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Anstelle einer Führungsrolle einzelner Staaten oder Konzerne plädiert Indra-Chef José Vicente de los Mozos für Co-Leads – also geteilte Verantwortung und eine breitere industrielle Beteiligung.

Laut Ratsentwurf soll das LNG-Verbot ab 2026 greifen – Spotkäufe enden am 1. Januar, Kurzzeitverträge im Juni, und ab 2028 sind auch langfristige Gaslieferungen aus Russland verboten.

European Parliament’s spokespersons will hold a last-minute briefing on the 20 - 23 October plenary session today at 16.30.

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Willkommen bei Rapporteur! Jeden Tag liefern wir Ihnen die wichtigsten Nachrichten und Hintergründe aus der EU- und Europapolitik. Need-to-knows: Brüssel: EU-Diplomaten beraten über das 19. Sanktionspaket gegen Russland, nachdem Österreich sein Veto aufgehoben hat. Luxemburg: Außenminister sprechen über Ukraine, den Nahen Osten und die Spannungen in Georgien. Amsterdam: Schwedische Parteispitzen streiten beim Kongress der Sozialdemokraten […]

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On 16 October, the European Commission and the High Representative set out a strategy to strengthen EU relations with its Southern Mediterranean partners the Pact for the Mediterranean. On 20 October, Dubravka Šuica, Commissioner for the Mediterranean will present this Joint Communication to the Members of the Foreign Affairs Committee in Strasbourg.

Building on historical and cultural ties, the Pact for the Mediterranean will focus on areas of mutual interest where the EU and its Southern Mediterranean partners share challenges and aspirations. The Foreign Affairs Committee has been closely following the development of this Pact and this presentation will be an opportunity for Members to engage with the Commissioner on it and our relations with our Southern partners.

Joint communication on the Pact for the Mediterranean
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A delegation of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET), led by Chair David McAllister, traveled to Ottawa and Toronto from 16 to 18 September 2025. This was the AFET Committee's first official visit to Canada under the European Parliament's current mandate and after the 2025 Canadian federal elections.
During the trip, Members discussed how to further strengthen the EU's strategic partnership with Canada, reinforce the shared commitment to supporting Ukraine, and jointly address challenges such as the situation in the Middle East, China's growing global influence and geopolitical competition in the Arctic. Insights gathered from the visit will inform the Committee's ongoing work on the Recommendation on enhanced EU-Canada cooperation in the light of the current geopolitical context.
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EU-Abgeordnete dürften am Dienstag das Gesetz zum Waldmonitoring kippen. Der 2023 von der EU-Kommission vorgestellte Entwurf soll die Datenerhebung und das Wissen über Europas Wälder verbessern.

Parliament rapporteurs Jutta Paulus (Greens, DE) and Matteo Ricci (S&D, IT) will brief journalists on the EU’s new driving licence rules, shortly after the vote in plenary.
Committee on Transport and Tourism

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Mit Alex Borg an der Spitze hoffen Maltas Konservative nach zwölf Jahren Opposition auf ein Comeback.

Das dreistündige Gespräch zwischen der China-Delegation des EU-Parlaments und Vertretern des Nationalen Volkskongresses war das erste dieser Art seit sieben Jahren.

Das Treffen findet vor dem Hintergrund sinkender Wahlergebnisse in der gesamten EU statt: Sozialdemokratische Parteien stellen derzeit nur in drei der 27 Mitgliedsstaaten die Regierung.

Willkommen bei Rapporteur! Jeden Tag liefern wir Ihnen die wichtigsten Nachrichten und Hintergründe aus der EU- und Europapolitik. Need-to-knows: Ukraine: Trump und Putin treffen sich in Ungarn zu Friedensgesprächen – ohne Selenskyj. Korruptionsbekämpfung: Unterhändler machen eine letzte Anstrengung für eine neue EU-Anti-Korruptionsrichtlinie. SPE: Europas Sozialdemokraten treffen sich in Amsterdam, um über ihre Zukunft zu beraten. […]

By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 17 2025 (IPS)

The US hostility towards the UN is threatening to escalate, as a cash-starved world body is struggling for economic survival.

Addressing the UN’s Administrative and Budgetary Committee last week. Ambassador Jeff Bartos, U.S. Representative for U.N. Management and Reform said: “President Trump is absolutely right – the United Nations can be an important institution for solving international challenges, but it has strayed far from its original purpose”.

“Over 80 years, the UN has grown bloated, unfocused, too often ineffective, and sometimes even part of the problem. The UN’s failure to deliver on its core mandates is alarming and undeniable. “

The United States has been, by far, the largest funder of the UN since its founding. Based on the most recent scales of assessment, the United States provides more funding to the UN than 180 other nations combined, he pointed out.

