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1 day ago
The shuttering of USAID by the Donald Trump administration will have “a dramatic impact on humanitarian aid projects around the world”, EU crisis management commissioner, Hadja Lahbib, told MEPs last month. But the EU is also cutting aid — and healthcare and climate programmes are in the firing line.
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5 hours ago
Talks on the rollover of the EU's anti-Russia blacklist will continue on Friday (14 March), as Poland tries to get Hungary and Slovakia to back down on delisting high-level oligarchs.
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7 hours ago
The EU wants to strike an energy and investment deal worth €4.7bn with South Africa, EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said in Cape Town on Thursday.
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Rule 241: the EU’s hidden ‘bombshell’ against anti-democratic forces

5 months ago
Legal scholars have dubbed it a "sleeping beauty" — a potent yet practically unused EU Parliament instrument akin to the EU's own Article 7, designed to safeguard the rule of law and the integrity of its institutions.
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As Trump sells out Europe’s security, ‘war is not over’ in Ukraine

28 days ago
The US and Russia have agreed to start negotiations “immediately" to end the war in Ukraine. But experts keep warning about the moral and strategic consequences of a bad deal — especially for Europe. Meanwhile, it is clear that Ukrainians have no trust in any peace deal with Moscow without strong security guarantees.
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'Our fight won't be a short one', warns Serbian student protestor

10 days ago
Over 200,000 people gathered in the rural town of Niš, in southern Serbia, on Saturday to keep pressing for transparency and accountability over the collapse of a railway station roof in Novi Sad last year, which killed 15 people.
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