Paris, Toronto (17/9 – 37) The French ambassador to Niger and other French diplomats “were actually held hostage in the French embassy” during the emergency following the military junta coup…
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A Viking Funeral? Dwindling Nordics in Brussels Blame the EU
Northern countries want to revise the EU’s recruitment’s system to increase their share of Eurocrats. That’s the existential exhortation from countries like Denmark, Sweden and Finland, which say the European…
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EU Digital Services Act: Tech Companies Face a Reckoning in Europe as New Rules Come Into Force
The EU Digital Services Act, which comes into force this week, is leading to big changes in how Internet giants operate in Europe. The European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA)…
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EU Sanction Threatens Uzbek’s Alisher Usmanov Relationship with West
Berlin (27/08 – 25) Alisher Usmanov is one of Uzbekistan’s leading businessman and the Central Asian country’s main philanthropist. Despite Usmanov’s many proactive activities in the West and in Uzbekistan,…
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Europe Backs Kazakhstan’s Efforts To Sidestep Russian Influence
On June 20, after meeting with Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in Astana, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier announced Germany’s recent endorsement of Kazakhstan’s efforts to create alternative trade routes and transport…
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EU Cohesion Policy: More Than €30 Million for Modernising Greece’s Athens-Patras Railway
by Freddy Evansby Freddy EvansThe section will be part of the rail connection between Athens and Patras and will reduce the journey time between the two cities by 20 minutes. The track will be…
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How the EU Wants to Police Human Rights Abuses in Global Supply Chains for Every Firm With 500 Workers and $162 Million in Revenue
by Keegan Rossby Keegan RossThe European Union will soon require thousands of large companies to actively look for and reduce human rights abuses and environmental damage in their supply chains. And although it’s an EU law,…
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Borealis Foods to Go Public by Fourth Quarter 2023?
Frankfurt, Brussels (30/7 – 27) Kenges Rakishev, international entrepreneur, philanthropist and former special envoy of the Kazakh government, is leading the charge for an upcoming Nasdaq listing of Borealis Foods…
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Türkiye, Sweetened by F-16s, Approves Sweden NATO Membership
by Keegan Rossby Keegan RossFrankfurt, Brussels (21/7 – 37) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has once again reversed course, approving Sweden’s bid to join the legacy European military bloc, having been promised a brace…
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Global Gateway: EU and Chile Strengthen Cooperation on Sustainable Critical Raw Materials Supply Chains
by Keegan Rossby Keegan RossAs part of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States Summit (EU-CELAC) taking place in Brussels on 17 and 18 July, President Ursula von der Leyen and the President of Chile,…