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Kallas regrets EU delisting of oligarchs, as Russia ‘ridicules’ Germany after UN meeting (opens the original)
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The EU’s delisting of two Russian oligarchs last week despite multiplying sabotage attacks in Europe was “regrettable”, while German-Russian talks at the UN ended in “ridicule”, EU foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas has said. “It is regrettable that this [delisting] was the decision,” said Kallas on Monday (28 September) in Brussels at a defence ministers’ meeting. “We are putting forward more listings, targeting their military-industrial complex, also targeting the finances of Russia, because we
THIS WEEK: Interior ministers discuss Fortress Europe, as Kallas goes to Syria (opens the original)
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Interior ministers will discuss how to secure borders and deport more immigrants this week, while foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas takes EU diplomacy to Syria. Home affairs ministers meeting in Brussels on Thursday (1 October) will discuss “the overall state” and “security” of the Schengen free-travel area, as well as the adequacy of EU asylum law, after thousands of people entered the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in north Africa in July, prompting a border row between Italy, Denmark, and Spain. Th
Macron’s ego may just have permanently damaged EU unity on Russia (opens the original)
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See if you can guess which EU politician I am talking about. A leader who threatened to veto Russia sanctions unless the EU delisted an oligarch, after making a secret deal for his own interest. He met Russian president Vladimir Putin in Moscow, where he pretended to speak for the EU. His country has a track record of trampling on EU laws at home. And his capital city is full of grand buildings from an old empire. Former Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán ticks all those boxes, naturally. But
France in ‘game of chicken’ with EU on Russia sanctions, as clock ticks to expiry deadline (opens the original)
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Emergency EU talks on the future of Russia sanctions are going backwards, with France at risk of causing serious harm to European cohesion if they fall apart. The French ambassador to the EU, Philippe Léglise-Costa, insisted on removing a top Russian oligarch from the blacklist at a meeting in the EU Council on Friday (18 September), on pain of letting the whole list of some 3,000 Russian names legally expire at midnight on Tuesday, diplomatic sources said, in what would amount to a fiasco of ep
Scene set for verbal punch-up at UN in New York, as Trump and Netanyahu face critics from EU and further afield (opens the original)
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US president Donald Trump’s Iran war and Israel’s US-backed genocide in Gaza are set to dominate the 81st UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, with Russian and Ukrainian, as well as Israeli and Iranian delegations, to take the floor. But the UNGA’s “high-level week” will, in any case, kick off with a political row between Trump and Brazil. Brazilian prime minister Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will give the opening speech on Tuesday (22 September) morning, in which he has promised to “personally”
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