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      <title>[Ticker] Nerve agent used on Navalny, Germany says</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The German government has said tests on samples taken from Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny showed the presence of the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok. Navalny is being treated in Berlin after falling ill in Russia last month. Novichok is a type of chemical weapon developed by the Soviet Union and Russia, and used in a 2018 attack in Salisbury, UK, against former GRU officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter.]]></description>
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      <title>[Ticker] Report: Reynders could take over Hogan's trade portfolio</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The name of Didier Reynders, the current European commissioner for justice, is circulating as a possible candidate to take over the portfolio of trade from Phil Hogan, De Standaard writes. Hogan resigned because of breaching Ireland's coronavirus measures. Ireland needs to find a replacement for Hogan, but chances are low it can hold the important trade post. The centre-right, however, would be against the portfolio going to a liberal.]]></description>
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      <title>EU bank agency pledges to curb improper lobbying</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Other institutions should follow the lead of an EU bank agency in preventing improper staff moves to industry, the EU Ombudsman has said.]]></description>
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      <title>EU money can be used to offshore migrants on boats</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The European Commission says member states can use EU funds to pay for food, medical supplies, and personnel on vessels hosting migrants offshore - provided that all legal conditions are met.]]></description>
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      <title>[Coronavirus] Commission: Hungary barring some EU citizens is illegal</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The EU Commission told Hungary that its move to admit visitors from the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia but not from other EU member states is discrimination and was not in line with EU rules.]]></description>
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      <title>MEPs warn of 'significant gaps' in budget talks</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The budget committee chair said the European Parliament expects tangible improvements to the package in its talks with member states - while the German minister argued that the EU leaders' deal was difficult enough.]]></description>
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      <title>[Column] In the Sahel, France deserves the support of Europe</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[If Europe wants to have a chance to bring back some stability and keep some ground against other powers, it must learn to be a better partner. Doing what we are doing is not an option.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2020 07:06:22 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Flemish prime minister under fire over police killing</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Flemish prime minister Jan Jambon  appeared before a Belgian parliamentary committee to explain the arrest and death of Slovak citizen Jozef Chovanec in 2018.]]></description>
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      <title>[Opinion] EU can help end Nigeria slaughter</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[As the European Union prepares for the 6th African Union summit, set to take place in Brussels in October, EU leaders should wake up to the tragic reality unfolding beyond the Mediterranean sea.]]></description>
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      <title>[Opinion] Teleworking and the case for a new EU labour contract</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[For many workers, jobs have been decoupled from location. Now, the European Union must recognise that fact and adjust to it by adopting new rules.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2020 07:05:22 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>[Ticker] Turkey ratchets up rhetoric in gas dispute</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has ratcheted up rhetoric against EU member states in a dispute over gas in the eastern Mediterranean. "It is funny (for other countries) to use Greece, which cannot fight its way out of a paper bag, as bait against a regional and global power like Turkey," he said. Ankara had also announced its research vessel will carry out seismic surveys in the disputed area.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2020 07:04:51 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>[Ticker] UK blames EU for lack of Brexit talks 'momentum'</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The UK has blamed the EU for stalled Brexit talks, while rejecting Brussels' proposals to discuss "difficult" areas, such as state aid and fisheries, first in next week's round of Brexit talks. "The EU continues to insist that we must agree on difficult areas", a spokesman for British negotiator David Frost said. "We would instead like to settle the simplest issues first, in order to build momentum," he added.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2020 07:04:33 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>[Ticker] Extremists could hijack German corona-protests warning</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Right-wing extremists in Germany could use the protest movement against coronavirus measures for their own ends, the head of Germany's domestic security agency BfV, Thomas Haldenwang, said on Tuesday in interview with the German news agency DPA. "Right-wing extremists and 'Reichsbürger' [alt-right Reich Citizens] succeeded in occupying a resonant space, creating powerful images and thus exploiting the heterogeneous protest events," Haldenwang said.