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That involves a parallel process, where the NSTA assesses a project’s development plan while OPRED judges its environmental statement. The NSTA can’t sign off the development plan or grant drilling consent, though, until OPRED has completed its assessment. During the OPRED process, the environmental statement has to be signed off by DESNZ, effectively giving Miliband a mechanism to overrule the regulator’s recommendations.  That would give Miliband “in theory … lots of discretion to override regulator decision-making,” said Martin Copeland, chief financial officer at Serica Energy, one of the country’s largest oil and gas companies.    Paul de Leeuw, an energy…

The movement often becomes “your entire life, 360 degrees” to the exclusion of all else, another activist said. “Inside the branch you make solid bonds, so you become friends outside of the political context. There is trust, there is friendship, you go out together at night, you even find love. That happens, absolutely.” Smells like teen spirit At the four-day event, which ran with the tagline “#NoFilter,” the young activists followed in Meloni’s footsteps: Italy’s leader rose to prominence on the right as founder and organizer of the equivalent youth festival of the day. When Meloni joined the equivalent movement…

The asylum agency coordinates the implementation of the EU’s migration policy among member countries, including asylum applications and deportations. Members of the European Parliament who scrutinized the agency’s 2023 accounts wrote that the legislature “strongly deplores the weaknesses in the management of conflicts of interest within the agency.” The approval of the accounts is non-binding but allows the Parliament to issue recommendations to EU bodies on how to handle their budgets. Following an exchange with the agency’s executive director, Nina Gregori, lawmakers on the Committee on Budgetary Control voted to greenlight the accounts, albeit with a formal reprimand and demands…

NEW YORK — Donald Trump s’est-il soudainement converti en fervent partisan de l’Ukraine? La question a rapidement dominé les discussions mardi en marge de l’Assemblée générale des Nations unies à New York, Donald Trump ayant surpris par sa déclaration, la plus pro-Ukraine à ce jour. Le président américain a affirmé que Kiev peut non seulement gagner sa guerre contre la Russie, mais aussi reprendre chaque centimètre de territoire perdu. Son post sur Truth Social, publié juste après sa rencontre avec son homologue ukrainien Volodymyr Zelensky, est notable pour deux raisons. D’abord, il contredit ses précédentes déclarations, affirmant que l’Ukraine ne…

The use of disappearing messages is recommended in Commission guidance called “Checklist to Make Your Signal Safer,” from 2022. “On the one hand, it reduces the risk of leaks and security breaches, which is of course an important factor,” Commission spokesperson Balazs Ujvari said. “And also, it’s a question of space on the phone — so, effective use of a mobile device.” “The president has been complying with these internal guidelines and is using the disappearing message feature, which explains why we could not retrieve any such SMSs.” He added: “SMSs may have to be registered under certain circumstances —…

The Commission president’s comment follows an assertion by U.S. President Donald Trump that NATO countries should shoot down Russian jets that violate their airspace. Listen AI generated Text-to-speech Share

On Sept. 16, Romanian prosecutors charged Georgescu, Potra, his son and other mercenaries with orchestrating a violent coup. According to Romanian prosecutors, Potra, Georgescu and their associates had allegedly planned to hijack a protest in support of the former presidential candidate and generate violence amid the cancellation of the first round of the presidential election. Officials stated that the armed group sought to provoke clashes and carry out “violent actions of a subversive nature,” threatening national security and the “constitutional order.” Georgescu, a NATO skeptic, won the first round of Romania’s November presidential election — with the election subsequently canceled…

The agreement, brokered in July by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and U.S. President Donald Trump in Scotland, has come under fire in the EU for undermining rules-based trade and casting doubt on the bloc’s commitment to the multilateral system it has continued to champion even as Washington retreats. In particular, critics point to the fact that the pact goes against reciprocity and nondiscrimination — two principles at the heart of the rules-based system. While the EU has agreed to eliminate all tariffs on U.S. industrial goods and on cars, it should do so under a full-blown trade…

A jailed Bulgarian mayor whose detention is increasingly seen as a litmus test of the rule of law in the Balkan country says the EU should ramp up its pressure on Sofia to halt its descent toward authoritarianism. Mayor Blagomir Kotsev of Varna, Bulgaria’s third-largest city, was arrested July 8 on graft charges, which he has denied. His liberal anti-corruption We Continue the Change party insists the high-profile case is politically motivated and shows the country’s judiciary has been weaponized. The arrest has sparked nationwide protests and triggered a renewed outcry over the influence of organized crime in the country…

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