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Published on 27/06/2025 – 15:04 GMT+2•Updated 15:31ADVERTISEMENTAll European nations in NATO need to contribute to the continent’s security and reach the 5% GDP defence spending target, including Spain, Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal told Euronews in an exclusive interview.Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said he received an opt-out on the significant demand in defence spending from NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. But Michal explained Rutte told him this was not the case. “(Rutte) said that no, no exemptions. So I would say that Pedro Sánchez will also have to elaborate on how he will fulfil the major criteria,” explained Michel. Moreover, Michal…
A music licensing organisation is chasing up hundreds of businesses a week, asking them to pay-up for the tunes they are using, so that artists get what they are owed.OneMusic licences certain music for use in commercial settings like pubs, club, offices, hairdressers, gym and factories, nearly anything outside of personal use.Charges vary, playing the radio in a factory with 72 workers would cost $49 a month for licence, a gym with 500 members would pay about $104 dollars a month.OneMusic Director, Greer Davies told RNZ music licencing had been around for a while, and the company saw a huge…
ADVERTISEMENTIn 2016, the UK voted to leave the European Union in a close-call referendum. Nine years on, the nation appears to be “Bregretful”. In a survey conducted by YouGov, 56% of UK citizens said that with hindsight, they believed the decision to leave the bloc was wrong, compared with 31% who maintained that it was the right decision. Asked whether Brexit has been more of a failure than a success, 61% said it had been more of a failure, 20% stated it was neither, while 13% argued it has been a success. Of those who were disappointed by Brexit, 88%…
Seats were scarce at Gisborne’s District Council’s packed-out chambers on Thursday morning, as councillors voted to investigate the return of ancestral land to a local hapū.Members of Ngāti Oneone have inhabited Te Pā Eketū Shed, a warehouse-sized property on Gisborne’s Hirini St, for almost two months as part of a protest movement they have called “a reclamation of whenua”.Their original Te Poho-o-Rāwiri Marae and Pā once stood on the land, now owned by Eastland Port, before they were removed to develop the Gisborne Harbour under the Public Works Act, almost a century ago.Mayor Rehette Stoltz addressed the councillors and the…
Published on 27/06/2025 – 14:15 GMT+2ADVERTISEMENTThe new European Ombudswoman has called on EU institutions to take a more proactive approach to improving transparency, following a rise in complaints about the issue.Teresa Anjinho, who began her mandate in February at the body responsible for holding the bloc’s institutions and agencies to account, told Euronews that change was needed.”More can be done, especially at the European Commission, because there are successive delays in the delivery of documents,” Anjinho said. “Access to information, which is often delayed, is then denied.”According to the Ombudswoman’s latest annual report, the bloc’s lack of transparency is the…
A Spring Creek couple evacuated from their home due to Friday’s flooding say they’re “pissed off” with the Marlborough District Council’s lack of action around flood protection work.Residents from certain Spring Creek streets were asked to evacuate on Friday morning as a precaution, as the Marlborough region was battered by rain overnight Thursday.Follow 1News’ live updates of the weather hereThere was 245mm of rain at Rai Falls and other areas around the district, receiving more than 100mm.On Friday morning, Marlborough Emergency Management Controller Richard MacNamara said there was uncertainty around how long the heavy rain would last.The entrance to Spring…
A farm owner in Tasman says severe weather which has “smashed” her farm overnight is “heartbreaking” for her business. A state of emergency in place for part of Marlborough, as well as Nelson and Tasman as heavy rain batters the regions. Marlborough District Council has asked residents to avoid all travel unless absolutely necessary.Wild Oats farm owner Kirsty Lalich told 1News it wasn’t the first time her farm on Pretty Bridge Rd had experienced flooding, but said she’d “never, ever seen it like this”. “We’ve had rain like that before, but then it’s absolutely smashed it through the night. I…
Service stations in the North Island are raising alarm bells about thefts from underground fuel tanks, with two stations saying the raids pose a danger to the community.A G.A.S Station in Northland and another station in Hamilton both said thieves have taken petrol from their underground storage tanks, and say they have concerns with how their cases were handled.The Kaihu G.A.S station is in rural Northland, about 23 minutes from Dargaville.Mani Kaur runs the station with her husband, and said they were struck by thieves twice earlier this month. They said roughly 2000 litres of fuel was syphoned from their…
By Meabh McMahon & Jeremy Fleming-Jones Published on 27/06/2025 – 11:09 GMT+2•Updated 11:15ADVERTISEMENTIt would be a mistake for the European Commission to follow French President Emmanuel Macron’s advice and slam the brakes on its proposals for 2040 climate targets, the Commission’s Executive Vice-President Teresa Ribera told Euronews’ Europe Today show on Friday morning.Ribera, responsible for the EU’s green transition portfolio, is slated to present the 2040 targets after next Wednesday’s meeting of the college of commissioners. The French president raised his opposition to the EU executive’s tabling of the proposal next week in an unusual intervention at the leaders’ level during…
A warning has been issued due to a growing trend of counterfeit pills being misrepresented as prescription medication in fake blister packs. The New Zealand Drug Foundation has discovered what was presumed to be alprazolam bars in an unopened blister pack that instead contained tramadol and no benzodiazepine, the High Alert agency said. “It is highly unusual and concerning to find these tablets in seemingly authentic blister packaging.”Dr Rhys Ponton from the School of Pharmacy at UoA said that there was an immense market for counterfeit medicines “to convince patients and health professionals that a product is genuine and contains…