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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…

Ahead of the European Council summit, where EU leaders will decide on Ukraine financing, a new YouGov survey shows that major European countries tend to support using frozen Russian funds to provide financial support for the war-torn country. The majority of British, Polish, German, and Spanish respondents support using frozen Russian funds in European bank accounts to fund additional aid for Ukraine. However, Italy proves to be the exception, as Italians are closely divided on the issue, with 39% supporting and 38% opposing it. Experts claim Italy’s division reflects “a deeper fracture in its political landscape”, particularly regarding a “pro-Ukraine”…

European Union-based carmakers will need to comply with a 90% reduction in CO2 emissions from 2035, instead of the 100% previously set in EU law, the European Commission announced today, revoking a controversial wholesale ban on internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles adopted in March 2023. Manufacturers will have to compensate for the remaining 10% of emissions by using low-carbon steel produced in the EU or by using sustainable fuels such as e-fuels and biofuels. The industry will be allowed to continue producing plug-in hybrids, range extenders, mild hybrids, and ICE vehicles beyond 2035. Full electric vehicles (EVs) and hydrogen vehicles…

Discussion about the digital euro has been constantly growing since it was first announced back in 2021, with conflicting narratives and even conspiracies about the currency cropping up online as the months go by. The European Central Bank (ECB) describes it as an “answer in a world of change”, with features such as enhanced privacy, universal acceptance and free basic use, while certain consumers claim it’s a tool for the EU to control people’s money. A petition, which has gathered more than 388,000 signatures, was published online in November, calling on MEPs and national governments to reject the digital euro.…

European lawmakers and EU governments are heading for a showdown over how far to go in protecting farmers under the Mercosur trade agreement. On Tuesday, MEPs backed a safeguard clause for the deal, a measure designed to strengthen monitoring of the EU market in the event of a surge in imports from Latin America, with tariff reductions to be suspended in case of serious disruption. The package approved by lawmakers also includedan amendment requiring Mercosur products to meet EU environmental and health production standards – a move that cuts across guarantees already endorsed by member states. The agreement, which was…

Several European Union member states gathered in Helsinki on Tuesday for a summit to discuss how to boost their defence and security, particularly at the bloc’s eastern border. “We need to do more together, and we want to send a clear and strong signal from here that we need to do more together and in close coordination with the European Union and NATO,” Finland’s Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said ahead of the meeting he is hosting. “And why? This is why because Russia is a long-term threat for all of us in Europe. It’s a threat today, tomorrow and in…

Published on 16/12/2025 – 9:23 GMT+1 It sounds like a bad joke: “lumpy skin disease.” But in France, nobody is laughing. Farmers are clashing with police as their herds get slaughtered to stop a viral outbreak. And strangely enough, this virus might be what kills one of the biggest trade deals in EU history. Here is what links the two: French farming unions are fighting the systematic culling of entire herds when just a single case is detected. At the same time, Brussels is pushing the Mercosur deal, a trade pact that would open the door to South American beef.…

Published on 15/12/2025 – 20:50 GMT+1 European leaders have formally committed to come to Ukraine’s aid in any future attack launched by Russia, emulating the collective defence of NATO’s Article 5, marking a major development in the fast-moving efforts to end the war. These assistance measures, they said, should be broad, including “armed force, intelligence and logistical assistance, economic and diplomatic actions.” In a joint statement released on Monday after high-level talks in Berlin, European leaders provided their most detailed outline yet of the security guarantees they are willing to provide to Ukraine, with the endorsement of the United States.…

Italy’s silence on the Mercosur trade pact is deafening – and potentially decisive. Rome could become the kingmaker between supporters of the deal and countries seeking to block it. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen plans to fly to Brazil on December 20 to sign off the agreement. France, facing farmer anger over fears of unfair competition from Latin America, opposes the deal and wants to postpone the EU member-state vote scheduled this week to allow the signature. The trade pact with Mercosur countries – Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay – aims to create a free-trade area for 700…