The European Commission is confirming €458m in humanitarian aid for Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt in 2026. With major donors withdrawing from the region and international humanitarian law under unprecedented strain, the EU is sustaining life-saving assistance to millions of…
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Going down a treat…that's Belgium's chocolatiers
For one vital sector of the nation’s economy it was Belgium’s equivalent of the Oscars.
And, just as the Academy Award winners were celebrating their success this week, so too are some of the best chocolatiers in Belgium.
The awards ceremony may not have had quite the razzmatazz and…
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EU, Australia set to conclude trade talks early next week – POLITICO
Brussels and Canberra relaunched trade negotiations after Donald Trump’s return to the White House last year. They had collapsed amid acrimony at the end of 2023 amid disagreements over quotas on beef and lamb. The breakthrough comes as the EU looks to get closer to the Pacific-centered…
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Overseas voters deserve representation too
Roger Casale and the late Harry Shindler MBE in San Benedetto di Tronto, Italy
The Representation of the People Bill offers Parliament a chance to ensure British citizens abroad are not only able to vote but properly represented, writes Roger Casale.Around five million British citizens now…
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Appeal goes out to commemorate upcoming historic WW1 milestone
It was supposed to be the “war to end all wars” and a significant World War One landmark in Belgium is approaching.
The date is 2 July 2028 and it is highly symbolic as it will mark the 100th anniversary of the first time The Last Post was sounded at Menin Gate in Ypres in…
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What can be done if a single government seeks to paralyse the EU?
What if the government of one member state deliberately seeks to block or sabotage the Union? Some might say that we are already in such a scenario, or close to it, but it could get even worse, writes former British Labour MEP Richard Corbett (pictured, below).
A veto of a single…
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Breaking the Orbán deadlock – POLITICO
Europe is working hard to end the standoff with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán over the €90 billion loan promised to Ukraine.
Host Zoya Sheftalovich and Ian Wishart, senior EU politics editor, discuss how likely it is for the deadlock to be resolved before…
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Fog of war clouds global rate cut outlook – POLITICO
“My best guess, but spoken with no conviction at all, is that this gets sorted out somehow in the next few weeks, and by the middle of the year, oil prices have come back down a fair amount,” said William English, a former top staffer at the Fed who is now a professor at Yale University….
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Das Endspiel für Klingbeil, Bas und die SPD – POLITICO
Vier Tage vor der Landtagswahl in Rheinland-Pfalz steht für die SPD weit mehr als nur eine Staatskanzlei auf dem Spiel. Nach dem Desaster im Ländle droht Ministerpräsident Alexander Schweitzer im Duell gegen Herausforderer Gordon Schnieder (CDU) der…
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Hungary braces for a post-election battle – POLITICO
“If the opposition wins just a simple majority, Orbán will have a lot of tools to make it almost impossible for a new government to be formed or even for a new parliament to be convened,” she said. “He could engineer a constitutional crisis and declare an emergency.”
Orbán’s…
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