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Spain is supposed to hold the rotating presidency of the EU Council between July and December.

It’s been a tumultuous bank holiday weekend for Europe. With snap elections Spain, disastrous floods in Italy and boats capsizing, and Hungary blocking funds to…

A Russia-launched attack struck Kyiv in the early hours of Tuesday, the third night running for an aerial attack on the Ukrainian capital, with “around 20” Iranian-made Shahed drones used, according to Ukrainian authorities, FRANCE 24’s Gulliver Cragg reported from Kyiv. “I could certainly hear them; that’s actually the first time I’ve personally heard the sound of these drones, which are always described as ‘flying mopeds’ by the Ukrainians. […] What we could mainly hear was the sound of the explosions of the Ukrainian air defence systems shooting these drones,” Cragg explained.

Over 30 peacekeepers deployed in a NATO-led mission in Kosovo were injured Monday in clashes with Serb protesters who demanded the removal of recently elected ethnic Albanian mayors, as tensions flare in the Balkan nation.

The EU Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarcic says it is vital that the EU has more firefighting aircraft capacity in order to respond to another hot summer.

The spectacular transformation of a stretch of Venice’s Grand Canal to fluorescent green was due to fluorescein, a non-toxic substance used for testing wastewater networks, local authorities said on Monday.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Monday he would dissolve parliament and the country would hold an early general election on July 23 following the results of Sunday’s local elections.

With countries meeting this week to work on a global plastics treaty, debate was emerging between countries wanting to limit the production of more plastics and the petrochemical industry favoring recycling as the solution to plastic waste.

A tourist boat capsized in a storm on Italy’s Lago Maggiore in the northern Lombardy region on Sunday, with at least one person confirmed dead, Italian media reported.

Spain’s ruling Socialists suffered heavy losses to opposition conservatives in Sunday’s local election, with around 95% of the votes counted, showing their electoral vulnerabilityahead of an end-of-year general election.

The sixteen-metre boat collapsed on Lake Maggiore, on the Swiss-Italian border.

Huge crowds of anti-government protesters on Saturday encircled the Serbian state television building in downtown Belgrade to press their demand for autocratic President Aleksandar Vucic to ease his tight grip on the mainstream media and allow alternative voices. Report by FRANCE 24’s Emerald Maxwell.

More than 1,500 people were arrested during a protest by the Extinction Rebellion climate group in The Hague on Saturday, Dutch police said.

French police reject accusations of violence but protesters, journalists and experts decry the repeated use of weapons and restrictive preventative measures.

Paris Saint-Germain clinched a record 11th French league title after drawing 1-1 at Strasbourg on Saturday to move four points of second-place Lens with one game left.

Russia unleashed multiple waves of air strikes on Kyiv overnight in what officials said appeared to be the largest drone attack on the city since the start of the war, as the Ukrainian capital prepared to celebrate the anniversary of its founding on Sunday. Read our live blog for all the latest developments in the war in Ukraine. All times are Paris time (GMT+2).

Serbian troops on the border with Kosovo were put on high alert Friday following clashes between ethnic Serbs and Kosovo police that left more than a dozen injured on both sides. FRANCE 24’s Carys Garland brings us more on the situation with this report.

Many Spanish women have had to go to private clinics to abort and pay upwards of hundreds of euros to do so.

Serbian troops on the border with Kosovo were put on high alert Friday following clashes inside Kosovo between police and ethnic Serbs that injured more than a dozen people.

In this edition of Brussels, my love?, we dissect the outcome of the Greek elections and the reasons Belgium won’t sign off on a Russian diamond import ban.

Tens of thousands of people converged on the Serbian capital on Friday for a major rally in support of President Aleksandar Vucic, who is facing an unprecedented revolt against his autocratic rule amid the crisis triggered by two mass shootings that stunned the nation.

On the Spanish island of La Gomera, in the Canary Islands, people can communicate by whistle. Dating back centuries, the ancient language of Silbo Gomero is still widely used on the island. The ENTR team met the whistlers keeping it alive.

Anti-Kremlin Russian fighters attacked Russia from within this week. #StateOfTheUnion

Talking Europe interviews the boss of the largest and oldest group in the European Parliament, the centre-right European People’s Party. Manfred Weber is a veteran of the EU assembly, having first been elected nearly twenty years ago, and he is an important player in German politics, in the conservative Christian Social Union. He missed out on the job of EU Commission president in 2019, but does not seem to have given up on that ambition. We start the discussion with the European elections scheduled for June 2024, which could shake up the bloc’s political scene.

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said on Friday the city planned to ban single-use plastic when it holds the 2024 Olympic Games as part of efforts to tackle a global plastic pollution crisis.