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When 42-year-old French officer Arnaud Frion was killed by a drone strike on the Mala Qara Kurdish base near Erbil on Thursday evening, the attack raised the question that goes beyond the incident itself: what does it mean for France’s strategy in the region? Could it push Paris toward greater military involvement in Iraq and the Middle East, or even into the ongoing operation against Iran? Euronews spoke with two French experts for some analysis. Frédéric Encel is a geopolitical scholar specialising in Middle Eastern affairs and Western security alliances. His latest book, “La guerre mondiale n’aura pas lieu” (“There…
The senior official also complained about a stipulation in the law that if the level of deforestation in any country exceeds 70,000 hectares annually, that country cannot be considered “low risk.” That standard “just doesn’t work for us,” they said. “It’s not fair.” Representatives from the European Commission are meeting with members of the delegation on Friday “at technical level” to discuss the law, a spokesperson for the European Commission confirmed to POLITICO. European Environment Commissioner Jessika Roswall told reporters in January that there would be no new legislative proposal come April, saying businesses need “predictability.” A 2024 report from the…
Will Viktor Orbán lift his veto on the €90 billion loan for Ukraine before or after Hungarians cast their ballots in the hotly contested elections of 12 April? This is the burning question that officials and diplomats in Brussels are privately debating as the dispute over the Druzhba pipeline takes centre stage on the campaign trail, where opposition leader Péter Magyar has emerged as his most serious challenger to Orbán’s nearly 16 years of uninterrupted power. “Orbán understands that he’s all the time testing the limits of how much the other member states are willing to put up with,” said…
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6:42 GMT+1 Trump says US has ‘totally obliterated’ military targets on Iran’s Kharg Island US President Donald Trump has said the US military has heavily bombed targets on Iran’s Kharg Island, which handles almost all of the country’s crude exports and threatened to hit the island’s oil infrastructure.”The United States Central Command executed one of the most powerful bombing raids in the History of the Middle East, and totally obliterated every MILITARY target in Iran’s crown jewel, Kharg Island,” Trump said on social media.”I have chosen NOT to wipe out the Oil Infrastructure on the Island. However, should Iran, or…
“The European Union’s indifference and acquiescence in the face of U.S. and Israeli aggression, brutalities and atrocities amounts to nothing less than complicity,” Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said. Mar 12 2 mins read
Universities say they will face a cash crisis if lucrative foreign fee income is cut and not replaced, with one recently published analysis by the Russell Group suggesting the sector would be left £580 million out of pocket. A U.K. official said the home fees demand wasn’t mentioned in the “common understanding” drawn up as a blueprint for talks last year — and that negotiations are about implementing that document. The agreement does not explicitly mention tuition fees and only says the youth scheme should “facilitate the participation of young people from the European Union and the United Kingdom” in…
“There were different rounds within the coalition where we insisted very strongly that we should clearly reject this war,” Adis Ahmetovic, the leading foreign policy lawmaker for the SPD, told Deutschlandfunk radio earlier this week. ‘Economic and refugee fears’ But Merz is also being driven by the economic risks of a prolonged war, particularly as Germany’s energy-intensive manufacturing sector — which was already sputtering before the war started — is particularly vulnerable to cost spikes. “Growth prospects are likely to continue to deteriorate,” Veronika Grimm, one of the country’s leading economists, wrote in an essay for German newspaper Handelsblatt. “For…
FIFA is caught between Iran and a hard place. Tehran’s football federation has urged the world governing body to eject the U.S. from the 2026 World Cup, while America hammers Iran with missile strikes. The U.S. is co-hosting the premier football tournament this summer along with Canada and Mexico, and the U.S.-Israeli strikes that decapitated Tehran’s leadership have thrown Iran’s participation into doubt. Trump this week suggested it was not “appropriate” for the Iranian team to attend for their “own life and safety,” not long after FIFA President Gianni Infantino assured people that Trump had said it was “welcome to compete…
Oldbury is “an absolutely prime site” for private firms to sweep in, he told MPs in February. “We have lots of companies from the U.S. working with U.K. companies on these other routes to market,” he said. Easing planning rules to build nuclear closer to urban centers could open up another site, Heysham in north-west England, to future development. That site is owned by French energy giant EDF but it, too, has been eyed for potential U.S. development. “If we have clear action, if the government were able to give clarity and certainty on Heysham, it certainly would be a site U.S. investors would look at,” the second industry figure said, citing technical advantages like its proximity to grid connections and local transport access. …