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THIS WEEK: Canada’s Carney attends von der Leyen’s State of the Union, as new talks on Russian frozen assets for Ukraine return to EU agenda (opens the original)
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EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen will lay out her vision of the state of the European Union in her annual speech on Wednesday (16 September) in the European Parliament in Brussels. In a sign of deepening ties with the EU, amid Ottawa’s split with Washington, Canadian prime minister Mark Carney will attend as a guest of honour and then deliver his own address to MEPs on Thursday (17 September). This visit comes ahead of an EU-Canada summit at the end of October and amid the escalating
Ukraine’s financial crisis resurrects Europe’s bitter dilemma on Russian frozen assets (opens the original)
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Ukraine is facing a financial gap of $27bn [€24bn] to survive the rest of the year, at a time when Russia’s continuous attacks and Kyiv’s shortage of air defences have shrunk the country’s economy and made living in Ukrainian cities very difficult. This was the bad news Volodymyr Zelensky delivered to allies on Ukraine’s Independence Day last month, reportedly surprising European officials. The dire financial situation of Ukraine, ahead of what is expected to be a difficult winter with another R
THIS WEEK: Von der Leyen woos Greenland with fresh EU funds, as Ceuta crisis comes to Brussels (opens the original)
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With la rentrée in full swing in Brussels, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen will begin her week in Greenland, where she is expected to announce a new €200m funding package on Monday (7 September). The visit follows weeks of tension earlier this year linked to repeated demands by US president Donald Trump to buy and gain control of Greenland. And while a deal was announced by Nato chief Mark Rutte in June to “take more responsibility for the defence of the Arctic“, von der Leyen
Spain’s Ceuta mass migration sparks EU Schengen row: the legal reality behind the rhetoric (opens the original)
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The mass crossing of migrants into Spain’s small North African enclave has prompted EU anti-migrant rhetoric and calls to suspend the bloc’s border-free Schengen – despite fragile legal justifications. Ceuta and Melilla, on Africa’s north coast, are autonomous Spanish cities that often receive migrant arrivals, including a wave of over 60,000 swimmers from Morocco last week. The Spanish authorities have since deployed the military to Ceuta’s coastal city of 83,500 residents. Borders to both citi
EU options paper on Israel settler imports is ‘misleading’ and designed to ‘justify inaction’, legal scholars say (opens the original)
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The European Commission is facing fresh legal scrutiny after a group of leading scholars questioned its options paper on restricting imports from illegal Israeli settlements, before EU foreign ministers revisit the issue in September. In a letter to the EU Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, dated 31 July, the scholars argue that the options paper contains “manifestly incorrect and misleading claims” that risk undermining the EU’s obligations under international law. “We cannot avoid the
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