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Will the US start a trade war with the EU? What does Trump’s crackdown on the federal government mean? And how should we interpret the funding freeze and dismantling of USAID—a key agency supporting life-saving programs with partners across Europe? Euronews’ Shona Murray spoke with David Salvo and Rachael Dean Wilson of the German Marshall Fund to unpack the global ramifications of Trump’s first w...

Today Radio Schuman speaks about opposition protests in Slovakia with vice-president of the European Parliament, the Slovak liberal Martin Hojsik. Mass protests are expected in towns and cities across Slovakia today, sparked by outrage over Prime Minister Robert Fico’s handshake with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a December visit to Moscow. Since reclaiming power in 2023, Fico's euroscep...

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Is the European Union ready to set up return hubs outside its territory? According to a document seen by Euronews, the European Commission and several Schengen member states are ready to propose so-called 'return hubs' in upcoming EU legislation. Such 'return hubs' are centres outside the EU where rejected asylum seekers would be located before being returned to their country of origin. The measur...

Has Friedrich Merz unlocked what a senior socialist MP called “the gates of hell” by accepting AfD support on two key immigration votes? With less than three weeks until the German elections, the CDU leader and likely future chancellor insists he won’t govern with the far right—but who will he partner with? What’s his real strategy? And has the AfD gained a boost from Elon Musk’s backing? Today Ra...

Today EU leaders will meet in Brussels for an informal retreat to discuss how to strengthen EU’s defence capabilities. Radio Schuman gives you a preview of the event, with an analysis with Euronews reporter Alice Tidey. The urgency was sparked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and intensified by Donald Trump’s call for NATO members to spend 5% of GDP on defence—double the current target. This demand...

Many Greenlanders feel that the world around them is more worried about Greenland than they are, Euronews' Shona Murray tells Radio Schuman today from Greenland’s capital Nuuk. Shona has been on the ground in Greenland gauging reaction to US President Donald Trump's bid to acquire the territory for the US. Trump's interest in Greenland has unsettled European leaders, despite their efforts to remai...

Today Radio Schuman features Euronews' Shona Murray's interview with José Manuel Albares, Spain's foreign affairs minister. He told Euronews about his intention to engage with the Islamic militia group Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, now ruling in Syria after decades of Bashar al-Assad's dictatorship. Meanwhile, the EU is assessing how to re-establish relations with the new government, despite the situatio...

Today Radio Schuman digs in to the long-awaited so-called 'Competitiveness Compass' with Euronews' reporter Peggy Corlin. The Compass report outlines strategies to improve the EU's economic performance by simplifying regulation, increasing investment, and supporting competitiveness. A key focus is reducing bureaucratic red tape, particularly targeting the EU’s flagship Green Deal, to ensure the tr...

US President Donald Trump should realise that the EU is a big market and could retaliate in a tariff war, harming US exporters, Pascal Lamy told Euronews' Shona Murray in an exclusive interview Radio Schuman features today. The former European Commissioner for Trade and twice Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), downplayed the importance of Trump’s “show” on tariffs, which the A...

Today Radio Schuman looks at how US President Donald Trump policies on climate could impact on the EU with Euronews reporter Robert Hodgson. Last week, Trump’s stance on climate and energy had ripple effects in Europe, particularly among the far-right Patriots for Europe and the centre-right European People's Party (EPP) in the European Parliament. Jordan Bardella of the Rassemblement National cal...

How should the EU deal with the impact of Donald Trump's migration policy? Today Radio Schuman answers the question together with Juan Fernando Lopez Aguilar, a Spanish socialist MEP with experience on EU migration policies. The International Centre for Migration Policy Development has said there will be a surge of migrants from South America to Spain as a result of Trump's policies. But though Ag...

Donald Trump’s immigration policies will likely influence the migration policy debate in Europe, the director of the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) Michael Spindelegger told Euronews in an interview featured for Radio Schuman today. During his inauguration speech, US President Donald Trump announced a large-scale nationwide deportation campaign. On Tuesday, his admin...

