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NEW: The next EU and UK summit will take place on 20 November in Brussels, ending months of uncertainty about the event. The two sides hope to sign three agreements: * a food-and-drink deal to ease Brexit red tape * a pact linking the EU and UK's emissions-trading systems, so avoiding European carbon taxes on British businesses * a youth mobility scheme, enabling under 30s to live, work, study and travel for a time-limited period on both sides of the channel. EU officials have also said the summit would be an occasion to discuss the future of the relationship, while stressing the UK needs to define what it wants. One of the Burnham government's top priorities is to ensure the UK is not disadvantaged by the bloc's ‘Made in Europe’ laws that could favour EU manufacturers in strategic sectors, such as renewable energy, nuclear and electric cars - @JenniferMerode reports
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I will be in Brussels on Sept. 10 to talk about my book 'Russia Starts Here' with the @guardian's brilliant @JenniferMerode. Do come along! You can reserve a (free place) by emailing [email protected]: waterstones.com/events/howar…
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▫ UK seeking single market for good - but EU says no ▫Exclusive: Top British official presented idea in Brussels but sources say it was rebuffed ▫@JenniferMerode @rowenamason ▫tinyurl.com/2yyfouvd @guardian #frontpagestoday #UK 🇬🇧
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First #EU-#CentralAsia summit starts today. EU leaders should not turn a blind eye to Central Asian states’ repressive practices. Rights protections and the rule of law are essential to secure the EU’s own interests. theguardian.com/world/2025/a… @vonderleyen @eucopresident
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My respect for President Zelensky was already huge. I’m now in awe at how he’s taking on Putin and Trump at the same time. This man’s principle and above all his courage is something that all other european leaders, north, south, east and west should reflect on and learn from
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Shaun Walker
@shaunwalker720 Feb 2025
My colleague @julianborger on "the new world where the foreign policy of the most powerful country on Earth has been rapidly reorganised around the fragile ego of a sullen and resentful old man" theguardian.com/world/2025/f…
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after 3 hours of grilling the new EU foreign policy chief Kallas in the EP there have been several questions on Africa, Latin America, even Arctic - fine. and the final question was finally about Balkans - perhaps THE place where 🇪🇺 has the biggest influence. priorities...
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A grim moment for #Kyiv. A second Trump presidency means the probable end of US military assistance to Ukraine. The country's troops are already outgunned on the battlefield, with Russia advancing at the fastest rate since 2022. East - most of Donetsk oblast - may be lost in 2025
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Deflated mood tonight at the anti-government protest in Tbilisi. Many said they had hoped for more support from the EU, instead they received a visit from Orban. The momentum is not with the opposition. My report theguardian.com/world/2024/o…
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Remember Hungary's Sovereignity Protection Office? They've just published their "findings" on investigative portal @Atlatszo, conluding their activities "pose a sovereignty protection problem for Hungary, and the extent of the damage caused by their activities is considerable" 🧵
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Follow the Guardian for our on-the-ground coverage of the latest developments in the Georgian parliamentary elections, seen by many as the most crucial since independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 theguardian.com/world/2024/o…
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Shaun Walker
@shaunwalker715 Oct 2024
Spent a couple of months working on this longread about Pablo González / Pavel Rubtsov, the Spanish journalist accused of being a GRU spy. Hopefully it goes some way to answering a few of the questions around Pablo. theguardian.com/world/2024/o…
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Remember that €14bn in back tax the Irish government didn't want from Apple last month? Today it is "transformational" for the country - finance minister as he unveils pre-election budget. Ireland in surplus, unlike many EU economies - full story here theguardian.com/world/2024/o…
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“Brokering, convincing, occasionally pleading.” The task facing incoming Mark Rutte, as he takes charge of Nato at a perilous moment for Ukraine - with insights from ⁦@LungescuOana⁩ ⁦@valasekt⁩ ⁦@camille_grand⁩ theguardian.com/world/2024/s…
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Good overview by @JenniferMerode of Nato, as the former Dutch PM Mark Rutte takes charge, the war in Ukraine grinds on and a nervous world awaits a new and possibly hostile US president theguardian.com/world/2024/s…
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