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Coordination is also an issue. While groups are regularly convened to discuss supply issues, most real coordination takes place bilaterally between the Commission and countries, according to two energy officials involved in such discussions. It’s no surprise one energy minister in a meeting earlier this month went so far as to call for a WhatsApp […]

“We need a political steer from leaders as there is only so much we can do at a technical level,” said an EU diplomat. “It is no longer [the] time for leaders to read their pre-written notes during the summit.” The discussion in Nicosia is expected to help the Cyprus presidency of the Council of […]

The airline said the first 120 flights were canceled on Monday. “The medium-term route planning for the coming months is being revised considering the capacity reduction and will be published in late April or early May,” Lufthansa said, adding that affected passengers have been notified. The 20,000 cancellations, which include flights previously operated by CityLine, […]

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he will not go forward with new strikes on Iran at the request of Pakistani officials, extending the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran. Trump said Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir asked the U.S. to “hold our Attack on the Country of Iran […]

Iran is refusing to send its negotiating team to Islamabad to continue talks this week until President Donald Trump lifts the U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, according to two Middle East officials briefed on the situation,granted anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. Trump, who hinted on Tuesday that high-level negotiations […]

The Venice Biennale, one of the world’s most prominent art exhibitions, is set to host Russia for the first time since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 — a move that has sparked widespread criticism across Europe. Latvia’s Culture Minister Agnese Lāce, who had spearheaded a joint position by 25 European countries calling for […]

“We should also revisit long-blocked decisions including opening negotiations with Ukraine,” the bloc’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas told a news conference, also citing sanctions and blocked funding for Ukraine under the EU’s Peace Facility, its mechanism for funding military assistance for Kyiv. One of the EU diplomats present for closed-door discussions between foreign ministers said: […]

A powerful new AI model developed by Anthropic called Mythos — feared to outperform humans at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities — has experts worried that, once widely available, it could give malicious actors an unprecedented ability to punch through critical IT infrastructure. Its developers are currently restricting access to a limited group of technology […]

Kallas raised the possibility of adopting “measures that require a qualified majority of votes,” among them targeted sanctions or partial measures focused on trade. Italy’s Tajani explicitly backed that approach. “I believe it is better to sanction individually those responsible, I am thinking of violent settlers,” he said, while expressing skepticism about broader trade measures […]

The pipeline, which stopped transporting oil from Russia to Central Europe after it was damaged in a Russian strike in January, became the focus of a bitter dispute between Ukraine and Hungary. Budapest, which receives the vast majority of its oil from Moscow, accused Kyiv of slow-walking repairs and subsequently vetoed a €90 billion EU […]