European Council President António Costa has promised the meeting — a rare two-day affair — will make significant headway on the budget, which he plans to have agreed before leaders break for Christmas. “The European Council will have a strategic discussion on migration,” the note goes on, as well as “a strategic discussion on enlargement […]
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Continue ReadingThe roughly 30-kilometer-wide strait carries about 8.7% of global seaborne trade, according to UN figures, and links the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden and the wider Indian Ocean. The advance has coincided with a new wave of Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia. On Monday, the group said it had fired dozens of missiles […]
Continue ReadingThe European discussions on global cooperation will focus on work done at the G7, the G20 and the United Nations, one of the diplomats said. Last Friday, the European Commission’s top tech official, Executive Vice President for Tech Sovereignty Henna Virkkunen, called for global AI rules and cooperation. Virkkunen also pointed out that the EU […]
Continue ReadingThe ratification push is only one strand of Ottawa’s broader European courtship. In separate talks, officials are working to lock in cooperation on critical minerals, education, digital infrastructure and Arctic security, with a meeting in Montreal next month set to move them forward. The Canada-EU agreement, which entered provisional force in 2017, has not been […]
Continue Reading“It is part of the pattern we see throughout Europe,” warned Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on Tuesday morning after the maritime incident. “With an increasingly aggressive and assertive Russia, that has intensified the hybrid war against Europe. And that tests and challenges NATO. Russia wants to intimidate and sow discord. Our response is to […]
Continue ReadingWhy is it easier for a jar of peanut butter to cross EU borders than it is for a European worker? According to the Commission, varying social security systems and professional qualifications make it hard for Europeans to work outside their home country in the bloc. The EU executive’s Fair Labour Mobility Package — unveiled […]
Continue ReadingIn practical terms, she has refused to work with the far-right, anti-immigration Sweden Democrats, who Kristersson needs on his side to have any hope of winning. But she has also ruled out working with the former communists in the Left Party, who Andersson is likewise dependent upon for a majority. The Left Party, which will […]
Continue ReadingWhile Carney has for months sought to move Ottawa closer to Brussels and Paris as part of his middle powers alliance against the U.S. under President Donald Trump, the pivot has taken on renewed urgency amid the Canada-U.S. trade war, which has seen each side slap reciprocal tariffs on billions of dollars worth of goods. […]
Continue ReadingGavin Newsom will pass on a presidential bid if Kamala Harris runs again, he told CNN in an interview posted Monday, effectively giving the former vice president the right of first refusal in the 2028 race. “I don’t know if she runs but we’ll see,” Newsom told Jake Tapper in an interview taped in Montana […]
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