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24 August marks Ukraine’s Independence Day. A holiday that has recently had a bittersweet taste for Ukrainians residing in Poland and other countries. Natalia Panchenko, leader of Euromaidan Warsaw and co-organiser of Ukraine’s Independence Day celebrations in Warsaw, tells Euronews: “We are the generation that is dying for Ukraine to continue to be independent. That is why this day is especially important for us. This day is important for those who are fighting in the trench, because it reminds them what they are fighting for – for Ukraine to be independent. This day is important for the mothers who lost…
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The base is where Canada leads a multi-national NATO brigade in its largest foreign military deployment. Canada has trained 45,000 Ukrainian troops through NATO’s Operation Unifier, starting soon after Russia’s illegal annexation of the Crimean Peninsula. Training was relocated to Poland after Russia’s full-scale February 2022 invasion. Carney’s political meetings will include Polish President Donald Tusk, Latvian Prime Minister Evika Siliņa and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. In Poland, discussions will focus on the aerospace, defense and energy and nuclear sectors. Carney and the Cabinet ministers are eager to bolster economic cooperation and investment in defense and security as all NATO countries aim to reach the…
By Gabriele Barbati & Andreas Rogal Published on 24/08/2025 – 16:34 GMT+2 The president of the European Commission intervened with an article on Sunday in several European newspapers, including the Italian IlSole24ore and the German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, which indirectly provides a response to the criticism of the EU’s “absence” on duties and wars made by former ECB chief and Italian PM Mario Draghi on Friday. “Much has been written about this agreement, considerations that deserve a direct response,” von der Leyen argued in the Italian newspaper, “imagine for a moment if the two largest economies in the democratic world had failed to…
The pact caps most U.S. tariffs on EU goods at 15 percent, including on cars and pharmaceuticals, and carves out exemptions for generics and aircraft parts. Critics, including former World Trade Organization boss Pascal Lamy, have warned the accord risks undermining Europe’s credibility as a defender of rules-based trade. But von der Leyen insisted the EU had secured a unique outcome: a single tariff ceiling of 15 percent, unlike the layered rates Washington applies to other partners. She also stressed that EU food safety, health and digital rules remain untouched, and pointed to Brussels’ efforts to diversify trade ties, including…
Crypto firms, which had lobbied for years for a stablecoin bill, insist the matter is settled. The GENIUS Act “is settled law,” said Summer Mersinger, CEO of the Blockchain Association, a leading industry trade group. “There was robust debate on the Hill, and the way this bill came out was a compromise from policymakers. So we really shouldn’t be trying to go back and reopen that.” Paige Pidano Paridon, executive vice president at the Bank Policy Institute, which represents large banks, said the group wanted to work collaboratively with the crypto industry to develop “clear, fair rules.” This isn’t bank vs.…
Lagarde singled out Germany and Spain as examples. Germany’s GDP would be about 6 percent lower today without migrant labor, while Spain’s strong recovery also “owes much” to foreign workers, she said. Across the eurozone, employment has expanded by more than 4 percent since 2021, even as central bankers pushed through the steepest rate hikes in a generation. The ECB president argued that migration has played a crucial role in offsetting Europe’s shrinking birth rate and growing appetite for shorter working hours. That, she said, helped companies expand output and damped inflationary pressures even as wages lagged behind prices. But…
Ukraine marked its 34th Independence Day on Sunday amid tit-for-tat drone strikes, with Moscow targeting cities across Ukraine and Kyiv hitting a Russian nuclear power plant and a major port. Ukraine’s air force said Russia launched more than 70 Shahed drones and a missile overnight, mostly from bases in Kursk, Millerovo and Primorsko-Akhtarsk. Air defenses downed 48 of them, but others hit targets in at least 10 regions, setting off fires and injuring civilians. A rocket attack in the city of Pavlohrad caused a large blaze, while local officials reported nine injuries and one death in the Dnipropetrovsk region. Kyiv…
As Ukraine marks its Independence Day, artist Lesia Khomenko is bringing powerful new meaning to one of the country’s busiest public spaces. Khomenko has turned the main hall of Kyiv-Pasazhyrskyi train station into her temporary studio, creating a 21-by-12 metre painting that mirrors the movement and spirit of a nation fighting for its survival. Installed in partnership with Ukrainian Railways, the work marks a bold return to public art for the artist and arrives just ahead of her upcoming solo exhibition at the PinchukArtCentre, opening 28 August. “The Central Train Station in Kyiv is a very emotional place for everyone…
Published on 24/08/2025 – 8:03 GMT+2 Antarctica, Earth’s last great wilderness, is facing growing pressure from human activity. A new study published in Nature Sustainability warns that surging tourism and expanding research bases are polluting the southern continent, accelerating snow melting and threatening fragile ecosystems already at risk from climate change. Researchers from Chile, Germany and the Netherlands spent four years travelling 2,000 kilometres across Antarctica to measure contamination. They found that in areas where humans have an active presence, concentrations of toxic metals such as nickel, copper and lead are now 10 times higher than they were four decades…