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Spain announces €165m emergency package for Ceuta
Published on 30/08/2026 – 14:45 GMT+2 Spain’s government plans to allocate €165 million to Ceuta’s recovery, an emergency package of measures that will be approved this Tuesday by the Council of Ministers, one month after the mass arrival of migrants in the…
Iceland’s rejection of accession talks is major blow to EU enlargement
Iceland has said no to reopening negotiations on joining the European Union, and the blow is a painful one. By a narrow margin of 52.8% to 47.2%, Icelandic voters rejected the idea of restarting the accession process that was put on hold in 2013. While the…
Iceland says ‘No’: Four takeaways from the EU accession referendum
Iceland says “Nei”. In a closely watched referendum that came down to the wire, the Nordic country rejected the reopening of accession negotiations with the European Union. A “yes” would have restarted the process that was abandoned in 2015. Back then…
Russia threatens ‘massive strikes’ on Ukraine energy sites
Published on 30/08/2026 – 11:58 GMT+2 Russia’s defence ministry says it is preparing large-scale strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, framing the move as retaliation for Kyiv’s attacks on Russian territory, as the death toll from a Russian strike on an…
Iceland votes ‘No’ to reopening EU accession talks, officials confirm
Published on 30/08/2026 – 10:09 GMT+2•Updated 11:42 Iceland’s ‘No’ camp has narrowly won a referendum on whether to resume the country’s suspended European Union membership negotiations officials confirm. The final results were confirmed as 105,399 (47.2%)…
Nearly one thousand people swim across Danube in Budapest
Published on 30/08/2026 – 9:00 GMT+2 Nearly one thousand people took the plunge in Budapest on Saturday along one of the Danube’s usually busiest stretches — between Corvinus University and the University of Technology — for the Generali OWT Danube Swim. It…
From doomscrolling to nomophobia: new digital-age conditions reshaping our brains
Can you not go five minutes without checking your phone? Do you open Instagram “just for a second” and find that half an hour later you are still there? Do you wake up during the night and the first thing you do is check your notifications? Or do you keep…
Iceland’s EU referendum: polling stations close as Europe awaits
Published on 30/08/2026 – 0:19 GMT+2 Polling stations closed at 10:00 pm local time on Saturday for Iceland’s high-stakes EU referendum. Vote counting is expected to begin shortly, with results due overnight. On Saturday, Icelanders were called to vote on…
France political season: Bardella, Faure, Lecornu, Hollande, Philippe
Before France knows who its next president will be, it must first adopt a budget for the year 2027. That is the main task facing the French Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, he told French daily Le Parisien in an interview. With less than eight months to go…
50-boat flotilla sails to Ceuta amid migration tensions
Published on 29/08/2026 – 18:44 GMT+2 A flotilla of around 50 vessels from the Costa del Sol and other Spanish ports set sail on Saturday for Ceuta to show their support for the city after the migratory crisis that has been unfolding since the end of July…