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2020 07:03:49 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>[Ticker] Report: Erdoğan wanted to sink Greek ship</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan instructed his generals, in recent days, to sink a Greek ship in such a way as not to kill any crew, German daily Die Welt reports, citing Turkish military sources. But the generals refused to do so, the paper added. A second suggestion from the president's circle was to shoot down a Greek fighter jet in a non-lethal way, but generals refused again.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2020 07:03:32 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>[Ticker] Greece delays school year, students to wear masks</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Greece has delayed the school year by one week due to a surge in the number of coronavirus infections in the past few weeks, Reuters reported. "We urge all parents to return with the children to their homes in the coming days and to make sure they stay safe […] until lessons resume," said on Tuesday a government spokesperson. Mask will also be mandatory in all indoor spaces of schools.]]></description>
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      <title>[Ticker] Covid-19: Spain saw EU's largest job losses</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Spain is the European country that shed most jobs due to coronavirus, El País reported on Tuesday. During the first half of the year, job losses were nearly three times higher in Spain than in other member states. Between April and June, employment in Spain decreased by 7.5 percent, according to Eurostat - in Germany by 1.4 percent, in France by 2.6 percent and in the UK by 0.7 percent.]]></description>
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      <title>[Ticker] Italian Dolomites glacier could disappear within 15 years</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Marmolada, the largest and most symbolic glacier in the Dolomites, could disappear within 15 years due to global heating, Italian scientists have warned, according to The Guardian. The 3,343m glacier, known as the Queen of the Dolomites, has already lost more than 80 percent of its volume over the last 70 years. Aldino Bondesan, a geophysics professor at the University of Padua said only long-term climate efforts can help.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2020 07:01:43 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>[Ticker] Commission tells Hungary not to bar EU citizens</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[EU commissioners Didier Reynders and Ylva Johansson have written to Hungarian authorities stressing there can be no discrimination between EU citizens when it comes to travel restrictions, a commission spokesperson said. The letter comes in reaction to the latest <a href="https://euobserver.com/coronavirus/149282">restrictions introduced on Tuesday</a> banning all foreigners entering the country, due to a rise in coronavirus infections. On Monday, Hungary made latest-minute exceptions for Czech, Polish and Slovak citizens.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2020 12:48:07 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>[Ticker] EU bank watchdog promises to stem 'revolving doors'</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The European Banking Authority (EBA) says it will make additional efforts to prevent people in its senior management from getting jobs in private firms they oversee, following pressure from the administrative watchdog, the EU Ombudsman. The announcement follows the <a href="https://euobserver.com/institutional/148325">controversial move of the EBA's former executive director Adam Farkas</a>, who was hired by the Brussels-based Association for Financial Markets in Europe.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2020 10:31:33 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>[Ticker] Ireland's new EU commissioner could be Coveney</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Irish foreign minister Simon Coveney has indicated he might take up the country's EU commission post following the recent resignation of Phil Hogan for flouting anti-coronavirus restrictions. "I'm not ruling myself out, but this is subject to a decision of the Taoiseach [prime minister] and party leaders," Coveney told Irish broadcaster RTE Monday. The 48-year old former MEP is a Brexit specialist hoping to retain Hogan's trade portfolio in Brussels.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2020 07:18:28 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>[Ticker] China voices anger over Czech visit to Taiwan</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Czech senate speaker Miloš Vystrčil "will pay a heavy price" for his "public provocation" of having visited Taiwan Sunday, Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi said in a statement Monday. "To challenge the One China principle on the Taiwan issue is ... an act of international treachery," Wang added. Wang spoke while on a tour of EU states that ends in Berlin Tuesday in his first overseas trip since the pandemic.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2020 07:13:08 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>[Ticker] Paris to offer free Covid-19 tests</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Paris city officials rolled out new testing labs on Monday and said it will soon be possible to get tested for Covid-19 for free in all 20 districts of the French capital, RFI reported. The spots will offer free testing for everyone, including those without social security. The city also launched three permanent laboratories to conduct free tests, and two mobile laboratories, as France faces rising numbers of infections.]]></description>
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      <title>[Ticker] Report: only 10% of electricity firms prioritise renewables</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A study from the University of Oxford revealed that only one-in-10 of global electric utility firms are investing in renewable energy. The author of the report, Galina Alova, told The Guardian that the research highlighted "a worrying gap between what is needed" to fight the climate crisis and "what actions are being taken by the utility sector". Most of the companies prioritising renewable energy were located in Europe.]]></description>
