Europe Today: Former EU top diplomat Mogherini held in fraud probe, Ukraine, NATO and greenwashing

Europe Today: Former EU top diplomat Mogherini held in fraud probe, Ukraine, NATO and greenwashing

Europe • Dec 3, 2025, 6:45 AM

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The EU foreign affairs headquarters, the EEAS, and the College of Europe in Bruges were raided on Tuesday by Belgian police.

Former EU foreign affairs chief and College of Europe Rector Federica Mogherini as well as other top officials are now in custody as part of a probe into alleged fraud.

For more on this developing story that came as a big shock to many in Brussels, we will be joined by Euronews EU editor Maria Tadeo.

Coming up, we will be joined by the 2025 Nobel Prize in economics winner, French economist Philippe Aghion. Known for spearheading the theory of innovation-driven growth and “creative destruction”, he is a professor at the Collège de France and the Chair of innovation and growth at INSEAD.

Back here in Brussels, NATO foreign ministers are gathering today to discuss a US lead peace plan for Ukraine, but their US counterpart Marco Rubio is not around the table.

This after Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner concluded talks in Moscow on Tuesday and reports surfaced that Zelenskyy might meet them to debrief. For more, let’s cross over to the headquarters of NATO and bring in Euronews’ correspondent Shona Murray.

Scientists and NGOs are furious with the European Commission for considering gas pipelines as legitimate for EU climate funding. Jakub Janas and Marta Pacheco have been taking a look.

Every morning at 8 am CET, you can join Euronews’ chief anchor Méabh Mc Mahon and our EU editor Maria Tadeo, who will bring you up to speed on the major news events of the day in our new daily show “Europe Today”.

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