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Ce samedi, le Rassemblement national a publié un long communiqué pour dénoncer les tentatives d’ingérence et de guerre hybride de Moscou. Une déclaration qui contraste avec la réaction de Jordan Bardella à la sortie de l’Elysée, où Emmanuel Macron avait convié, la veille, les chefs de parti pour évoquer les tensions internationales. Le patron du RN avait alors dénoncé l’absence de propositions sur le carburant, sans s’étendre sur la guerre en Ukraine. Pourquoi une telle correction de tir ? Le lien à la Russie reste-t-il le talon d’Achille d’une formation qui peine à définir une ligne claire, au risque d’alimenter…
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Monday that Russia posed “no threat” to France or any other European country, local media reported. His comments came after the far-right National Rally party’s Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella issued a warning to Moscow on the weekend. “We will never tolerate a foreign power, specifically Russia, attempting to dictate our country’s policies through intimidation, threats, destabilisation, or psychological pressure, either directly or indirectly,” the pair said in a joint statement. In response, Peskov told reporters that Russia was “not threatening France or any other country in Europe,” adding that “President Putin has…
Published on 21/09/2026 – 18:14 GMT+2 US President Donald Trump said Washington was working on a “massive” deal to buy fertilizer from Belarus, despite Minsk’s repression of dissidents and support for Russia’s war in Ukraine. Trump said on social media that the cost of the potash from Belarus would be “substantially less than we are currently paying to Canada,” the US neighbour against which he has stepped up a trade war. Potash is a potassium-rich salt mined mainly for fertilizer, helping crops grow and improving yields. Canada supplies most of the potash used by American farmers. Belarus is one of…
Neither the U.S. nor China are part of the new declaration. But Finnish President Alexander Stubb, one of the main organizers of the document, told POLITICO that he hopes to create “momentum” and get more actors on board: “I think it will be in the interest of both China and the United States to have some kind of guardrails. And our message here is that we need human intervention, so humans need to be in charge,” he said in an interview. Referring to the recent cyberattack by rogue AI agents on the Hugging Face platform, the declaration urges to “address…
The European Union is writing the sustainability rulebook for AI’s power-hungry future, but tech giants like Microsoft are already weighing in on how the bloc’s new rules should work. EU data centres with more than 500 kW of installed capacity that report under the bloc’s energy efficiency rules will receive an electronic sustainability label as of 21 September, according to new rules unveiled by the European Commission on Monday. “The aim of the rating scheme is to increase transparency about the energy use of data centres and to become a resource that will inform better policymaking and procurement of more…
Yemen’s Houthis have assured Washington that they would not attack US vessels in the Red Sea, following reports that the US cancelled its planned strikes on the group at the last minute, a senior Houthi official said on Monday. Mohamed al-Bukhaiti, a member of the Houthis’ political bureau, said Washington reached out to the group after their rapid advance down Yemen’s western coast to the Bab el-Mandeb strait earlier this month. “We confirmed that we are not targeting the United States, or any other nation, in the strait, with the sole exception of the Saudi enemy,” he said. “That remains…
Countries will have to give their agreement for the plan to go ahead by written procedure this evening — with an 8.00pm deadline for them to affirm. Ambassadors are consulting with capitals, but the arrangement is expected to go ahead, the three diplomats said. France has cited “national security concerns” as the reason for the move, joining forces with Slovakia, which has long lobbied for Usmanov’s delisting. Luxembourg has long called for the delisting of Ukrainian-born, Russian-Israeli tycoon Mikhail Fridman, who is suing the country for the release of frozen assets. France has declined to explain its motivations publicly or…
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has asked EU countries to strengthen the Aspides mission in the Red Sea, amid increasing threats from Houthis to navigation in the Bab el-Mandeb strait, which is crucial for trade routes between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The proposal, contained in a letter dated 19 September and sent to EU capitals, follows a request by Italy’s Defence Minister Guido Crosetto, who raised the alarm after an Italian frigate intervened to escort an Italian merchant vessel off the coast of Yemen last Friday. “We need more suitably equipped naval and air assets”, including…
Published on 21/09/2026 – 14:04 GMT+2 CNN, MS NOW and Politico will sue the Trump administration after being denied access to the White House, the news outlets said in a joint statement on Monday. President Donald Trump said on Friday he was banning the outlets from the presidential residence as punishment for distributing what he calls “fake news.” “This morning, we notified the government that we are filing a lawsuit today to protect our First Amendment rights and defend the principle that the government does not decide what the press reports or publishes,” CNN, MS NOW and Politico said in…
For pet owners, planning a holiday can involve a lot more than booking flights and hotels. There’s the quandary of whether their furry friend can board a plane with them, and exactly where they’d be allowed to travel to. Fortunately across Europe, it’s common for airlines to allow pets in the cabin. Things get trickier though when a cat or dog is on the larger side. How willing are European airlines to put pets in the hold or ship them separately in cargo? AirAdvisor, a global flight and baggage compensation service, reviewed the pet policies of 22 European airlines, investigating…