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      <title>[Ticker] German president condemns far-right Reichstag protest</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Monday condemned an attempt by far-right protesters to storm the country's parliament building over the weekend, AP reported. Hundreds of people, who were part of a broader demonstration against pandemic restrictions, breached a security barrier outside the Reichstag. Steinmeier called right-wing extremism "a serious danger". He defended the right of those protesting but urged them not to join forces with the far-right.]]></description>
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      <title>[Ticker] Baltic states impose sanctions on Belarus' Lukashenko</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia on Monday imposed a travel ban on Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko and 29 officials involved in electoral vote-rigging, Reuters reported. "We see that we need to move forward and to show an example to other countries," said Lithuanian president Gitanas Nauseda, referring to the cautious approach taken by the EU and member states. The Belarusian foreign ministry said they will respond with similar sanctions.]]></description>
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      <title>[Ticker] Commission gets new oversight powers on clean cars</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The European Commission as of Tuesday will be able to impose €30,000 fines per car should an EU regulation on the approval and market surveillance of motor vehicles be violated. "From now on the Commission will be able to carry out checks on cars, trigger EU-wide recalls, and impose fines of up to €30,000 per car when the law is broken," said EU commissioner for internal market, Thierry Breton.]]></description>
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      <title>[Ticker] EU joins global Covid-vaccine platform</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The European Commission is joining the Covid-19 Vaccine Global Access Facility. Also known as Covax, the facility aims to hasten affordable vaccines against the virus for everyone.  The Commission said it will also offer Covax some €400m in guarantees as part of those efforts. "Global collaboration is the only way to overcome a global pandemic," said commission president Ursula von der Leyen in a statement.]]></description>
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      <title>[Coronavirus] EU warning after Hungary unilaterally shuts borders</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The European Commission warned closing borders was not an "efficient" measure to fight the coronavirus pandemic, after Hungary decided unilaterally to shut down its borders to all foreigners. Meanwhile, neighbouring countries are considering different approaches.]]></description>
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      <title>[Letter] Right of Reply: The EU and Sudan</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Concerning the op-ed "Sudan asylum decision signals Dutch moral collapse", we would like to rebut statements made in this article and signal that it contains factual mistakes and misleading statements about the use of EU funds in Sudan.]]></description>
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      <title>[Opinion] Time for EU to get real on Hezbollah</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Hezbollah has flagrantly violated the UN mandate, as it continues arms-smuggling via Syria with Iran and digging tunnels along the Israeli border.]]></description>
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      <title>[Opinion] Russia is very present in Belarus</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Many European politicians have praised Russia for keeping a neutral line toward developments in Belarus. However, this is not the case at all.]]></description>
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      <title>[Ticker] EU states ignore appeal to relocate stranded migrants</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Member states have yet to ask the European Commission to help coordinate the relocation of some 350 migrants and refugees stranded for the past 10 days on the charity rescue boat <a href="https://twitter.com/MSF_Sea/status/1300382648402169857">Sea Watch 4.</a> "So far we have not received a request to coordinate the relocation of those rescued by the Sea Watch 4 and by the Louise Michel vessels," a European Commission spokesperson told reporters on Monday.]]></description>
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      <title>[Agenda] Searching for a commissioner This WEEK</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ireland's deputy prime minster Simon Coveney is reported to be the frontrunner for the post. MEPs will also discuss where negotiations on the EU's long-term budget with member states are heading.]]></description>
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      <title>[Ticker] Lebanon: Ambassador to Germany tipped for PM</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Lebanon's ambassador to Germany, Mustapha Adib, could become the crisis-stricken country's next prime minister after getting the support of senior Sunni politicians from the party of Saad Hariri, the Guardian writes. Adib was named by four former prime ministers at the start of consultations between the president and parliamentary political groups on their choice for the post.]]></description>
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      <title>[Ticker] Belgium holds talks on 'Vivaldi' government</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Belgian "informateur" Egbert Lachaert has succeeded for the first time since the elections 15 months ago in getting seven parties around the table to negotiate about a so-called Vivaldi coalition, De Standaard reports. Vivaldi stands for the colours of the four seasons: orange for the Flemish Christian-Democrats (CD&V), blue for the liberals (MR and Open Vld), red for the socialists (PS and spa) and the greens (Ecolo and Green).]]></description>
