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As the European elections approach, a new group of Members of the European Parliament will soon take office, tasked with navigating the turbulent waters of global volatility and the immense challenges Europe is currently grappling with. In this shifting geopolitical landscape, uncertainty and conflict threaten European values and way of life, underscoring the urgent need to bolster the continent's security and adopt a strong stance in the bloc's foreign and security policy. EU voters must remember the significance of collective security when they cast their votes in early June, considering the...
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It’s May, and Europeans are bracing themselves for two major cultural events: the Eurovision Song Contest and the Cannes Film Festival. There’s time to delve into the latter (stay tuned to the good Euronews Culture parish for our full Cannes preview), but first comes the annual spectacle and sound of Eurovision. Taking place this year in Malmö, Sweden, the 68th annual competition will see acts from 37 countries vie for the continent’s pop musical crown. But while usually a feelgood extravaganza full of glitter that strives to banish international strife, this year’s edition is proving to be on...
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Police said on Friday they detained a man at the Iranian consulate in Paris after responding to a witness report of a suspicious man possibly carrying a grenade and explosives vest, but did they did not immediately confirm finding any weapons. A Paris police official told The Associated Press that officers were verifying the man’s identity and trying to determine whether he had weapons. The official was speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not allowed to be publicly named under police policy. Some of the police, special agents and firefighters that responded to the incident at the...
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The French government has promised to "pursue" the perpetrators of the cyber-attack on 50 high schools in the Paris region. In a speech on Thursday, Gabriel Attal said he wanted to "identify the establishments most at risk," and have an appropriate response to each of them. 150 to 200 establishments would currently be affected, said the Prime Minister. On Wednesday, messages were sent through the ENT digital platform that serves as a link between teachers, pupils and parents; internal emails; or the Pronote software used by the education ministry. The messages included threats of terrorist att...
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New shocking figures from the US Department of Defence are a glaring indictment of US policy in Africa: America's "War on Terror" has disastrously spiked terrorism in Africa by an astonishing 100,000%, with Islamist violence alone jumping 20% in just the last year. Decades of misguided US intervention have catapulted Africa into the epicentre of global terrorism, responsible for nearly half the world's terrorist acts. This alarming trend dominated discussions at the African Union summit in Ethiopia, amidst a backdrop of escalating violence and political chaos. Countries like Niger, Mali, and B...
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The death of five construction workers on a building site in Florence in February has catapulted workplace safety to the forefront of Italian politics. In 2021, Italy registered the second-highest number of workplace victims in the EU after France, with the count expected to rise this year. Euronews correspondent Giorgia Orlandi travelled to Rome to report on new plans aimed at improving working conditions across the country. Watch the full report in the video above.
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Six alleged members of the Islamic State group were killed in a shootout in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region, in what was described by security forces as a “counterterrorism operation." According to the Russian National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAC), on Saturday, six men barricaded themselves in a third-floor apartment in Karabulak, a town of about 30,000 in Russia’s semi-autonomous Republic of Ingushetia. A shootout with security services followed, as surrounding streets were blocked off and residents of the apartment block evacuated to a nearby school, the Russian Interfax news agenc...
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A major police investigation was triggered on Wednesday after reports that security plans for this summer's Paris Olympics had been been stolen from a train in the French capital. A city hall worker reported his bag missing after he went to change trains at the Gard du Nord station. Media initially reported that among the bag's contents were two USB sticks that contained sensitive data on municipal police plans for securing this summer’s Olympic Games. But in a statement on Wednesday, Paris city hall said: “Initial checks have allowed us to establish that the staff member was not in possession...
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European voters are more worried about climate change-driven migration than the threat posed by Russia, according to a new survey. The research was published on Monday ahead of a gathering of top political and defence officials on Friday. Done ahead of the Munich Security Conference (MSC), it found that concerns about mass migration as a result of war or climate change have surged over the last year, overtaking Russian aggression. Other climate concerns also placed high in the MSC Security Index. In Italy, the top three concerns were extreme weather and forest fires, climate change generally a...
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The governments of Poland, France and Germany have vowed to make Europe a security and defense power with a greater ability to back Ukraine. The move has taken on an urgency as fears grow that former Donald Trump might return to the White House and allow Russia to expand its aggression. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who met with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin on Monday, said he wanted to “revitalize” his nation's relations with its key European partners. “There is no reason why we should be so clearly militarily weaker than Russia, an...
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