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In today’s news from The Capitals:
BRATISLAVA
Slovakia has reinforced its support for Serbia amid the ongoing tensions with Kosovo, adding it intends to send troops to the NATO-led peacekeeping mission (KFOR) for the first time in 15 years, a move likely to worry Prishtina. Read more.
EUROPE’S SOUTH
MADRID
Socialists in European Parliament slam Spanish right for blocking Ribera. According to Iratxe Garcia, head of the S&D in the European Parliament, the European People’s Party (EPP) was much more responsible than its Spanish colleagues, Partido Popular, for blocking Spanish Commission nominee Teresa Ribera. Read more.
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ROME
Italy is divided over Fitto, securing a European Commission spot. EU lawmakers’ approval of Raffaele Fitto as one of the European Commission’s new executive vice presidents has provoked mixed reactions in Italy. Read more.
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LISBON
Former Portuguese president fears global conflict, particularly worrying for Europe. Former Portuguese president António Ramalho Eanes has expressed fears of a global conflict, saying that the current situation, which is “rapidly changing”, is particularly worrying for Europe. Read more.
EASTERN EUROPE
WARSAW
Polish MEP urges Trump to back World War II reparations demands from Germany. Polish conservative PiS MEP Arkadiusz Mularczyk (ECR) has sent a letter to US President-elect Donald Trump, urging him to back Poland’s demands for Germany to fork out World War Two reparations. Read more.
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BUDAPEST
Orbán’s new friend in the white house: JD Vance. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has long touted his friendship with US president-elect Donald Trump, but it is the new ultra-conservative and Orban admirer JD Vance – the man soon to be vice-president – who is very much ideologically aligned with Budapest. Read more.
NEWS FROM THE BALKANS
SOFIA
Dismissed chief prosecutor sues Bulgaria before Strasbourg human rights court. Bulgaria’s former chief prosecutor Ivan Geshev is suing the country at the European Court of Human Rights over his dismissal from office, which he says was illegal and unfounded. Read more.
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BUCHAREST
Romanian government approves energy strategy. The Romanian government approved the country’s first energy strategy in 17 years up to 2035, identifying energy storage as a key priority and envisaging a gradual shift from coal-fired power plants to cleaner natural gas in the short term and nuclear power in the medium and long term. Read more.
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ZAGREB
EU prosecutors warn of rule of law breaches in Croatia. European prosecutors warned on Thursday of violations of the rule of law in Croatia after the country took over a graft probe they had launched and said they had notified Brussels. Read more.
AGENDA:
EU: Commission Vice President Vĕra Jourová speaks at “Maintaining Justice in a Changing Europe” conference;
Jobs and Social Rights Commissioner Nicolas Schmit takes part in opening ceremony of ETUC’s high level conference on “Trade union solidarity beyond borders”;
Parliament President Roberta Metsola addresses EPP Political Assembly.
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[Edited by Sarantis Michalopoulos, Daniel Eck, Alice Taylor-Braçe, Sofia Mandilara]
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Publish date : 2024-11-21 22:35:00
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