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Georgia's President Salome Zurabishvili is set to meet EU chief Charles Michel in Brussels Monday (13 March) after Tbilisi dropped its controversial 'foreign agent' law in the face of major pro-European protests.

The longer the war drags on, the clearer it becomes to the world: Russia can no longer win, writes Alexander Temerko. Alexander Temerko is a Ukrainian-British businessman, and former junior minister of defence of the Russian Federation in the Yeltsin...

Leaders of the US, Australia and Britain are set to unveil plans to provide Australia with nuclear-powered submarines on Monday (13 March), in a major push against China's ambitions in the Indo-Pacific.

It is crucial for Ukraine’s allies to counter Russian efforts to claim ownership of the peace narrative by redefining the concept of peace, writes Patrik Szicherle. Patrik Szicherle is a research fellow at GLOBSEC. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and...

The European Commission has rejected calls from the soft drinks industry to reserve recovered PET bottles in priority for recycling into new food-grade plastics, saying this risked causing distortions on the market for secondary materials.

Dindic fought for pro-democratic reforms and Serbia's integration in the EU. He was a symbol of hope for a better future for Serbia as a key factor of stability in the Western Balkans.

Chinese President Xi Jinping could wade deeper than before into Ukraine diplomacy as soon as next week, staging both his first trip to Russia and his first talks with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy since Moscow's invasion.

Monday, 13 March

Source : © European Union, 2023 - EP

Monday, 13 March

Source : © European Union, 2023 - EP

Representatives from arch-rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran announced at a meeting in China their intention of resuming diplomatic ties and normalising their relations, which have been fraught for decades. Europe's press comments on the fact that it was Beijing that brokered this breakthrough, which has taken the West completely by surprise.

The US's Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation took control on Friday of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), which specialises in technology startups. This is the biggest bank failure since the financial crisis of 2008/2009. US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said a government bailout was out of the question. Commentators discuss the reasons for the collapse and worry that other small banks could follow suit.