Latest news bulletin | December 3rd, 2025 – Evening
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00:00Former EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini has been formally accused of procurement fraud and corruption by Belgian authorities.
00:10Nobel Prize winner in economics Philippe Agion told Euronews that he thinks European measures are hindering innovation.
00:20The European Union will ban Russian gas pipelines and liquefied natural gas from entering the bloc by the end of 2026 and mid-2027.
00:30Bulgaria's Council of Ministers has withdrawn a controversial budget draft that sought to steeply increase taxes after immense domestic pressure and protests.
00:41Former EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini was released from custody after being formally accused of procurement fraud and corruption by Belgian authorities.
00:52The probe concerns contracts to train future diplomats at the College of Europe, which she now leads.
01:00According to the European Public Prosecutor's Office, which launched the investigation, European Commission official Stefano Sannino and a third suspect were also arrested.
01:12They were later released after questioning and being formally notified of the accusations against them.
01:19The EPPO's statement said that the accusations also concern conflict of interest and violation of professional secrecy.
01:28Police had earlier searched the College of Europe in Bruges and the European External Action Service in Brussels.
01:35The College said in a statement that it will cooperate with authorities in the case.
01:45Europe has over-regulated and punishes failure too severely, hindering the next wave of innovation.
01:53The French economist said the EU is falling behind the US and China in competition and innovation.
02:22As global tensions rise, Agion argues that part of the reason Europe is falling behind is due to how it treats failure.
02:31In Europe, we don't take enough risk.
02:34We don't, you know, forgive short-term failure.
02:37You know, to innovate breakthrough, you need to tell people, no problem if you fail.
02:43We encourage you to fail because if you fail, it's that you tried.
02:46The Nobel Prize winner said Europe will have to deploy more capital in high-risk sectors connected to innovation
02:54and called for financial institutions and venture capital to play a bigger role in the EU.
03:01We don't have financial institutions that encourage risk-taking sufficiently.
03:06Europe is a regulatory giant and a budgetary dwarf.
03:11We regulate too much and we don't invest enough.
03:14Agion won this year's Nobel Prize alongside fellow economists Peter Howitt and Joel Mokir
03:22for their pioneering research into the relationship between technological innovation and long-term economic growth.
03:31The European Union will ban Russian gas pipelines and liquefied natural gas from entering the bloc by the end of 2026 and mid-2027.
03:46There will be exceptions for Hungary and Slovakia, which will be allowed to tap Moscow's gas in case of supply disruption.
03:53Despite this, Hungary has said it will challenge the law at the European Court of Justice.
03:58This has been a very short night for the negotiators, but today is indeed a historic day for our union.
04:07Last night, we reached a provisional agreement on the Commission's proposal to fully phase out Russian fossil fuels.
04:15We're turning that page, and we're turning it for good.
04:20This is the dawn of a new era, the era of Europe's full energy independence from Russia.
04:27Breaking free from Russian energy imports has been a priority for the EU since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
04:34Ever since, the EU has announced various measures to diversify energy suppliers and reduce reliance on Russia.
04:42As we slashed Russian imports of fossil fuels massively, we also cut the revenues that Russia uses to wage its war of aggression against Ukraine.
04:54We were paying to Russia 12 billion euros per month at the beginning of the war for fossil fuels.
05:02Now we're down to 1.5 billion per month.
05:07Still too much.
05:08We aim to bring it down to zero.
05:10EU countries will now be required to develop national diversification plans with concrete actions and timelines to cease imports of Russian natural gas and oil by March 1, 2026.
05:22Talks between U.S. President Donald Trump's Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and his son-in-law Jared Kushner and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Tuesday yielded no breakthrough.
05:38The talks were aimed at exploring ways to end the war in Ukraine well into its fourth year amid Washington's renewed push to end the fighting via diplomatic means.
05:47Putin's foreign policy advisor, Yuri Ushakov said the talks were highly constructive, despite not reaching an agreement.
