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“These are the same tactics we have warned about — voter suppression,” said one of the officials following the evacuation. Voting has since resumed at the embassy after it was given the all-clear by authorities. The pro-EU government of Moldovan President Maia Sandu has repeatedly warned that Russia is trying to sway the parliamentary election and derail the country’s efforts to join the bloc. The governing Party of Action and Solidarity has declared it hopes to take the country into the EU by 2030. In an interview with POLITICO last month, Moldova’s National Security Adviser Stanislav Secrieru warned that Moscow…
Sam and Anne have their Labour conference curtain-raiser – and wonder if Andy Burnham has gone a little bit into the rearview mirror as delegates turn up on the banks of the Mersey? There are already conference titbits to share – it sounds like Science and Technology Secretary Liz Kendall will get the job of implementing digital ID cards, fresh from overseeing welfare reform. And Yvette Cooper’s new Foreign Office team is apparently clamping down on the use of official government planes. Sam and Anne will have their usual morning episodes from conference – plus they will be in your…
In May, Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) declared that the Bundeswehr is to become the “strongest conventional armed force in Europe”. This presents the government with a twofold challenge: to alleviate the personnel shortage – partly by means of a new military service – and at the same time to quickly equip the troops with modern equipment. ‘Buy European’ According to Politico, the German government is working on a comprehensive armaments and procurement plan worth up to 83 billion euros. The majority of the orders are to go to European manufacturers; only around eight per cent are to be purchased…
Updated: 28/09/2025 – 12:00 GMT+2 Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this September 28th, 2025 – latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel. … More
Three Russian drones were shot down in Poland’s airspace earlier this month. And Denmark reported fresh drone sightings above defense sites on Friday and Saturday, after a wave of drone activity earlier in the week temporarily shut down major Danish airports. The Russian attack early Sunday included nearly 500 attack drones and more than 40 missiles, including the Iranian-Russian Shahed drones, Zelenskyy said. Dozens were wounded in the strikes and among the dead was a 12-year-old girl, he said. “The massive Russian attack on Ukraine lasted for more than 12 hours,” Zelenskky said. “Brutal strikes, deliberate and targeted terror against…
The package under discussion is estimated to be worth $90 billion, according to the media reports. Ukrainian officials will visit the U.S. later this month or in October for technical talks on the arms purchases and a separate drone-production deal, Zelenskyy said. Zelenskyy, who met with Trump last week in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, said on Saturday that he had shared with the U.S. president “a certain vision of what could be done” to respond to Russia’s actions in its war on Ukraine, according to the reports. “As for what Ukraine wants from…
Sol, the protagonist of ‘Casas limpias’ (Clean Houses), published by Temas de Hoy, is a young, progressive woman who would like to live as much as possible in accordance with current feminist ideas. However, when she’s fired from her job as an artist’s assistant and discovers that she is pregnant, she hires two Latin American women to help around the house to do what her boyfriend, who works 12 hours a day, cannot. This decision makes Sol feel ashamed and she starts to worry about what people will say, to the point of hiding so that her neighbour, from whose…
Moldovans are heading to the polls to cast their ballots in what many consider a crucial parliamentary election with high stakes and a central question – will the country choose to integrate with the European Union or drift back into Moscow’s fold? Sunday’s pivotal vote will elect a new 101-seat parliament, after which Moldova’s president nominates a prime minister, generally from the leading party or bloc, which can then try to form a new government. A proposed government then needs parliamentary approval. The tense race pits the governing pro-Western Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS), which has held a strong…
The legislative move comes amid a flurry of drone intrusions across Denmark and northern Germany that have intensified concerns over security and espionage. In Denmark, multiple airports and military installations have reported drone sightings in recent days. Copenhagen’s main airport was shut for several hours earlier this week after large drones were observed hovering in restricted airspace. Dobrindt’s proposal has two pillars. First, the minister said he would establish a national drone defense center to pool resources from the federal police, state police, the federal criminal office and the German armed forces, or Bundeswehr. The center would bundle budgets, foster…
Updated: 27/09/2025 – 18:00 GMT+2 Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this September 27th, 2025 – latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel. … More