🇪🇺 Journalist @euronews │ Get in touch: mared-gwyn.jones@euronews.com
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On #EuropeToday:
- Commission VP Teresa Ribera tells @mariatad Hungary shows limits of 'anti-EU narrative'
- Alexander De Croo speaks to @LaurenWalkerH on the repercussions of Iran war
- @ShonaMurray_ on 🇬🇧🇫🇷-led Strait of Hormuz talks
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"If we manage to fight illegal migration, there's room for legal migration."
In an exclusive interview with #EuropeToday, EU migration chief @magnusbrunner weighs in on the EU's pact on migration and asylum taking effect today across the bloc's 27 countries.
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"Act without delay."
The EU Commission warns Albania that a planned resort on an environmentally sensitive island must respect EU environmental standards.
EU candidate Albania is the second most advanced country in the accession process, as @MaredGwyn reports for #EuropeToday.
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Kushner Island or EU membership?
Albania might have to choose one soon. The European Commission has warned that the luxury resort project in Vjosa-Narta risks undermining the country's accession process.
@MaredGwyn reports.
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Alumina is not included in the 21st package of EU sanctions, despite the revelations regarding Aughinish Alumina in Ireland.
Just in: Ursula von der Leyen proposes the 21st package of EU sanctions against Russia:
- Price cap at $44 per oil barrel
- 30 'shadow fleet' vessels
- Banks, crypto firms, traders
- Fisheries (including cod!)
- Schengen ban on soldiers
More details here.
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Just in: Ursula von der Leyen proposes the 21st package of EU sanctions against Russia:
- Price cap at $44 per oil barrel
- 30 'shadow fleet' vessels
- Banks, crypto firms, traders
- Fisheries (including cod!)
- Schengen ban on soldiers
More details here.
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Montenegro in the EU by 2028?
"They are doing very well, it's not impossible," @eucopresident António Costa tells #EuropeToday in an exclusive interview with @mariatad.
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EXCLUSIVE: António Costa tells #EuropeToday EU enlargement should be "accelerated" and its rules "streamlined".
The @eucopresident argued unanimity is not required for some stages of the process and said Montenegro is "doing very well" in its bid to join the EU by 2028.
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A must-read from my colleagues @JorgeLiboreiro @EuroSandor @BertuzLuca and Sasha Vakulina
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EU expansion: a geopolitical imperative?
As EU, Western Balkans leaders meet in Montenegro, @mariatad explores the challenges ahead as António Costa signals real momentum in expansion talks.
Montenegro leads the race and could become the EU's 28th member state by 2028.
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"We hope it's genuine. Hundreds of people were killed after the last ceasefire was agreed."
Lebanese Culture Minister @GhassanSalame reacts on #EuropeToday to the new ceasefire deal between Israel and Lebanon: "Some Israeli officials are already rejecting it."
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"We examine all relevant aspects. And one of them is the best interest of the child."
Deputy Minister of Migration and International Protection of the Republic of Cyprus, Nicholas A. Loannides, said while talking about plans for children being sent to return hubs.#12MinutesWith
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Just in: The European Commission says it "will carefully analyse the preliminary findings of the investigation and will continue engaging with the US Administration. That said, the EU considers tariffs imposed on these grounds to be unjustified".
New trade war?
The Trump administration has proposed imposing additional tariffs of 10% or 12.5% on imports from 60 economies, including the European Union, arguing they have failed to adequately prevent trade in goods made with forced labour.
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Mae'r UE wedi cymeradwyo rhai o'r mesurau gwrth-fewnfudo llymaf yn ei hanes - fydd yn galluogi gwledydd i sefydlu canolfannau i geiswyr lloches aflwyddianus mewn gwledydd pell (tebyg, er nad yn union fel, syniad Rwanda y Ceidwadwyr gynt).
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Interesting: France, a vocal proponent of direct talks with Russia, says the time isn't right to engage.
Time for Europe to talk to Putin?
"When the time is right, we should have our own channel of communication", French minister for European affairs @benjaminhaddad tells #EuropeToday: "But Russia is not engaging seriously in diplomacy and is not interested in peace."
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"Russia was hoping to divide Europeans. We have seen exactly the opposite," French minister for European affairs @benjaminhaddad tells #EuropeToday.
In an exclusive interview, Haddad also said Russia is losing ground diplomatically "everywhere".
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Watch #EuropeToday LIVE: EU economy chief Dombrovskis rules out easing Russia sanctions despite inflation fears x.com/i/broadcasts/1XxygmWRg…
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Friedrich Merz has proposed "associate EU membership" for Ukraine.
It would include:
- Participation in EU institutions without voting rights
- Step-by-step access to EU programmes
- Mutual assistance under Article 42.7
- Snap-back mechanism
Full story.
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Big news: Hungary's new government has signalled readiness to sanction Russia's Patriarch Kirill, long protected by Viktor Orbán's veto.
A "mini" package of sanctions is already being prepared in Brussels.
Team work with @BertuzLuca and @EuroSandor.
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The new Hungarian government has signalled its readiness to allow the European Union to sanction Patriarch Kirill, the head of Russia's Orthodox Church, and other individuals whom former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán had protected, Euronews can confirm.
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