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Pahlavi has sought to encourage foreign financial support for workers who will disrupt the state by going on strike. He also called for more Starlink internet terminals to be shipped into Iran, in defiance of a ban, to make it harder for the regime to stop dissidents from communicating and coordinating their opposition. Amid the latest internet shutdowns, Starlink has provided the opposition movements with a vital lifeline. As the protests gathered pace last week, Pahlavi stepped up his own stream of social media posts and videos, which gain many millions of views, encouraging people onto the streets. He started by…
Hristo Rusev/Getty Images Just a year ago, Putin signed a 20-year strategic partnership agreement with Tehran. Now the regime — which supplied Russia with killer Shahed drones for its fight in Ukraine — is in danger of being toppled by protesters whom Trump has indicated he could intervene militarily to defend. Russians have taken notice. “An entire era is coming to an end,” wrote a pro-war military blogger under the pen name Maxim Kalashnikov on Sunday, reflecting growing criticism of the Russian leadership. Russian authorities, he argued, had spent too much time trying to create an image that the country…
Last week, NATO countries asked the alliance to look into options for securing the Arctic, including shifting more military assets to the region and holding more military exercises in Greenland’s vicinity. The U.K. and Germany are reportedly in talks to send troops to the self-ruling Danish territory in an attempt to assuage Washington’s concerns. Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen on Monday also said the territory would “increase its efforts to ensure that the defense of Greenland takes place under the auspices of NATO.” Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković, speaking alongside Rutte, said that “allies have to respect each other, including the U.S.…
Kubilius’ words mark the first time a top EU official has publicly backed Frederiksen’s position, although EU diplomats privately agree with her. “I will also make it clear that if the U.S. chooses to attack another NATO country militarily, then everything stops, including NATO, and thus the security that has been established since the end of the Second World War,” Frederiksen said in a Jan. 5 interview with broadcaster TV2. The statement contrasts, though, with that of NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, who today insisted the alliance is not in crisis. Trump was asked in a two-hour interview with the New…
La chute du couple Instagram le plus influent de la scène politique italienne, à la suite d’un scandale de fraude sur des ventes de pandoro (un gâteau de Noël), émeut la Botte. Une histoire dans laquelle la présidente du Conseil des ministres Giorgia Meloni et son vice-président Matteo Salvini font partie des figurants. Chiara Ferragni, auparavant visage de la mode italienne sur les réseaux sociaux et coqueluche de la gauche, risque une peine de prison cette semaine dans l’affaire dite du “Pandoro gate”. Elle est accusée d’avoir trompé les consommateurs en 2023 en encourageant la vente, à des prix bien…
“X now has to fix its AI tool in the EU, and they have to do it quickly,” she said in a post on the platform. If that doesn’t happen, the European Commission is ready to strike under the the Digital Services Act, its law governing digital platforms. “We will not hesitate to put the DSA to its full use to protect EU citizens.” Under the DSA, platforms like X must address systemic risks, including those related to the spread of illegal content, or face fines of up to 6 per cent of their global annual turnover. Last month the…
At the time the reports surfaced, Várhelyi told European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen that he was “not aware” of the alleged Hungarian efforts, a denial he repeated on Monday. “I had no knowledge of this claim which was made in the press,” he told MEPs in response to a question from Greens lawmaker Daniel Freund. Freund had asked the commissioner if he had known of any of the activities supposedly run out of the Hungarian permanent representation to the EU, which he worked at from 2011 and ran from 2015. Hungarian officials working in the EU institutions at…
The European Commission has effectively stopped making decisions over files related to Hungary, two sources familiar with the matter told Euronews. The reason for putting sensitive decisions on hold is simple: the Commission does not want to be seen as interfering in the Hungarian election campaign and does not want to give ammunition to Orbán’s anti-EU rhetoric during the hot phase of campaigning. “With the Hungarian dossiers, the front lines are frozen, and nothing is happening. The Commission is waiting for April to happen and is watching opinion polls in Hungary very closely,” an EU diplomat told Euronews, speaking on…
The National Rally has been forced to perform a delicate dance when it comes to Trump, whose administration last month hinted it was ready to throw its weight between “patriotic European parties” in its bombshell national security strategy. In contrast with his jabs at the U.S., Bardella didn’t explicitly mention Russia in his speech, although in response to a question from POLITICO he warned against being too confrontational with Moscow. “Russia is today a multidimensional threat for a number of European interests,” he said. “But Russia is a nuclear power and … it’s never good in the world that we know when two…
Published on 12/01/2026 – 16:52 GMT+1 •Updated 17:01 Speaking on Monday during a trip to India, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Antonio Costa could sign a free trade agreement with New Delhi by the end of the month. Merz’s comments came days after a majority of EU member states backed the Mercosur free trade pact, a deal strongly supported by Germany as part of the bloc’s strategy to diversify trade ties beyond the US and China – two countries that have pursued strongly nationalist trade policies over the past…