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EU foreign ministers meet today to push forward a €90 billion lifeline for Ukraine — but Viktor Orbán is blocking the deal, casting doubt on President Ursula von der Leyen’s big announcement in Kyiv tomorrow. We are live at the European Council foreign affairs minister meeting with the latest, plus reaction from Ukraine and an exclusive interview with Sweden’s Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenerg...

At a medieval castle in the Belgian countryside last week, European leaders gathered to discuss competitiveness, deregulation, industrial policy and the future of the Single Market. In this episode, we unpack what this retreat was all about: Who’s pushing for cutting red tape? Who wants deeper integration? Is deregulation the key to the EU’s economic growth? Is “pragmatic federalism” the secret in...

On Europe Today, your daily Euronews podcast, presented by Méabh Mc Mahon we speak with Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur for Palestine who is under fire and with several countries asking for her resignation. Our correspondent Maïa de la Baume reports on the first meeting of Donald Trump's Board of Peace and the controversy the participation of European Commissioner Dubravska Suica bro...

On Europe Today, your daily Euronews podcast, presented by Méabh Mc Mahon we speak to Salomé Zourabichvili, a Georgian politician who served as the president of Georgia from 2018 to 2024, the first female to take on this role. Our correspondent Maïa de la Baume brings us the latest in the backlash the Commissioner for the Mediterranean has recieved from the EU countries for her participation in Tr...

On Europe Today, your daily Euronews podcast, presented by Méabh Mc Mahon we speak to Andrew Puzder, US ambassador to the EU about the latest in the relationship between the EU and the US. We also welcome in our studio the new president of the European Economic and Social Committee, Séamus Boland. Our Ukraine correspondent, Sasha Vakulina, updates us in the latest developments in the peace negotia...

On Europe Today, your daily Euronews podcast, presented by Méabh Mc Mahon, we look ahead to the peace talks resuming in Geneva today nearly four years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. With pressure from Donald Trump and doubts raised by Marco Rubio, are negotiations moving forward — or nowhere at all? We also have an update on Emmanuel Macron’s visit to India just three weeks after the EU’s lan...

On Europe Today, your daily Euronews podcast, presented by Mared Gwyn, we get you up to date over what happened this weekend at the Munich Security Conference with our EU editor Maria Tadeo. We also speak with Fabrice Pothier, CEO of Rasmussen Global and our Defence reporter, Alice Tidey, helps us explore the debate over an European nuclear umbrella. We then cross to Berlin with our correspondent...

Which EU leader would you choose for a dinner date this Valentine's Day? And is the EU-Mercosur deal as big an opportunity as it has been portrayed? To discuss these topics, we sat down with Pedro Miguel da Costa e Silva, Brazil’s ambassador to the EU, Adélaïde Charlier, Belgian climate and human rights activist and Teresa Küchler, European correspondent for Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet. This i...

On Europe Today, your daily Euronews podcast, presented by Méabh Mc Mahon we speak in an exclusive interview with European Parliament president Roberta Metsola at the Belgian castle where EU leaders met yesterday. We also speak with European Commissioner for Sports, Glenn Micallef, about the disqualification of an Ukranian athlete at the Winter Olympics over a helmet picturing dead ukranian athlet...

On Europe Today, your daily Euronews podcast presented by Méabh Mc Mahon, we cover the latest from today’s EU leaders’ retreat in the Belgian countryside and look at the possibility of fresh elections in Ukraine. We’re joined by former Greek finance minister Yannis Varoufakis and we get an update on the Hungarian election campaign’s dirty laundry from our correspondent, Sándor Zsíros. Europe Today...

On today’s Europe Today, we dive into the tensions that are rising over the future of the European economy as EU leaders prepare for a crucial retreat in Belgium. French President Emmanuel Macron calls it a moment of truth for the EU, pushing for new common EU debt — while Germany’s Friedrich Merz firmly resists. Is there a compromise in sight? From Strasbourg, European Commission President Ursula...

European leaders are heading into a make-or-break week. Ahead of a crucial summit, EU capitals have received a blunt message from Brussels: fix the single market, slash red tape, and accept that Europe may have to move at different speeds — or risk falling behind. In this episode, we head to Strasbourg to join our EU editor Maria Tadeo on why deep political divisions could still derail reform. In...

