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What is the main use of plastics in Europe amid Global Plastics Treaty negotiations?
Europe • 11:35 AM
3 min
As the world's nations strive to agree on a treaty to combat plastic pollution, plastic consumption continues to rise, resulting in the European Union producing about 13.4 million tonnes of CO2 annually from plastics.<div class="small-12 column text-cente
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Poland charges suspect over parcel bomb plot amid Russia sabotage fears
Europe • 11:23 AM
3 min
Four foreign nationals have been investigated over a parcel containing explosives that was sent via a courier company in Poland last year.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.euronews.com/2025/08/12/poland-charges-
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Fact-checking Russian claims that Ukraine is stalling a planned prisoner swap
Europe • 10:56 AM
2 min
A war of narratives has erupted between Moscow and Kyiv over the implementation of a prisoner exchange agreed in late July.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/08/12/fact-checking-russia
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Gaza: Italian Defence Minister calls situation ‘unacceptable’, Macron urges UN mission
Europe • 10:40 AM
4 min
Seven journalists were killed by Israel in a raid on Gaza City on Sunday, including five from Al Jazeera, among them correspondent Anas Al-Sharif. The broadcaster called it a targeted attack, while Israel accused him of links to HamasView on euronews
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Wildfire near Madrid kills one as fires burn across Spain
Europe • 9:33 AM
3 min
The fire was brought under control overnight, after a blaze in the Tres Cantos area killed one person and prompted evacuations, the authorities said.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.euronews.com/2025/08/12/wild
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Spain orders town to drop Muslim community religious gathering ban
Europe • 9:29 AM
6 min
The ban, which affects Muslims celebrating religious holidays in sports centres in the southeastern town of Jumilla, has been challenged by Madrid.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.euronews.com/2025/08/12/spain-
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Has the 1.5°C goal set out in the Paris Climate Agreement been breached?
Europe • 8:59 AM
4 min
In the past 25 months, just four did not see the average temperature exceed 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. Does this mean the Paris Climate Agreement failed?<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.euronews.com/my-
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Lead MEPs warn against rewarding Russian aggression ahead of Alaska talks
Europe • 8:37 AM
2 min
If Russia succeeds in altering Ukraine’s borders by force, no country will be safe. Borders can not be assured - 7 lead MEPs warn in a joint statement.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/202
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26 EU countries issue a statement in support of Ukraine ahead of the Alaska talks, without Hungary
Europe • 6:08 AM
3 min
Hungary's PM Viktor Orbán said the EU attempts to set conditions for a meeting to which leaders of the EU were not invited. He also called for an EU-Russia summit.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.euronews.com/m
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Europe frozen out as US and Russia prepare for Alaska talks
Europe • 4:31 AM
3 min
Until Europe can defend itself, it's not likely to be invited to a great power dialogue, experts have told Euronews.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/08/12/europe-frozen-out-as-us-and
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Yesterday
Jellyfish force shutdown of France's Gravelines nuclear plant after clogging cooling system
Europe • 7:02 PM
3 min
The shutdown, which coincides with rising sea temperatures linked to climate change, has halted all power generation at the site.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/08/11/jellyfish-forc
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EU calls for 'transatlantic unity' ahead of Trump-Putin summit in Alaska
Europe • 4:44 PM
3 min
Trump will join a virtual meeting of European leaders on Wednesday.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/08/11/eu-calls-for-transatlantic-unity-ahead-of-trump-putin-summit-in-alaska?utm_s
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Spain, Malta, Finland: Which EU countries are international tourists visiting the most?
