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28th Nov 2023

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Fighting stalls ahead of UN visit, Ukraine says

Ukrainian forces said on Thursday they had beaten back a Russian attack in the southern region of Kherson, ahead of a meeting with UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres and Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan later on Thursday in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv. "Russian forces have achieved only minimal advances, and in some cases we have advanced, since last month," Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych said in a video.

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Member states stall on EU ban on forced-labour products

More than two years after the EU Commission first proposed a law on forced labour, inter-institutional negotiations have not started because member states cannot reach agreement — risking the text's adoption before the 2024 European Parliament elections.

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How centre-right conservatives capitulate to the far-right

Many conservatives in Europe seem to have forgotten the lesson of 1930s Germany. They sacrifice their principles on the altar of the polls and all-too-often try to overtake rightwing radicals on their own pet subjects like security or migration.

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