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The Capitals are again from summer season holidays. Earlier than you begin studying at present’s version, be at liberty to take a look at ‘Sure, the warfare continues to be on however Russia needs you to neglect about it’, an op-ed by Anna Romandash, a Ukrainian journalist and author.
In at present’s information from the Capitals:
Albanian police formally charged with espionage on Sunday two Russian and one Ukrainian citizen, beforehand arrested for making an attempt to enter a restricted army zone after which spraying army guards with obvious nerve paralysis spray.
Earlier that day, 4 folks of Czech nationality had been arrested for coming into a defunct army manufacturing unit in Polican within the nation’s south.
The incidents come on the again of an ongoing dilemma of EU international locations relating to whether or not to bend to Ukraine’s calls to bar Russian vacationers from coming into the bloc. Learn extra.
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BERLIN
East German events ally with far-right to protest fuel levy. Conservatives and the Left have teamed up with the far-right AfD in Jap Germany to slam the federal authorities as native politicians warn of social unrest following hovering vitality costs in a letter to Inexperienced vitality minister Robert Habeck. Learn extra.
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PARIS
Paris to push personal jet bans at EU ministers assembly. Minister of Transport Clément Beaune mentioned he is able to put banning personal jet flights on the agenda of the European transport ministers assembly in October following public backlash from revelations relating to the personal jet emissions of France’s rich. Learn extra.
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VIENNA
Austria to begin advertising marketing campaign to cut back refugee flows. The federal government goals to conduct “anti-marketing” campaigns in secure international locations the place refugees are suspected of migrating for financial causes to counter guarantees made by folks smugglers. Learn extra.
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THE HAGUE
Dutch airport continues to cope with chaos. The chaos at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam has lasted all summer season as passengers proceed to overlook flights and employees shortages proceed. Learn extra.
UK AND IRELAND
DUBLIN
Eire receives first Ukrainian grain cargo since begin of warfare. A cargo of 33,000 tonnes of grain that landed in Eire from Ukraine this weekend was the primary because the warfare broke out in February. Learn extra.
NORDICS AND BALTICS
HELSINKI
Finnish vitality firm to take Russia’s nuclear large to court docket. Fennovoima, a Finnish vitality firm, introduced it could launch ”a number of arbitrations and different proceedings in opposition to numerous Rosatom entities” on Saturday, following the collapse of a nuclear energy plant venture in Finland. Learn extra.
Debate on Finnish Prime Minister’s social gathering video takes a political flip. The uproar following the leaked movies of Prime Minister Sanna Marin’s personal social gathering has largely disappeared from the headlines as the controversy widened from dance strikes and rumoured unlawful substances to the function of political management in a disaster. Learn extra.
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STOCKHOLM
Swedish opposition joins requires proscribing Russian vacationer visas. After the Finnish Parliament made it significantly tougher for Russian residents to acquire visas final week, Swedish opposition events are actually demanding an analogous measure to be adopted in Sweden. Learn extra.
EUROPE’S SOUTH
MADRID
Spain’s gasoline value sees highest rise in EU since begin of Ukraine warfare. Gasoline costs have elevated sharply because the begin of the Russian invasion, reaching a peak on the finish of June with a litre of gasoline and a litre of diesel exceeding €2.10, the best value stage within the EU, official information revealed. Learn extra.
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LISBON
Portugal in state of alert for fires till Tuesday as temperatures rise. Portugal entered a state of alert because of the “aggravation of the chance of rural fireplace” and a rise in temperature at midnight on Sunday after weeks of fires that destroyed greater than 28,000 hectares within the Serra da Estrela mountains. Learn extra.
VISEGRAD
BRATISLAVA
Slovakia inches towards minority authorities as ultimatum calls for loom massive. The junior coalition social gathering Freedom and Solidarity issued an ultimatum to Finance Minister Igor Matovič (OĽaNO) at first of the summer season: both he steps down by the tip of August, or Freedom and Solidarity leaves the coalition, and the autumn of the federal government is trying extra doubtless than ever because the summer season involves an finish. Learn extra.
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PRAGUE | BRATISLAVA
Ukraine warfare attracts painful reminiscences as Czechia, Slovakia commemorate Russian invasion. Czechia and Slovakia held occasions marking the 54th anniversary of the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Soviet-led Warsaw Pact troops in August 1968 on Sunday as Prime Ministers Petr Fiala and Eduard Heger highlighted parallels with the present Russian invasion of Ukraine. Learn extra.
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WARSAW
Poland rejects German principle on river air pollution as an ‘assault on farmers’. The idea put ahead by a German laboratory that the air pollution of the Oder River, which killed hundreds of fish, was brought on by pesticides within the water, was dismissed as pretend information by Poland. Learn extra.
NEWS FROM THE BALKANS
SOFIA
Bulgaria refuses to purchase massive portions of US liquefied fuel. The Bulgarian authorities has determined to just accept solely one of many agreed seven liquefied fuel provides from the US firm Cheniere, regardless of the worth being virtually €30 decrease than that supplied on European fuel exchanges. Learn extra.
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BELGRADE
Vucic claims compromise sought whereas saying institutional walkouts in Kosovo. Serbian President Aleksander Vucic mentioned that Belgrade would proceed to search for an answer to the license plate and ID doc difficulty, nonetheless he additionally mentioned Serbs working in Kosovo establishments would stroll out as a consequence of their “persecution”. Learn extra.
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PRISTINA
Pristina to ban electrical scooters. Digital scooters, bicycles, and related gadgets can be banned from squares, pavements, and all public areas with pedestrian visitors as of Monday, in accordance with the Municipality of Pristina. Learn extra.
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Agenda
- EU: EU Chief Diplomat Josep Borrell directs the course ‘Quo Vadis Europa’ at Menéndez Pelayo Worldwide College in Santander.
- Germany: FM Annalena Baerbock hosts Pakistan’s FM Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, press convention follows.
- Overseas minister Baerbock hosts her Pakistani counterpart, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, for talks in Berlin.
- thirtieth anniversary of racist riots at Rostock, japanese Germany.
- Sweden: Trial of two journalists who filmed wreck of MS Estonia ferry begins.
- Greece: Opening of parliament to determine a debate on the phone-tapping scandal.
- Spain: Ryanair flight crew strike.
- Russia: FM Sergei Lavrov hosts Serbian Inside Minister Aleksandar Vulin.
- United States: UN Safety Council assembly on peacekeeping.
- Kenya: Deadline for any problem to Supreme Court docket over 9 August election outcomes.
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[Edited by Sarantis Michalopoulos, Vlad Makszimov, Daniel Eck, Benjamin Fox, Zoran Radosavljevic, Alice Taylor, Eleonora Vasques, Sofia Stuart Leeson]
