While Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever is demanding that EU capitals provide national guarantees that can pay out at a moment’s notice, that shouldn’t count against Van Peteghem, his supporters said, especially when EU leaders have the final say over the mega loan to Ukraine, not the…
Category: 3. Europe
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The EU’s far right has tasted power. Now it wants action on migrants, cars and red tape – POLITICO
However, Italy’s Nicola Procaccini, chair of the right-wing European Conservatives and Reformists (which ideologically sits between the EPP and the Patriots), told POLITICO that the right can easily team up on deregulation, migration, farming, and family issues. | Emmanuel Dunand/AFP via… Continue Reading
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Turkey to host 2026 climate summit, in defeat for Australia
BELÉM, Brazil — Turkey will host next year’s U.N. climate conference after Australia’s bid imploded.
Turkey and Australia had faced off for more than a year over the talks’ location, an impasse that extended almost until the final day of the current climate summit in Belém, Brazil….
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Trump signs Epstein bill he once labored to kill
President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a bill to force the Department of Justice to release more information related to its case against the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in a stunning reversal after fighting the bill’s passage for months.
The law — the Epstein Files…
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Paris court blocks auction of earliest-known calculator
One of the world’s first calculating machines will not go to auction as scheduled, France, after a Paris court provisionally blocked the historic item from being export.
Auction house Christie’s has confirmed it will not proceed with a bid for the machine La Pascaline, developed by the French…
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Teenage saboteurs paid to attack their own country
BBC Trending & BBC News Ukrainian
SBU‘Vlad’ was under surveillance when he planted a bomb in a van In July this year a 17-year-old travelled 500 miles from his home in eastern Ukraine to collect a bomb and a phone hidden in a park in the western city of Rivne.
He says he was promised $2,000…
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Albanian PM accuses Mahmood of ‘ethnic stereotyping’
Sam FrancisPolitical reporter
EPAAlbania’s prime minister accused Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood of “ethnic stereotyping” after she singled out Albanian families in a speech about abuses of the asylum system.
Edi Rama criticised Mahmood for telling MPs around 700 Albanian families were “living in…
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‘The Epstein files’ are coming. What should we expect?
Legislation forcing the Department of Justice to release the entirety of the “Epstein files” — a trove of investigative records, communications and internal documents related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein — has been sent to President Donald Trump’s desk.
Once…
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Italy to extradite pipeline blast suspect to Germany
Sarah RainsfordSouthern and Eastern Europe correspondent, Rome
Danish Defence HandoutThe Nord Stream pipeline, which runs between Russia and Germany under the Baltic Sea, was attacked in 2022 Italy’s top appeals court has ruled that a Ukrainian man suspected of involvement in blowing up the Nord…
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Berlin and Athens to build migrant return hubs in Africa, Greek minister says – POLITICO
“Ukraine gains direct access to diversified and reliable energy sources, while Greece becomes a hub for supplying Central and Eastern Europe with American liquefied natural gas,” Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis…
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