Hungary’s government has used an interview with Euronews to downplay the scale of protests in the country and suggested western media coverage is biased. About 10,000 people demonstrated in Budapest on Sunday in the largest of four protests held since last Wednesday, according to Reuters. Opposition parties, students groups, trade unions and civilians joined a […] Read more

After two weeks of divisive negotiations on climate policy, the COP24 summit in Katowice, Poland has ended with an agreement to fight rising carbon emissions – but many believe the deal doesn’t go far enough. The summit was scheduled to end on Friday, but talks spilled into the weekend when negotiators struggled to reach an […] Read more

Here are the top stories from around Europe you need to know about today: 1. Inquiry into Strasbourg attack deepens A close relation of Cherif Chekatt, the suspect in last week’s deadly attack in Strasbourg, was transferred to the Paris Prosecutor’s Office to appear in front of a judge. A source close to the inquiry […] Read more

We are in Mijas, a town in the Costa del Sol where almost 20% of the residents are British. They arrived looking for the sun of Spain and a quiet retirement, but Brexit has plunged them into confusion. Meryl bought her house in 2015 and barely a year later the result of the referendum upset […] Read more

Rugby star Carl Fearns, 29, is a popular player for Lyon Olympique Universitaire (LOU) in French rugby’s Top 14. Euronews went along to a training session to ask him how he settled in as an Englishman in France. Wrong-shaped ball Hailing from Liverpool, Fearns unsurprisingly took to football at first. Soon realising that his skills […] Read more

German leader Angela Merkel ruled out further negotiations on Brexit on Tuesday but said efforts were being made to give Britain reassurances after Prime Minister Theresa May abruptly pulled a parliamentary vote at home because she faced defeat. With less than four months left until the United Kingdom is due to leave the EU on […] Read more

Russia has replaced the UK as the world’s second biggest arms producer − but the US continues to dwarf even its closest competitors, a think tank revealed on Monday. Sales from the top 100 arms-producing companies totalled $398.2 billion (€348.4 billion) in 2017, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institutute (SIPRI). It is the […] Read more

French President Emmanuel Macron was preparing to address the nation Monday after a fourth weekend of violent protests by “Yellow Jacket” protesters. He met with lawmakers, unions and business leaders to hear their concerns following demonstrations that began in struggling provinces and spread to rioting in the capital.Later, he is expected to make a televised […] Read more

Huawei’s affordable smartphones have made strong inroads in the developing world, but the company has faced repeated setbacks in major Western economies over security concerns (AFP Photo/Johannes EISELE) Montreal (AFP) – Canada on Thursday defended its arrest of an executive of Chinese tech giant Huawei on a US extradition request as markets wobbled on fears […] Read more

-It began as a home-spun Facebook campaign against French fuel tax increases. But in a few weeks it has spiraled into a movement powerful enough to force Emmanuel Macron into the biggest U-turn of his presidency. Yet the “yellow-vest” movement — named for the fluorescent jackets carried by French motorists — remains an amorphous, hard-to-define […] Read more