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00:00French Prime Minister Francois Beirut and his minority government have collapsed after losing a crucial confidence vote in Parliament.
00:11Norwegians headed to the polls on Monday in a parliamentary election in which the future of a wealth tax is a central issue.
00:20South Korea will repatriate 300 of its citizens this week after they were detained in a massive immigration raid at a Hyundai plant in Georgia.
00:30France is thrown into fresh political crisis this Monday.
00:33Prime Minister Francois Beirut and his minority government have collapsed after losing a crucial confidence vote in the country's lower house of Parliament.
00:44Beirut, who had been in office for less than a year, took the unprecedented step of calling the vote himself,
00:50betting that lawmakers would back his controversial plan to cut 44 billion euros in spending next year.
00:59Instead, he was handed a stinging defeat by an absolute majority of 364 votes out of a total of 558, forcing his resignation.
01:10At the heart of the political crisis are the country's fragile finances.
01:15Last year's deficit was nearly double the EU's accepted rules.
01:21That leaves French President Emmanuel Macron scrambling to find his fifth prime minister since the start of his second mandate in 2022.
01:31But outside the corridors of power, anger is growing.
01:35Grassroots groups have already announced nationwide strikes this Wednesday.
01:40And France's main unions also have planned mass protests at the end of the month to protest against these budget cuts.
01:52Sophia Katzenkova reporting from Paris for Euronews.
01:55Norwegians headed to the polls on Monday in a parliamentary election in which the future of a wealth tax introduced over 130 years ago is a central issue.
02:10A close outcome is expected between a center-left bloc led by the Labour Party of Prime Minister Jonas Garstöre and a right-wing bloc.
02:18Labour wants to keep the wealth tax, which applies a levy of 1.1 percent on assets and shares worth more than 1.76 million kroner.
02:28Labour says that scrapping it would cost 34 billion kroner per year.
02:34Of its rivals on the right, the Conservatives want it reduced, and the Progress Party of Sylvie Listog, which calls for lower taxes and more immigration controls, wants it scrapped.
02:44The Progress Party is expected to outperform the Conservatives, who are led by former Prime Minister Erna Solberg.
02:52Official results are expected to be announced on Tuesday, and they are likely to be followed by weeks of negotiations to build a coalition and agree on cabinet positions before King Harald can swear in the new government.
03:04Germany is no longer the country with the most asylum applications in the European Union, according to new data released by the European Union Agency for Asylum.
03:20By the end of June 2025, France and Spain both received more applications than Germany, which has been the main destination for asylum seekers in recent years.
03:31There was a significant dip in applications lodged by Syrian citizens, with 25,000 fewer than the first six months of the previous year, due to the fall of the al-Assad regime in Syria last December.
03:45Venezuela is now the main country of origin of asylum seekers.
03:50The increase is likely related to stricter immigration policy in the United States.
03:54Since Donald Trump retook office as U.S. president, he started a crackdown against Venezuelan migrants coming to the U.S.
04:02By contrast, Venezuelans can land in Europe without a visa and stay for a maximum of 90 days in the Schengen area with their passports alone.
04:11South Korea will repatriate 300 of its citizens this week after they were detained in a massive immigration raid at the Hyundai plant in Georgia.
04:24U.S. immigration agents arrested 475 people at the site last week, most of whom were South Korean.
04:31U.S. officials said the arrested workers were suspected of living and working in the country.
05:01It is, however, unclear what type of visa those arrested had, or whether any of them overstayed it.
05:09Over the weekend, Seoul and Washington reached an agreement over the repatriation of the detainees.
05:15The South Korean Foreign Ministry said it did not want its citizens to be deported, but to leave the country voluntarily,
05:22meaning that they could potentially re-enter the U.S. at a later date.
05:25U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters European leaders will visit the U.S. on Monday or Tuesday to discuss ways to end the war in Ukraine.
05:36U.S. President Donald Trump added he would speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin soon and signaled his administration was prepared to move into a second phase of sanctions against Moscow.
