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💸 How the EU’s budget woes spoilt von der Leyen’s ‘sovereignty fund’ - &
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Great details in this piece from on EU, UK and US security guarantees for Ukraine in run up to Vilnius NATO summit. Pushing the story out further
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NEW - US, UK, France and Germany drawing up long-term security assurances for Ukraine, in lieu of Nato membership, to secure the country’s post-war defence
w @GuyChazan @felschwartz @hallbenjamin & @labboudles
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Officials say that they are working towards agreeing the deals before the Nato Summit in Vilnius, in order to reassure Zelenskyy before the meeting that he has won long-term support from allies.
Full story here: ft.com/content/8f0528
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Agreements will not be legal or entail any direct military intervention by US, UK, France & Germany, and fall short of Zelenskyy’s demands for a Nato membership roadmap, or some form of true “security guarantee” akin to Article 5
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“Quad” nations aim to sign one overall multilateral deal with Kyiv, under which countries will provide bilateral deals to the country for multi-year supplies of weapons, money, training and expertise aimed at making the country too difficult for Russia to ever attack again
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NEW - US, UK, France and Germany drawing up long-term security assurances for Ukraine, in lieu of Nato membership, to secure the country’s post-war defence
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Bemused by the scandal around Poland’s “Reset” documentary produced by the government-run state TV against Tusk and the opposition.
Is the sole charge that Tusk happened to be PM at a time when *the entirety* of EU and Nato leadership were together trying to engage with Putin?
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Nato goes full circle in the search for a new secretary general and discovers it's best 'not to rock the boat', but rather to stick with Stoltenberg. ft.com/content/06cecc
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🇩🇪Why Germany’s new security strategy unveiled this morning matters -
🔋How Chile's broken electricity market hurts the EU's green energy plans -
📈 Plus: Ukraine's counter-offensive, mapped
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“In the interests of continuity, it makes sense,” said one senior western diplomat who has discussed the possibility of an extension with him. “He would do it. He is a man of duty.”
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Failure by other candidates such as 🇩🇰 Frederiksen and 🇬🇧 Wallace to so far win unanimous support among the 31 allies has seen a fourth extension for Stoltenberg return to the fore, the people said, as Nato’s annual summit next month looms
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Nato turns back to extending Jens Stoltenberg as SecGen amid divisions over his potential successor, officials involved in the talks tell
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Subsea cables: how the US is pushing China out of the internet’s plumbing
This interactive explainer is... epic
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🚨SCOOP by and Team : JPMorgan becomes the latest (potentially most significant) bank to cut ties with Odey Asset Management since , & detailed allegations of sexual assault by Crispin Odey.
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Today 🇹🇷 is in Baku, Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 to visit . The delegation size and Turkish names accompanying the President is significant and telling.
It includes 🇹🇷 Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and newly-appointed Head of Intelligence (“Teşkilat”, MİT) İbrahim Kalın,… Show more
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What do western countries mean when they talk of “security guarantees” for Ukraine and how would they work?
Let me, & explain, with a little help from Messrs Macron, Scholz and Duda… ft.com/content/7a0200
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Progress but no deal yet. The Weimar Triangle working dinner w 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇵🇱 in Paris last night helped to narrow differences on 🇺🇦 future security guarantees but more work is needed before NATO summit next month
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What do western countries mean when they talk of “security guarantees” for Ukraine and how would they work?
Let me, & explain, with a little help from Messrs Macron, Scholz and Duda… ft.com/content/7a0200
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Poland, France and Germany now “bound together by common interest” to stop Russia winning the war, says ahead of dinner with Macron and Scholz at the Elyseé
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Szczyt Trójkąta Weimarskiego. @AndrzejDuda, @EmmanuelMacron i @Bundeskanzler w Pałacu Elizejskim.
Jesteśmy dziś z Francją i Niemcami złączeni wspólnym interesem. Rosja nie może wygrać tej wojny.
Jesteśmy dziś z Francją i Niemcami złączeni wspólnym interesem. Rosja nie może wygrać tej wojny.
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“The question is what do you do in peacetime? What kind of message do you send to Putin? Unfortunately, we don’t have a message yet,” Lithuania's tells . “The Baltic countries can’t be left as they are.”
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Front page today -- the FCA expands its probe into Odey and banks review their links after our investigation into his sexual misconduct.
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Background and context in today's Europe Express note from
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Wow! EU member states reach deal on new asylum and migration rules after *seven years* of negotiations
Still needs final approval from capitals and parliament and EU machinery but this is a major milestone
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#JHA | The ministers just agreed on a general approach on the Asylum and Migration Management Regulation and the Asylum Procedure Regulation.
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New: Britain imposes fresh sanctions on Belarus for its role in Ukraine war
The 'Belarus II' package laid in parliament today bans gold, cement, wood & rubber imports from Belarus
Also aims to block propaganda & close loopholes
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A new law by Poland's ruling party that could bar opposition politicians from office on alleged 'pro-Russian' grounds “unduly interferes with the democratic process,” and “violates the principles of legality,” the said.
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👨👩👧👦EU ministers desperately seek deal on long-overdue migration reforms -
🗳 Parliament accuses commission of unfair lobbying - &
📈Plus: Italy's demographic disaster
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Yet another fearless expose of sexual misconduct - and the failure to stop it - at the very top of British society by the FT’s brilliant investigations team
13 women over 23 years
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New: 1/5 This is a story about money, power, and greed. It is about how one of Britain’s most celebrated financiers -- a self-styled maverick and gentleman rebel -- compulsively harassed and assaulted the women he came into contact with over 30 years. ft.com/content/e5d143
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🇪🇺Why Europeans view EU more positively than their home countries -
💸Who is stealing EU funds (and eels?) -
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EU considers mandatory ban on using Huawei to build 5G infrastructure - a big fat scoop from
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Cash seized in EU “Qatargate” bribery scandal: €1,500,000
Cash allocated to new EU ethics body to enforce rules: €600,000
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Brussels criticised over limited funds for new ethics body
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"The destruction of the Kakhovka dam sends a message that Moscow is still capable of escalating its war. The question is how far is it prepared to go. It wants Ukraine and its western allies to believe it has multiple options left" -
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The Kakhovka dam spanning the Dnipro – and the southern front in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – has been blown up, flooding swaths of territory ahead of an expected Ukrainian counteroffensive.
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And: Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić tells that he has no desire to stop his country supplying weapons to Ukraine, in his first acknowledgment of support for Kyiv against Moscow
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It was supposed to be a contest that would finally unite Austria’s squabbling social democrats after years of infighting and drift: instead, a weekend of high political drama has set the stage for further division, leavened by farce.
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But France is also seeking to avoid confrontation with China. Paris argues that an Asian foothold would undermine European credibility with Beijing in regard to the war in Ukraine.
One official said France was reluctant to back anything “that contributes to Nato-China tension.”
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Paris is arguing that Nato’s charter requires the alliance to limit its geographic reach to the “north Atlantic”. Macron last week said it would be “a big mistake” for Nato to “enlarge its spectrum”
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