnect and becomes the…
The European Commission must play a key role in ensuring fair competition among EU countries as they upgrade their power grid infrastructure to keep prices stable, Portuguese Energy and Environment Minister Maria da Graça Carvalho told Euronews. The Portuguese minister, who notably led political talks on the electricity market law, said that ensuring a level playing field will be “essential” to lowering electricity prices evenly across the EU. If electricity becomes much cheaper through artificial means in one country, it will inevitably impact the others and put their industries at risk of unfair competition, according to Carvalho. The Commission’s duty…
In 2025, the first shock came from Washington. But it wasn’t the only one. The world’s largest economy abruptly turned inward, rolling out a nationalist trade agenda and sweeping tariffs on partners worldwide. Trade flows were forced to reroute – many of them towards Europe. At the same time, as tensions between the US and China escalated, Beijing began weaponising global dependence on rare earths, which are essential for Europe’s tech sector. Then, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen warned against the effects of a “second China shock,” referring to the dramatic increase of Chinese exports and industrial overproduction…
By Euronews Published on 26/12/2025 – 14:42 GMT+1 NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte rejected proposals for independent European security structures, insisting the EU does not need to break from the US on defence matters despite calls from senior European politicians. Manfred Weber, head of the conservative EPP party and its European Parliament group, had called for deploying European troops under EU command to secure peace in Ukraine. “I wish that soldiers with the European flag on their uniforms, together with our Ukrainian friends, would ensure peace,” Weber told German media outlet Funke. Rutte disagreed with the proposal in an interview with…
By Méabh Mc Mahon & Alice Carnevali Published on 26/12/2025 – 8:00 GMT+1 2025 is coming to an end, and among the major developments that made international headlines was the turbulent relationship between the European Union (EU) and the United States (US). Together with Euronews’ Brussels correspondent and US expert Stefan Grobe, Brussels, My Love? tries to make sense of what happened between the EU and the US in the last year, looking ahead to 2026. What happened in 2025? 2025 started with Donald Trump entering his second term as US President. His administration brought significant changes to global politics, including gradually cutting…
The US State Department on Tuesday imposed visa bans on a former European Union commissioner and four others, accusing them of forcing American social media platforms to censor users and their viewpoints. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the five people targeted with visa bans “have led organised efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetise, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose”. “These radical activists and weaponised NGOs have advanced censorship crackdowns by foreign states – in each case targeting American speakers and American companies,” Rubio said in a statement. Rubio did not initially name those targeted, but US…
The real summit started the night before European leaders descended at the Europa building last Thursday for their final gathering of the year. As it often is the case in Brussels, the ordre du jour was only indicative, and the real business was done on the sidelines. On the table was an innovative plan to issue a reparations loan for Kyiv based on immobilised Russian assets held mostly in Belgium. It was an option preferred by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Commission President Ursula von der Leyen; the resistance from the Belgian Prime Minister Bart…
Published on 23/12/2025 – 14:34 GMT+1 Exactly one year after Donald Trump first announced his intention to integrate Greenland into US territory on grounds of “national protection”, he’s back for more. The US president has appointed Governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, as the new US special envoy for Greenland with the stated objective of “integrating Greenland into the United States” and repeated the US needs the territory for its national security. His comments have been taken seriously by EU heads of state and government, who are presenting a united front against what they describe as American expansionist ambitions towards the…
At a crunch summit earlier this month, European leaders turned to a tool that would have seemed unthinkable just a few months earlier to break an impasse: issuing joint debt backed by the common budget to keep Ukraine afloat as the war rages on. The trick? It bypassed the need for unanimity among member states, gathering those who wanted to work together while keeping Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic out of the deal as a condition for it to go forward. In doing so, the EU not only managed to secure €90 billion for Ukraine for 2026 and 2027…
It was billed as the scandal that threatened to shake the core of European democracy. Explosive allegations, a spectacular police operation and allegations of big money used by three non-EU countries to influence the European Parliament’s decisions. At the centre of the storm was then-MEP and Parliament Vice President Eva Kaili, young, glamorous, and well-connected. Three years later, the European Parliament corruption scandal remains unresolved, the trial date has not been set, and the methods used by Belgian authorities have come under scrutiny. Kaili, who was relieved of her duties as an EU lawmaker and declared persona non grata, says…