Latest news bulletin | November 18th, 2025 – Morning
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00:01Ursula von der Leyen has urged EU countries to come up with the plan by December to bridge Ukraine's financing gap.
00:11Ukraine has signed a deal to buy up to 100 Rafale fighter jets from France.
00:20Eurozone growth has outperformed expectations this year and the momentum is set to continue, the European Commission said on Monday.
00:31Ursula von der Leyen has urged EU countries to come up with the plan by December to bridge Ukraine's financing gap.
00:37Based on IMF projections that the war could end by the end of 2026, Ukrainian budgetary and military needs for the next two years amount to 135 billion euros.
00:49In a letter on Monday, the president of the European Commission outlined three different options for providing additional financial support to Ukraine.
00:5890 billion euros in EU countries' bilateral contributions, the assistance would be disbursed as a non-repayable grant and be accounted against a member state's national budget.
01:09Joint debt, the interest would have to be covered by either national guarantees or the bloc's common budget.
01:16And 140 billion euros in a reparations loan based on frozen Russian assets, Kiev would be asked to repay the loan only after Moscow agrees to compensate for the damages.
01:26Fearing potential legal ramifications, Belgium has repeatedly opposed issuing reparations loans to Kiev based on Russian assets held at Euroclear, a financial services company headquartered in Brussels.
01:39Fond der Leyen's meeting with Belgian Prime Minister Bart Deweyver last Friday to advance the talks has so far resulted in limited progress.
01:53Ukraine has signed a deal to buy up to 100 Rafale fighter jets from France.
01:59Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky signed a letter of intent in Paris alongside his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron.
02:06This agreement is expected to take place over a 10-year period, according to the Elysee Palace.
02:13Zelensky called the deal historic and in addition to fighter jets, Ukraine will also purchase drones and other defense systems.
02:40Macron believes that the agreement will strengthen Kyiv's deterrence capability and prevent any attempt at incursion in the future.
03:08At least three people have been killed and 11 others injured in an overnight Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian town of Balaklija in the Kharkiv region, local authorities said on Monday.
03:24The head of the regional military administration said four girls aged 12, 14, 15 and 17 were among those injured.
03:32He added that the missiles struck residential high-rise buildings and vehicles parked nearby.
03:38Russian drones also attacked the Odessa region, damaging energy and port infrastructure in several cities, according to the regional administration head there.
03:48The attack sparked multiple fires and damaged an unspecified number of civilian vessels.
03:54One person was injured in the strikes.
03:56Ukraine's air force said Russia fired two ballistic missiles and 128 strike and decoy drones across the country overnight.
04:05Air defenses shot down and jammed 91 drones, while 32 others reached their targets.
04:12Russian forces have scaled up aerial attacks that have brought rolling blackouts across the country on the brink of winter.
04:19Eurozone growth has outperformed expectations this year and the momentum is set to continue, the European Commission said on Monday.
04:31According to the EU's autumn economic forecast, output will rise by 1.3% in the Eurozone in 2025, higher than the prediction given in May.
04:42The EU's economy has beaten expectations in the first nine months of the year.
04:49Looking further ahead, we expect growth to continue at a moderate pace, despite the challenging external environment.
04:56The challenging external environment means that we should look at domestic drivers to fuel growth.
05:05Europe must rely on and develop its own strengths.
05:09Tariff barriers from the U.S. remain a cause for concern and uncertainty surrounding policies from the Trump administration continues to cloud the global outlook.
05:20The EU's forecast assumes that all country and sector-specific tariffs implemented by the U.S. at the end of October will be in place throughout the forecast horizon.
05:30The crisis over pension reform in Germany is escalating.
05:37During his weekend speech, Chancellor Friedrich Merz backed the draft legislation of the pension reform, putting him at odds with the party's youth wing, which rejected the reform package.
05:48Facing pressure, Merz warned that he did not want a bidding war for the lowest pension level.
05:54An dieser Debatte bitte konstruktiv und aktiv teil, aber nicht indem ihr einfach nur sagt, was nicht geht, sondern mit uns darüber sprecht und wir gemeinsam diskutieren, wie es zusammen geht, liebe Freundinnen und Freunde.
06:09Das muss doch die Botschaft an die Bevölkerung sein.
06:12The controversy over Germany's pension reform stems from the bill's provision to guarantee pension rises until 2031.