Europe • 2:33 PM
3 min
At the beginning of this year, tourism in the EU saw a positive trend, except for four countries.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/08/11/spain-malta-finland-which-eu-countries-are-int
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Fact check: Sweden is not deporting immigrants for 'not adhering to Western values'
Europe • 10:57 AM
5 min
The Swedish government has made cracking down on migration one of its key goals, however online claims are misleading.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/08/11/verifying-claims-sweden-i
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Tariffs & Trivia: Your summer EU-US trade war recap quiz
Europe • 8:16 AM
1 min
The US-EU tariff saga kept us hooked all summer long. But were you paying attention as both sides traded blows? Take the test to find out.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/08/11/tarif
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Sunday, august 10, 2025
'He just can't hack it' - AfD leader Chrupalla attacks German Chancellor Merz with venom
Europe • 6:58 PM
2 min
In the ZDF 'summer interview' series, AfD co-chairman Tino Chrupalla emphasised the strength of his party in eastern Germany.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.euronews.com/2025/08/10/he-just-cant-do-it-afd-leade
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Kallas calls snap meeting of EU foreign ministers on Ukraine on Monday
Europe • 6:21 PM
2 min
Top diplomat responds to planned bilateral meeting between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/08/10/kallas-calls-snap-mee
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Why Friedrich Merz cannot fully celebrate his first 100 days as German chancellor
Europe • 5:58 PM
4 min
The German government has left for its summer break, but things are bubbling up behind the scenes. And Chancellor Friedrich Merz is under pressure - not only in the polls, but also from within his own ranks.<div class="small-12 column text-center article_
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Visible from space: Vesuvius fire has three fronts still active, firefighters continue battle
Europe • 4:54 PM
4 min
Satellite photos show the column of smoke rising from the Vesuvius National Park all the way over the Bay of Naples. Three firefronts remain active. Canadairs, helicopters and dozens of volunteer teams remain deployed.<div class="small-12 column text-cent
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New heatwave continues unabated in southern Europe
Europe • 3:58 PM
3 min
High alerts remain due to temperatures up to and above 40 degrees in parts of France, Spain and Portugal, with no end in sight until midweek.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.euronews.com/2025/08/10/new-heatwave
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Several killed as Ukraine and Russia trade overnight strikes
Europe • 11:30 AM
4 min
Russian air strikes have killed several people across Ukraine overnight into Sunday, while a Ukrainian drone attack on an industrial facility in the Russian region of Saratov killed one person.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a hr
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Karol Nawrocki's first trip as Poland's President will be to the US for talks with Trump
Europe • 10:03 AM
6 min
US President Donald Trump has officially invited President Karol Nawrocki to the White House. This will be Nawrocki's second meeting with Trump, as the two previously met during the Polish presidential campaign in May.<div class="small-12 column text-cent
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London police arrest hundreds of protesters over banned pro-Palestine group
Europe • 6:45 AM
4 min
Hundreds of protesters in central London showing support to recently banned Palestine Action group have been arrested.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/08/10/london-police-arrest-hund
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Saturday, august 9, 2025
EU Commission demands answers from Poland following alleged misuse of recovery funds
Europe • 2:15 PM
3 min
Last year, Donald Tusk's government unblocked billions of euros of frozen EU reconstruction funds for Poland, which was considered a significant success for the ruling coalition. Now, however, the government faces allegations of misspending these funds on
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Huge wildfire breaks out on Mount Vesuvius with flames visible from Naples
Europe • 1:32 PM
3 min
A huge fire has broken out in the Vesuvius National Park with smoke visible over the city of Naples. Whilst over 100 firefighters and volunteers work to put out the blaze.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.eurone
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Friday, august 8, 2025
Which EU country was the worst affected by wildfires in 2024?
Europe • 2:25 PM
3 min
Human behaviour drives the vast majority of wildfires in Europe, but climate change is what is making them more frequent and intense.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/08/08/which-eu-c
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Campaigners seek to ground ‘passenger-hostile’ EU proposal
Europe • 10:47 AM
3 min
Campaigners have launched a citizens’ initiative to stop an EU draft law they say would weaken air passenger rights by raising delay thresholds and cutting compensation.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.euronews
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Landmark EU media law enters into force, aims to provide protection for journalists
Europe • 10:43 AM
3 min
According to the EU, media freedom is a cornerstone of democracy and therefore needs protection in all member states.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/08/08/landmark-eu-media-law-ente
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'Heat island' effect: Will European cities become unliveable?
Europe • 9:54 AM
6 min
Temperatures are scorching across much of Europe. City dwellers are particularly affected due to the so-called "heat island" effect. Cities are adapting, but is this enough?<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.euro
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Fact check: No evidence Russia captured NATO officers in Ukraine
Europe • 5:45 AM
7 min
False claims that Russia captured three British officers in Ukraine and that NATO is actively waging a war against Moscow can be traced back to multiple fringe sources.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.euronews.
