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Published on 10/03/2026 – 14:23 GMT+1 Someone clever once said that history is not about recording dates but about connecting the dots. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT For Europe, this signals a cold winter of diplomacy. The newly appointed Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei is a shadow operator with deep ties to the elite Revolutionary Guards military corps, and his rise suggests that Tehran has no interest in negotiations. And Europe must now prepare for three shocks. First, the war will not end quickly. Mojtaba Khamenei is a hardline choice for a hardline moment. Second, oil prices are already surging past $100, threatening a new…

Doctored videos impersonating Euronews and other major media outlets have been used to spread false claims about the war in the Middle East, shared across social media and relayed by the pro-Kremlin Pravda network. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT According to researchers from the Antibot4Navalny collective, the campaign is tied to the Russia-linked “Matryoshka” operation, which carries out mass, coordinated disinformation campaigns across social media and online, targeting Ukraine and the West. Researchers say the campaign is not directly focused on the Middle East war, but that the crisis has been used to push unrelated narratives to tarnish the West. This includes presenting…

Good morning from Brussels. I’m Maïa de La Baume. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT While you were asleep, US President Donald Trump said the war with Iran could end “very soon,” but warned that fighting could escalate if global oil supplies are disrupted. “If Iran does anything that stops the flow of Oil within the Strait of Hormuz, they will be hit by the United States of America TWENTY TIMES HARDER than they have been hit thus far.,” wrote Trump hours later in a post on Truth Social. Reminder : Oil prices briefly surged to their highest level since 2022, a day after…

Published on 10/03/2026 – 7:54 GMT+1•Updated 8:31 On today’s show: ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Euronews correspondent Aadel Haleem reports from Doha on the latest developments in the US-Israeli Iran war, entering its 11th day today. Our EU Editor Maria Tadeo fills us in on yesterday’s discussions between Eurozone ministers on a potential energy crisis resulting from the conflict in the Middle East. Interviews with Hannah Neumann, German Member of the European Parliament (Greens/EFA), and Pascal Confavreux, spokesperson for the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs. Euronews correspondent Sophia Khatsenkova reports from Paris on a defensive mission France and its allies are…

There have been more than 39,000 cases of human trafficking recorded in Europe in the past two decades, according to the latest data from the International Organization for Migration (IOM). ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Between 2002 and 2022, 85% of victims were adults, especially between the ages of 30 and 38, while 15% were children. Globally, the number of victims of trafficking increased to more than 125,000 adults and 30,000 children. IOM experts believe the true number is much higher due to underreporting and gaps in detection. In Europe, the victims were mainly from nine different countries, with more than 19,000 victims…

The European Parliament will vote soon on a law aiming to increase returns of irregular migrants, also through controversial deportation centers outside the EU, detentions up to two years, and raids on homes that NGOs compare to US style ICE’s methods. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) approved on Monday a version of the text supported by the center-right, right-wing, and far-right groups, breaking the traditional “centrist majority”. Left side groups of the hemicycle announced their opposition to the bill, which has now to be voted on by the entire Parliament. The committee…

Published on 09/03/2026 – 14:20 GMT+1 The European Union shouldn’t shy away from a trade war with China if it wants to avoid deindustrialisation, according to a report published Monday by the bloc’s foreign-policy think tank, the European Union Institute for Security Studies. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The report argues that confrontation with Beijing is likely unavoidable and urges Brussels to make it easier to deploy its most powerful trade-defence weapon, the Anti-Coercion Instrument (ACI). The analysis lands after year in which China continued to weaponise Europe’s dependence on rare earths and chips through export controls, while its trade surplus with the…

Published on 09/03/2026 – 16:44 GMT+1 Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has been accused of trying to manipulate Italy’s next general election in 2027 through a controversial overhaul of the electoral system. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Her conservative government wants to introduce a new law that would guarantee a parliamentary majority to any party or coalition winning more than 40% of the vote. Italy’s main opposition force, the centre-left Democratic Party, says the move is politically motivated, accusing the government of “fearing defeat under the current electoral system” and “changing the rules of the game without any real debate with the opposition”.…

Published on 09/03/2026 – 17:36 GMT+1 Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has called on the European Union to suspend sanctions on Russian energy imports, citing rising energy prices across Europe. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Oil prices have surpassed $100 (€87) per barrel for the first time since August 2022, threatening to push consumer prices higher. Natural gas prices also rose sharply. The EU imposed sanctions on Russian oil imports in 2022 following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Hungary and Slovakia received exemptions and continued to import significant volumes of pipeline oil from Russia via the Druzhba pipeline, which runs through Ukrainian territory.…

EU economy and finance ministers are gathering in Brussels on Monday and Tuesday to discuss how to respond to surging energy prices and anticipated inflation amid the ongoing strikes and counter-strikes in the Middle East. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “We are ready to take necessary and coordinated steps in order to stabilise markets, such as strategic stockpiling,” French Economy Minister Roland Lescure told journalists on Monday after chairing a meeting of G7 finance ministers. Asked whether G7 finance ministers had agreed on releasing the system’s strategic stockpile, Lescure said: “We are not there yet.” “What we’ve agreed upon is to use any…