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Published on 27/05/2026 – 7:57 GMT+2•Updated 8:33 Also on today’s show: ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Interviews with Alain Berset, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, and Benjamin Haddad, French Minister for European Affairs. Euronews’ Rafael Salido reports live from Madrid on a corruption case in Spain involving Spanish PM José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. Euronews’ Fay Doulgkeri reports from Athens on Alexis Tsipras’ new political party as the former Greek prime minister eyes coming back to power. Interview with Carlo Buontempo, Director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service, on heatwaves across Europe. When and where to watch Europe Today? You can join…
Europe’s railways are about to get an upgrade on paper. The European Commission has launched its “One Journey, One Ticket, Full Rights” proposal. It targets one of rail travel’s most persistent headaches: fragmented cross-border booking. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Under the current system, a journey from Brussels to Vienna means juggling tickets from multiple operators on separate websites. Each has different rules and offers no protection if a delay causes a missed connection. The Commission’s package would let passengers search, compare, and buy a single ticket covering every leg of a cross-border journey. It includes full rights to rerouting and compensation if…
Good morning from a scorching Brussels. I’m Mared Gwyn. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Just in: Belarus’s opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya has told Euronews that “democratic Belarus is with Ukraine” and that President Aliaksandr Lukashenka is willing to sacrifice Belarus’s “independence and sovereignty to stay in power”. Watch. Tsikhanouskaya spoke from Kyiv, which over the weekend was targeted by an Oreshnik missile in what was one of Russia’s biggest attacks in the war to date. More on that below. But we start today with the drone crisis rocking the Baltic nations – with European Commission boss Ursula von der Leyen and defence chief…
Published on 26/05/2026 – 11:16 GMT+2•Updated 15:05 A train hit a school minibus killing four people, including two children, in a “horrific accident” in northern Belgium, authorities said on Tuesday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Another five schoolchildren were injured in the crash at a railway crossing in Buggenhout, a Dutch-speaking municipality about 25 kilometres northwest of Brussels. “A tragic collision between a train and a school bus took place in Buggenhout this morning. Four people have been killed, including two children,” Belgium’s deputy prime minister Maxime Prevot wrote on X. Images from the scene in the Flanders region showed a badly damaged…
Jonathan Andic, the eldest of the Andic children, has told Mango employees that he is stepping down from his responsibilities as vice-president of the fashion company founded by his father Isak Andic. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT It follows him being charged last week with the suspected murder of his father. In an open letter to staff, however, he stated his intention to maintain his “family, social and business projects.” In December 2024, the Turkish-Catalan businessman fell, or was pushed, down a 100-metre embankment on the route to the Salnitre caves in Collbató, on the southern side of the Montserrat mountain range in…
Published on 26/05/2026 – 13:48 GMT+2•Updated 14:01 In a renewed effort to speed up its EU accession process, Kyiv is calling on Brussels to open all of Ukraine’s negotiation clusters in June, ahead of the previously indicated July timeline. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “We believe that all six clusters can be open already in June,” Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Taras Kachka told Euronews in an exclusive interview. “Our timeline is that we are already behind the deadline.” Kachka’s remarks come after European Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos said the first negotiation cluster could be opened in June…
Published on 26/05/2026 – 13:53 GMT+2 The document, dated May 15, was published 145-years after a former Pope Leo wrote his own warning of the advent of the 19th century industrial revolution. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Pope Leo XIV used his encyclical – a document communicating the position of the Catholic Church to its 1.4 billion followers – to denounce the “culture of power” driving the AI race, especially in developing ever more sophisticated methods of remote warfare. So is there anyway way to salve the biggest technological advancement of the 21st century? Our correspondent Angela Skujins explains.
Published on 26/05/2026 – 21:22 GMT+2•Updated 21:29 A collision between a train and a school bus at a level crossing in the small Belgian town of Buggenhout on Tuesday morning killed four people and injured five children. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “This is one of the worst accidents in the history of Belgium at a level crossing,” Thomas Baeken, spokesperson of the Belgium Railway Infrastructure Manager Infrabel, said. Nine passengers were aboard the minivan, including seven children and two adults. The bus was heading to a school for children who have specific needs in Buggenhout. “Unfortunately, there are two children who lost…
Updated: 26/05/2026 – 22:44 GMT+2 Kata Tüttő, former deputy mayor of Budapest, said the city “suffered a lot” under Viktor Orbán’s rule. Now President of the European Committee of the Regions, she also warned against a “wave of centralisation” threatening Europe’s regions. … More
By Hun Kim, Chief Partnerships Officer, of the AIIB (Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank), a multilateral development bank headquartered in Beijing Published on 26/05/2026 – 21:28 GMT+2 Digital infrastructure is the backbone of economic growth, but investment in this space has been uneven. Many developing economies are struggling to expand basic digital connectivity while preparing for the artificial intelligence era, resulting in a double digital divide: inadequate basic access for hundreds of millions, compounded by growing gaps in AI (Artificial Intelligence) readiness. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Correlation between internet access and development levels Limited affordable broadband connectivity, unreliable digital services, insufficient access to essential…