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Athens denies Kosovo PMs statement that it’s closer to recognising independence

Mon, 09/11/2023 - 06:30
Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti said that Greece is closer to recognising Kosovo’s independence, taking the lead among the five EU member states that do not recognise it, but Athens told EURACTIV that nothing has changed. Greece, Slovakia, Romania, Spain,...
Categories: European Union

MEPs want Russian, Belarusian Olympians to play under neutral flag amid war

Mon, 09/11/2023 - 06:27
The participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes in the Olympics is unacceptable as the Russian and Belarusian governments are jointly responsible for ongoing war crimes against Ukraine, therefore the International Olympic Committee (IOC) should make them play under a neutral...
Categories: European Union

Italy, EU clash over ITA-Lufthansa case

Mon, 09/11/2023 - 06:26
The fate of the merger between Lufthansa and Italy’s ITA Airways, based on an agreement signed with the government in May, is now in doubt after Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni questioned the European Commission for stalling its go-ahead for the...
Categories: European Union

France aims for 150,000 new farmers in 10 years amid ageing workforce

Mon, 09/11/2023 - 06:25
France aims to bring 150,000 new farmers into the profession over the next 10 years to replace the many who will retire during that period while speeding up the sector’s ecological transition, French Agriculture Minister Marc Fesneau announced on Sunday....
Categories: European Union

Dutch farmer party demands opt-out for EU nature, migration policy

Mon, 09/11/2023 - 06:23
The Netherlands should negotiate an opt-out in the fields of nature and migration policy in case of a re-opening of the EU treaties, agrarian protest party Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB) said in its concept election program published on Friday. After landing...
Categories: European Union

US and Vietnam ink historic partnership in Biden visit, with eyes on China

Mon, 09/11/2023 - 06:10
US President Joe Biden on Sunday (10 September) secured deals with Vietnam on semiconductors and minerals as the strategic Southeast Asian nation lifted Washington to Hanoi's highest diplomatic status alongside China and Russia.
Categories: European Union

Island states seek climate protection from Law of the Sea

Mon, 09/11/2023 - 05:54
The prime ministers of two small island nations that face ongoing impacts from rising sea levels will appear at hearings at an international court in Hamburg and seek an advisory opinion on the obligations of countries to combat climate change.
Categories: European Union

Russian regional vote delivers strong result for Putin amid claims of rigging

Mon, 09/11/2023 - 05:43
Russia on Sunday (10 September) wrapped up widely denounced regional and municipal elections, including in regions annexed from Ukraine, delivering strong support for President Vladimir Putin amidst criticism of vote rigging and Kyiv's push to reclaim its land.
Categories: European Union

Biden meets Li Qiang, says China economic ‘crisis’ makes Taiwan invasion less likely

Mon, 09/11/2023 - 05:30
US President Joe Biden said on Sunday (10 September) he held his highest level talks with Chinese leadership in months, adding that Beijing's economic wobbles would not lead it to invade Taiwan.
Categories: European Union

Bosnian Serb leader retracts threat to arrest top peace envoy

Mon, 09/11/2023 - 05:05
Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik on Sunday (10 September) retracted his recent threat to the top international envoy to Bosnia that he would be arrested if he enters the country's Serb entity.
Categories: European Union

Four more bodies found after Greece storm, raising toll to 15

Mon, 09/11/2023 - 04:53
Greek rescue teams recovered the bodies of four more people in central Greece on Sunday (10 September), raising the death toll to 15 from the country's most intense rain storm since records began in 1930.
Categories: European Union

A blue-yellow foreign policy to-do list

Sun, 09/10/2023 - 10:15
In this week’s edition: Our Back to School Outlook for the next few months.
Categories: European Union

At G20, US, India, Saudi, EU unveil alternative to Belt-and-Road

Sun, 09/10/2023 - 07:27
Global leaders announced a multinational rail and ports deal linking the Middle East and South Asia on Saturday (9 September) on the sidelines of the G20 summit in New Delhi.
Categories: European Union

Morocco earthquake kills more than 2,000 people, world offers solidarity

Sun, 09/10/2023 - 07:13
Moroccan earthquake survivors huddled for a night in the open on the High Atlas Mountains on 9 September, a day after the country's deadliest quake in more than six decades killed more than 2,000 people and laid waste to villages.
Categories: European Union

China, Europe should ‘unite and co-operate’, Premier Li says at G20

Sun, 09/10/2023 - 06:59
China and Europe should "unite and co-operate" against global uncertainties, Premier Li Qiang told the European Commission chief on the sidelines of the annual G20 summit in New Delhi.
Categories: European Union

G20 summit backs Ukraine but avoids condemning Russia for war

Sat, 09/09/2023 - 17:30
G20 leaders at a summit on Saturday (9 September) adopted a consensus declaration that called for respect of ‘territorial integrity and sovereignty’ in the Ukraine war but avoided condemning Russia for waging it.
Categories: European Union

Powerful earthquake in Morocco kills more than 600 people

Sat, 09/09/2023 - 07:09
A powerful earthquake in Morocco has killed more than 600 people and injured hundreds more, destroying buildings and sending residents of major cities rushing from their homes in the country's deadliest tremor since at least 2004.
Categories: European Union

Belgium records first-ever September heatwave

Sat, 09/09/2023 - 06:57
Belgium officially registered its first-ever September heatwave on Friday (8 September), as temperatures in Brussels topped 25 degrees Celsius (77 Fahrenheit) for a fifth straight day, the country's meteorological agency said.
Categories: European Union

G20 draft declaration leaves paragraph on Ukraine blank

Sat, 09/09/2023 - 06:42
G20 negotiators were unable to resolve disagreements over the wording of the summit declaration on the war in Ukraine on 8 September, according to a draft seen by Reuters, leaving any possible breakthrough to bloc leaders during the two-day meeting.
Categories: European Union

Musk says he refused Kyiv request for Starlink use in attack on Crimea

Sat, 09/09/2023 - 06:26
Elon Musk said he refused a Ukrainian request to activate his Starlink satellite network in Crimea's port city of Sevastopol last year to aid an attack on Russia's fleet there, saying he feared complicity in a "major" act of war.
Categories: European Union

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