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The European Union needs to “pin down” the precise scope of Ukraine’s growing budget needs before deciding how to fill the gap, Economy Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis, who oversees support for the war-weary country, told Euronews. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “We obviously need to do a proper, detailed assessment, but we understand that the war continues to rage at high intensity. If anything, Russia is intensifying its attacks,” Dombrovskis said in an interview recorded in Riga, Latvia. “Correspondingly, the economic situation in Ukraine is also very difficult. So we can understand that this may lead to higher financing needs for Ukraine,” he added.…

Europe’s housing crisis has escalated to an “emergency”, as young people in many member states find it impossible to buy or even rent a home, European Commissioner for Housing Dan Jørgensen has told Euronews, adding that Brussels is taking the situation “extremely seriously”. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Housing rental and purchase costs have become increasingly unaffordable across the bloc. European Commission data shows property prices across the EU have skyrocketed by roughly 60% over the past decade, while in the same period, average rents rose by over 20%. “Prices in many cities in Europe are way too high,” Jørgensen told Euronews’ flagship…

Published on 10/09/2026 – 10:26 GMT+2 Singapore’s ministers, already among the world’s highest-paid, are getting a raise for the first time in 15 years, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said, explaining that the government cannot attract top talent into politics if salaries remain unchanged. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Wong told Parliament on Tuesday that under a revised salary framework, the benchmark annual pay for a minister at the lowest grade will rise to 1.8 million Singapore dollars (€1.2 million), from Sg$1.1 million (€747,564). The prime minister’s benchmark salary will jump to Sg$3.6 million (€2.4 million) from Sg$2.2 million (€1.5 million), he said. Ministers’…

Alicia García-Herrero, an economist at the Bruegel think tank, says new EU legislation to limit the subsidies foreign companies investing in Europe can receive is “fair”, despite facing criticism. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The European Parliament is proposing to close the EU market to Chinese investment in sectors where Beijing is dominant, going further than the European Commission’s proposal. García-Herrero warns that if the Chinese government wants to compete through subsidies, European companies “won’t have a chance” against Chinese firms. A few months ago, the European Commission unveiled a proposal allowing EU public authorities to favour European companies in public procurement for…

Published on 10/09/2026 – 11:05 GMT+2 British police said Wednesday that they have opened a criminal investigation into allegations that anti-immigration party Reform UK broke rules barring foreign donations. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The allegations emerged from an undercover investigation aired by Channel 4 News. Under UK law, political parties cannot accept foreign donations. The Metropolitan Police said that after the broadcast, the force “received a number of reports relating to donations and polling involving a political party. “Detectives have assessed the information provided and determined that there are potential offenses requiring investigation,” it said. Reform UK said it “denies any wrongdoing…

As the European Parliament plenary prepares to discuss the EU Democracy Shield — an initiative designed to protect democratic processes and institutions across the bloc — misleading claims about it have emerged online, alleging it will be used to “cancel” results unwelcome in Brussels, potentially even subverting France’s 2027 presidential election. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT While the claims are clearly false, as the EU has no mandate to change election results, the fake claims, which began circulating in 2025, recently resurfaced at the hands of Florian Philippot, president of the French nationalist Patriots party. Talking about some of the EU Democracy Shield’s…

Published on 10/09/2026 – 12:17 GMT+2 Brussels has finally obtained access to Anthropic’s most powerful model, whose availability had been restricted due to its advanced hacking capabilities. But the request took over three months to bear fruit. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “Following our constructive engagement with Anthropic, we can confirm that the EU’s cybersecurity agency ENISA has been granted access to Mythos 5 and is testing it now,” said the European Commission’s spokesperson for tech sovereignty, Thomas Regnier. In April, the leading AI lab launched a preview of Mythos 5, a model capable of identifying and exploiting cyber vulnerabilities with unprecedented speed,…

Published on 10/09/2026 – 10:31 GMT+2•Updated 14:13 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s plane was preparing to leave Chișinău for Oslo on Tuesday afternoon when Moldova’s military detected an unmanned aerial vehicle in the country’s airspace. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT What initially appeared to be another Russian drone incursion took on greater significance the following day, when Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre revealed that Zelenskyy’s plane had almost been hit by a drone. “His flight was almost hit by a drone when it was taking off from Moldova. That is the reality he lives in,” Støre told Norwegian public broadcaster NRK. The timeline…

Published on 10/09/2026 – 16:36 GMT+2 A 31-year-old man from Swindon, in the south of England, has appeared in a London court accused of passing information about drone factories to people linked to Russian military intelligence. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Joshua Cammidge was charged this week with two offences under Britain’s National Security Act: helping a foreign intelligence service, and preparing to commit sabotage. In plain terms, prosecutors say he shared screenshots from Google Maps pinpointing one drone factory and four other drone-manufacturing sites in his hometown, and that he offered to carry out an act of sabotage himself. He is also…

Spain’s parliament backed a law on Thursday granting citizenship to tens of thousands of Western Saharans who were born when Spain ran the disputed territory, which is now largely controlled by Morocco. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The text grants Spanish nationality to Sahrawis born before 29 September 1977 and to their children through a certificate of naturalisation, considering that date the effective end of decolonisation. This also applies to those who do not legally reside in Spain. Although the exact number of beneficiaries is unknown, around 80,000 Sahrawis are believed to be eligible, with some estimates reaching almost 200,000 including the descendants.…