06:06His comments came after Russia launched its largest ever aerial attack on Ukraine, killing at least four people and setting a government building alight.
06:16Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said after the attack that condolences should be backed by strong action against Russia.
06:23U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Besant indicated that the U.S. would be open to partnering with European countries to impose more sanctions on nations that purchase Russian oil.
06:33He said that more economic pressure should be put on Moscow in order to collapse the Russian economy.
06:44Argentinian President Javier Milley suffered a sweeping loss in a key Buenos Aires provincial election on Sunday.
06:50The vote was seen as a litmus test for how well his Libertarian party is set to perform in legislative elections next month.
06:59His recently formed La Libertad Avanza party scored just 34 percent of the vote in Argentina's biggest province,
07:06losing by a landslide to the left-leaning Peronist opposition led by former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner,
07:12who scored 47 percent of the vote.
07:15Sin ninguna dudas, en el plano político, hoy hemos tenido una clara derrota.
07:22Y si alguien quiere empezar a reconstruir y salir adelante, lo primero que hay que aceptar son los resultados.
07:28Y hoy los resultados no han sido positivos y hemos tenido un revés electoral y hay que aceptarlo.
07:34Kirchner was seen waving wildly to her supporters from the balcony of her home in celebration.
07:39A corruption conviction has barred her from politics and placed her under house arrest,
07:45but she remains an influential Peronist leader.
07:48Milley now needs to expand his party's tiny minority in the opposition-dominated Congress in midterms next month
07:55to fulfill his radical libertarian vision for Argentina's crisis-stricken economy.
08:02It's a signal that speaks volumes about Europe's intentions in the Arctic region.
08:08Last week, the European Commission proposed doubling its financial support for Greenland
08:13as part of the next European budget.
08:16This area around the North Pole has become a focal point of global commercial and geopolitical interests.
08:22The melting of the ice caused by global warming is reshuffling the political landscape
08:27and could bring Europe closer to Asia.
08:29A trade route in the north is much more convenient from Beijing to Rotterdam
08:34rather than the classic one that passes through the Malacca Strait and the Suez Canal and the Gulf of Aden,
08:41which is, of course, like, it's 30 to 50 percent longer.
08:44It takes 14 to 20 days more than the Arctic route.
08:49But this route is not as open as it seems.
08:5253 percent of this northern sea route runs alongside Russia,
08:56which is seeking to extend its exclusive economic zone.
08:59Additionally, this region is home to the Russian northern fleet.
09:03Since the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine, tensions in the Arctic have escalated significantly.
09:09In order to defend its interests, the EU therefore cannot solely rely on member states in the region.
09:15Think about underwater infrastructure, such as fiber optical cables.
09:20It's easy to understand why being present in the region is so important.
09:25And think about Greenland or other territories in the regions as platforms that make it possible
09:31to establish the so-called system of early warnings,
09:36or even to deploy aerial, naval or even robotics units directly in the Arctic.
09:43The EU is seeking to strike a balance between commercial openness and strategic protection.
09:50But access to the Arctic's hydrocarbons is also at stake for the bloc.
09:54According to estimates, the region holds 13 percent of undiscovered oil reserves and 30 percent of gas reserves.
10:03Which European countries have the best skills?
10:07Adults in Finland ranked first in literacy and numeracy,
10:17as well as in adaptive problem solving.
10:21In the 31 countries surveyed by the OECD,
10:26people between 55 and 65 obtained lower scores than younger people in all subjects.
10:33The best results were achieved by people aged 25 to 34.
10:39Portugal, Poland, Italy and Lithuania are the EU countries that fell below the OECD average in all areas.
10:50The lowest scores were reported in adaptive problem solving,
10:54where Poland scored only 226 points out of 500,
11:00followed by Lithuania with 230,
11:03Italy with 231 and Portugal with 233.
11:09Adults with highly educated parents have better literacy skills than those with less educated parents.
11:17Higher skill levels usually lead to better employment chances,
11:22higher wages and better well-being.
11:25The gap between adults from different socioeconomic backgrounds is smallest in Spain.
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