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We are in an extreme climate crisis, says Swedish climate minister

Euractiv.com - Mon, 05/30/2022 - 06:37
We find ourselves in an extreme climate crisis, Swedish Climate and Environment Minister Annika Strandhäll said on Sunday ahead of June’s UN climate meeting due to take place in Stockholm. Sweden and Kenya will organise a high-level meeting entitled “Stockholm+50:...
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Finnish FM ‘worried’ about treatment of Uighurs

Euractiv.com - Mon, 05/30/2022 - 06:36
The treatment of the Muslim Uighur minority in China is ‘very worrying’, Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto told YLE in an interview on Saturday during his three-day visit to Washington. Haavisto’s remarks are unusual as Finnish ministers are typically cautious...
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Ireland confirms first monkeypox case

Euractiv.com - Mon, 05/30/2022 - 06:36
Ireland confirmed its first case of monkeypox this weekend in the east of the country as cases rise across Europe. The case was detected in the east of Ireland, the country’s Health Service Executive (HSE) said on Saturday (28 May),...
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Dutch border police seizes about 1,500 forged travel documents

Euractiv.com - Mon, 05/30/2022 - 06:35
The Dutch border police intercepted 1,465 falsified documents in 2021, 10% more than in 2020, the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee reported. Most of the documents gathered were identity cards and passports. Many of the passports were authentic passports with falsified information....
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Austrian chancellor against ‘softening’ citizenship requirements

Euractiv.com - Mon, 05/30/2022 - 06:34
Conservative Chancellor Karl Nehammer has dismissed calls by President Alexander Van der Bellen – of the Greens, and up for re-election – to make naturalisation easier. With Austria’s upcoming presidential election in autumn, Van der Bellen has reignited the tense...
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France, Germany ask Putin to resume negotiations with Zelenskyy

Euractiv.com - Mon, 05/30/2022 - 06:34
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron have asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to reopen negotiations in a “direct exchange” with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Elysée reported. In a three-way telephone conversation on Saturday (28 May), Scholz...
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Discovering the spirit of the European Defence Community, 70 years on

Euractiv.com - Mon, 05/30/2022 - 06:30
History is punctuated by a number of strangely emblematic coincidences. It certainly is one of them that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine should have stirred us from our long geopolitical lethargy 70 years on from the signing of the Treaty establishing...
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Serbia refuses to extradite banker to Bulgaria fearing ‘torture’

Euractiv.com - Mon, 05/30/2022 - 06:26
Citing “reasons to believe” extradition could lead to “torture, inhuman and degrading treatment”, Serbia will not return Tsvetan Vassilev, a Bulgarian banker and majority owner of the bankrupt Corporate Commercial Bank in 2014 who was granted political asylum last July,...
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Child abuse regulation means spying on citizens, warns Czech MEP

Euractiv.com - Mon, 05/30/2022 - 06:25
The European Commission’s recent proposal for a regulation to fight child abuse online could open the door to spying on private online conversations, Czech MEP Marcel Kolaja from the Pirates and Greens/EFA has warned. The Commission states that the current...
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Germany orders 240,000 monkeypox vaccine doses

Euractiv.com - Mon, 05/30/2022 - 06:24
Germany will receive 40,000 vaccine doses against monkeypox in early June, with 200,000 more set to follow, Health Minister Karl Lauterbach said on Sunday after cases were reported in Munich and Berlin. Read also: Countries urged to focus on monkeypox diagnostics,...
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Lithuanians club together to buy drone for Ukraine

Euractiv.com - Mon, 05/30/2022 - 06:15
Hundreds of Lithuanians are clubbing together to buy an advanced military drone for Ukraine in its war against Russia, in a show of solidarity with a fellow country formerly under Moscow's rule.
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EU summit unlikely to adopt Russia oil ban, will look at ‘the broader picture’

Euractiv.com - Mon, 05/30/2022 - 06:00
Attempts to negotiate a compromise to get Hungary to back a Russian oil ban before a EU summit later on Monday (30 May) have made no progress. Reportedly, leaders don't want to squabble and will look at "the bigger picture". 
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[Infographic] Dismay over EU plans to keep paying to promote meat

Euobserver.com - Sun, 05/29/2022 - 21:07
The EU has spent some €143m to promote European meat products in the last five years — despite increasing calls to halt taxpayer funded meat-promotion in light of the climate crisis.
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[Opinion] Southern Europe needs a 'V4' equivalent

Euobserver.com - Sun, 05/29/2022 - 21:06
The Visegrád Group, the New Hanseatic League, the Benelux or the Nordics have frequently worked together — however, southern European member states have frequently found themselves in loose cooperation or, worse, competition.
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[Exclusive] New EU military missions in West Africa to counter Russia

Euobserver.com - Sun, 05/29/2022 - 21:06
The EU is aiming to launch three new military missions in West Africa after Russia pushed Europe out of Mali and threatens to do so in Burkina Faso.
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[Agenda] EU leaders zoom in on sanctions and energy This WEEK

Euobserver.com - Sun, 05/29/2022 - 21:06
EU leaders are gathering in Brussels after they got stuck on imposing on oil embargo on Russia. Poland's recovery plan gets approved and Danish voters will vote in a historic referendum this week.
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EU could soften Russian oil ban plan as summit kicks off

Euobserver.com - Sun, 05/29/2022 - 21:04
Leaders are, however, unlikely to unblock Hungary's opposition to a sixth package of sanctions against Russia, inluding introducing an oil embargo by the end of the year.
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Global Europe Brief: Unblocking the Black Sea might not fly

Euractiv.com - Sun, 05/29/2022 - 10:19
In this week’s edition: Unblocking the Black Sea, EUCO summit preview and enlargement hopes.
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EU candidate status could be an ‘existential’ message to Tbilisi, Georgian ambassador says

Euractiv.com - Sun, 05/29/2022 - 09:38
Gaining EU candidate status would be a crucial and existential political message that today the door is open for Georgia, and there is light at the end of the tunnel, Tbilisi's Ambassador to the EU Vakhtang Makharoblishvili told EURACTIV.
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Russia advances in Donbas, Macron and Scholz speak to Putin

Euractiv.com - Sun, 05/29/2022 - 06:36
Russian forces have stepped up their assault on the Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk in the Donbas on Saturday (28 May), while French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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