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Germany’s Merz accuses far-right AfD of promoting ‘ethnic cleansing’
Published on 09/09/2026 – 14:21 GMT+2 German Chancellor Friedrich Merz labelled the far-right AfD’s demand for mass “remigration” a form of “ethnic cleansing by skin colour and origin” in a heated parliamentary exchange on Wednesday. Three days after the AfD…
Norway bids farewell to King Harald V, ‘grandfather’ of the nation
Norway observed a nationwide minute of silence on Wednesday at the funeral of King Harald V, a modern and unifying figure in a funeral that is being attended by European royals and foreign dignitaries. The funeral is the culmination of 13 days of national…
Calls for action in Europe as PISA results show fall in child literacy
There has been dismay and pledges for action across Europe after it was revealed on Tuesday that maths and reading skills among pupils have declined across the world, largely due to digitalisation and a drop in recreational reading. The OECD’s latest PISA…
Finland completes work on 200km fence along border with Russia
Published on 09/09/2026 – 12:33 GMT+2 Finland completed a 200-kilometre security fence along its border with Russia, strengthening NATO’s longest frontier with a country’s accused of intensified hybrid attacks on Europe. The project was launched after…
UK rejects Israel’s ‘damaging’ retaliation against West Bank sanctions
Published on 09/09/2026 – 11:22 GMT+2 British foreign minister Ed Miliband condemned as “regrettable and damaging” Israel’s decision to order the closure of the UK’s consulate in Jerusalem as retaliation for London-led Western sanctions over settler violence…
Athens cracks down on e-scooters as Europe sounds safety alarm
Greek traffic police service in the Attica region have launched a new round of intensive checks on electric scooters, after two serious accidents on Tinos and Glyka Nera, in which a 14-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy were badly injured. The checks focus…
Video. Ex-Spanish minister: Ceuta was a “hybrid attack” to “weaken” the EU
The mass entry of around 80,000 migrants into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from Morocco was a “hybrid attack” on an “external border of the European Union”, Spain’s former foreign minister Arancha González Laya has told Euronews. The goal was to “use…
‘Migration is very much back on the agenda’, EU diplomat forewarns
I am travelling to Latvia for a work trip centred on three d’s: drones, defence and debesmanna. Squeezing in time to the Rīga Conference and other sites relevant to the country’s upcoming EU council presidency — next year — is a must, too. Meanwhile, my…
Europe has cut ties with Russia — But not in nuclear fusion
The European Union and Russia are geopolitical adversaries, with Russia under sweeping EU sanctions and its ties with the bloc severely curtailed. Yet inside one of the largest international scientific collaborations in history — and the world’s largest…
Merz: The sick man of Germany?
“Yesterday’s result has changed not only Saxony-Anhalt, but Germany as a whole,” the downtempo chancellor told reporters in Berlin on Monday afternoon as he attempted to pick up the pieces of a disastrous election in the country’s east. “There will have to be…