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Published on 23/06/2026 – 10:50 GMT+2 Seven people were injured on Monday when they were run over by a car on the terrace of a bar in Frigiliana (Málaga), according to the Andalusian 112 emergency service. Local media report that among the injured were at least two children, aged 5 and 14. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The alert came in at 19:30, when several witnesses phoned 112 to report that a car had ploughed into several customers sitting on the bar’s terrace. The coordination centre dispatched staff from the Emergency Health Centre, the local police and the fire brigade, who ultimately did…
By Alessio Dell’Anna & video by Léa Becquet Published on 23/06/2026 – 9:55 GMT+2 Few things could have better symbolically marked 10 years since the Brexit vote — and the chaos that followed — than the departure of yet another British prime minister. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Sir Keir Starmer is the sixth to leave office since the 23 June 2016 referendum, a vote that reshaped UK politics and sent shockwaves across Europe. A decade of political bitterness and turmoil followed, leaving both of the UK’s traditional heavyweight parties badly scarred. The centre-left Labour Party is struggling to find its footing after winning the 2024…
The EU Transparency Directive is Europe’s latest effort to guarantee equal pay for equal work between men and women using transparency and stronger enforcement. The Commission proposed it in 2023 under the Gender Equality Strategy 2020-2025 to close the ongoing gender pay gap. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The directive lifts the secrecy around salaries. In practice, postings and interviews must now include the pay range; workers can request average pay data for colleagues doing the same job broken down by gender. Employers can no longer ask candidates about their salary history. By making pay visible, the directive empowers workers, particularly women, to…
Published on 22/06/2026 – 10:47 GMT+2•Updated 16:10 British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced he will step down as leader of the Labour Party but will remain as caretaker prime minister until a new candidate is elected. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Following mounting pressure within the party for a change in leadership, Starmer has begun the process of mapping out a timeline to hand over power. His departure comes just hours before the former Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham, a favourite to replace Starmer, was sworn in as an MP after gaining a seat in the House of Commons following a recent…
Updated: 22/06/2026 – 12:20 GMT+2 Moldovan Foreign Minister Mihai Popșoi said the country’s EU accession process and the Transnistria conflict are “parallel” tracks to prevent Vladimir Putin from gaining “leverage”. Moldova is working “tirelessly” to ensure all Moldovans benefit from accession, said the minister. … More
The spread of the horseshoe whip snake in the Balearic Islands has become one of the biggest threats to the islands’ biodiversity. Accidentally introduced from mainland Spain along with ornamental olive trees, this invasive snake has colonised much of Ibiza and Formentera and is driving a decline in native lizard populations, some of them unique to the archipelago. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Experts warn that the species behaves like an apex predator in an ecosystem where it has virtually no natural competitors. Its advance has been so swift that local extinctions of the Pityusan wall lizard have already been documented on several…
Efforts to tackle climate change are facing “changing political circumstances,” but international cooperation must not be “weakened” by leaders like US president Donald Trump, China’s Minister for Ecology and Environment, Huang Runqiu, said on Monday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Speaking on the sidelines of the EU’s annual “ministerial on climate action” in Brussels, Huang’s remarks appeared to be an indirect reference to the Trump administration’s retreat from international climate commitments. Despite being the world’s second-largest greenhouse gas emitter after China, Washington bailed on last year’s COP30 in Brazil and quit the Paris Agreement. “We have a shared responsibility to safeguard commitments and…
Businesswoman and campaigner Gina Miller, known for leading two successful landmark legal challenges related to the Brexit process, said she hopes that Britain’s next leader will have “a plan” for the UK’s future relationship with Brussels, hours after Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced he would resign. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The British-Guyanese 61-year-old became one of Britain’s most divisive political figures after she took the successive Conservative governments of Theresa May and Boris Johnson to court, contesting their handling of the UK’s exit from the European Union in 2016-17 and 2019. “I’m hoping that the new leader of the Labour Party will…
Belgium has issued visas to a Taliban delegation to attend a migration meeting in Brussels, paving the way for the first visit by Taliban representatives to an EU-hosted event since the group returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The planned talks have already sparked criticism from human rights organisations, which argue that engaging with the Taliban risks undermining the European Union’s commitment to human rights. However, the Belgian government said it approved five visas for members of the delegation after security assessments found no evidence that the individuals posed a threat. The visas are tightly restricted, allowing…
Published on 22/06/2026 – 16:22 GMT+2 The European Commission is pushing to ban China-made power inverters from all EU-funded projects, but a full phase-out in the near future appears unrealistic. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The Commission recently announced plans to gradually eliminate the use of Chinese-made inverters in EU-funded energy projects, in a major step aimed at protecting critical energy infrastructure from possible cyber threats that could trigger power outages. The rationale: China-made inverters are deemed a cybersecurity liability, since manufacturers might be able to remotely manipulate them or even switch them off, destabilising energy grids and potentially causing blackouts. But the…