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What Europeans ask of the EU: The Strangest Citizens’ Initiatives
Europe • 5:01 AM
5 min
Since 2012, ECIs have ranged from requests for a complete ban on animal farming to a pitch for the European anthem to be sung in Esperanto.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/08/08/what
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With fewer than 10% answered: Are European Citizens' Initiatives missing the mark?
Europe • 5:00 AM
5 min
Despite being designed to give citizens a voice in EU policymaking, the European Citizens’ Initiatives are struggling to gain traction, with only 10 out of 144 proposals receiving a response from the European Commission.<div class="small-12 column text-ce
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EU agencies seek to combat viral hepatitis in European prisons
Europe • 12:54 AM
3 min
EU agencies launch toolkit to combat hepatitis B and C in prisons, tackling drug-related transmission and implementation challenges.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.euronews.com/health/2025/08/08/eu-agencies-se
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Thursday, august 7, 2025
Belgian court rules Flanders government should stop transit of military equipment to Israel
Europe • 4:41 PM
6 min
Associations lodged a complaint against the Flemish government in June after military equipment bound for Israel was discovered in the port of Antwerp.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/202
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Crisis in Gaza remains 'very severe' despite some positive steps - EU report
Europe • 2:51 PM
4 min
Last month, the EU negotiated what it called a "significant" improvement of humanitarian aid access into Gaza, including an increase of food trucks, and an agreement to "protect the lives of aid workers."<div class="small-12 column text-center article__bu
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Where in the EU are the most people employed in the sports industry?
Europe • 11:53 AM
3 min
Employment in the sports sector across the EU continues to grow, reaching 1.6 million jobs in 2024. But worryingly, the gender gap has widened since 2011.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/
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Endangered US contraceptives put 1.4 million women at risk, NGO claims
Europe • 9:33 AM
4 min
More than 1.4 million women and girls in Africa will lose access to contraceptives as the U.S. plans to burn $10 million worth of supplies stored in Europe.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.euronews.com/health/2
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Haunted by Merkel: Trump still grappling with Europe’s lost leader
Europe • 5:01 AM
7 min
Trump spoke on CNBC about the current state of markets in the US, but was quizzed about the EU-US trade deal, and reminisced about a conversation with former German chancellor Angela Merkel.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href=
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'Transvestigations': Fake investigations claim famous women like Brigitte Macron were born male
Europe • 12:02 AM
12 min
Public female figures, such as former US First Lady Michelle Obama and New Zealand's former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, have also been accused of being assigned male at birth. Researchers say these fake theories are fuelled by "transvestigations".<div
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Wednesday, august 6, 2025
Delegates from 100 countries meet for last-chance talks to reduce plastic pollution
Europe • 6:52 PM
8 min
Delegates from 176 UN member states, NGOs, scientists and industrialists are meeting in Geneva until 14 August to negotiate an international treaty to reduce plastic pollution.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.e
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Kyiv observes official day of mourning for 31 killed in Russian missile and drone strikes
Europe • 5:02 PM
7 min
The youngest victim in Thursday's strikes was two years old and 16 of the injured were children, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/08/01/k
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Italian, Turkish and Libyan leaders meet to address migration flows to Europe
Europe • 4:43 PM
6 min
The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said that in 2021, 32,400 refugees and migrants had made the crossing from Libya to Europe, more than twice as many as in 2020.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.euronews
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UK ninja sword ban begins as 1,000 bladed weapons surrendered in national amnesty
Europe • 4:01 PM
4 min
From 1 August, it is now illegal to own, sell or import ninja swords in England and Wales, with possession in public carrying up to four years in prison.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2
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Hedging bets: Who are the people driving up gambling figures in Europe?
