Category: 3. Europe

  • Europe and Canada on track to buy €4.3bn of US weapons for Ukraine this year, Rutte says

    Washington more or less stopped deliveries of weapons to Ukraine this summer, instead calling on Europeans to purchase equipment and donate it themselves – and Ukraine’s allies have so far obliged to the tune of millions of euros per month.

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  • A decade of Brexit: Britain falls behind peers in trade and growth

    A decade of Brexit: Britain falls behind peers in trade and growth

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    Nearly a decade after the Brexit referendum, the UK has diverged sharply from its pre-2016 trajectory through a slow, grinding erosion of investment,…

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  • France risks ending year without budget as former Macron ally Philippe pulls support – POLITICO

    France risks ending year without budget as former Macron ally Philippe pulls support – POLITICO

    Now, however, rumblings are growing louder that Lecornu has made a strategic error depriving him of a key tool needed to avert budgetary chaos — even if at the time it helped ensured his survival.

    Conservative leader Bruno Retailleau, a former minister who served in previous minority…

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  • Linke Rettung für Merz’ Rentenpaket – Bewegung bei Frozen Assets für die Ukraine – POLITICO

    Linke Rettung für Merz’ Rentenpaket – Bewegung bei Frozen Assets für die Ukraine – POLITICO




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  • What latest Ukraine talks reveal about Putin’s state of mind

    What latest Ukraine talks reveal about Putin’s state of mind

    What does the latest round of diplomacy on Ukraine tell us about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s mood and intentions?

    For starters, that he’s not ready to sign a peace deal. At least, not right now.

    And certainly not the deal (or deals) on the table.

    “No compromise version has yet been found,”…

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  • Angoulême Comics Festival cancels 2026 edition after authors call for boycott

    France’s Angoulême International Comics Festival (FIBD – Festival international de la bande dessinée d’Angoulême) is among the world’s foremost comic book events, but its survival is now hanging by a thread after a monthslong dispute over its governance.

    Organisers have now decided to…

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  • Parliament backs ‘carbon monitoring’ of heavy industry imports into EU

    Parliament backs ‘carbon monitoring’ of heavy industry imports into EU

    European lawmakers have given the green light to tougher enforcement measures on imported goods traded under the EU27’s carbon border tax during the European Parliament’s environment committee vote on Wednesday.

    The carbon border tax on products such as steel, aluminium, cement, and…

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