“For the United States, the era of business as usual is over. During the Main Session, we will work with this Committee to achieve deeper cuts to wasteful spending and stronger accountability, with a relentless focus on results”.

The reductions already proposed in special political missions, the closure of unnecessary field offices, and the consolidation of executive offices, are the kind of decisions that must become the rule, not the exception.

Addressing the General Assembly last month, President Trump remarked: “What is the purpose of the United Nations? It’s not even coming close to living up to [its] potential.”

Dismissing the U.N. as an outdated, ineffective organization, he boasted: “I ended seven wars, dealt with the leaders of each and every one of these countries, and never a phone call from the United Nations offering to help in finalizing the deal.”

But UN’s political ineffectiveness is due primarily to the role played by the five veto-wielding permanent members of the Security Council—the US, UK, France, China and Russia–who are quick to protect their allies accused of human rights violations, war crimes or genocide.

Meanwhile, the U.S. has officially withdrawn or is in the process of withdrawing from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), and has ceased funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and from the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

Which triggers the question: what’s the fate and economic survival of the UN against an aggressive Trump administration?

Dr Alon Ben-Meir, a retired professor of international relations, most recently at the Center for Global Affairs at New York University (NYU), told IPS there is no other way to describe how the Trump administration is treating the UN other than self-defeating and detrimental to the US’s national interests, while substantially eroding America’s influence worldwide.

“It is hard to fathom how on earth Trump, who wants to ‘Make America Great Again,’ demonstrates such blatant hostility towards the only global organization in which the United States has, over the years, played such a pivotal and leading role that surpassed any other country since the UN’s creation in 1945.”

The statement by US Ambassador Bartos, he argued, is at best inaccurate and at worst totally wrong. It has never been a secret that the UN is overdue for significant reforms, beginning with the United Nations Security Council and many other UN agencies.

Dismissing the UN’s vital work on many fronts in one brush, however, and cutting humanitarian assistance on which millions in poor countries depend, or withdrawing from vital UN agencies, is unconscionable and highly damaging to the US’ leadership and national interests, he said.

“By what logic does the Trump administration justify its withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO), whose primary function is coordinating global health responses to crises such as pandemics, and setting international health standards?”

“One would think that the Trump administration would strongly support such an organization that serves US interests from a global health perspective and would only bolster the US influence by playing a significant role in improving its functions”.

How can the Trump administration explain its withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), which promotes and protects human rights worldwide through international cooperation?

By withdrawing from this organization, Trump forsakes any role that the US could play in preventing human rights abuses, which leads to fewer global checks on human rights abuses and weaker international standards.

Trump may care less about human rights violations, but how does withdrawing from such an organization serve the US’ overall national and global interests? he asked.

James E. Jennings, PhD, President, Conscience International, told IPS support for the United Nations organization is vital to global health and stability.,

“Those who have worked on the front lines of UN agencies’ responses to wars, natural disasters, and famines throughout the world cannot imagine the degree of inhumanity involved in taking food out of the mouths of babies, refusing to educate children, and letting disease and epidemics rage. This is not politics, it is bullying, and the world should see it for what it is”.

He said there is a pattern in Mr. Trump’s behavior that is easily exposed, Every one of his perceived enemies, as for example in the majority Democratic states of California and Illinois, he describes in the most terrible terms as crime-ridden and out of control.

“Within three days after he sends in ICE storm troopers to places like Washington DC who do nothing except display their muscle, suddenly that city or state is peaceable and under control.“

Trump brags that things are fine now in Portland, Chicago, and other such places, when no real change can be detected except that some normal citizens have been roughed up. Theatrics may win voters but does not in any way solve problems, said Dr Jennings.

The same technique can be observed on the international scene. After deprecating and sidelining UN peacemaking efforts, which go deeply into the issues, he makes phone calls to leaders of countries on the verge of hostilities and claims that he has ended seven wars, which is nonsense.

“By sidelining the UN, he simply wants to dominate it. With the US the biggest donor supporting the organization, there is a fair chance that he can succeed in bending it to his will unless national leaders, US citizens, and people everywhere are resolute in opposing his plans”, declared Dr Jennings.

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The agreed draft law is designed to strengthen the EU defence industry, foster joint European defence procurement, ramp-up defence manufacturing and increase support for Ukraine.
Committee on Industry, Research and Energy
Committee on Security and Defence

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The agreed draft law is designed to strengthen the EU defence industry, foster joint European defence procurement, ramp-up defence manufacturing and increase support for Ukraine.
Committee on Industry, Research and Energy
Committee on Security and Defence

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„Der Gerichtshof stellt fest, dass Haustiere nicht vom Gepäckbegriff ausgenommen sind“, so der EuGH in seiner Entscheidung.