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The European Union is making a full-on effort to cut emissions at home, but 35% of its carbon footprint was generated abroad in 2023, according to data from the European Climate Foundation (ECF) and climate consultancy Matière. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The new figures, which show that more than one-fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions are now linked to global trade, create a political problem for Brussels, which is heavily investing in the decarbonisation of factories, power plants and cars even as the bloc still consumes goods whose production generates substantial emissions abroad. The new Traded Emissions Tracker reveals that in Ireland,…

A quarter of a century after the Al-Qaeda terrorist attacks on the United States, jihadist groups still pose a major threat to security in Europe, but a new menace has surfaced that is driven mostly by young people online and authorities are worried. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The exact size of the network behind what is being called nihilistic violent extremism is unclear. But police investigators from nine European countries found about 4,340 URL web addresses linked to “The COM,” as the online community has become known, during a campaign to disrupt it in June and July. “It’s violence for the sake…

Published on 08/09/2026 – 14:29 GMT+2•Updated 14:47 Three MEPs have agreed in a report to be published Wednesday to tighten the requirements for foreign direct investment in the EU, restricting access to the European market for Chinese investors, Euronews has learned. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The report comes from the European Parliament’s rapporteurs on the proposed Industrial Accelerator Act, MEPs Christophe Grudler (Renew), Pierre Jouvet (S&D) and MEP Anna Cavazzini (The Greens). The act was presented by the European Commission last March and creates a European preference on the EU market to favour products made in Europe, in a move to protect…

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Tuesday he expects to meet his US counterpart Donald Trump by the end of September, as Washington steps up efforts to revive negotiations to end Russia’s full-scale invasion. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Zelenskyy said securing additional US air-defence missiles would be a key issue at the meeting, with Kyiv seeking an urgently needed “winter package” of anti-ballistic missile interceptors. Speaking to reporters in the presidential WhatsApp chat, Zelenskyy said he discussed Ukraine’s shortage of advanced air defences with US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner during their visit to Kyiv over the weekend. “I am counting…

Sweden heads to the polls on Sunday in a tight general election that could see the left-wing opposition oust the government after a campaign dominated by concerns over healthcare and the welfare state amid fears over Europe’s security. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Opinion polls have pointed to a victory for the centre-left opposition headed by the Social Democrats. But Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson’s centre-right coalition and its parliamentary ally, the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats, have narrowed the gap in the final weeks of campaigning and the election could go down to the wire, experts say. “There’s still a bit of suspense. But all…

European Union member states have been asked to specify a realistic volume of revenue to be raised by new Europe-wide taxes, and to outline which adjustments are needed, as Ireland’s EU Council presidency irons out a new compromise for the bloc’s budget. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The thorny issue of creating fresh EU taxes, known as own resources, to finance the next long-term budget was on the table at a meeting of European ambassadors on Tuesday, with the Irish presidency testing the ground for a new compromise package. “The vast majority of member states are willing to engage on a package of…

Published on 08/09/2026 – 11:06 GMT+2 Ukraine’s prosecutor general Ruslan Kravchenko has resigned amid a major corruption investigation involving officials in his office. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The country’s anti-corruption agencies, NABU and SAPO, say they uncovered a criminal group whose members allegedly took bribes from fraudulent call centres and laundered millions in criminal proceeds. Kravchenko’s office was searched during the investigation, while recordings released by NABU refer to a person described as the “boss.” Investigators say the person has the patronymic Andriiovych and previously headed the State Tax Service, details that match with Kravchenko. Kravchenko has not been named as a…

As the far right made significant gains in local elections in Germany, divisions have opened up within Italy’s political right. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The AfD (Alternative for Germany) took 43.8 per cent of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt, a historic result that has shaken the federal government in Berlin. The shockwave reached Rome, where reaction from Italy’s governing parties was sharply divided. Sunday’s election result in Saxony-Anhalt is “a worrying signal”, said Forza Italia leader and foreign minister Antonio Tajani. “A negative signal,” he added, although there is no need to “overdramatise” it, he told Il Messaggero. “It was widely expected —…

Published on 08/09/2026 – 9:05 GMT+2 Fourteen defendants go on trial in France on Tuesday over a 2021 Channel crossing that killed 31 people, including a seven-year-old, in the worst small-boat disaster involving migrants in those waters. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Prosecutors allege the accused, said to have ties to smuggling operations, bear responsibility for the sinking that claimed 27 confirmed lives — most of them Iraqi Kurds — when an overloaded dinghy went down in the early hours of 24 November, 2021. Four victims have never been found, and just two men made it out alive. That morning, a French fishing…

Published on 08/09/2026 – 8:01 GMT+2 Laura Fleischmann reports live from Berlin, a day on from the AfD’s landslide in Sunday’s Saxony-Anhalt election and as pressure builds on Chancellor Merz. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Interviews with Béla Anda, communications expert and former German government spokesperson; and Tymofiy Mylovanov, former Ukrainian Economy Minister. Shona Murray breaks down the meeting of the so-called Ukraine Defence Contact Group, taking place today amid the urgent need for Ukrainian air defence. Mared Gwyn looks at the fallout from Monday’s funeral for convicted war criminal Ratko Mladić in Belgrade, after the EU condemned the military-honours send-off as incompatible…