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D'Tigress won their seventh Afrobasket title over the weekend and a spot at the World Cup.

STELLUNGNAHME zu dem Vorschlag für eine Richtlinie des Europäischen Parlaments und des Rates zur Änderung der Richtlinien 2006/43/EG, 2013/34/EU, (EU) 2022/2464 und (EU) 2024/1760 im Hinblick auf bestimmte Anforderungen an die Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung und die Sorgfaltspflichten von Unternehmen
Ausschuss für auswärtige Angelegenheiten
Barry Andrews

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Du 4 au 7 août 1995, la Croatie menait l'opération militaire Tempête (Oluja) poussant 200 000 Serbes au départ définitif. Trente ans plus tard, quels sont les freins à une véritable réconciliation ? Comment parle-t-on de cet évènement à Belgrade et à Zagreb ? Entretien avec l'historien croate Hrvoje Klasić.

- Articles / Gratuit, Croatie, Courrier des Balkans, Histoire, Oluja, Croatie droitisation

À compter du 7 août, tous les produits en provenance des États-Unis entreront sans taxe sur le territoire du Kosovo. Une mesure symbolique, présentée comme un « geste d'amitié » envers Washington, après l'onde de choc des nouvelles taxes douanières annoncées par Donald Trump.

- Le fil de l'Info / Radio Slobodna Evropa, Kosovo, Economie, Relations internationales, USA Balkans

Next AFET committee meeting will be held on:

• Thursday 4 September, room SPAAK (1A2), Brussels

Meetings are webstreamed with the exception of agenda items held "in camera".

AFET - DROI calendar of meetings 2025
Meeting documents
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A delegation of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET), led by Chair David McAllister, travelled to Washington D.C. and Richmond, Virginia from 21 to 24 July 2025. This was the Committee's first official visit to the United States following last year’s elections on both sides of the Atlantic.
During the trip, Members discussed how to deepen transatlantic ties, enhance collective security, reinforce the shared commitment to supporting Ukraine, and tackle common challenges such as China's expanding global influence and the situation in the Middle East. Insights gathered from the visit will inform the Committee's ongoing work on the own initiative report on EU-US political relations.
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Voyage à reculons dans les Balkans occidentaux, Carnet de voyage, d'Ombeline Duprat, éditions Spinelle, 2025, 170 pages, 18 euros.

- Lettres de l'Est et des Balkans • Le blog de Pierre Glachant / Kosovo, Grand Bazar - Diaporama, Serbie, Bosnie-Herzégovine, Blogs - Diaporama

'Trailblazing' Peace Lekuru, who has signed for York Valkyrie, is 'hopefully the first of many'.

Le tourisme de croisière a le vent en poupe partout dans le monde. En Adriatique, ce sont de « nouvelles » destinations, comme l'Albanie et le Monténégro, qui connaissent les plus fortes progressions.

- Articles / Albanie, Monténégro, Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso, Economie, Environnement, Tourisme balkans, Adriatique

Ce fut « le plus grand défilé militaire de l'histoire de la Croatie ». Jeudi, à quelques jours du trentième anniversaire de l'opération Oluja, la Croatie a sorti le grand jeu dans les rues de Zagreb.

- Articles / Courrier des Balkans, Croatie, Oluja, Relations Croatie - Serbie, Histoire, Politique, Relations régionales

Royal Football Club Seraing
Football: the Court affirms the right, for clubs and players in particular, to obtain effective judicial review of arbitral awards made by the Court of Arbitration for Sport

Alace
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
International protection: the designation of a third country as a ‘safe country of origin’ must be amenable to effective judicial review

The Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Principles of Community law
Right to asylum: A Member State may not plead an unforeseeable influx of applicants for international protection in order to evade its obligation to cover asylum seekers’ basic needs

BAJI Trans
The principle of lex posterior mitius extends to a penalty classified as administrative under national law where it is of a criminal nature for the purposes of EU law

Volkswagen
Approximation of laws
A vehicle manufacturer cannot be exempted from its liability for an unlawful defeat device on the grounds that an EC type-approval has been granted

France v CWS Powder Coatings and Others
Approximation of laws
The Court of Justice upholds the annulment of the classification of titanium dioxide in certain powder forms as a carcinogenic substance

Banca Mediolanum
Taxation
Taxation: national legislation providing for tax being levied on more than 5% of the amount of the dividends that financial intermediaries receive, as parent companies, from their subsidiaries resident in other Member States is contrary to EU law

Veracash
Free movement of capital
Payment services: the payment card user is deprived of the right to obtain a refund of an unauthorised payment transaction of which he or she has become aware if he or she delayed in notifying it to his or her provider with intent or gross negligence

Daka
Independence of judges: the double appointment of judges to the Polish Supreme Court is compatible with EU law

Adrar
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
Advocate General Spielmann: the court reviewing the lawfulness of the detention of an illegally staying third-country national must verify that the principle of non-refoulement does not preclude his or her removal