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Published on 25/09/2025 – 7:56 GMT+2 Air passengers in Italy should prepare for disruption this Friday, 26 September, as nationwide strikes are likely to affect travel plans at the start of the weekend. Walkouts have been called by the CUB Trasporti and USB unions– two of Italy’s biggest rank-and-file unions – in a dispute over pay and working conditions. The 24-hour strike will involve airline crews as well as airport staff, with Milan’s Linate and Malpensa airports set to be among the worst affected. Ground operations will also be hit. Baggage handlers employed by Assohandlers are walking out from 10…
The EU is also extending its regular work to counter disinformation in EU countries to Moldova. In July, the Commission announced a new hub for fighting misinformation in Ukraine and Moldova. These hubs are part of the European Digital Media Observatory, bringing together experts in different regions to fight foreign interference. Six of these hubs will receive €8.8 million for a maximum of three years. The European Commission has been rushing to deploy a cyber reserve — a team of private-sector cybersecurity experts. | Alicia Windzio/Getty Images The EU executive also conducted a stress test with Google, Meta and TikTok,…
Some of the Central European countries, including Hungary, Romania and Slovenia, have seen their economic prospects sour as trade tariffs bite and Chinese competition increases, squeezing their exports. This is according to the latest outlook from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). Growth in the 43 countries where the EBRD invests picked up from 2.8% in 2024 to 3.3% in the first half of 2025. After a stronger-than-expected first half of 2025, the organisation forecasts a significant slowdown in growth in the second half of the year across its regions. These include Central Asia, the Southern and Eastern…
Zweiter Anlauf für die Verfassungsrichterwahl: Nach dem Sommer-Desaster treten heute Sigrid Emmenegger, Günter Spinner und Ann-Katrin Kaufhold an. Union und SPD sind auf Stimmen von Grünen und Linken angewiesen. Rasmus Buchsteiner erklärt, warum das Votum zum Test für die Koalition wird, ein Scheitern aber unwahrscheinlich ist. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview spricht Grünen-Fraktionschefin Britta Haßelmann über Verantwortung, Vertrauen – und warum sie trotz aller Kritik an Friedrich Merz für die Kandidaten stimmt. Sie warnt: Ohne Taten im Herbst der Reformen droht ein „Winter der Enttäuschung“.Außenpolitisch richtet sich der Blick nach New York: Hans von der Burchard berichtet von der UN-Generalversammlung, wo Sudan, Ukraine…
Moldova’s Prime Minister Dorin Recean warned on Wednesday that Russia is spending hundreds of millions of euros to “take power” in a pivotal parliamentary election that could derail the country’s course towards the European Union. Recean’s remarks came days before Sunday’s parliamentary elections, when Moldovans will vote to choose a new 101-seat legislature in a ballot many view as a choice between east and west. “The Republic of Moldova is in an electoral campaign. The Russian Federation is also in an electoral campaign,” he said in an address after a government session. “It’s just that we are campaigning in our country,…
Luke Sullivan, a former political secretary to Starmer, now a director at consultancy Headland, said Reform’s indefinite leave to remain announcement demonstrated the “complex” policy area is “fraught with political and economic trade-offs.” The top talent Reeves is hoping to attract is listening. Even without being implemented, Reform’s proposals would “have a negative impact on the attractiveness of the U.K. as a destination for the world’s brightest and best researchers because people may worry their right to be in the country could be taken away,” Alicia Greated, executive director of the Campaign for Science and Engineering, said. “Retrospective changes of…
That involves a parallel process, where the NSTA assesses a project’s development plan while OPRED judges its environmental statement. The NSTA can’t sign off the development plan or grant drilling consent, though, until OPRED has completed its assessment. During the OPRED process, the environmental statement has to be signed off by DESNZ, effectively giving Miliband a mechanism to overrule the regulator’s recommendations. That would give Miliband “in theory … lots of discretion to override regulator decision-making,” said Martin Copeland, chief financial officer at Serica Energy, one of the country’s largest oil and gas companies. Paul de Leeuw, an energy…
The movement often becomes “your entire life, 360 degrees” to the exclusion of all else, another activist said. “Inside the branch you make solid bonds, so you become friends outside of the political context. There is trust, there is friendship, you go out together at night, you even find love. That happens, absolutely.” Smells like teen spirit At the four-day event, which ran with the tagline “#NoFilter,” the young activists followed in Meloni’s footsteps: Italy’s leader rose to prominence on the right as founder and organizer of the equivalent youth festival of the day. When Meloni joined the equivalent movement…
The asylum agency coordinates the implementation of the EU’s migration policy among member countries, including asylum applications and deportations. Members of the European Parliament who scrutinized the agency’s 2023 accounts wrote that the legislature “strongly deplores the weaknesses in the management of conflicts of interest within the agency.” The approval of the accounts is non-binding but allows the Parliament to issue recommendations to EU bodies on how to handle their budgets. Following an exchange with the agency’s executive director, Nina Gregori, lawmakers on the Committee on Budgetary Control voted to greenlight the accounts, albeit with a formal reprimand and demands…
NEW YORK — Donald Trump s’est-il soudainement converti en fervent partisan de l’Ukraine? La question a rapidement dominé les discussions mardi en marge de l’Assemblée générale des Nations unies à New York, Donald Trump ayant surpris par sa déclaration, la plus pro-Ukraine à ce jour. Le président américain a affirmé que Kiev peut non seulement gagner sa guerre contre la Russie, mais aussi reprendre chaque centimètre de territoire perdu. Son post sur Truth Social, publié juste après sa rencontre avec son homologue ukrainien Volodymyr Zelensky, est notable pour deux raisons. D’abord, il contredit ses précédentes déclarations, affirmant que l’Ukraine ne…