US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that a unified Ireland would be “fantastic,” wading into a complex and politically charged subject during a two-day visit to a major tournament at his…
Across Europe, financial insecurity is becoming a long-term feature of people’s living conditions, with energy poverty further aggravating their vulnerability. Around 29% of Europeans say they are…
At least 11 people were killed and 96 injured across Ukraine in overnight Russian attacks between 11 and 12 September. The Odesa region was hit hardest, but strikes also targeted, among others, the…
Published on 12/09/2026 – 12:19 GMT+2 The price of diesel is expected to rise slightly in Portugal at the start of next week, according to forecasts from the National Association of Fuel Retailers…
Published on 12/09/2026 – 11:35 GMT+2 On the banks of the Danube near Kirchroth in the district of Straubing-Bogen, a 66-year-old woman out for a walk spotted a constrictor snake more than two metres…
Published on 12/09/2026 – 10:25 GMT+2•Updated 10:41 Dublin is bracing itself ahead of a meeting between the US President Donald Trump and Irish President Catherine Connolly Saturday morning. Trump is…
Norway’s Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide has told Europe Today that Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has driven Israel into a “very dangerous place”. Describing it as “the most far-right government…
Published on 12/09/2026 – 9:13 GMT+2 At least 44 people have been injured, one of them seriously, after a train which was carrying 186 people derailed in northern France on Friday, according to…
Published on 11/09/2026 – 9:34 GMT+2•Updated 10:19 Russia launched 160 drones across Ukraine in overnight attacks, as well as one drone-launched cruise missile, according to Ukraine’s Armed Forces…
Published on 11/09/2026 – 13:10 GMT+2•Updated 13:11 The chief of staff to the Spanish government’s delegate in Ceuta, Gonzalo Sanz, has resigned from his position, the latest episode in an ongoing…
Published on 11/09/2026 – 13:42 GMT+2 Portugal’s economy and employment growth are the best-performing in Europe, according to the country’s Prime Minister Luís Montenegro. But how true is that?…
On the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, former US Ambassador to the European Union Anthony Gardner says “diplomatic, financial and economic” means are also needed to fight terrorism. Gardner…
Published on 11/09/2026 – 14:31 GMT+2 The European Commission transmitted the EU-India trade deal, clinched last January, to EU member states for ratification on Friday – but only in English, despite…
Published on 11/09/2026 – 15:00 GMT+2 Work begins at dawn in Corticeira Amorim’s cork oak forests. Cork harvesting takes place between late May and August, and much of it is still done by hand. “On…
Published on 11/09/2026 – 12:40 GMT+2•Updated 15:32 The European Union is set to provide Ukraine with €6.1 billion in additional assistance to help the war-weary country purchase military equipment…
European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde on Thursday criticised a proposal by left-wing French presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon to cancel France’s debt held by the central…
Published on 07/03/2026 – 8:00 GMT+1•Updated 11/09/2026 – 22:42 GMT+2 France will push back against a European Commission plan to fast-track ratification of trade agreements by circulating only…
Incidents of Russian-orchestrated hybrid war attacks across NATO territory are entering a new dangerous, kinetic phase, leaders across the continent agree. At a meeting in early September, EU Foreign…
Published on 11/09/2026 – 22:02 GMT+2 Police in southern England have banned face coverings at an anti-immigration rally as well as in a counter-protest planned in Portsmouth on Saturday, amid…
A French court has sentenced a man to six months in prison after he threatened to “cut off the head” of a teacher at his son’s school last week. The defendant confronted his son’s teacher in the…
