#G7 finance ministers will lay the groundwork for using the profits from frozen #Russia assets to help #Ukraine, according to a draft of the communique that they’re set to sign off on Saturday.
The move comes after the #US pushed for the G-7 to leverage future revenue generated from about $280 billion in Russian central bank funds, most of which lies immobilized in Europe. The plan could unlock an aid package of as much as $50 billion for Ukraine.
Yesterday's Russian attack on the #Kharkiv region, which killed and injured people, destroyed a printing press and burned 50,000 books, shows that Russia is at war with humanity and all aspects of normal life.
Russian terrorists kill adults and children, destroy cities and villages, leaving scorched spots where normal life once was. Another day of Putin's genocide... 8 killed and dozens wounded in this atrack. Please, speak up for Ukrainians. They need our help. 🙏
Yesterday's Russian attack on the #Kharkiv region, which killed and injured people, destroyed a printing press and burned 50,000 books, shows that Russia is at war with humanity and all aspects of normal life. Russian terrorists kill adults and children, destroy cities and villages, leaving scorched spots where normal life once was. Another day 8 killed and dozens wounded in this atrack. Please, speak up for Ukrainians. They need our help. 🙏
Citing four Russian sources: Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to stop the war in Ukraine with a negotiated ceasefire recognizing the current battle lines.
Is this anything new? Putin gets rewarded for his land grab, rebuilds, then tries again in a few years?
Die CDU startet eine Kampagne gegen das Verbrenner-Aus auf EU-Ebene. Übrigens nur wenige Tage nach dem Start einer ähnlichen Kampagne von Le Pens Rassemblement National. Auf der folgenden Seite können wir der CDU mitteilen, dass der Verbrenner verschwinden muss: https://aktion.cdu.de/ja-zum-auto
Denn: Wenn schon Auto, dann muss es elektrisch mit erneuerbaren Energien angetrieben werden!
In recent years, concerns have grown over the presence of Chinese students and academics at European universities or collaborations between European universities and Chinese research institutes. Several universities, for instance, cut ties with the Chinese state-funded Confucius Institute after suspicions of espionage
Tech leakage is an "emerging risk", and one where the EU "cannot afford any longer to be naive," the bloc's research chief Iliana Ivanova told
Alarm as German climate activists charged with ‘forming a criminal organisation’
“This is the first time in German history that a climate protest group that uses measures of peaceful civil disobedience is charged as a criminal organisation."
“Paragraph 129 of the German criminal code is to combat organised crime. Its application to non-violent protest criminalises civic engagement and thus restricts democratic freedoms."
Bei der aktuellen Spitzenkandidaten Debatte für das #EU Parlament hat Ursula von der Leyen auf Rückfrage wieder bestätigt, sich mit den Rechtspopulisten eine Fraktion vorstellen zu können.
Die Machtgeilheit wird uns die EU noch zerstören. 😩
Ihr habt nur ein ❎. Wählt Weise, damit die EU wieder echte Werte vertritt. 🇪🇺
An extremely brutal Russian attack on Kharkiv and Lyubotyn. According to preliminary data, Russia launched 15 missiles at once. Unfortunately, there are casualties. Emergency services have already arrived at the scene of the attacks, and all those injured will receive the necessary assistance.
Russian terrorists are taking advantage of Ukraine's lack of sufficient air defense protection and reliable capability to destroy terrorist launchers at their exact locations, which are close to our borders. And this weakness is not ours, but the world's, which has not dared to deal with terrorists in the way they deserve for three years.
Terror must lose everywhere, under any conditions, and on all continents. This is our shared responsibility—that of everyone in the world who has the ability to protect life from terror. Ukraine is doing everything it can. I am grateful to everyone who is helping us. But we need more determination, especially from world leaders.
"Wir haben lange angenommen, dass die extremen Rechten nicht mit der #EU vereinbar sind, weil sie Nationalisten sind – und die EU im Prinzip ein anti-nationalistisches Projekt ist, weil sich dort viele verschiedene Nationen zusammenschließen. Diese Annahme war falsch. Sie beruht auf zwei Denkfehlern: einem über die EU und einem über die extreme Rechte." - Politikwissenschaftler Hans Kundnani
We are finding out who the real fascists are in the world today. The christian Taliban leadership of Poland standing firm behind the genocidal regime of Israel.
EU should have punished and even kicked Poland out of EU when they became the torture center for CIA and US state department during Bush presidency.
But sadly, crimes against EUs so called fundamental foundation of human rights, don't cover crimes against Muslims or people of color. Not to forget their outrageous Taliban style abortion laws or continues torture, mistreatment and even murder of immigrants.
Greek and Polish leaders asked European Commission President Ursula Von der #Leyen to lead a charge to create a common air defense shield that would be financed by the bloc.
Von der Leyen blessed the idea in a post on X Thursday as she renewed her call for more common defense projects.
The two leaders are also asking for the issue to be discussed at the next #EU summit at end of June.
"The currently implemented and planned policies under the #EU#GreenDeal lead to a path roughly aligned with global pathways that result in a little above a 2°C global temperature increase by the end of the century if other countries follow a similar level of ambition. This trajectory is more than a degree better than before the Green Deal, the level of action is now much higher than five years ago."
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 22, 2024
"The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) proposed on May 21 that the Russian government reassess Russia’s maritime borders in the Baltic Sea so that these borders “correspond to the modern geographical situation.”
#Russia's border guard removed more than 20 buoys demarcating shipping lanes from the #Narva River on Thursday (May 23), #Estonia's PPA said.
Estonia installed the markers in its waters based on the State Borders Act and the buoys' location were agreed by the border agencies in 2022.
However, this year Russia disagreed with the locations of approximately half of the 250 markers. Some of those removed on Thursday morning were those disputed by Russia
Un nouveau projet en préparation à Bruxelles : forcer les services de messagerie à ajouter une règle dans leurs conditions d'utilisations : ils devront empêcher les utilisateurs d'envoyer des images ou des vidéos, à moins qu'ils n'acceptent qu'elles soient numérisées, analysées par l'IA et potentiellement signalées à la police.
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