The leading center-right candidate, Rachida Dati, who has turned these reports into one of her campaign’s core issues, said on Thursday that members of her group in the city council had “alerted” Grégoire as early as 2015. At that time, the Socialist candidate was the deputy mayor of…
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Poland investigates Iran links behind cyberattack on nuclear facility – POLITICO
The nuclear center said in a statement that “all safety systems operated according to procedures.” A reactor is “operating safely and smoothly at full power,” Jakub Kupecki, the center’s director said in the statement. The facility carries out research into nuclear energy; Poland…
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Russia deportation of Ukraine children is crime against humanity: independent probe
Members of the Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, an independent probe into Russia’s full-scale invasion which presented its latest report to the Human Rights Council in Geneva, said that they have verified the deportation and transfer of 1,205 children from Russian-occupied areas in Ukraine to…
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No ‘direct threat’ from Iran to Europe, US before war, Polish foreign minister says – POLITICO
Sikorski said Warsaw has “no such plans” to join the Iran war. “Right now we have a war on our border, an aggressive Russia with an imperial state ideology that sends drones into our airspace. We have plenty to deal with here, next door,” he said, referring to the Russia-Ukraine…
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Russian court convicts 19 people over deadly Moscow concert attack
Gunmen opened fire at a concert hall near Moscow in 2024, killing 145 and injuring more than 500, the deadliest mass shooting in Russia in two decades.
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EU to respond ‘firmly and proportionately’ to any breach of US trade deal – POLITICO
BRUSSELS — The European Union will respond “firmly and proportionately” to any breach of its trade deal with the U.S. reached last year, European Commission Deputy Chief Spokesperson Olof Gill on Thursday.
Gill was responding to probes into unfair…
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EU’s 6 biggest economies back single finance watchdog – POLITICO
Among the most contentious initiatives is introducing EU supervision of “the most systemic, relevant, cross-border financial market infrastructures” amid firm resistance from a group of small countries, led by Ireland and Luxembourg, which rely on their outsized finance sectors and are…
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En Bretagne, le RN rêve de percer dans les conseils municipaux – POLITICO
Dans certains bastions de gauche, comme Brest et Rennes, le RN a présenté des listes avec l’ambition de dépasser la barre des 10% le 15 mars, soit le seuil de qualification au second tour. Le parti espère ainsi se faire une place dans les conseils municipaux des deux villes, alors…
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Elon Musk steps into the UK energy crisis – POLITICO
After Musk’s comments about violence, Labour backbencher Clive Lewis said in September: “Elon Musk shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near our critical infrastructure.”
The news comes at it a critical time for the domestic retail market, with industry warnings that customer debts have…
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EU Commission moves to apply Mercosur trade deal from May – POLITICO
“We cannot confirm the exact date for this yet,” Gill told POLITICO.
It is however likely that this exchange of notes will still take place in March — allowing the EU and Mercosur to remove tariffs on a series of goods as of May.
Commission President Ursula von der Leyen…
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