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Published on 29/09/2025 – 14:36 GMT+2 The Council of Europe (CoE) is “ready to create the tribunal for Ukraine”, but now member states must make it a reality, the institution’s Secretary-General, Alain Berset, told Euronews in an interview. “We had a strong commitment addressing the necessity to create this tribunal. We are ready to have an advanced team to make it real. What we need now is really a clear support and commitment from states,” Berset said in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. The Special Tribunal for Ukraine is a new international judicial body established…
Published on 29/09/2025 – 14:42 GMT+2 An Iraqi man has been sentenced to life in prison for human trafficking after he recruited Iraqi nationals to fight for Russia against Ukraine, court officials said on Monday. The Najaf Criminal Court said in a statement that the convicted man had “formed groups and sent them to fight in foreign countries in exchange for financial compensation” and that the verdict was issued based on Iraq’s anti-human trafficking law. An Iraqi judicial official and a senior security officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to comment, said the man, whom…
“Drone defense, of course, but not by a drone wall,” he stressed, adding that the priority is to make sure that development and procurement processes are flexible enough because of how fast the technology is evolving. His comments come as drones violated Polish, Romanian, Danish and Norwegian airspace in the past weeks; Russian fighter jets also crossed into Estonian airspace before being chased off. That’s increasing pressure on NATO and the EU to respond. Last week, Kubilius hosted a meeting with eastern flank countries, including Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Hungary and Slovakia to discuss a drone wall. He has previously said that such…
Published on 29/09/2025 – 13:54 GMT+2 Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán played down the possibility of Hungarian drones violating Ukraine’s airspace in an interview released on Monday. Even if a drone enters Ukraine from Hungary, Orbán said, Kyiv should deal with drones coming from the east, from Russia. On Friday, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed that a reconnaissance drone from Hungary violated the airspace of Ukraine, flying over industrial installations in the Transcarpathian region. Earlier, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó rejected the Ukrainian claims, but Orbán didn’t deny the incident. “I believe my ministers, but let’s say it did actually fly…
Denmark was rattled by a wave of drone sightings at major airports and military air bases last week, disrupting air traffic and stranding thousands of passengers. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said the airspace breaches amounted to “hybrid war” and hinted Russia was responsible. The incidents, which occurred ahead of Wednesday’s European Council meeting in Copenhagen to discuss defense and Ukraine, led the Danish authorities to take the dramatic step of closing the country’s airspace to civilian drones. France said Monday it had also sent its armed forces to shore up Copenhagen’s defenses. Paris deployed “35 personnel, a FENNEC helicopter, and…
The EU’s former Brexit negotiator will sit with members of his party Les Républicains in the National Assembly, in a conservative group that now holds 50 of the French lower house’s 577 seats. As prime minister, Barnier led a minority government backed by Les Républicains and a coalition of parties supporting President Emmanuel Macron. He fell three months into the job, after left-wing and far-right groups successfully passed a no-confidence motion against his government. After his win Sunday, Barnier said he would act with “loyalty and freedom” within his political group and would “continue to support working together with all…
Trump posted a video clip to his Truth Social account of European players, led by Northern Irish star Rory McIlroy, chanting “Are you watching? Are you watching? Are you watching, Donald Trump?” while holding the iconic golden trophy. In an uncharacteristically magnanimous response to the mockery, Trump replied: “Yes, I’m watching. Congratulations!” Team Europe competes in the biennial event under the EU flag — though several key players hail from the U.K. — in the most prominent sporting competition bringing the continent together under the blue-and-yellow banner. EU Sports Commissioner Glenn Micallef, who attended the three-day event on Saturday, said:…
Rachel Reeves gets her moment in Liverpool, but Sam and Anne explain why the podium at Labour conference might be the second biggest thing of her week. By Friday, the OBR will have put a number on the size of the black hole – the money she’s got to find to fund U-turns on policies such as winter fuel. You’re not getting that number from anyone from government in Liverpool though. Elsewhere, Andy Burnham is still in lots of the conversations – and we hear what members of the cabinet are getting about him in their WhatsApps.
Properly structured pools only succeed if implementers view their terms as balanced; they cannot ‘enforce’ acceptance into existence. When the market pushes back, pools adjust. That responsiveness makes them both pro-competitive and self-correcting. LNGs invert that logic. As coalitions of buyers, their explicit objective is to aggregate purchasing power to secure discounts from the prevailing FRAND rate — all while their members continue to use the technology. However, the non-discrimination limb of FRAND makes across the board ‘group discounts’ very hard to square with commitments owed to all implementers, including those that have already taken licenses, directly or through a…
Moldova, which is also an official candidate for EU membership, is paired with Kyiv in the accession process and cannot move ahead as long as the impasse persists. Under Costa’s proposal, so-called negotiating clusters — key legal steps on the path to membership — could be opened with the assent of a qualified majority of EU countries rather than unanimous agreement. Closing a cluster would still require the support of all the EU capitals, but the lower standard for opening negotiations would allow Ukraine and Moldova to begin the reforms necessary to demonstrate progress toward EU standards in particular policy areas.…