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      <title>[Ticker] Clashes in Norway at anti-Islam rally</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Clashes broke out at an anti-Islam rally in the Norwegian capital of Oslo on Saturday, prompting authorities to end the event early, Deutsche Welle reports. The rally, organised by the group Stop Islamisation of Norway (SIAN), was met with protesters chanting "no racism in our streets. Clashes started when an anti-Islam protester ripped pages from the koran. Police used tear gas to keep rival groups separated, arresting nearly 30 people.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[China and the EU might be able to conclude a deal on investment protection "by the end of the year", but "we each need to take a step towards the other," Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi said at a think-tank event in Paris Sunday. He spoke while on a longer European tour, following seven years of talks on how to help EU firms operate inside the Asian giant.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Holidaymakers on the beaches of Crotona, Italy, Sunday saw plumes of smoke after a migrant boat erupted in flames, probably due to an engine fault, as the Italian navy was trying to get people off. At least three died, with several others missing. A further 900 migrants arrived in boats near the island of Lampedusa at the weekend. And 200 more are waiting to get off an NGO rescue ship.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[A fringe group of a few hundred protesters, some carrying far-right insignia, tried to storm into the German parliament building in Berlin on Sunday, after breaking away from a much-larger rally, of some 38,000 people, demonstrating against coronavirus restrictions. "The Reichstag is ... the symbolic centre of our democracy," interior minister Horst Seehofer said. German president Frank Walter Steinmeier also condemned "an unbearable attack on the heart of our democracy".]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mass protests against rigged elections continued for a third weekend in a row in Belarus despite a show of force by riot police. There were scuffles and more than 140 arrests in Minsk, but no large-scale violence, as people chanted slogans such as "disgrace!" and sang songs such as "Happy birthday, you rat", the BBC reports. Authorities had also stripped several foreign media of their accreditations ahead of the rallies.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[First and foremost, do no harm: The danger of a rebound in greenhouse gas emissions after the coronavirus crisis is looming on the horizon.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Italy's Covid-19 emergency highlighted its reliance on undocumented migrants picking fruit and vegetables in conditions some have called "modern slavery".]]></description>
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      <title>Trump allegedly wanted to swap Puerto Rico for Greenland</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Trump allegedly found Puerto Rico "dirty" and suggested he would exchange the territory for Greenland, a part of the Danish kingdom.]]></description>
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      <title>[Green Deal] Poland's coal phase-out 'feasible' by 2035</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Poland's coal phaseout should take place by 2035 if the government does not interfere, according to a new report by environmental group Greenpeace Polska.]]></description>
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      <title>[Analysis] How Europe is getting entangled in the big Middle East conflict</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mediterranean tensions are about much more than the Greek-Turkish oil dispute. And if Europe doesn't pay attention, it could be entangled in the nets of a regional conflict.]]></description>
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      <title>[Coronavirus] EU secures 300m of potential vaccines, as Covid-19 cases rise</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The European Commission has secured at least 300 million doses of AstraZeneca's potential Covid-19 vaccine, as member states seem to be facing the much-feared second wave of the pandemic.]]></description>
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      <title>[Opinion] Where is Northern Europe's security Plan B?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Nordic and Baltic states need alternatives to their current security architecture, as events in Belarus and beyond show fragility of Nato structures.]]></description>
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      <title>[Opinion] Time to end double standards on missing persons</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Not only must the issue of missing persons be understood as a moral and social catastrophe - which it certainly is - but as a threat to global security.]]></description>
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      <title>[Ticker] Greece ratifies deal with Egypt, as Turkey plans military drills</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Greece ratified an accord on maritime boundaries with Egypt on Thursday, Reuters reported. In the meantime, Turkey extended the operation of a seismic survey vessel in the eastern Mediterranean and said it will hold firing exercises in the region next month. Nato allies Greece and Turkey have locked horns over the rights to potential hydrocarbon resources in the area based on conflicting claims over their maritime zones.]]></description>
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      <title>[Ticker] No need to investigate Navalny poisoning, Russia insists</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Russian prosecutors said on Thursday there was no need for a criminal investigation into the sudden illness of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who his supporters suspect was poisoned, Reuters reported. The prosecutors said they had found no sign that any crime had been committed. German foreign minister Heiko Maas said, however, that the EU expects Russia to join in efforts in an investigation. Navalny is currently being treated in Germany.]]></description>
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