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Defence must now be at the heart of EU policy big-plus
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World Defence must now be at the heart of EU policy

Thursday, 25 April 2024 01:15

In the plenary debate on the upcoming Council meeting on 21-22 March, the ECR Group called for the promotion of the EU’s defence capabilities. Speaking in Strasbourg, ECR Vice-Presi ...

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UK Warns that China is Preparing for Total Nuclear War with the West big-plus
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World UK Warns that China is Preparing for Total Nuclear War with the West

Thursday, 25 April 2024 01:15

Superpower China is running out of steam. As delegates from across the vast country assembled last week for the National People’s Congress [NPC], the Communist Party’s rubber-stamp parliament, ...

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Five years of EU gender equality — hits and misses big-plus
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World Five years of EU gender equality — hits and misses

Thursday, 25 April 2024 01:15

The World Bank included childcare and safety issues in its analysis, and the results show that the global gender gap is much wider than previously estimated (Photo: Unsplash) No cou ...

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World Bank Presents Key Findings of Latest Study on Middle Corridor in Tbilisi big-plus
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World World Bank Presents Key Findings of Latest Study on Middle Corridor in Tbilisi

Thursday, 25 April 2024 01:15

The World Bank presented the key findings of its latest study on the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR), also known as the Middle Corridor. The event gathered repr ...

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Defence joins migration in EU centre-right manifesto big-plus
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World Defence joins migration in EU centre-right manifesto

Thursday, 25 April 2024 01:15

French conservatives announced they will oppose Ursula von der Leyen’s reelection bid as EPP Spitzenkandidate (Photo: European People’s Party) The centre-right European People’s Par ...

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End Sandu’s dictatorship! - says protesters unhappy with Sandu’s policies as they hit the streets in Bucharest big-plus
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World End Sandu’s dictatorship! - says protesters unhappy with Sandu’s policies as they hit the streets in Bucharest

Thursday, 25 April 2024 01:15

The reception that Moldovan President Maia Sandu faced in Bucharest, where she arrived for the European People’s Party (EPP) congress, was clearly not as warm as she had hoped. B ...

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EU hails Tunisia cash aid despite row over country’s central bank big-plus
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World EU hails Tunisia cash aid despite row over country’s central bank

Thursday, 25 April 2024 01:15

The EU’s agreement with Tunisia was initially viewed as a ‘cash for migrant control’ scheme but offers vital budget support to Tunis (Photo: European Union, 2023) The European Commi ...

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Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC): the escalation of hostilities in the eastern part of the country big-plus
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World Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC): the escalation of hostilities in the eastern part of the country

Thursday, 25 April 2024 01:15

The EU is extremely concerned by the escalation of violence in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the worsening of the humanitarian situation exposing millio ...

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Defence, von der Leyen, women rights, in focus This WEEK big-plus
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World Defence, von der Leyen, women rights, in focus This WEEK

Thursday, 25 April 2024 01:15

A new defence strategy will be presented by the EU commission this week (Photo: Pat WilsonCZ75) Ursula von der Leyen, who is officially seeking a second term, is expected to be conf ...

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Why are the banking lobby afraid of a digital euro? big-plus
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World Why are the banking lobby afraid of a digital euro?

Thursday, 25 April 2024 01:15

The European Parliament’s forthcoming deliberations are decisive. The outcome will either pave the way for a competitive digital euro by 2026 or stifle its potential (Photo: Pexels) ...

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EU-Chile trade agreement falls short on animal welfare big-plus
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World EU-Chile trade agreement falls short on animal welfare

Thursday, 25 April 2024 01:15

The modernised EU-Chile Free Trade Agreement, approved by the European Parliament this week, includes commitments to animal welfare such as the recognition of animal sentience, the ...

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EU deepening not necessary for Ukraine and Moldova to join EU big-plus
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World EU deepening not necessary for Ukraine and Moldova to join EU

Thursday, 25 April 2024 01:15

The ECR Group has come out clearly against the own-initiative report on the further deepening of the EU in the run-up to the accession of new member states such as Ukraine and Moldo ...

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