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Published on 18/09/2026 – 17:46 GMT+2 Romania’s nominee for prime minister, Siegfried Muresan, has said he will attempt to form a government with a coalition involving three parties. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The country’s president Nicusor Dan nominated Muresan after consultations with political parties. Muresan now has 10 days to present a cabinet to parliament and seek a vote of confidence. Muresan, who is a member of the centre-right National Liberal Party (PNL) and the European Parliament, says he will try to form a government with the PNL, the Save Romania Union (USR) and the ethnic Hungarian UDMR party. These three parties…

Published on 18/09/2026 – 16:45 GMT+2 A 68-year-old Russian man, who travelled from the Russian Baltic sea enclave of Kaliningrad to Lithuania by river was met by border guards on the riverbank on Thursday afternoon and was sent back without being granted asylum. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “After the swim, he was provided with dry clothing,” Lithuania’s State Border Guard press service told Euronews. “More details about his journey, such as the exact distance covered, the route or how long he was in the water, cannot currently be provided.” The man allegedly told Lithuanian authorities that he was fleeing Russia because of…

A windfall tax for firms profiting from energy price volatility is one of the ideas circulating among EU ministers meeting in Dublin on Friday and Saturday for the periodic meetings of the Eurogroup and Economic and Financial Council. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT With the war in the Middle East continuing, Brent crude oil prices have surpassed $100 per barrel, and extreme volatility in energy prices is driving inflation higher across the bloc, which is not expected to return to the 2% target before the end of 2027. While growth indicators are still performing well this year, the European Commission expects economic growth…

Published on 18/09/2026 – 14:54 GMT+2 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy launched a new regional cooperation framework with seven neighbouring countries on Friday in an effort to stoke regional investment. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The initiative, dubbed the “Carpathian Eight” (C8), brings together Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Austria and Hungary, with the European Union also taking part. Member states will work together on security, energy, logistics, cross-border economic ties and support for local communities. “In the past, people often looked at the Carpathians mainly as a region of tourism, climate issues and support for local communities,” Zelenskyy said at…

Published on 18/09/2026 – 13:38 GMT+2•Updated 13:40 Luxembourg has deepened the deadlock over the EU’s sanction list renewal, tying a French demand to delist Russian businessman Alisher Usmanov to the case of Mikhail Fridman, who is suing the Grand Duchy over his frozen assets. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Last week, Paris joined Slovakia in demanding the removal of Usmanov from the sanctions list pending renewal. Now Luxembourg says that if Usmanov comes off the list, Fridman should too. “France risks setting off a race to the bottom, which is the absolute opposite of what the EU is signalling politically, given the Russian…

The Russian embassy in South Africa has shared a picture that appears to show Russian President Vladimir Putin taking a group selfie with the 10 BRICS world leaders during September’s summit. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The 18th BRICS Summit took place in New Delhi, India, on 12 and 13 September. The verified X account posted the picture, which garnered more than 2 million views, alongside the caption “BRICS is a superpower”. However, this selfie is not real. No credible news organisation has published the image as real, and the official website of the summit did not share it either. The Cube, Euronews’…

Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl, Director General of DigitalEurope, said protecting children from social media risks is a “joint responsibility of the public and private sectors”. The association, which represents companies such as OpenAI and Meta, believes it cannot be “one party’s responsibility”.

In her State of the Union address, Ursula von der Leyen warned of a “battle of narratives” seeking to weaken confidence in Europe. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT A new study, ‘Future Nostalgia: Europe’s Unfinished Song’, published by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) and the European Cultural Foundation (ECF), suggests that the confidence problem is real, and its authors call it an “imagination gap”: most Europeans still want a stronger, more united continent, but a majority doubt it will ever get there The findings, based on nearly 6,000 interviews across six countries, paint a picture of a public that hasn’t abandoned…

Published on 18/09/2026 – 8:01 GMT+2•Updated 8:22 On today’s show: Angela Skujins analyses what Canada’s newly offered “associate member” status with the EU actually means in practice, after Mark Carney told the European Parliament in Strasbourg that he welcomes “much closer ties” with Europe. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Shona Murray reports from Dublin, where EU finance ministers and central bank governors are gathering for two days of talks as part of Ireland’s EU presidency. She interviews with Simon Harris, Irish Minister for Finance. Andrew Caruana Galizia, Head of Europe and Eurasia at the World Economic Forum, joins Europe Today to discuss a…

Hello, this is Mared Gwyn holding the newsletter pen in Brussels. This morning: Eurozone finance ministers gather amid mounting economic pressures, and EU ambassadors make another push to break the Russia sanctions deadlock. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Economic jitters: Finance ministers from eurozone countries gather in Dublin, Ireland, today, against a fraught backdrop of mounting energy costs, rising inflation and weak growth. Painful at the pump: Oil prices have surged rapidly in recent days, driven by a reduction in global supplies and exacerbated by recent attacks on Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline, which have been attributed to the Iran-backed Houthi rebels. European leaders…