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EU-Russia Relations retweeted
Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s CDU has recorded 4.9% in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, leaving the party outside a German state parliament for the first time. The AfD finished first with 38.2%, but the SPD retains a possible route to government with the Left and Greens. #EUToday #PoliticsToday #AfD eutoday.net/merz-cdu-mecklen…
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Poland is no longer dealing with Russian hybrid activity as a largely theoretical security problem. The country has entered a period in which military alerts, threats to infrastructure and increasingly explicit warnings from Moscow are overlapping with a bitter domestic political confrontation. #EUToday eutoday.net/poland-russia-hy…
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For anyone wondering what's going on in the "news" about a looming Russian attack, landgrab, drone strike etc. Please remember this. Scaremongering is a Kremlin psy-op. The real attack is not on -- infrastructure -- industry -- individuals or any other physical target. It's on our decision-making. Kremlin is trying to spread FUD (Fear Uncertainty Doubt). Far too many supposedly expert/hawkish voices are amplifying this. Also: the Baltic states are not squares on a chessboard. They have agency. Vigilant, prepared, supported by allies. Stop patronising them.
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Austria and Italy are building a coalition of EU governments aimed at curbing “gold-plating” — the practice of adding national requirements when European legislation is implemented — as pressure grows to reduce regulatory barriers within the Single Market. #EUToday eutoday.net/eu-states-coalit…
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Russia says more than 1,000 Ukrainian drones were launched in a mass attack across the country, with about 450 directed towards Moscow. The operation, which damaged the Moscow Oil Refinery, shows how Ukraine’s long-range drone campaign is moving from periodic deep strikes towards attacks designed to saturate air defences on an unprecedented scale. #DefenceMatters defencematters.eu/ukraine-ma…
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With Argentina once again escalating its campaign against British sovereignty, the Government has entrusted responsibility for the Overseas Territories to Uma Kumaran, a Labour MP who entered Parliament only in July 2024 and became a minister in July 2026. She is now responsible not merely for the Falklands but for the wider Overseas Territories, alongside Caribbean affairs, global technology and AI, violence against women and girls and departmental operations. One might reasonably ask whether this is quite the moment for on-the-job training. #DefenceMatters #FalklandIslands defencematters.eu/the-falkla…
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There is a particular kind of political blindness which afflicts parties that have been in power for too long. It is not quite arrogance, and not quite complacency. It is the comfortable assumption that tomorrow will resemble yesterday, that voters will continue to make essentially the same calculations, and that the political centre will always reassert itself. #EUToday #PoliticsToday #AfD eutoday.net/european-politic…
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Travellers arriving in Europe this autumn may find that the European Union’s new biometric border regime is considerably less uniform in practice than its common rules suggest, with nine countries reportedly continuing to allow biometric checks to be suspended at some border crossings when passenger queues become difficult to manage. #EUToday eutoday.net/eu-entry-exit-sy…
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Munich’s 191st Oktoberfest opens on Saturday, 19th September, beginning 16 days of beer tents, Bavarian traditions and fairground attractions. Visitors arriving at the Theresienwiese this year will also encounter strengthened entrance controls, expanded video surveillance and new technology designed to detect dangerous crowd concentrations. #EUToday #Oktoberfest2026 #Beer 🍻 eutoday.net/oktoberfest-2026…
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On this day in 1854 British and French troops defeated the Russians at the Battle of Alma, a turning point in the Crimean War. #OTD #Crimea #CrimeanWar
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