Moldova has fully met three of the European Commission's nine recommendations and has made "good progress" in two other areas, says a report to be presented to European ambassadors on 21 June and foreign ministers from member countries next week in Stockholm....
A defense council meeting held at the Elysée Palace examined the possibility of Kiev joining the Atlantic Alliance, which had so far been ruled out by Paris, Berlin and Washington, but was supported by Central European countries such as Poland and the Baltic states. This French overture would be designed to increase pressure on...
My brain has been completely fried by the American racialization of people because my first reaction to reading that title was "well, calling them a racial slur is not very nice"
Finland will not give any development aid to governments and countries that support Russia’s war in Ukraine, according to the programme of Finland’s new right-wing government, Foreign Trade and Development Minister Ville Tavio told YLE on Monday.
Li told journalists China wants closer economic cooperation with Germany but avoided any mention of Russia or Ukraine.
Europe must start to ween itself off from China, now its the time. We shouldn't repeat the same bs we did with Russia.
There are other better trade partners out there.
In an apparent reaction to those plans, Li warned that "deglobalization flares up again."
He said, "We should maintain the tradition of mutually beneficial cooperation and uphold the multilateral trading system and industry and supply chain stability."
At the beginning of the month, a group of Ukrainian prisoners of war will be transferred from Russia to Hungary - according to Ukrainian Foreign Office spokesman Nikolenko, Ukraine will not be informed about this. Now he accuses the EU country of holding the eleven Ukrainians incommunicado. Hungary denies....
@stux Jeez, I decide to check on what's going on in the fediverse/microblogging thing for the first time and people are having death-threats drama? Holy hell. Can someone of you kind folks fill me in? What was all of this about?
Dmitry Rogozin - Director General of Roscosmos from 2018 to 2022, deputy prime minister in charge of the defense industry from 2011 to 2018, and Russia's ambassador to NATO from 2008 to 2011, was (and is) a nazi.
The party he formed, Rodina, was campaigning to ban jewish minorities and jewish organizations.
These are the kind of people that are appointed in positions of power. Can we imagine even for a split second the sheer scandal that would ensue if NASA's director had that kind of history?
In order to get a better grasp of Right Sector and Ukrainian Ultra Nationalism, [DylanBurnsTV] went to a Right Sector base to interview a fighter who has been fighting with their paramilitary group since 2014, when Russia invades Ukraine and sponsored separatists in eastern Ukraine....
I don't blame them that much for the downvotes, a lot of people are weary or suspicious when Ukraine's far right topic is addressed.
But not because they want to deny its existence, but because that its existence has been weaponized by Russians as a justification for their invasion, genocide, tortures, rapes and overall warcrimes.
And especially with how some western leftists (Hello Hasan) have treated the issue, or how it was used by tankies, fascists, vatniks and all sorts of such people to attack and diminish Russia's action, it is pretty understandable their reaction.
That being said, Dylan has been on the side of Ukraine since the very beginning, one of the few genuine left-leaning western folks, and this interview is very informative. Looking forward tot he second part.
The European Union is ready to propose a financial aid package of around €50 billion ($55 billion) to support Ukraine as the country embarks on a critical counteroffensive to retake territory lost since Russia’s invasion more than a year ago....
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The russian Orthodox Church said earlier this month a group of Ukrainian prisoners of war of Hungarian origin had been transferred to Budapest.
“All attempts by Ukrainian diplomats over the past few days to establish direct contact with Ukrainian citizens have not been successful,” foreign ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko said in a statement on Facebook.
@EugeneMcParland If the rumors about Hungary using these people for a media stunt to hit at Ukraine and praise Russia/Russian Orthodox Church at true, I expect a strong and violent response from all EU member states as well as the EU itself.
Didn't they say that they wouldn't never do something like this when they were talking about "muh brexit benefits" and that it was all "project fear", or am I misremembering?
Twelve police were wounded on Saturday (17 June) in clashes with demonstrators in France's Savoie department where a protest against a high speed rail project in the Alps turned violent, authorities said.
International railway is not the future, international railway will be a lluxury, the future is local railway
and
Everywhere you need to transport goods, then you need to transfor it with railway instead, because otherwise you will have trucks and pollution
Hold on. Are you an isolationist? Do you want member states in the EU to do less trade with each other and people to travel less inbetween member states?
