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On Friday, Jordan Bardella of the far-right National Rally party signed a “memorandum of understanding” with Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, aimed at stopping the boats “forever” — should their parties come to power — at the party’s annual conference in Birmingham. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Farage and Bardella signed the agreement which vows to end irregular migrant crossing on stage. The Reform UK leader hailed the deal as a “genuine new entente cordiale” between the two countries and political parties. Bardella — who is hoping to become France’s next Prime Minister — said that “the United Kingdom must not be the…

Following the start of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine and the subsequent wave of emigration, one notable trend has been the rise of so-called “birth tourism”. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Thousands of Russian women, unwilling to tie their children’s future to a country that started a war and concerned about Russia’s growing isolation, began looking for opportunities to give birth abroad. The main goal is not only to access quality healthcare, but also to obtain a second citizenship for the newborn, which can potentially open the way for the entire family to emigrate, study, work and travel freely around the world. Countries…

Five EU countries say they expect to be ready to send irregular migrants to deportation centres built outside the European Union by 2027. The announcement came after a meeting in Copenhagen on Friday attended by the interior ministers of Denmark, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and Greece. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The ministers agreed on a common model for “return hubs” — facilities set to host asylum seekers whose applications have been rejected by the five countries and who cannot be returned to their countries of origin. The five-state group is currently negotiating the creation of the hubs on the territory of one…

Published on 04/09/2026 – 15:00 GMT+2 Tilos, a small Greek island, used to bury its rubbish on a hillside. The landfill kept growing. Wind scattered plastic across the beaches below. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT It’s a familiar problem for small islands. Residents and tourists produce waste, but shipping it elsewhere for recycling rarely makes economic sense. So most islands sacrifice a patch of scarce land and bury the problem. Out of sight, out of mind. A few years ago, Tilos tried something different. Working with Greek circular economy company Polygreen and backed by the Region of South Aegean, the island removed its…

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he will ask Europeans to repay the American aid provided to Ukraine under the administration of his predecessor Joe Biden. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Trump has long demanded that Europeans shoulder more of the cost of Western support for Ukraine in its war with Russia, which began more than four years ago. “Hundreds of Billions of Dollars was given to Ukraine and NATO, free of charge, that Europe would have paid for – If they were only asked, but we will be asking for that money, though somewhat belatedly!” Trump wrote on his Truth Social…

As fertility rates plunge across the EU, the impact of migration on demographics is becoming increasingly evident. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Since 2012, more people have been dying in the EU than have been born, and last year, new births reached their lowest point on record, at 3.46 million. Although migration is indeed helping to keep demographic collapse at bay, figures circulating online are not always accurate. Take this video shared by Tommy Robinson, a British far-right activist, which was watched nearly 700,000 times, claiming that nearly all population growth last year was driven by foreigners. The video doesn’t cite sources, but…

Senior EU officials have issued a warning to the Serbian government over the funeral of war criminal Ratko Mladić, with the bloc’s enlargement chief saying that it “will be a very important test” in Belgrade’s bid to join the European Union and its future path. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Mladić died on 27 August aged 84 in a UN detention facility in The Hague, where he was serving a lifetime sentence for crimes against humanity related to the Srebrenica massacre and the siege of Sarajevo. His body was returned to Serbia in a government plane on Thursday, with his coffin carried by…

The European Union is expected to make a last-minute decision on banning new oil and gas exploration in the Arctic during a weekly meeting of the bloc’s 27 commissioners in October, according to two EU officials who spoke to Euronews on condition of anonymity. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Earlier media reports suggested that the EU is considering dropping its ban on new drilling in the Arctic in its revision of the 2021 Arctic strategy as the bloc is enduring an energy crisis triggered by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, where 20% of the world’s gas and oil transit. The Artic…

For much of the war, Russian drone and missile attacks on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv followed a particular rhythm; they almost always came at night. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The warnings would begin on monitoring channels on Telegram in the late evening. They announced drones moving south, missiles being launched, air defences working. Ukrainian civilians judged whether it was prudent to stay indoors or make for shelter in the metro based on the severity of the threat. Now, Russia has changed tactics with the use of fast-flying, jet-powered drones and the expectation that daylight brings a return to normal life has been…

Published on 04/09/2026 – 9:21 GMT+2•Updated 9:33 Ukraine’s finance minister has warned that the country may have to cut non-military spending unless it can secure funding from its allies, as he urged European ministers to “think outside the box” as Kyiv faces another winter of Russian escalation. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Sergii Marchenko, who has overseen the country’s finances since 2020, told Euronews Ukraine had not faced such a tight budget situation since the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022. With the focus on military spending and weapons procurement, other areas of the budget could be affected and disbursements delayed unless…