U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll’s high-stakes visit to Ukraine this week to deliver the Trump’s administration’s latest peace plan has placed the service leader into the role of major international negotiator — a sharp contrast from his boss, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who spent…
Category: 3. Europe
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Drones spotted near Netherlands’ Volkel air base
Unidentified drones have been observed hovering over a military base used by Nato in the Netherlands, the Dutch defence ministry has said.
It said military personnel deployed weapons to try to take down the drones spotted near Volkel Air Base, north of Eindhoven, between 19:00 and 21:00 local…
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Ukraine to begin peace plan talks with US in Switzerland in coming days
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Ukraine will begin talks with the US on the 28-point peace plan suggested jointly by Russia and the US in the coming days, in Switzerland, according to…
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Ukraine’s allies rush to counter Trump’s ‘non-starter’ peace plan – POLITICO
More than a dozen leaders including Germany’s Friedrich Merz, France’s Emmanuel Macron, the U.K.’s Keir Starmer, the EU’s Ursula von der Leyen and Canada’s Mark Carney met for an urgent discussion at the G20 summit in Johannesburg to coordinate their response with Ukrainian…
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Kazakhstan and the European Union strengthen dialogue at the 22nd meeting of the Parliamentary Cooperation Committee
The 22nd meeting of the ‘Republic of Kazakhstan – European Union’ Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (PCC) took place in Brussels. The event coincided with the upcoming milestone anniversary — the 10th anniversary of the signing of the Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (EPCA)…
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The largest state budget in our independence history
The draft Law ‘On the State Budget of the Republic of Azerbaijan for 2026’ is currently being widely discussed in the Milli Majlis. The real economic indicators and financial justifications presented by the Minister of Finance and the Chairman of the Chamber of Accounts provide grounds to say…
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The sad, sorry state of COP
ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM — Sometimes the metaphors deliver themselves, dripping in flame retardant foam. So it was in Belém, Brazil, on Thursday when a fire briefly engulfed an events stand at the annual United Nations climate talks.
The scenes of a summit supposed to stop the planet burning,…
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Climate summit proposal dodges call to accelerate move from fossil fuels
BELÉM, Brazil — A final, yet-to-be-agreed-on text for the U.N. climate summit would call on nations to take marginal steps toward combating climate change — but fails to substantially commit to new efforts to ditch the fossil fuels that cause it, according to a copy of the text seen by…
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Hungary’s Orbán backs US’s Ukraine proposal in bid to derail aid to Kyiv – POLITICO
“Europeans must immediately and unconditionally support the peace initiative of the United States,” Orbán wrote. “In addition to supporting the U.S. President, we must without delay launch autonomous and direct negotiations with Russia.”
Aside from Hungary, the 26 other EU…
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Barça return home: new Camp Nou reopens after 900 days with a big party
After a long exile far from its temple, FC Barcelona return this Saturday to Camp Nou, the stadium that has marked the club’s history since 1957. The return is accompanied by the licence to occupy Phase 1B, which will allow the stadium to partially reopen and welcome more than 45,000 fans in…
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