Yeah, that has zero chance of ever working. Its completely unrealistic, furthermore I'd argue that its a pro-fascist stance simply because by virtue of imposing those kind of restrictions on people and commerce will very likely lead to fascists taking power. I can easily see that happening.
I already said this in another post, but international trade of goods is perfectly fine. in this case there is already a line which is underused, at 20% usage.
For example in this case, the only way to achieve this is either 1) faster rail alternative that's better than transporting via trucks (which you very explicitly do not want) or 2) state force via taxes on trucks/roads/fuel.
The moment you do the second options fascists, nazis, white supremacists and the rest of the filth will undoubtedly surge in the polls.
We've seen what happened with just a immigrant crisis.
This kind of move will not only cartoonishly fail to achieve any of its goals but it'll put fascists in power.
This is a huge luxury and people need to get rid of the idea that traveling far is a given. No, it's not. Not any more. It was, with the profusion of energy, but now it's not any more.
This won't happen, climate change is not the type of thing where people notice its effects relatively immediately. And for that reason they're not going to vote for the ones who wish to install draconian measures and greatly hamper the economy and all that suffering that comes with that.
Progress report: Moldova met more conditions put forward by the European Commission than Ukraine and Georgia (moldova.europalibera.org)
Moldova has fully met three of the European Commission's nine recommendations and has made "good progress" in two other areas, says a report to be presented to European ambassadors on 21 June and foreign ministers from member countries next week in Stockholm....
France resolves to support Ukrainian membership of NATO (www.lemonde.fr) French
A defense council meeting held at the Elysée Palace examined the possibility of Kiev joining the Atlantic Alliance, which had so far been ruled out by Paris, Berlin and Washington, but was supported by Central European countries such as Poland and the Baltic states. This French overture would be designed to increase pressure on...
Crackers demand $4.5 million ransom and API pricing changes from Reddit (www.theverge.com)
Finland may cut aid to African countries supporting Russian war in Ukraine (www.euractiv.com)
Finland will not give any development aid to governments and countries that support Russia’s war in Ukraine, according to the programme of Finland’s new right-wing government, Foreign Trade and Development Minister Ville Tavio told YLE on Monday.
China’s PM focuses on trade and climate, ignores Scholz’s Ukraine plea (www.politico.eu)
Hey, did you hear? Sync for Lemmy is happening!
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Ukraine: Hungary denies access to prisoners of war (www.n-tv.de) German
At the beginning of the month, a group of Ukrainian prisoners of war will be transferred from Russia to Hungary - according to Ukrainian Foreign Office spokesman Nikolenko, Ukraine will not be informed about this. Now he accuses the EU country of holding the eleven Ukrainians incommunicado. Hungary denies....
It appears that Roscosmos really is recruiting soldiers for the Ukraine War (arstechnica.com)
Estonia legalizes same-sex marriage (www.politico.eu)
‘I am proud of Estonia,’ says PM Kaja Kallas.
Interviewing Ukraine's Far-Right Soldiers (EDIT: by a left-wing youtuber and no the interviewed is not a Nazi, by a long shot) (www.youtube.com)
In order to get a better grasp of Right Sector and Ukrainian Ultra Nationalism, [DylanBurnsTV] went to a Right Sector base to interview a fighter who has been fighting with their paramilitary group since 2014, when Russia invades Ukraine and sponsored separatists in eastern Ukraine....
Andrew Tate indicted and will face trial on rape, human trafficking charges in Romania (www.msn.com)
Volodymyr Agranovich, pro-Russian filmmaker from Donetsk says "in 2020 you couldn't say that you were from the DPR" and that "you had to hide" because "people wouldn't work with you", admitting that the majority of Donetsk people were against the DPR (i.imgur.com)
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EU Readies €50 Billion Ukraine Package Ahead of Donor Summit (www.bloomberg.com)
The European Union is ready to propose a financial aid package of around €50 billion ($55 billion) to support Ukraine as the country embarks on a critical counteroffensive to retake territory lost since Russia’s invasion more than a year ago....
Losses of the Russian Military to 20.6.2023 (lemmy.world)
FPV kamikaze drone sneaks up on a Russian soldier (i.imgur.com)
UK Government Plans To “Unlock The Power Of Location Data,” Surveil Population Movements (reclaimthenet.org)
A dozen French police wounded in clashes with protesters opposing high speed rail project (www.eureporter.co)
Twelve police were wounded on Saturday (17 June) in clashes with demonstrators in France's Savoie department where a protest against a high speed rail project in the Alps turned violent, authorities said.