06:21According to the draft, additional costs of €120 billion would be incurred between 2032 and 2040.
06:28In October, some 18 members of parliament from Merz's ruling coalition, mostly from the CDU's party's Junction Union, made it clear that they would not be voting in favor of the pension package in its current form.
06:45U.S. President Donald Trump said House Republicans should vote to release the Jeffrey Epstein case files in a notable reversal from his prior opposition.
06:54The U.S. President said he had nothing to hide and again blamed the Democrats and the, quote, radical left to smear the reputation of the Republican Party.
07:03A growing number of members in his own party have come out in support of the release of the documents.
07:09Trump recently fell out with Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, previously a keen supporter.
07:15She has repeatedly called for the release of the Epstein files.
07:18If the bill passes, the Justice Department would be required to release all files and communications related to Epstein, as well as details about the investigation into his death in federal prison.
07:33Former Labor Minister Jeanette Jara of Chile's ruling Communist Party secured a narrow lead against far-right candidate José Antonio Cust in Sunday's first presidential election round.
07:43Jara received 27 percent of the vote, against Cust's 24 percent, meaning a runoff will be held on the 14th of December.
07:52Jara faces a challenge ahead of her as the first-round results showed strong support for right-leaning candidates.
07:59Businessman and celebrity economist Franco Parisi performed better than most polls suggested by securing roughly 20 percent of the vote, finishing third.
08:08Another 14 percent of the votes went to Johannes Kaiser, a libertarian congressman and a former YouTube pundit, positioning himself further to the right than Cust.
08:20Chile's traditional center-right coalition under Evelyn Matei won around 12 percent of the vote.
08:26Not all of the divided right is guaranteed to go to Cust.
08:30Several Kaiser and Matei voters interviewed at polling stations on Sunday said they would refuse to support Cust, citing his strongly conservative platform.
08:43In a referendum held on Sunday, Ecuadorians voted against a proposal to host foreign military bases, as well as another to launch a process that could lead to a new constitution.
08:54It was a significant defeat for President Daniel Noboa, a conservative who is closely aligned with the Trump administration.
09:02He had pushed Ecuador's courts to include the question about rewriting the constitution.
09:08As President, Noboa has had a tough stance on crime, as the country struggles with drug-trafficking groups using Ecuador as a transit point for cocaine from Colombia and Peru.
09:18He had recently hosted U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for a tour of a military base along Ecuador's coast that could possibly host U.S. troops.
09:31Noboa argued a change in the constitution was needed to give the government more tools to fight crime.
09:36But critics feared that a new constitution would decrease legislative and judicial oversight of the executive branch.
09:42South African-born artist Ralph Zeman has spent his life fighting violence, not with weapons but with art.
09:53His monumental installations were interpreted military symbols to transform them into tools for dialogue and reflection.
09:59Even as a young kid I was very much aware of the injustice.
10:03I was brought up by my parents but also very much by the African staff who worked at my house.
10:07To see the sheer brutality that the apartheid state brought down on black people to keep them in fear and suppressed really made an impression on me.
10:17Weapons of mass production is a three-piece art project consisting of replicas of an AK-47 assault rifle, a Casper armoured personal carrier and a MiG-21 fighter jet.
10:26Each of these objects was covered with millions of glass beads crafted by African artisans.
10:31It was seen as a low craft. It was done by black people under apartheid.
10:37And perceived as having very little value.
10:39I wanted to take those skills and those talents and turn it into modern contemporary art.
10:45According to the artist, each part of the project symbolises a different dimension of violence.
10:50So the first was the AK-47. It dealt with gun violence. It dealt with the proliferation of weapons.
10:55The second in the series was the Casper. It was designed and built in South Africa in the 80s.
11:01And they sold them to repressive governments around the world.
11:04So thirdly, coming to the MiG-21 is the most mass-produced supersonic fighter jet of all time.
11:11Ziemann believes that physical proximity to an object of war transformed into an art piece is an act of reclaiming power over violence.
11:18Each beat, hand-arranged by hundreds of artists, becomes a gesture of resistance against the militarisation of the world.
11:24The whole world is on a nice edge.
11:27I think it's good to have a counter-narrative to all of this.
11:30In a world that's increasingly dangerous, I think these are things we should be discussing.
11:35The MiG-21 project has garnered significant media attention.
11:38Eventually, the aircraft will be sold.
11:40And all proceeds will go towards funding educational programmes and art therapy.
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