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Published on 13/02/2026 – 21:22 GMT+1 Emmanuel Macron told the Munich Security Conference on Friday that Europe will have to redesign its security architecture on its own terms as it faces an aggressive Russia. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The French president said the current security framework won’t hold in the future and Europeans must set out new parameters in their own terms. Macron said that it may include a more “holistic” approach to nuclear deterrence among European allies. Macron said plans for “a day after” implying a future coexistence with Russia must be drafted by Europeans independently due to their geographical reality…
Published on 13/02/2026 – 21:10 GMT+1 US Secretary of State Marco Rubio did not attend the Berlin Format meeting on Ukraine held on the sideline of the Munich Security Conference (MSC). ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The meeting was attended by leaders from a dozen European countries including Ukraine’s Zelenskyy, France’s Macron, Germany’s Merz, as well as the heads of the European Commission, European Council and the NATO military alliance. The cancellation reportedly came at the last minute amid scheduling conflicts. Rubio is set to address the conference on Saturday morning, but arrived already on Friday, where he met the Syrian, Chinese and…
Published on 13/02/2026 – 10:26 GMT+1 Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni convened the second Italy-Africa summit in Addis Ababa on Thursday, reviewing progress on the Mattei Plan two years after launching the strategy to build partnerships with African nations. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The summit held at the Addis Ababa Convention Centre is coinciding with the African Union summit and preceding the AU Assembly of Heads of State and Government, where Meloni will speak on Friday as a guest of honour. According to Raffaele Marchetti, director of the Study Centre for International and Strategic Affairs at Luiss University in Rome, the Mattei…
European Commissioner for Sport Glenn Micallef said he respected the International Olympic Committee’s decision to disqualify a Ukrainian skeleton racer over his custom helmet featuring portraits of fallen Ukrainian athletes, while expressing sadness that “the situation could not be resolved.” ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Vladyslav Heraskevych was disqualified before his first run at the 2026 Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics, after the IOC banned him from using his custom-made helmet, which features portraits of Ukrainian athletes killed in Russia’s full-scale invasion since early 2022. The helmet does not display any slogans or political symbols. Speaking exclusively on Euronews’ Europe Today morning show, Micallef said…
Published on 13/02/2026 – 17:47 GMT+1•Updated 17:47 Europe’s energy security should be treated with the same urgency as defence, industry bosses said Friday on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The call for action follows Russia’s barrage of attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, which have exposed the European Union’s own weaknesses. “We live in a new reality of increasing threats. This requires a fundamental shift in our mindset,” the electricity industry’s Eurelectric president Markus Rauramo said. “Preparing for, responding to and recovering from both physical and hybrid attacks must be a key element of power companies’ strategies…
António Costa, the president of the European Council, watered down expectations of a two-speed Europe as a magic bullet to break the impasse on economic reforms, a day after the proposal came to the fore in an informal summit of EU leaders. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “It’s a non-issue,” Costa said on Friday in a press briefing attended by Euronews. Several countries, including France, Spain and Denmark, expressed support for using enhanced cooperation to create smaller groups of member states willing to adopt initiatives that could not otherwise be approved due to a lack of consensus. Enhanced cooperation rose to prominence in…
France’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has ramped up its fight against disinformation with “French Response”, an official X account which replies to trolls and fake news with humour, irony and provocation. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The account has amassed more than 180,000 followers since its creation in September, taking aim at disinformation peddled by pro-Russian users and US accounts. Meanwhile, White House-aligned accounts have increasingly targeted France on X in recent months. According to ministry spokesman Pascal Confavreux, France has decided to shake up its strategy to actively combat disinformation. “The intuition was that you can’t win the information war if you…
Measles cases dropped significantly in Europe and Eurasia in 2025, according to a new report by the World Health Organization (WHO). ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The agency announced a 75% decline, with cases reducing to 34,000 from nearly 130,000 in 2024. It put the decrease down to stronger outbreak response measures and a gradual reduction in the number of people susceptible to the infection. Kyrgyzstan had the highest incidence rate in the WHO Europe region (1,167 cases per million people, which caused a total of 11 deaths), followed by Romania with 222. Despite Romania having the second-highest number of measles cases in…
Published on 13/02/2026 – 10:31 GMT+1 I prepared some numbers for you. Maybe use them as a pick-up line? ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Europeans are waiting longer to have children, and there is no sign that will change anytime soon. But here is the twist: delaying parenthood does not necessarily mean giving up on children. In fact, the EU countries where women wait the longest are also the countries with higher fertility rates. And that also might explain the explosion in fertility treatments, which allow couples to extend their window of opportunity. In 2021 alone, there were over 1 million treatment cycles…
By Ilaria Cicinelli & Euronews Published on 13/02/2026 – 12:40 GMT+1 A court in Bari convicted 12 members of Italy’s neo-fascist CasaPound group on Thursday for attempting to reorganise the banned Fascist Party in the first judicial ruling to recognise the movement’s fascist nature. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Five defendants received 18 months in prison, and seven others were sentenced to two years and six months after also being convicted of assault, according to the court. All 12 were barred from holding political office for five years. The case stems from an attack on 21 September 2018 in Bari’s Libertà neighbourhood, when CasaPound members assaulted…