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19th Mar 2024

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France: wide EU backing for enlargement change

Denmark and the Netherlands were "very close" to French ideas on a new enlargement method, and the views of Austria, the Czech Republic, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia were "convergent" with it, French EU affairs minister Amélie De Maontchalin said in Brussels Tuesday. EU minsters are holding first talks on the changes, which envisage more EU funding in return for more rigorous reforms, amid concern on EU 'enlargement fatigue'.

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Borrell: 'Israel provoking famine', urges more aid access

70 percent of northern Gaza is facing famine, new data shows. There is one shower per 5,500 people, and 888 people per toilet. 'How can you live in these conditions?" asked Natalie Boucly of UNRWA at the European Humanitarian Forum.

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Potential legal avenues to prosecute Navalny's killers

The UN could launch an independent international investigation into Navalny's killing, akin to investigation I conducted on Jamal Khashoggi's assassination, or on Navalny's Novichok poisoning, in my role as special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, writes the secretary-general of Amnesty International.

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