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On the pretext that Ukraine has stationed up to 120,000 troops on the border to his country Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenka has now deployed his military in the Gomel region, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has reported. Kyiv has warned Minsk not to make a tragic mistake and succumb to pressure from Moscow, demanding that the Belarusian troops be pulled back beyond the firing range of their missiles.

Just days before the elections in the East German states of Saxony and Thuringia, the AfD, recently categorised as a suspected right-wing extremist party by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, is ahead in the polls. It stands to win around 30 percent, followed by the CDU and the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) in third place. Commentators see a rocky road ahead.

István Nagy, Hungary’s minister of agriculture and current chair of the EU’s Agriculture and Fisheries Council, will deliver the opening remarks at the international non-GMO summit, which this year will focus on the political debate surrounding new genomic techniques (NGTs).

The director general of Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) says that it will need to have ‘some quantity’ of vaccine in order to combat the mpox outbreak.

Written by Sidonia Mazur.

Read the complete briefing on ‘Pilot projects and preparatory actions in the annual EU budgetary procedure‘ in the Think Tank pages of the European Parliament.