To offset those unexpected outlays, the government plans to freeze €4 billion worth of expenditures this year and later reassess if the country can afford those costs, French business daily Les Echos reported Friday. It is unclear whether the freeze will hit all spending across the board or will be concentrated in certain ministries. “These […]
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Continue ReadingOn The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly international news dispatch Russia’s Federal Security Service stated on Monday that it had detained a 57-year-old German woman with a bomb in her rucksack as part of what it cast as a […]
Continue ReadingRussia opened an exhibition titled “10 Centuries of Polish Russophobia” at the Katyn memorial complex on April 10, drawing condemnation from Polish officials and victims’ families who called the timing and location “disgusting malice”. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING The exhibition opened on the 16th anniversary of the Smolensk air disaster, which resulted in the deaths of 96 […]
Continue ReadingCyprus is upgrading two key military installations with US funding to reinforce its role as a humanitarian safe haven for evacuees from conflicts in the Middle East, officials said. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING The Andreas Papandreou Air Base in Paphos will be expanded to include a new parking apron capable of accommodating dozens of heavy-lift military transport […]
Continue ReadingMostly female workers have been killed in the blast, which occurred in Tamil Nadu state.
Continue ReadingFootage online shows vehicles submerged, trees uprooted and houses hit by landslides.
Continue ReadingUkraine is increasingly attacking Russia’s oil industry.Image: X April 20, 2026, 07:42April 20, 2026, 07:42 At least one person has died in a new Ukrainian drone attack on the Russian Black Sea port of Tuapse in the Krasnodar region. Another person was injured, wrote Governor Veniamin Kondratiev on the Telegram platform. There was a fire […]
Continue ReadingNational governments will be encouraged to roll out “energy voucher” schemes for vulnerable households and introduce a temporary ban on power disconnections, as part of an EU plan to get to grips with the worsening energy crisis. A draft of a European Commission plan being prepared by Brussels officials, seen by The Irish Times, expectedly […]
Continue ReadingKlement’s push for clarity over the scope of OLAF’s access comes ahead of an anticipated EU review later this year of rules governing the watchdog’s work, part of a broader revamp aimed at improving fraud prevention in Europe. It comes amid wider scrutiny of how EU institutions handle allegations of corruption and misconduct. The issue […]
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