Europe • 3:41 PM
3 min
Most gamblers in Europe are men, but women tend to develop gambling problems more quickly. Underage gambling mostly happens in southern European and Balkan countries.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.euronews.co
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Croatian MEP's wartime photo causes a stir in neighbouring Serbia and prompts calls for resignation
Europe • 3:21 PM
6 min
Tonino Picula's tweet commemorating Operation Storm sparked backlash in Serbia, with calls for his removal. An Austrian MEP and his party colleague from Vienna called it a serious diplomatic misstep.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"
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Italy greenlights €13 billion project to build world's largest suspension bridge to Sicily
Europe • 2:38 PM
9 min
Transport Minister Matteo Salvini said the project will boost development in southern Italy, but it has raised security and environmental concerns.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.euronews.com/2025/08/06/italy-
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Lithuania asks NATO for air defence support after Russian drone incursions
Europe • 1:04 PM
6 min
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kęstutis Budrys said he had spoken with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte about "the recent drone incidents".<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.euronews.com/2025/08/06/lithuania-asks-n
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Renaturalisation of wetlands slows global warming and species decline
Europe • 1:01 PM
3 min
For many centuries, farmers drained swamps to gain arable land. But this contributes to climate change. The European Union wants to change this, and an EU law sets out a detailed timetable: By 2050, half of the damaged moors are expected to be "healed" -
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Spain’s housing crisis deepens: residents’ anger is rising
Europe • 1:01 PM
3 min
Millions across Europe are being priced out of housing, with Spain at the heart of the crisis. Euronews’s international correspondent Valérie Gauriat reports from Barcelona, where skyrocketing rents and property speculation are pushing residents to the br
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Fact check: No, the EU is not eroding European democracy
Europe • 11:34 AM
5 min
European countries, including EU member states, tend to dominate democracy indexes, even as democracy faces threats worldwide.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/08/06/fact-check-no-the
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Electoral authorities strip Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik of presidency after court ban
Europe • 11:19 AM
9 min
Milorad Dodik lost his presidency according to electoral law after an appeals court upheld a six-year political ban last Friday. He plans to stay in office and appeal the decision.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://w
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Lebanon tells army to prepare plan to disarm Hezbollah by end of the year
Europe • 9:45 AM
7 min
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam is under growing pressure from the US to ensure that the Iran-aligned militant group lays down its weapons.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.euronews.com/2025/08/06/lebanon-te
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What lies ahead for Karol Nawrocki, Poland's new president?
Europe • 9:10 AM
7 min
Poland's new President Karol Nawrocki is expected to challenge Prime Minister Donald Tusk's policies, raising questions about potential effects this might have both at home and abroad.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https
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France arrests man who lit cigarette from war memorial flame in Paris
Europe • 8:17 AM
2 min
A video posted on social media shows a man lighting a cigarette from the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Paris before calmly walking away.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.euronews.com/2025/08/06/france-arrests-m
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EU credibility at risk over Israel stance, warns ex-ambassador
Europe • 4:31 AM
8 min
The inconsistent application of international law on Israel’s actions in Gaza and the West Bank is damaging Europe’s credibility with the Global South, with which the EU aims to strengthen trade ties, former EU Ambassador to Palestine tells Euronews.<div
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At least one killed as massive wildfire in southern France continues to burn
Europe • 12:37 AM
3 min
A massive wildfire has left at least one person dead, while nine others have been reported injured. The blaze is France's largest wildfire so far this summer.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.euronews.com/my-eur
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Tuesday, august 5, 2025
Heavy metal icon Ozzy Osbourne died of heart attack, death certificate shows
Europe • 6:46 PM
8 min
Osbourne died at home surrounded by his family on 22 July at the age of 76, just weeks after his farewell concert in Birmingham.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.euronews.com/culture/2025/08/05/heavy-metal-icon-
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Russia's missile and drone strike on Kyiv kills 13, including a child, and injures 130
Europe • 6:02 PM
4 min
Russia launched a missile and drone attack on Kyiv overnight on Thursday, killing 13 people and injuring more than 130. A nine-story building was heavily damaged, with rescue teams on site.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="
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Why is Slovenia the only EU country to ban arms trade with Israel?
Europe • 4:47 PM
10 min
The Slovenian government has banned the export, import and transit of military equipment to and from Israel. Other European countries have reduced but not stopped their arms sales.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://w
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Trump threatens EU with 35% tariffs if $600bn investment pledge unfulfilled
Europe • 4:22 PM
2 min
Trump spoke on CNBC about the current state of markets in the US, but was quizzed about a pledge on investment made in the EU-US trade deal.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/08/05/tru
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