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Published on 03/07/2026 – 16:07 GMT+2 EU member states agreed on Friday to sanction six Russian nationals linked to the chemical substance suspected of killing Russian dissident Alexei Navalny during his detention in a penal colony. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Those targeted are scientists and researchers involved in Russia’s military chemical weapons programme, most notably in the development of epibatidine, traces of which were found on Navalny’s body after his death in February 2024. Navalny was Russia’s most prominent opposition leader and anti-corruption activist. He was arrested in 2021 on fraud charges after returning to Russia following a failed poisoning attempt in…
By the end of next year, around 5,000 German troops will be permanently stationed between the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, and the border with Belarus as part of the new Lithuania Panzerbrigade 45. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT During a major military exercise in May and June, Lithuanian schoolgirl Kamilė V. found herself at the heart of the action after winning a Bundeswehr tank ride in a NATO essay competition. Euronews met her shortly before the experience at the Pabradė training area, where she joined soldiers from the mechanised infantry battalion assigned to Brigade 45. They had just completed the nearly six-week “Freedom Shield”…
Ukraine and Moldova notched another milestone in their EU accession bids at a technical meeting on Friday, as member states unanimously agreed to advance the opening of another cluster of negotiations. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The move to unlock cluster six (“External Relations”) marks a further step in the two candidates’ accession process, reflecting Hungary’s gradual shift in position following Péter Magyar’s landslide election victory over Viktor Orbán. Orbán had kept Kyiv’s accession bid on hold for years over a dispute concerning the treatment of the Hungarian minority in western Ukraine. Magyar’s new government worked with the Ukrainian side to resolve the…
US Democrats are urging the European Commission to resist mounting commercial pressure and the Trump administration’s demands that the bloc scrap its methane rules, despite warnings that transatlantic energy exports, which are now the bloc’s second-largest provider, could decline if the rules remain in place. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “At a time when the EU’s methane rules are facing increasing pressure to be delayed or weakened by fossil fuel interests, maintaining clear, consistent rules for all suppliers is essential to strengthening Europe’s energy security, while also reducing highly potent greenhouse gas emissions,” reads a 1 July letter sent by five US lawmakers,…
By Euronews with AFP Published on 03/07/2026 – 11:36 GMT+2 Thailand’s foreign ministry has denied a viral online claim that French President Emmanuel Macron knelt before the country’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn while presenting France’s highest state honours during the Thai monarch’s state visit to Paris. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The claim spread after an AI-generated image circulated widely on Thai social media following the king’s official visit to France, the first by a Thai monarch since 1960, marking 170 years of diplomatic relations between the two nations. During a state dinner at the presidential palace, Macron presented the 73-year-old king with the Grand Cross of…
Published on 03/07/2026 – 10:56 GMT+2 Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said the Baltic country’s top political leaders had agreed that a constitutional ban on the domestic deployment of nuclear weapons should be removed. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Nauseda said Article 137 of Lithuania’s constitution, which explicitly prohibits the deployment of weapons of mass destruction and the establishment of foreign military bases on Lithuanian territory had become “outdated” and “obsolete,” according to a report by a state broadcaster LRT. “The geopolitical situation is getting worse. Our constitution was written when geopolitical circumstances were totally different,” Nauseda said. The Baltic country hosts a NATO…
By Alessio Dell’Anna & video by Léo Arnoux Published on 03/07/2026 – 9:26 GMT+2•Updated 9:26 Europe is the world’s biggest region for tourism, attracting more than half of all international tourist arrivals. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The tourism industry pumps millions of euros a year into the economy, but for those outside the business, the disadvantages can be huge. Not just in terms of overcrowding and pollution, but also, more concretely, in the way it inflates the cost of living, and inflates rent in particular. Greek residents are the most impacted, according to the New Economics Foundation, with tourism flows sending annual rents up by…
Published on 03/07/2026 – 9:00 GMT+2 This week, The European Public Prosecutor’s Office has launched a fresh wave of raids across France, Spain, Italy and Belgium. They are digging into the 4.3 million euros of EU funds allegedly misused by the European Parliament’s Identity and Democracy group between 2019-2024. What’s going on? ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The prosecutors are scrutinising whether the party breached public tender rules when awarding public contracts and issued irregular donations using those taxpayer funds. Importantly, that political group is dead. It has been rebranded into the new “Patriots for Europe” coalition, led by the rising star Jordan…
Published on 02/07/2026 – 11:27 GMT+2 The European Union Court of Justice on Thursday upheld Google’s record €4.1 billion fine over alleged anticompetitive practices related to the company’s Android operating system. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The European Commission hit the US tech giant with the penalty in 2018, alleging that the firm had abused its dominant market position, particularly by using pre-installation agreements with phone makers to give an unfair advantage to its search engine and Chrome browser. An initial fine of €4.3 billion was imposed, but the EU’s General Court reduced this to €4.1 billion in 2022. Google CEO Sundar Pichai…
Published on 02/07/2026 – 11:53 GMT+2 EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas announced that new sanctions targeting Russia’s military-industrial complex will be presented on Thursday, after Russian forces launched massive overnight strikes on Kyiv, killing at least 13 people and wounding dozens. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “Today, I will propose to sanction more entities supporting Russia’s military-industrial complex in response to the strikes,” Kallas wrote on X. “The more Moscow attacks civilians, the more sanctions must be imposed. We keep raising the cost until Russia understands it cannot win.” The attack came after Ukraine’s air force warned that ballistic missiles were headed…