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The year 2025 was the third‑warmest on record for Europe, with March being the warmest month on record for the continent, new Copernicus data reveals. The average temperature reached 10.41°C, which was 1.17°C above the 1991–2020 reference period. The eastern North Atlantic, the North Sea region including northern Britain and parts of Scandinavia, the southwestern Mediterranean, and westernmost Russia saw record‑warm temperatures. France, Russia, and Romania have been ranked as the top European countries that will be most severely impacted by global warming by 2100, according to recent Reinders Corporation data. The research also noted that Europe’s mild climate could…
Published on 23/01/2026 – 10:15 GMT+1 The world’s eyes are on Iran this week, where anger over the dire economic situation and decades of repression is boiling over. The Iranian government is responding with force, prompting international leaders to discuss possible measures to increase pressure on it. “I personally have never experienced this degree of blackout in Iran,” Babak Kamiar, the head of Euronews’ Persian team tells “Brussels, my love?”. “The numbers of those killed, injured and detained is horrible,” he continued, pointing out that these figures are still difficult to assess due to limited access to information. Euronews’ journalists…
By Méabh Mc Mahon & Alice Carnevali Published on 23/01/2026 – 9:00 GMT+1 What a challenging week for the EU-US relationship. On Saturday night, President Donald Trump threatened tariffs on eight European countries including the UK and Norway opposed to his bid to take control of Greenland, a self-governing territory within the Kingdom of Denmark. The threat, later dropped on Wednesday after a conversation between Trump and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, sparked discussion in the EU over the possibility of using one of its strictest trade measures, the anti-coercion instrument. To discuss these and more developments in the EU this week, Euronews’ weekly…
Published on 23/01/2026 – 7:30 GMT+1 •Updated 8:19 EU leaders gathered in Brussels last night for a lengthy dinner and tense talks. Despite the tasty food, the mood was grim as they discussed trade, Greenland, Mercosur and Trump’s Gaza Board of Peace. For more on whether this summit was worth the trip, we cross over to Shona Murray who was there till the early hours of the morning. The 27 EU leaders debated deep into the night on all the challenges facing the Union. And we are joined today by one of them – Greece Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. In…
The leaders of the European Union have demanded respect from Donald Trump after the United States president brought the transatlantic alliance to the precipice of collapse with his threat to seize Greenland through the use of punitive tariffs. Trump suddenly backtracked on Wednesday, opting instead for a long-term deal on Arctic security brokered by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. “We believe that relationships between partners and allies should be managed in a cordial and respectful way,” António Costa, the president of the European Council, said on Thursday evening at the end of an extraordinary summit in Brussels. “The European Union…
The chief of Spain’s diplomacy, José Manuel Albares, said in an interview with Euronews on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos that the EU should stand firmly behind its values, as some countries are threatening the use of force as foreign policy. He called on Europe to take full control of its own security, arguing that the continent must move “towards a European army” at a moment of growing geopolitical pressure and uncertainty in transatlantic relations. “If we want to continue being a peaceful continent (…), we need to have the deterrence in our hand, and we…
The chief of Spain’s diplomacy said that the deal cut bilaterally between Rutte and the United States President Donald Trump is a bilateral arrangement, “not NATO, (…) it is the Secretary General of NATO talking to one of the allies.” Details of the arrangement are yet to emerge. “The only thing I know is the announcement that was made yesterday,” Albares said. “I talked to the ministers of foreign affairs of all those allied countries, and they have the same information as I, just the announcement. And I’m sure that whatever has been discussed will be brought to the Council…
Published on 22/01/2026 – 16:17 GMT+1 NATO military planners said on Thursday afternoon that they have not yet received any direction regarding the framework deal agreed between the US and Denmark for Greenland, but stand ready to start planning as soon as they do so. “We’re still at the very early stage,” Admiral Guiseppe Cavo Dragone, the chair of NATO’s Military Committee, told reporters after a Military Committee in Chiefs of Defence Session at NATO headquarters in Brussels. “We are still waiting for direction and then from then on we will start doing our business, which is military planning,” he…
A core tension underlies the EU’s support for LKAB’s Per Geijer rare-earth mine in northern Sweden. The EU wants to fast-track projects critical to its green and industrial policies. Its strict environmental and Indigenous rights laws can slow or block these efforts, especially because of permitting requirements, biodiversity protections, and Sami rights obligations. LKAB’s Per Geijer deposit near Kiruna has been granted “strategic project” status under the EU’s Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA), making it eligible for EU-backed loans, guarantees and other de-risking instruments. The designation aims to accelerate domestic mining of materials essential for electric vehicles, wind turbines and…
Europe regularly positions itself as a prime place to invest: direct investment stocks held by foreign investors amount to nearly 10 trillion in the EU alone, the world’s largest single market by number of consumers. With that in mind, outside companies are always on the lookout for where best to grow their business, but the old continent’s political, legislative and administrative fragmentation makes it harder to work out exactly which country might be best. A new study may be able to help point them in the right direction, however, as it ranks the best and worst places for companies looking…