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The European Commission on Wednesday unveiled its long-awaited industrial plan, rolling out a “European Preference” that shuts China out of European public funding and tightens the screws on Beijing’s future investments in the European Union. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The move comes after 200,000 European jobs were wiped out in energy-intensive industries and the automotive sector since 2024, with 600,000 losses projected this decade in carmaking alone, as China floods Europe with exports while building plants that create scant local employment. “Facing unprecedented global uncertainty and unfair competition, European industry can count on the provisions of this act to boost demand and…
By James Thomas & video by Maud Zaba Published on 04/03/2026 – 10:30 GMT+1•Updated 11:00 Despite significant progress in women’s representation in leadership roles and a narrowing gender pay gap, full gender equality in the EU is said to still be at least 50 years away, according to the European Institute for Gender Inequality Index. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT One area that still needs improvement is pensions: new figures from Eurostat show that the average pension for women aged 65 or above in the EU was 24.5% lower than that for men in 2024. When broken down by country, Malta had the largest pension gender…
Hungary’s last-minute veto on the €90 billion loan to Ukraine highlights the need for the European Union to move away from unanimity, Rob Jetten, the new prime minister of the Netherlands, said on his first trip to Brussels since taking office. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “The new Dutch goverment is in favour of less and less decision-making by unanimity on the European level,” Jetten told a group of media, including Euronews, on Tuesday. “This is a clear example of why that is important because we cannot explain to our constituents that Europe is sometimes way too level in reacting to great issues…
European Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen hailed his visit to Azerbaijan on Tuesday as “fruitful” as the European Union deals with the halt in liquid natural gas (LNG) production from Qatar, an important energy exporter, and the impact of the Strait of Hormuz’s closure amid the conflict in the Middle East. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “Diversification, energy security and clean transition are top priorities. This is even more important in the context of the ongoing tensions in the Middle East,” Jørgensen wrote on X, as EU imports from Qatar accounted for 8% in 2025, according to real-time data and intelligence market Kpler Insight.…
Critics of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen are casting her reaction to the US-Israeli war in Iran as the latest example of a foreign policy “power grab” – even as the commission’s formal diplomatic powers are limited and member states themselves are still grappling with how to respond. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT When the war began with US strikes on Iran last Saturday, von der Leyen was the first leader across Europe to issue a reaction, calling the developments in Iran “greatly concerning”. Since then, she has issued 12 posts involving Iran on X and held talks with at least…
Published on 03/03/2026 – 16:56 GMT+1 Drone activity targeting British military facilities in Cyprus has raised security concerns in recent days, but the incidents have so far not prompted formal consultations within either NATO or the European Union over collective defence measures. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Two drones targeting a British base in Akrotiri were intercepted on Monday after another attack on Sunday caused limited damage. Britain is a member of NATO, but a source at the military alliance confirmed to Euronews on Tuesday that no dedicated discussion had been held among the 32 allies over the incident, which is so far…
Budapest and Kyiv have once again clashed over the status of the Druzhba pipeline, putting Brussels in an awkward position amid a dispute that has stalled a €90 billion European Loan to Ukraine and shows no sign of being resolved soon. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT In a new letter, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, whose veto has outraged his fellow leaders, asked European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to “increase political pressure” on Ukraine to restart crude deliveries through the Soviet-era pipeline. He also asked the executive to “enforce relevant provisions” of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, which he argues is being…
Claims that Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has escaped to Berlin amid the Iran war, which was sparked by US and Israeli airstrikes, have swamped social media platforms. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT On Saturday evening, the same day that the airstrikes took place, flight-tracking data showed that Israel’s government plane had landed at Berlin’s Brandenburg Airport. Online, users claimed that Israeli Netanyahu was on board the flight. Some posts accused him of having fled the country following the start of coordinated US and Israeli strikes on Iran. One post, with more than 1.5 million views, claimed to have tracked Netanyahu to a…
Published on 03/03/2026 – 12:57 GMT+1•Updated 13:06 Reza Pahlavi, son of the last Iranian Shah and one of the main leaders of the opposition to the Tehran regime, could soon address the members of the European Parliament. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT His name is included on a provisional list that the Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs has drawn up to organise an exchange of views on the current situation in the country. The list, obtained by Euronews, is provisional, and is set to be confirmed on Wednesday afternoon. It features seven people, among them lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi…
Published on 03/03/2026 – 10:07 GMT+1 The Russian Central Bank has filed a lawsuit against the European Union for the indefinite immobilisation of its sovereign assets, which the bloc approved last year in a bid to strengthen its leverage in ongoing talks to end the war in Ukraine and prevent Moscow from tapping into the funds for its own profit. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The assets are worth about €210 billion, with €185 billion, held at Euroclear, a Brussels-based depository already sued by Moscow. The legal action was submitted to the EU’s General Court in Luxembourg on 27 February, but it was…