From the Olympic spotlight in Milan–Cortina to high-stakes diplomacy on Europe’s borders, Europe Today unpacks a continent at a political crossroads. As protests and politics spill into sport, we examine what growing tensions mean for EU–US relations ahead of the Munich Security Conference, with insight from EU news editor Maria Tadeo. EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas joins us in the studio&nbs...

The Rafah crossing reopened this week, putting the situation in Gaza back in the spotlight—four months after the Israel–Hamas ceasefire was signed. What comes next? Who holds the leverage? And where does the EU fit in?  Lisa Musiol, Martin Konečný, and Stefan Grobe join Méabh Mc Mahon to break it down. This is an extract from the weekly Euronews podcast Brussels, My Love?. To continue listeni...

The US and Iran begin high-stakes nuclear talks in Oman, with President Trump warning of serious consequences if diplomacy fails. We bring you the latest from Euronews correspondents and expert analysis on whether the talks can ease tensions — or risk pushing the region toward conflict. We also examine growing fears of a renewed nuclear arms race as the last US-Russia arms control treaty expires,...

On Europe Today, your daily Euronews podcast, presented by Méabh Mc Mahon, our EU editor Maria Tadeo speaks with the Latvian Prime Minister Evika Siliņa and the Prime Minister of Lebanon Nawaf Salam in Dubai. We also get up to date with our correspondent Sasha Vakulina over the peace talks to end the war in Ukraine happening this Tuesday. And in Brussels we talk with the mayor of Warsaw, Rafał Trz...

On Europe Today, your daily Euronews podcast, presented by Méabh Mc Mahon, we speak with Mihai Popşoi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Moldova. We also get the latest updates on the negotiations to end the war in Ukraine happening today in Abu Dhabi with our correspondent Sasha Vakulina. And after 10 years of Brexit, it seems the EU and the UK want to rebuild some of the bridges, we dive in the sto...

On Europe Today, your daily Euronews podcast, presented by Méabh Mc Mahon, we connect with our EU editor Maria Tadeo in the World Government Summit in Dubai, known as the 'Davos of the Middle East'. She spoke with Mathias Cormann, Secretary General of the OECD. We are also joined by our France correspondent Sophia Khatsenkova after the French government approved the budget for 2026. We also speak...

On Europe Today, your daily Euronews podcast presented by Méabh Mc Mahon, we examine rising tensions in Iran after the government declared European armed forces “terrorist groups.” We also speak with Poland’s State Secretary for EU Affairs, Ignacy Niemczycki. Plus, our correspondent Giorgia Orlandi reports from Italy on the deployment of US ICE agents ahead of the Winter Olympics, which begin this...

On Europe Today, your daily Euronews podcast, presented by Mared Gwyn, we welcome former European Council President, Charles Michel. We also speak with Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López who hopes for a democratic transition for his country. Our EU editor briefs us on the war in Ukraine, where freezing temperatures and energy blackouts due to Russian bombardments have left devastating con...

On Europe Today, your daily Euronews podcast, presented by Mared Gwyn, we speak with Luxembourg's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister Xavier Bettel about rising global tensions from Ukraine to the Middle East. Our EU correspondent Shona Murray gives us an update on the situation in Iran and the expected designation of the Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organisation by the EU. We...

On Europe Today, our daily Euronews podcast presented by Méabh Mc Mahon, we hear from EU editor Maria Tadeo in India, where she spoke with European Council President António Costa following the signing of the EU–India trade deal. In an interview with Euronews, Costa reflected on the “multipolar world” we are living in, stressing that it is not “a world of blocs.” We also join correspondent Sasha V...

On Europe Today, your daily Euronews podcast, presented by Méabh Mc Mahon, we bring you breaking news from our EU editor Maria Tadeo in India where the EU and India clinched a Free Trade Deal that has been in the making for more than a decade. We also speak to the European Commission's vice president for tech Henna Virkkunen, a day after the Commission announced an investigation on X's AI tool Gro...

On Europe Today, your daily Euronews podcast, presented by Méabh McMahon, we speak to Maroš Šefčovič, European Commissioner for Trade, who is in India getting the EU ready to sign an EU–India Free Trade Deal that has been in the making for more than a decade. Our EU editor, Maria Tadeo, is also in Delhi with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President António...

A late-night EU summit, fraying transatlantic ties, and Donald Trump looming large over Brussels.  In today’s Europe Today, we break down five hours of tense talks between EU leaders on Ukraine, Greenland, Mercosur and the so-called “Trump peace board,” with live analysis from Euronews’ Shona Murray at the summit itself. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis joins us to take us inside the...