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Published on 17/12/2025 – 17:39 GMT+1 The European Parliament has approved a non-binding resolution asking to establish a fund to help women with no access to safe abortions in their home country. This financial mechanism, which MEPs endorsed in a vote on Wednesday, would enable EU members to provide access to the termination of pregnancies for any woman who is legally barred from doing so in her home country, which is the case in several EU states. It would be open to all EU countries on a voluntarily basis and supported by European funds. Member states would provide abortion care…
Signing off the Mercosur trade deal between the European Union and Latin American countries is “imperative”, EU Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra told Euronews, as political divisions among member states could derail a crucial vote this week. The deal, more than 20 years in the making, has entered a decisive week, which could see the Mercosur accord finally signed off or have it derailed. Backers, which include the European Commission, Germany and Spain, argue that a failure to stamp the deal would present a setback as the bloc seeks new markets for exports. France is leading an opposition camp and is…
A video shared on X claims to show heavily armed police officers going from door to door registering young men for the German army in Berlin’s Charlottenburg district. “Military police are currently going from house to house and registering all young men between 18 and 35. I am not at war with Russia. You won’t get my grandson,” the caption reads under the video, which has been shared more than 281,000 times. But the claims in the video are false. While the footage is real, it can be geolocated to the Dutch city of Leeuwarden, not Berlin. Multiple local media…
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has raised the stakes ahead of a crucial gathering of the European Union’s 27 leaders in Brussels on Thursday, framing the talks as pivotal for Europe’s security and independence. “Yesterday’s peace is gone. We have no time to indulge in nostalgia. What matters is how we confront today,” von der Leyen told the Strasbourg hemicycle on Wednesday morning. “We know the urgency. It is acute. We all feel it. We all see it.” The EU is reaching a decision point on two critical issues that could shape its global image and international standing.…
By Euronews Published on 17/12/2025 – 11:18 GMT+1 Joining the EU is Kosovo’s “destiny,” President Vjosa Osmani told Euronews’ morning show Europe Today, emphasising its complete alignment with the bloc’s values. “As an identity, as a country, as a nation, we’ve been contributing to the values on which the European Union stands for centuries,” Osmani said. “While it’s a very complex process, if merit-based criteria is used, Kosovo actually would have been a frontrunner by now.” Kosovo applied for EU membership in December 2022 but holds only potential candidate status, with its path to accession complicated by non-recognition from five EU…
Published on 17/12/2025 – 6:00 GMT+1 You might have spotted some of these practices on Instagram or Tiktok. Influencers unpacking and trying on clothing from platforms such as Shein or Temu to showcase how much can be purchased with little money, others showing cheap imitations of clothing or accessories from fast-fashion brands. These marketing practices are respectively known as “hauls” or “try-on hauls” and “dupe” videos. Influencer marketing also promotes unhealthy food advertising. In Portugal, McDonald’s collaborated with a popular streamer exploring a Minecraft world. In other instances, influencers offer discount codes for fast-food brands, post taste tests and flavour…
The European Union is grappling with a momentous problem: how to meet Ukraine’s budget and military needs for 2026 and 2027. With the United States effectively out of the picture, the bloc will be compelled to increase its financial contribution to Kyiv to at least €90 billion for the next two years. But how? When leaders meet on Thursday to make a final decision, they will find two different solutions on the table. Plan A: issue a zero-interest reparations loan based on immobilised Russian assets. And Plan B: borrow the money jointly. Both plans come with considerable pros and cons,…
Published on 16/12/2025 – 16:56 GMT+1 •Updated 17:00 Leaders from member states on the EU’s eastern frontier called on Tuesday for the “prioritisation” of European Union funds towards the so-called Eastern Flank Watch flagship project, arguing they are “at the forefront” of the threat posed by Russia and therefore the bloc’s first line of defence. In a joint declaration released after a summit in Helsinki, the leaders of Sweden, Finland, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and Bulgaria said that since Russia poses the “most significant, direct and long-term threat” to European security, there should be an “immediate prioritisation of the…
Updated: 16/12/2025 – 20:29 GMT+1 Thousands of dinosaur footprints have been found in a national part in northern Italy known as the Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio Branchi. Experts say they are from enormous herbivores that lived there 210 million years ago in the Triassic period. … More
Europe can compete on the scale of the United States, provided it integrates its common market further and completes pending legislation urgently, European Union Financial Services Commissioner Maria Luís Albuquerque said on Euronews’ flagship interview programme The Europe Conversation. Albuquerque conceded rival jurisdictions like the US have succeeded in attracting European capital and funding that would otherwise stay in the EU if rules were easier for companies and investors. Still, she insisted that a new push to simplify regulation and integrate the single market from big finance to savers can reverse that. “There is a lot of money in the…