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[Investigation] How Western machinery is helping Russia kill Ukrainians

EUobserver - śr., 2024-03-20 23:53
Russia's missile production capacities have been supercharged thanks to Western machinery. Despite European sanctions having been in place since 2014, many European companies have turned a blind eye to exports of valuable technology to Russian military factories.
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Poland and allies seek EU curbs on Russian grain

EUobserver - śr., 2024-03-20 20:48
The EU has a "moral obligation" to curb Russian grain imports, including of possibly stolen Ukrainian grain, five EU countries have said.
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EU plan to end bogus internships — but not ban unpaid ones

EUobserver - śr., 2024-03-20 17:54
The European Commission on Wednesday proposed a new package to improve the rights of trainees, including a directive to tackle bogus internships — but not a ban on unpaid internships.
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EU plan to use €3bn Russian windfall to aid Ukraine

EUobserver - śr., 2024-03-20 16:26
EU leaders in Brussels this week are poised to finalise plans on using approximately €3bn in annual profits from frozen Russian assets to buy ammunition and weapons for Ukraine.
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EU must axe Russian F1 driver from sanctions list, rules court

EUobserver - śr., 2024-03-20 15:06
The EU's top court has ordered that a Russian former Formula 1 driver, Nikita Mazepin, be removed from the bloc's sanctions list.
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Migrant pushbacks inside EU to be codified in law, say critics

EUobserver - śr., 2024-03-20 15:05
The EU is set to pass a law allowing police to return suspected irregular migrants to bordering EU member states — in what critics are describing as internal pushbacks based on racial profiling.
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[Opinion] The worrying Chinese projects in Orban's Hungary

EUobserver - śr., 2024-03-20 13:23
Chinese police officers may soon participate in joint patrols on the streets of Hungary, officially for counter-terrorism and capacity-building. However, there are fears the Chinese government's motivation is more straightforward: keeping tabs on their diaspora living in Europe, particularly dissidents.
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[Opinion] The Sahel's humanitarian crisis must not be forgotten

EUobserver - wt., 2024-03-19 18:56
West Africa is at risk of turning into a humanitarian blind spot, where some 17 millionpeople need humanitarian assistance in the Central Sahel.
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Global South trying to back winner in Ukraine war

EUobserver - wt., 2024-03-19 18:14
The Global South is trying to back the winner in the Russia-Ukraine war, while Europe sees Russia as a direct threat, Ukraine's foreign minister has indicated.
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Forced-labour profits booming, as EU mulls laws

EUobserver - wt., 2024-03-19 18:02
Illegal profits from forced labour around the world have increased by 37 percent in the last decade to a total of $236bn a year — 73 percent of it comes from the commercial sexual exploitation of victims, new report shows.
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Difficult talks ahead on financing new EU defence spending

EUobserver - wt., 2024-03-19 17:58
With the war in Ukraine showing no signs of ending any time soon, EU leaders will meet in Brussels on Thursday and Friday (21 and 22 March) to discuss how to boost the defence capabilities of Ukraine and of the bloc itself.
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Canary Islands: EU-borders chief offers help, amid migrant spike

EUobserver - wt., 2024-03-19 16:11
The EU's border agency Frontex is ready to offer emergency support to Spain following a spike in migrants crossing from the West African coast to the Canary Islands.
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[Column] How the 'Putin at Noon' trick helped Russia's sham election

EUobserver - wt., 2024-03-19 15:11
Perhaps no phrase borrowed from Russian better explains the nature of the country better than the expression "Potemkin village". So it came as no surprise that Vladimir Putin himself thanked the organisers and promoters of the action "Noon against Putin".
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Borrell: 'Israel provoking famine', urges more aid access

EUobserver - pon., 2024-03-18 17:28
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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Europol: Israel-Gaza galvanising Jihadist recruitment in Europe

EUobserver - pon., 2024-03-18 15:01
Israel's mass killing in the Gaza Strip is being used by Hamas and others to recruit a next generation of militants and jihadists in the EU.
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EU to agree Israeli-settler blacklist, Borrell says

EUobserver - pon., 2024-03-18 14:36
EU foreign ministers are closing in on sanctions against a dozen Israeli settlers, amid Western efforts to also stop an Israeli-made famine in Gaza.
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EU ministers keen to use Russian profits for Ukraine ammo

EUobserver - pon., 2024-03-18 13:06
The EU is nearing a deal on using profits from frozen Russian assets to buy ammunition for Ukraine, while preparing the next round of anti-Russia sanctions.
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Call to change EIB defence spending rules hits scepticism

EUobserver - pon., 2024-03-18 12:44
Fourteen EU member states are pushing for the European Investment Bank to boost defence investment, potentially including ammunition — but bank officials have shown reluctance.
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[Opinion] Potential legal avenues to prosecute Nalvany's killers

EUobserver - pon., 2024-03-18 12:38
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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[Agenda] EU summit, Gaza, Ukraine, reforms in focus this WEEK

EUobserver - pon., 2024-03-18 07:00
This week, EU leaders come together in Brussels for their usual two-day summit to discuss defence, enlargement, migration and foreign affairs. EU ministers for foreign affairs and EU affairs will meet earlier in the week to prepare the European Council.
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