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Recent discussions between the EU’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas and Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar on the humanitarian situation had built trust and helped consolidate a “strong” foundation to the relationship, he said, warning that suspending parts of the association agreement would destroy all that goodwill. “We are basically a dream for the EU of a neighboring country,” Regev said. “We are a democracy, there is no issue with migration, gay rights. It’s a dream,” he said. “At the end of the road Israel is the only player in the region that serves directly the interests of the EU.”  The…

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Still, in the face of such evidence, the Russian government continues to deny even the existence of these children. They mock our allies, speaking of “European tender-hearted aunties” as though empathy were a weakness. But empathy is a strength. And the global community isn’t willing to tolerate these crimes. To date, through the tireless efforts of Ukraine’s government and humanitarian organizations, along with the support and facilitation of our partners, around 1,500 children have been returned and reunited with their families. We’ve heard their first-hand accounts: Forbidden from speaking their own language, faced with bullying, uncertain if they’d ever see…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday suggested that ceasefire efforts in Gaza are now focused on a comprehensive deal that would release the remaining hostages all at once, rather than in phases. In an interview with Israel’s i24 News network broadcast Tuesday, Netanyahu was asked if the window had closed on a partial ceasefire deal. “I think it’s behind us,” Netanyahu replied. “We tried, we made all kinds of attempts, we went through a lot, but it turned out that they were just misleading us.” “I want all of them,” he said of the hostages. “The release of all…

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Separately, the Commission can also hand out up to €395 billion in cheap loans to countries facing an unexpected and unspecified crisis. In a concession to critics of joint debt, however, the approval of national capitals and the European Parliament is required to trigger this mechanism. The only justification for grants ― effectively free money ― is to finance Ukraine, an aim that is uncontroversial in most EU capitals. A €100 billion cashpot for the war-battered country will include a mix of loans and grants that hasn’t yet been agreed.  Market reaction  Currently, markets treat EU joint debt more like…

“If we had more time, then almost certainly we would have had a majority in favor of halting the bill,” said Alistair Thompson, a spokesperson for Care Not Killing, a campaign group which opposes assisted dying.  “We will get a much fuller and franker debate in the Lords without people who have genuine concerns being excluded,” Thompson argued. “This particular bill is a very bad one,” concurred Tory peer and opponent Mark Harper. The former cabinet minister claimed some MPs “both on and off the record … recognized that the bill is not in great shape and expect the House…

Moscow claims it’s transferring Ukrainians to safety from the conflict, yet refuses to return the children to their relatives, putting them into the adoption system as orphans instead and immersing them in Russian propaganda.  Recently, the Trump administration made it even harder to track and retrieve Ukrainian children in Russia after it disbanded Yale University’s Humanitarian Research Lab task force, which helped to locate kidnapped children and expose complicit Russian and Belarusian officials.   U.S. cuts to foreign assistance and Trump administration sanctions against the International Criminal Court are also hurting the ability of groups to track thousands of abducted…

“Humanitarian space must be protected, and aid should never be politicised,” it continued. “However, due to restrictive new registration requirements, essential international NGOs may be forced to leave the OPTs imminently which would worsen the humanitarian situation still further.” The statement further implores Israel to authorize all international NGOs and “unblock” humanitarian actors, as well as facilitating the immediate entry of widespread aid into Gaza via the U.N. and international NGOs. It also says that lethal force must not be used at aid sites. Many Palestinians have reportedly been shot by snipers and tanks while trying to access aid. EU…

In Britain, Nigel Farage’s hard-right Reform UK is also topping polls amid broad public dissatisfaction with Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour government. While POLITICO’s Poll of Polls shows that Germany’s conservative Christian Democrats maintain a slight lead over the AfD in an aggregation of voter surveys, the far-right party has climbed since snagging almost 21 percent of the vote in February’s federal election, its best-ever result. The AfD is now the largest opposition party in Germany’s Bundestag. The AfD was initially founded as a single-issue party more than a decade ago by a group of economics professors who, in the…