2025-02-17

Markets

European defence stocks surge as region's leaders plan spending boost

Investors are watching closely as European leaders hold an emergency meeting on regional security.

17/02/2025

Top News Stories Today

Latest news bulletin | February 17th – Midday

Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond - latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel.

17/02/2025

Economy

Here are five key reasons why Germany's economy is struggling

Here are five key reasons why Germany's economy is struggling as voters decide on 23 February who will run their next government.

17/02/2025

Europe News

European leaders meet in Paris as US pushes for peace talks on Ukraine

European leaders are gathering in Paris as Donald Trump is pushing for an accelerated timetable to strike a deal between Ukraine and Russia.

17/02/2025

Culture news

Shakira cancels Peru concert after emergency hospital admission

The Colombian singer arrived in Lima in the early hours of Saturday morning after several performances in Brazil, where she dazzled in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.

17/02/2025

Europe in Motion

How many non-EU citizens were under temporary protection at the end of 2024?

Germany is the EU country which welcomes the most non-EU citizens who fled Ukraine after Russia's invasion. Nearly half of Ukrainian citizens who escaped are adult women.

17/02/2025

Business

Trump tours Boeing plane to highlight delay in Air Force One delivery

Air Force One is a modified Boeing 747. Two exist and the president flies on both of the more than 30-year-old planes. Boeing has the contract to produce updated versions, but delivery has been delayed while the aircraft maker has lost billions of dollars on the project.

17/02/2025

Europe News

Agrifood strategy launch, Newsletter

This week's key events presented by Euronews' senior agriculture and health reporter Gerardo Fortuna.

17/02/2025

Europe News

Euronews returns to profitability after a decade

Euronews' chairman Pedro Vargas David announced that the news outlet returned to profitability for the first time in a decade, heralding in a new chapter of pan-European journalism as Euronews expands across the continent and beyond.

17/02/2025

North Korea

Kim Jong-un celebrates construction project with enormous explosion

The ceremony, which coincided with the birthday of the leader's father, took place in Pyongyang’s Hwasong district on Sunday.

17/02/2025

Europe News

UK PM Keir Starmer 'ready' to put troops on the ground in Ukraine

Starmer's comments are the first time the leader has publicly and explicitly said he would be willing to send peacekeeping troops to Ukraine.

17/02/2025

Tech News

South Korea removes DeepSeek from app stores, pending privacy review

The country's government agencies had previously blocked employees from using DeepSeek over worries that the AI model was gathering too much sensitive information.

17/02/2025

Health news

South Africa’s HIV patients could miss care due to Trump’s aid freeze

About 5.5 million South Africans receive antiretroviral treatment that could be disrupted after the US suspended funding for an anti-HIV programme.

17/02/2025

Health news

Five ways satellites can help improve public health

Satellites, as part of their Earth observation tasks, can monitor public health threats and assess risks for people living in specific areas.

17/02/2025

Business

Trump Media reports a loss of hundreds of millions for last year

Trump created Truth Social after being banned from Twitter and Facebook following the 6 January 2021 Capitol riot. After winning the US presidential election last November, Trump transferred all his shares as a "bona fide gift" to the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust.

17/02/2025

Europe News

German election: Economy, Ukraine and JD Vance dominate final debate

The top four parties' chancellor candidates, Friedrich Merz, Olaf Scholz, Robert Habeck and Alice Weidel took to the stage for a fiery, televised debate on Sunday evening.

17/02/2025

Europe News

Sorting through euro trash:What proposals has the Commission scrapped?

Euronews went dumpster diving—not literally, don’t worry—through the EU Commission’s discarded legislation to see what’s been scrapped as outdated, stale, or just plain unworkable. Somebody had to do it, and here’s what we found.

17/02/2025

Europe News

Ex-Ukraine minister warns Europe to stand up to Trump

Dmytro Kuleba,former Ukrainian minister, argued that Trump's actions and statements have consistently opposed both Ukrainian and European interests.

17/02/2025

Culture news

Agenda: The best things to do, hear, see or watch in Europe this week

A walk through Ancient Egypt, demonic monkeys, David Bowie-inspired dreamscape paintings and Robert De Niro's first leading role on TV in Netflix's new political thriller - here's what's on this week's cultural agenda.

17/02/2025

Ecotech

Should every European capital have an urban 'pocket forest'?

Our cities are polluted and overcrowded - but planting trees in urban spaces create future wildlife habitats.

17/02/2025

Europe News

EU borders saw over 120,000 migrant pushbacks in 2024, says NGO report

According to a new report, the number of pushbacks in Europe has risen "sharply" in recent years to the point of becoming a "systematic" practice.

17/02/2025

Top News Stories Today

Latest news bulletin | February 17th – Morning

Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond - latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel.

17/02/2025

The Big Question

Space will be ‘an essential part of the future economy,’ says ESA

“20 years ago, nobody would have ever imagined the dimension of what the internet brings today for daily life and I think space is in a similar situation,” Josef Aschbacher, director general of the European Space Agency, told The Big Question.

17/02/2025

Markets

Euro at crossroads with Trump’s tariffs as Ukraine peace talks unfold

The euro rose to a near two-month high amid the postponed reciprocal tariffs by Trump and his push for Ukraine war peace talks. However, the rebound in the common currency may be only short-lived.

17/02/2025

Europe News

Marco Rubio says Ukraine and Europe will be part of 'real' peace talks

Ukraine and Europe worry about being sidelined as Trump remains persistent to go ahead with direct talks with Moscow to discuss an end to Russia's war in Ukraine.

17/02/2025

Israel

Marco Rubio backs Trump's Gaza proposal during first Israel visit

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem as he kicked off his first tour of the Middle East.

17/02/2025