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Published on 25/03/2026 – 15:39 GMT+1 Lille will host the European Custom Authority, a new decentralised agency tasked with supporting and coordinating national customs administrations across the bloc. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The decision was made on Wednesday in Brussels, after EU lawmakers from the European Parliament and the Council of the EU voted on the matter in three rounds. “France is one of Europe’s leading customs nations, [considering] one in three parcels entering the EU passes through French territory,” Dutch MEP Dirk Gotink, rapporteur on the customs reform, said in a press statement. “Lille’s strategic location at the crossroads of Europe…

Published on 25/03/2026 – 14:41 GMT+1 Police in the United Kingdom arrested two men on Wednesday in connection with an arson attack on four ambulances belonging to a Jewish charity, an assault that authorities are investigating as an antisemitic hate crime. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The Metropolitan Police said the two men, aged 45 and 47, were arrested in London on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life and that both men have been taken to a police station in the city for questioning. Officers are searching two properties in north London, a few kilometres from the scene of the attack…

Published on 25/03/2026 – 13:38 GMT+1 Hungary will gradually halt gas exports to Ukraine until Kyiv resumes oil shipments through the Druzhba pipeline. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The move was announced on Wednesday by the country’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who added that the gas would be redirected to refill the country’s own storage instead of being supplied to Ukraine. “We will gradually stop gas supplies from Hungary to Ukraine, and we will store the remaining gas at home,” Orbán said in a social media video posted after a cabinet meeting.”As long as Ukraine does not supply oil, we will not supply…

The Iran war is causing ” profound” impact on civilians in the region, the UN Refugee Agency chief Barham Salih told Euronews’ flagship show Europe Today. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The situation is “very dire” and around “600,000 to a million households in Iran” have already been affected, with “more than a million people” displaced in Lebanon, he added. “The region cannot afford these cycles of violence,” he said. “Human lives are at stake,” added Salih, who insists that what the Middle East needs is peace. Salih said the war poses a “terrible humanitarian challenge” and is “highly destabilising” for the region.…

Good morning from Brussels. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats suffered a setback in Tuesday’s snap elections, after failing to secure a majority despite clinching the most votes. It’s the worst showing for the Social Democrats in a century despite finishing some way ahead of any other party. It means there are fraught coalition talks ahead, but Frederiksen is still likely to hold onto her premiership. Frederiksen had called the snap vote in the hopes that her firm leadership in the face of US threats to forcibly seize Greenland earlier this year had galvanised her voter base and…

When it comes to Viktor Orbán’s veto, one man stands to lose the most: António Costa. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The explosive decision by the Hungarian prime minister to block the €90 billion loan to Ukraine at the very last stage of the process represents the most formidable challenge yet to Costa’s authority and integrity as president of the European Council. The tensions came to a boil during last week’s summit, when leader after leader, including Costa, launched fierce criticism against Orbán for backtracking on the agreement that they had all painstakingly struck in a high-stakes meeting in December. “Nobody can blackmail…

On March 10th, MEPs voted 367 to 166 in favour of recommendations from the Special Committee on the Housing Crisis. The report is not legally binding, but it is the first time Europe has created a housing roadmap for the whole bloc. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The numbers show the scale of the problem. Europe is short about 10 million homes. Rents have gone up by more than 30 percent across the EU. The European Investment Bank says the EU will need 2.25 million more homes in 2025 alone, which is 50% more than are being built now. The Parliament wants the…

A fake Euronews-style article and website claiming that Hungary’s opposition leader Péter Magyar insulted Donald Trump is circulating online as part of a wider campaign researchers have linked to Storm-1516, a Russian disinformation operation. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The article, which utilises a real byline and appeared on a fake Euronews website that has since been taken down, claims that Magyar delivered a blistering critique of Trump at a campaign rally. Among other false claims, the article says Magyar called Trump a “senile grandpa” and promised to undo “key agreements” made with the US, should Magyar win parliamentary elections in Hungary scheduled…

Published on 24/03/2026 – 18:01 GMT+1 Copa-Cogeca, the EU’s influential farmers’ lobby, said in a statement on Tuesday that the EU’s concessions to Canberra in the newly signed trade deal with Australia are “unacceptable” as they fail to sufficiently protect European farmers. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “In a post-Mercosur context, the cumulative impact of successive trade agreements makes these concessions unacceptable,” the lobby said, adding: “European farmers cannot continue to absorb the cost of bilateral trade liberalisation without adequate and truly effective safeguards.” The EU-Australia agreement sets quotas for sensitive products including beef (30,600 tonnes a year phased in over 10 years),…

In an interview with Euronews’ flagship morning programme Europe Today, US Ambassador Andrew Puzder warned that it “would be economic malpractice” from the European Parliament to reject a trade deal in a vote set to take place this week. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT A vote is expected Thursday after multiple delays to implement the terms of the political agreement between the US and the EU inked last summer, which tripled tariffs on Europe while cutting duties on US industrial goods down to zero. The deal was harshly criticised as too favourable to the Trump administration and a capitulation from the EU. Parliamentary…