Today Radio Schuman speaks with Bernd Lange, chairman of the European Parliament’s Trade Committee, who noted that Europe still has room to respond to Trump’s policies. In his inauguration speech, Donald Trump provided little detail regarding his earlier threats to impose tariffs on the European Union. His previously stated demand that Europe face tariffs unless it increased purchases of US oil an...

Today Radio Schuman digs into current relations between Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and the newly re-elected US president Donald Trump with Gabor Tanacz, Euronews correspondent in Budapest. Orbán was been an early supporter of Trump, and the two leaders met last month at Mar-a-Lago. Although Trump once mistakenly confused Orbán with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, he has describe...

Which EU politicians will attend the inauguration of Donald Trump as president of the United States today and why are the European Conservatives and Reformists so tight with the Republicans? Questions Radio Schuman answers today. Although foreign heads of state and government are generally not invited to US presidential inauguration ceremonies, numerous European politicians will attend Donald Trum...

The EU's notion to lift sanctions against Syria has to be considered a good start, Middle East expert Maria LuisaFantappiè tells Euronews Radio Schuman today. Fantappiè, from Italian think tank Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), says the proposal to lift sanctions would be a start but that more is needed to create the conditions for engaging with the current forces in power.  The EU p...

The EU played no role in the Israeli-Hamas negotiations, but could play an important one in implementing the deal, Hugh Lovatt, senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), told Euronews in an interview we feature on today's Radio Schuman. Today's podcast explores with Lovatt the details of a deal, whether it represents a watershed moment for the region, and the role p...

The state of hybrid warfare with Russia has to be considered the new normal, Finnish President Alexander Stubb told Euronews in an exclusive interview featured on Radio Schuman today. Stubb told Euronews' Shona Murray that he "sleeps quite well at night" knowing Finland's state of defence is well-prepared, but endorsed the need for more spending on defence, speaking after the Baltic Sea summit in...

Why did the European Commission choose not to disclose Ursula von der Leyen’s hospitalisation for pneumonia? Why did von der Leyen not delegate authority to her deputy, Spanish commissioner Teresa Ribeira, when she was ill? Does it denote a culture of secrecy at the commission or suggest von der Leyen’s unwillingness to delegate power? Today Radio Schuman answer these questions with Euronews repor...

Do Ukrainians still trust their president, Volodymyr Zelensky? How to explain dipping trust levels? Is he as popular abroad as he is in his own country? Today Radio Schuman discusses this issue with Sasha Vakulina, Euronews’s Ukraine expert. According to the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS), trust in Zelensky has declined, with 77% of Ukrainians saying they trusted him in 2023, com...

What are the consequences for EU countries of interrupted gas flow through the pipeline passing via Ukraine? Was the decision to interrupt the gas flow the right one? Today Radio Schuman answers these questions with Szymon Kardas, senior policy fellow on energy at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Moscow supplied nearly 40% of the EU’s natural gas via...

How far can the European Commission handle Elon Musk if his companies violate EU laws? How could his social media X, formerly Twitter, affect upcoming elections in Germany? Today Radio Schuman answers these questions with Euronews reporter Cynthia Kroet. X owner Elon Musk will livestream an interview on X with Alice Weidel, leader of the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD). Musk is also...

What implications would Herbert Kickl's rise to Austria's chancellorship, as the leader of the Eurosceptic, anti-immigration, and pro-Russian Freedom Party, have for Brussels and the European Union? Today Radio Schuman answers this question with centre-right European People's Party (EPP) MEP Reinhold Lopatka. After the resignation of Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer and the collapse of centrist c...

The Baltic states, Poland, and Sweden are among the better-prepared EU countries in countering disinformation, while Italy, Germany, and Romania appear to be among the most vulnerable, stated Mattia Caniglia, Senior Intelligence and Policy Analyst at the Global Disinformation Index, according to an interview with Euronews. In the interview featured for Radio Schuman, Caniglia exmplain why some cou...