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Published on 12/12/2025 – 15:00 GMT+1 Olla Home Solution is a Tuscan construction company and one of Europe’s fastest-growing businesses in 2025. Its turnover increased by more than 400% between 2020 and 2023. Founded in the midst of the pandemic, the company specialises in green building and energy efficiency. “We wanted to provide an additional service to a growing market that was also full of gaps – explains its founder and President Samuel Olla – “because there weren’t any players offering a truly all-round, 360-degree service.” The company also offering to handle the administrative procedures, was a winning move. It…

A once-promising set of European Union environmental funds for key projects have not clearly delivered on their promises to address climate needs, according to the latest report from the European Court of Auditors (ECA). The funds for “strategic projects” under the LIFE programme, the EU’s flagship environmental protection scheme, are intended to help member states implement climate action laws, such as measures to restore nature and protect natural habitats, water resources and air quality. But after auditing 22 different projects in Finland, Poland and Spain, EU auditors concluded that their impact is “unclear”. The lack of clarity undercuts benefits for…

Published on 12/12/2025 – 10:39 GMT+1 In this crucial week for relations between United States and the European Union, Euronews’ weekly podcast, Brussels, My Love? explores what lies ahead for the transatlantic partnership. Senior adviser at the European Policy Centre Ricardo Borges de Castro, correspondent Teresa Kuchler, and Wilfried Martens Centre researcher Teona Lavrelashvili join the show to discuss US President Donald Trump’s criticism of European leaders, which he voiced on Tuesday in an interview with Politico. The experts agreed that the criticism should not come as a surprise to Brussels, which continues to struggle to take a clear stance…

European Investment Bank President Nadia Calviño called on the EU to stay united after a week of unprecedented criticism from the Trump administration which suggested the 27-member bloc is in decline and must reverse course to avoid a “civilisational demise”. “I have never been prouder to be European,” she told Euronews’ flagship morning show Europe Today when asked about a controversial US government security strategy which described Europe as economically in decline, drowning under illegal migration and suffocating as a result of overregulation. Asked if she fears civilisational collapse, Calviño, who leads the largest public bank in Europe, said the…

Published on 12/12/2025 – 7:50 GMT+1 Speaking from Berlin, NATO secretary general Mark Rutte has made a stark announcement to Europeans that Russia could attack in the next five years. A number of Western intelligence agencies have said the same, while Moscow has called it hysteria. Meanwhile, the US has said Ukraine should pull its troops out of Donbas so that Washington could set up a free economic zone in these regions. For the latest our Ukraine Sasha Vakulina fills us in. Then, President of the European Investment Bank Nadia Calviño joins us live from the European Council to discuss…

Published on 11/12/2025 – 14:11 GMT+1 •Updated 14:39 The European Union and Kyiv have drawn up an action plan to propel Ukraine on its path to EU membership despite official talks being blocked by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, framing the move as essential to provide Kyiv with future security guarantees. “We see the membership of Ukraine in the EU as the political arm of the European security guarantee for Ukraine,” the bloc’s enlargement chief Marta Kos said on Thursday from an informal ministerial gathering in Lviv, Ukraine, adding that accession will be “central to make any peace settlement sustainable.”…

Following a blockbuster 2024 with more than one billion passengers in the EU alone, 2025 is shaping up to be an even better year for the continent’s aviation sector. In the first half, passenger volumes in the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland and the UK rose by 4.3%, according to Airports Council International (ACI), an organisation of airport authorities. Central Europe claims the title of the fastest-growing region, driven by significant passenger volume increases in Slovakia (19%), Poland (15%), and Hungary (14%), compared to the first half of 2024. Outside the EU, increases are even more striking: +49% in Moldova,…

Greek Finance minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis was elected president of the Eurogroup on Thursday, rewarding the country’s turnaround story ten years after Greece almost crashed out of the eurozone in a deep economic crisis. Sources familiar with the matter told Euronews that ministers appreciated the country’s reforms agenda and saw in the Greek finance minister a positive story for the bloc. His rival, the Belgian Budget Minister Vincent Van Peteghem, who was also in the running, saw his candidature caught up in a political crossfire over a reparations loan for Ukraine, which his country opposes, but most member states support. A…

Published on 11/12/2025 – 18:10 GMT+1 •Updated 18:14 The European Union’s member states and the European Parliament have struck an agreement to strengthen the screening of foreign investments in the bloc as tensions rise over investments from countries such as China. The Parliament had been pushing for broad screening of foreign direct investments, but it is EU member states who hold the ultimate authority over investment reviews. The two have now agreed on a common text that strengthens the existing rules. Under the deal, mandatory screenings will now cover military equipment, artificial intelligence, quantum technologies, semiconductors, raw materials, transport and…

Members of the “Coalition of the Willing” for Ukraine called for continued transatlantic unity as Europeans seek to exert greater influence in the peace talks with Moscow as Washington ups pressure for a quick deal. “We are working to ensure that the security guarantees include serious components of European deterrence and are reliable, and it is important that the United States is with us and supports these efforts,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said after the virtual meeting attended by 34 mostly European countries. Zelenskyy also said he had had “a constructive and in-depth discussion with the American team” that comprised…