05:55The talks were very helpful, constructive, very supportive, very supportive and very supportive.
06:04The talks were not 5 minutes, but 5 hours.
06:09Ukraine's president, Vladimir Zelensky, speaking on the meeting as he visited the Irish Taoiseach Mihail Martin in Dublin, stressed that his country must be involved in the process.
06:38The Kremlin appears to not be willing to back down from its maximalist demands outlined in the initial U.S. proposal, which includes Ukraine ceding large amounts of territory to Russia and a permanent ban from joining NATO.
07:04U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio claimed progress was made, but acknowledged that peace may still have some way to go.
07:11The Bulgarian Council of Ministers has withdrawn the controversial draft budget for 2026 after immense domestic pressure and major protests.
07:24The budget proposed a steep rise in taxes and social security contributions, which would mainly affect workers and ordinary people.
07:32The reversal was announced on Tuesday after more than 100,000 people stormed the streets nationwide on Monday night to oppose it.
07:41Today, the government decided to complete the process of the rules of the UNS and the projects of the state of the state government, the second budget of the state government, the second budget of the state government and the second budget of the state government and the second budget of the state government.
07:56The protests were organized by the main opposition coalition between the We Continued the Change and Democratic Bulgaria parties, who are now calling for the government's resignation and early elections.
08:09We saw that the government could have heard protests and cut the budget.
08:16This could be eliminated if the last week was happened. It's already later.
08:23We heard the people of the protests. The people of the protests want to leave this government and the exit of Boris Ofipaevsky from the Bulgarian politics.
08:35Prime Minister Zeliyatskoff has ruled out the government's resignation, citing a need for stability as the country prepares to enter the Eurozone.
08:44Sofia is set to adopt the Euro from the 1st of January.
08:48The Trump administration has paused all immigration applications, including green card and U.S. citizenship processing,
08:58filed by immigrants from 19 non-European countries, including Afghanistan and Somalia.
09:05According to an official memo, the new policy stems from the attack on U.S. National Guard members in Washington last week,
09:13in which an Afghan man was arrested as a suspect.
09:17Trump also stepped up his rhetoric against Somalis disparaging the country and accusing Somali immigrants of not contributing to U.S. welfare.
09:26I don't want them in our country, I'll be honest with you.
09:29Some would say, oh, that's not politically correct. I don't care. I don't want them in our country.
09:34Their country is no good for a reason. Their country stinks. And we don't want them in our country.
09:40I can say that about other countries, too.
09:42According to U.S. media reports, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE, has been directed by the Trump administration
09:49to target undocumented Somali immigrants in Minneapolis, home to the largest Somali immigrant population in the U.S.
09:58Many of the migrants who moved from Somalia to the U.S. left in the 1990s during the country's decades-long civil war.
10:06Pope Leo XIV expressed support to the people of southern Lebanon as he referenced the ongoing conflict there
10:16during his farewell speech at the Beirut airport, wrapping up the first foreign trip of his pontificate.
10:22Christians in the south had been disappointed that his visit did not include a visit to their areas,
10:27which were battered by last year's war between Israel and Hezbollah and are still the target of regular Israeli airstrikes.
10:34We make the arms of our ethnic and political fermions,
10:41open our religious confessions to a reciprocal encounter.
10:46Revelling in the deeper deep of ourselves the dream of a united Lebanon.
10:52We triumph the peace and justice, where everything can be recognized as brothers and sisters.
11:00As Lebanon copes with years of economic and political crises,
11:04Pope Leo XIV sought to bring a message of peace but also justice,
11:09characterized by his visit to the blast site of the deadly 2020 port explosion.
11:14In a prayer, he urged the country's political leaders to pursue the truth as a means of peace and reconciliation in the country.
11:21On Monday, he presided over a gathering of Lebanon's Christian and Muslim spiritual leader,
11:27celebrating the country's interfaith coexistence as another message of peace in the conflict-plagued region.
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