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Russian oligarchs failed to get off EU blacklist big-plus
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Sunday, 19 May 2024 02:16

Sanctioned Russian fertiliser tycoon Moshe Kantor at the European Parliament in Brussels back in 2008 (Photo: europarl.europa.eu) Hungary failed to get three Russian and three Chine ...

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EU-Israel trade agreement must be on table to stop Rafah attack big-plus
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Sunday, 19 May 2024 02:16

The estimated cost of reconstructing Gaza is $20bn [€18.5bn] — an extremely conservative estimate, given the scale of the devastation, which UNCTAD said would take the rest of the century to r ...

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EU urban-rural divide not bridged by cohesion policy, report finds big-plus
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World EU urban-rural divide not bridged by cohesion policy, report finds

Sunday, 19 May 2024 02:16

Instead of using the policy to address a region’s structural challenges and boost its growth, ‘at times, the policy has been used to compensate some regions for not benefiting as much as other ...

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Sweden heading into Nato, after Orbán-Kristersson deal big-plus
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World Sweden heading into Nato, after Orbán-Kristersson deal

Sunday, 19 May 2024 02:16

Swedish prime minister Ulf Kristersson (l) with Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban in Brussels on 1 February (Photo: consilium.europa.eu) Sweden could join Nato as early as next ...

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’Crying wolf’ win for chemicals lobby at Antwerp EU meeting big-plus
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World ’Crying wolf’ win for chemicals lobby at Antwerp EU meeting

Sunday, 19 May 2024 02:16

Local communities from the Antwerp region suffering from the shocking ‘forever chemicals’ PFAS pollution caused by 3M and others, nor green groups, were invited (Photo: Wikimedia) E ...

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EU sanctions against the head of Belarus’ Red Cross big-plus
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World EU sanctions against the head of Belarus’ Red Cross

Sunday, 19 May 2024 02:16

Dzmitry Shautsou, the head of the Red Cross in Belarus has been added to the 13th package of EU sanctions against Russia for contributing to Russia’s forcible transfer of Ukrainian ...

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Navalny executed by Putin — another sacrificial victim big-plus
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World Navalny executed by Putin — another sacrificial victim

Sunday, 19 May 2024 02:16

‘Navalny was prepared to sacrifice his life for a free Russia, for a "beautiful Russia of the future" as he liked to say’ (Photo: okras) It happened. The Kremlin has finally managed ...

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EU parliament committee approves migration pact labeled ‘the suicide of Europe’ by France’s Le Pen big-plus
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World EU parliament committee approves migration pact labeled ‘the suicide of Europe’ by France’s Le Pen

Sunday, 19 May 2024 02:16

The new EU Pact on Migration and Asylum, which is expected to flood Europe with as many as 75 million new migrants, was approved on Wednesday by the European Parliament’s LIBE committee. One o ...

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Online platforms must be liable for payment scams, say MEPs big-plus
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World Online platforms must be liable for payment scams, say MEPs

Sunday, 19 May 2024 02:16

The new rules would put the burden of fighting the fraud on banks rather than consumers, but also on online platforms (Photo: Unsplash) MEPs have agreed on new rules to level the pl ...

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Ireland and Spain seek ‘urgent review’ of EU-Israel trade deal big-plus
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World Ireland and Spain seek ‘urgent review’ of EU-Israel trade deal

Sunday, 19 May 2024 02:16

In 2022, one-fourth of Israel’s exports went to the EU (Photo: Israel Defense Forces) Ireland and Spain have called for an "urgent review" of the EU’s trade agreement with Israel, v ...

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European Court of Human Rights bans weakening of secure end-to-endencryption - the end of EU‘s chat control CSAR mass surveillance plans? big-plus
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World European Court of Human Rights bans weakening of secure end-to-endencryption - the end of EU‘s chat control CSAR mass surveillance plans?

Sunday, 19 May 2024 02:16

The European Court of Human Rights yesterday banned a general weakening of secure end-to-end encryption. The judgement argues that encryption helps citizens and companies to protect ...

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Podcast: Trump, Nato, EU top jobs, migration big-plus
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World Podcast: Trump, Nato, EU top jobs, migration

Sunday, 19 May 2024 02:16

Editor’s note: In the spirit of diversifying and experimentation, we’ve partnered with the reporters behind the Euroscopic podcast, who will be bringing a weekly conversational an ...

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