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Published on 14/10/2026 – 16:25 GMT+2 Mark Rutte has urged NATO countries to step up military aid to Ukraine – in particular air defences – as Russia continues to pummel Kyiv with hundreds of drones and ballistic missiles every day. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Over 600,000 people across Ukraine were left without electricity on Wednesday after deadly Russian strikes, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy said. “With winter coming, and with Russia’s aggression unrelenting, Allies need to do more, especially in support of air defence,” Rutte told journalists in a press conference in Tallinn alongside Estonian Prime Minister, Kristan Michal. The NATO chief is meeting…
Published on 14/10/2026 – 16:32 GMT+2•Updated 20:30 The Ring, the Euronews weekly debate show, travels to Budapest to find out how Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar is resetting relations with the EU after years of tension under the previous government. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Magyar, who won a landslide victory in April’s parliamentary election, has been warmly welcomed by Brussels. In May, he reached a deal with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on the release of €16.4 billion in funds blocked over longstanding rule-of-law and corruption concerns. Hungary has also lifted its veto on opening of EU accession negotiation clusters…
Published on 14/10/2026 – 21:47 GMT+2 The Trump-Putin deal on the purchase of Russian diesel “is a very risky choice” and “a legitimisation for Moscow while its bombs are still falling on Ukrainian cities”, Giorgia Meloni said in Rome on Wednesday, swiftly winning Kyiv’s approval and provoking a prickly response from Russia. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The Italian prime minister, speaking in Parliament before heading to Brussels for Thursday and Friday’s European Council, warned of an “implicit weakening of the sanctions lever”, which she said runs counter to what has so far been done, including by the United States, “to push Putin…
Published on 14/10/2026 – 22:27 GMT+2 French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is preparing to challenge the EU’s powers if she is elected president next May. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The National Rally leader said the European Commission should stop acting in policy areas she considers outside its remit, including health, security and international diplomacy. “[The Commission] is like the frog in the fable that puffs itself up to be as big as the ox,” she said, referring to La Fontaine’s fable, at a press conference in Brussels on Monday. It was following a meeting with leaders of Patriots for Europe, the…
By Laure Valentin Published on 14/10/2026 – 22:56 GMT+2 Day after day, secondary school students continue to mobilise across France. Most of the actions take the form of peaceful blockades, yet they do not erase the memory of several violent incidents. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The security forces, for their part, are preparing for another day of protests on Saturday 17 October. The government, meanwhile, is issuing a warning. “The President of the Republic stressed that young people are expressing legitimate anxieties, but that these anxieties are being exploited politically and turned into urban violence, with scenes that are unacceptable”, government spokesperson Maud…
A 94-year-old woman in Florence faces losing the home she has lived in for more than 60 years after her landlord said her rent would rise from €450 to €1,200 a month. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Franca’s contract expires in February, and her family says she will not be able to afford to renew it on the new terms. Her case closely echoes that of María del Carmen Abascal, known as Maricarmen, the 87-year-old who became a symbol of the fight for housing in Spain after a steep rent rise led to her eviction in Madrid. She died in hospital a few…
Spiralling energy prices, the EU’s long-term budget and support for Ukraine in the wake of Donald Trump’s latest overture to Vladimir Putin will dominate the conversation as the leaders gather for a two-day summit in Brussels. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Enlargement, hybrid warfare, economic stagnation, rising borrowing costs, trade imbalances and irregular migration will also feature in the talks. The meeting will start early on Thursday with a hotly anticipated discussion on energy prices, which hostilities in the Middle East have sent skyrocketing. Oil remains above $100 per barrel despite a coordinated G7 release, while gas trades at its highest level since…
Published on 14/10/2026 – 17:42 GMT+2 French investigators are searching for the hackers who took over refrigeration units at at least 350 supermarkets, forcing staff to throw away spoiled meat and frozen food. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Stores belonging to Carrefour, Monoprix, Intermarché and Coopérative U were among those hit when attackers manually overrode fridge temperatures. The affected stores are a small fraction of France’s supermarkets. The lack of a ransom demand or claim of responsibility has puzzled investigators, according to a source with knowledge of the probe cited by Reuters. Criminal and hacktivist groups usually move quickly to profit from or…
Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares tells Euronews the upcoming election on November 29 pits a ‘progressive majority’ against rightwing forces that want to remove fundamental rights. Albares sees elements of foreign interference, saying “they want to divide and weaken Europeans”. He also discusses Madrid’s position ahead of an EU leaders summit on Thursday, advocating to use the Russian frozen assets to finance Ukraine after Brussels shelved the idea in 2025. He spoke on the sidelines of the Warsaw Security Forum. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT
Published on 14/10/2026 – 16:06 GMT+2 The Louvre could eventually have to shut its doors to the public unless France’s next government backs a sweeping transformation of the world’s most-visited museum, its director has warned. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Christophe Leribault told Le Figaro on Wednesday that the museum would seek private funding for the work, but that a major injection of public money would have to be approved after France’s national elections next year. “Whoever forms the next government must keep in mind that if the Louvre is not repaired, updated, and transformed, it will very quickly fall behind and will…