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“It has been no secret that Giorgia Meloni intended to step down," Italian media reported.

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"Our endeavour at the moment is to say that this 2% investment by 2029 will happen."

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Some say that Puigdemont's stance is all part of a power strategy.

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The European Commission had also previously rejected the law.

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“The situation is volatile,” Brunner said.

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2024 has been a year of COPs and calls to action on sustainability. The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) has played a pivotal role in engaging business and policy makers on the importance of accountants in a just transition to a sustainable future.

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Prime Minister Dorin Recean said Russian President Vladimir Putin "wants to leave the population of Transnistria without gas" in order to destabilise the situation in Moldova."

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More unrest is expected on Saturday, when Georgian Dream is scheduled to strengthen its grip on power by appointing far-right former footballer Mikheil Kavelashvili as a successor to pro-Western President Salome Zurabishvili.

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"I'm furious with the Germans," Busch told Swedish broadcaster SVT.

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Russia hopes to maintain its two bases in Syria - a naval base in Tartous and the Khmeimim Air Base near the port city of Latakia.

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In this episode, host Giada Santana speaks with Carnegie's Thomas De Waal about Georgia's apparent shift towards Russia and what the EU can do to respond. 

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Viktor Orbán made the proposals in a call to Putin on Wednesday, the Kremlin and Hungary said, without giving more details.

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Europe’s 2500 SMEs specialising in niche military technologies are collectively struggling with an equity and debt financing gap of up to €4 billion.

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Rutte said that Russian defence spending for 2025 will be at "the highest level since the Cold War".

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The Slovak health ministry and health trade unions have three weeks to reach a consensus, with serious healthcare disruption looming, and the risk of imprisonment.

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Ukrainian media organisations may now apply for EU funding under the programme.

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Where is the geopolitical EU that understands the importance of its neighbours? ask a group of European foreign policy experts.

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The proposal introduces an offence targeting "public instigation," addressing those who deliberately encourage migrants to violate EU migration laws.

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Can anyone be sure that by paying Moscow today, they are not investing in the missiles raining at their cities tomorrow? ask Victoria Voytsitska and Olena Halushka.

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Written by Alina Dobreva with Anastasiia Vozovych.

Since the start of the Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, the EU has provided Ukraine with financial, military and humanitarian support on an unprecedented level, including macro-financial assistance, financial support via the Ukraine Facility, humanitarian aid and military assistance from its Member States and through the European Peace Facility.

Regulation (EU) 2024/2773 provides for a new macro-financial assistance loan for Ukraine and establishes a Ukraine Loan Cooperation Mechanism (ULCM). That loan and the ULCM are part of a G7 initiative adopted at the G7 summit in Apulia in June 2024 to support Ukraine with loans of up to US$50 billion (€45 billion).

The purpose of the G7 initiative is to provide Ukraine with sufficient and continuous financial support to address the immediate needs inflicted on the country by Russia’s ongoing aggression. The ULCM will provide Ukraine with non-repayable financial support to assist it in repaying loans provided by G7 partners. Given the urgent nature of Ukraine’s financing needs, the MFA will be available in 2024.

According to the annex to the final agreement between G7 finance ministers of 25 October 2024, the EU’s share of the G7 loan will be €18.115 billion. Extraordinary revenues originating from Russian sovereign assets immobilised in the G7 member states will be used to repay those loans and the associated interest costs. The ULCM will collect the extraordinary revenues and use them to repay the loans.

The European Parliament adopted the proposal on 22 October 2024 and Regulation (EU) 2024/2773 entered into force on 29 October 2024.

Read the complete briefing on ‘The Ukraine Loan Cooperation Mechanism and exceptional macro-financial assistance‘ in the Think Tank pages of the European Parliament.