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France's European Commissioner-designate Stéphane Séjourné
France names Stéphane Séjourné as European Commissioner after Breton steps down
PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron has nominated outgoing foreign minister Stéphane Séjourné to become the country's next European Commissioner, after Thierry Breton abruptly resigned from his post and withdrew his bid for a second term earlier on Monday.In a statement, the Élysée Palace said that the decision was made "in accordance" with newly-appointed Prime Minister Michel Barnier, and confirmed France was angling for a "key" portfolio related to "industrial and technological sovereignty" and "European competitiveness."It adds that Séjourné's prior experience, as chair of Macron's centrist Renew Europe group in the European Parliament and as France's Minister of Europe and foreign affairs, equips him to take the...
September 16, 2024

France names Stéphane Séjourné as European Commissioner after Breton steps down

German federal police check cars arriving at the German-Polish border on September 10
Germany angers European neighbors as it tightens migration along all land borders
BERLIN — Germany has begun new controls at all of its land borders as part of a crackdown on migration, placing restrictions on a wide area of free movement known as the Schengen Zone and stirring anger among its European neighbors.From Monday, as well as existing border controls with Austria, Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Poland, Germany will now also have internal border controls with France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark.Berlin will have the power to reject people at all land borders, a statement from the Interior Ministry said. The new rules will last for six months initially.The move marks how far Germany has shifted in recent years on the flashpoint issue of migration.The German government under Angela Merkel welcomed more than one million new arrivals...
September 16, 2024

Germany angers European neighbors as it tightens migration along all land borders

People walk on a flooded road after heavy rain triggered flooding in Cuza Voda, Galati county, Romania, September 15, 2024
At least 8 dead as heaviest rain in decades hits parts of central and eastern Europe
VIENNA — At least eight people have died after some of the heaviest rain in years hit central and eastern Europe, causing flooding and widespread disruption.A slow-moving low pressure system dubbed Storm Boris dumped a month’s worth of rain onto several of Europe’s historic capitals, including Vienna, Bratislava and Prague. The heavy rainfall continued to pummel the region into Sunday.In Poland on Sunday, one person drowned in Klodzko county and authorities advised residents of Moszczanka and Laka Prudnicka to evacuate after a dam at risk of collapse was breached. In Austria the same day, a firefighter died in action, the fire department told CNN.In Romania, two more people were confirmed to have died from flooding on Sunday, following four deaths on Saturday.Rescuers have been...
September 16, 2024

At least 8 dead as heaviest rain in decades hits parts of central and eastern Europe

Matteo Salvini
Italy deputy PM faces possible jail time for blocking migrant boat
ROME — Prosecutors in Italy are seeking a six-year jail term for deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini over a decision in August 2019 to stop a migrant boat from docking.The ship, operated by the Open Arms charity, was kept at sea for almost three weeks before being allowed to dock on the island of Lampedusa following a court order.Salvini, who was then the interior minister, denies charges of kidnap and dereliction of duty.On Saturday, he said he had wanted to stop Italy becoming a "refugee camp for all of Europe" and declared himself "guilty of defending Italy and Italians".The Opens Arms ship was carrying 147 migrants who had been picked up off the Libyan coast when it was prevented from docking in Lampedusa.The island, situated around halfway across the...
September 16, 2024

Italy deputy PM faces possible jail time for blocking migrant boat

A car leaves Britain's embassy in Moscow on Friday
Russia expels 6 British diplomats on accusations of spying
LONDON — Russia has revoked the accreditation of six British diplomats and accused them of spying on Moscow, it emerged Friday, a fresh geopolitical escalation that was publicized in Russian state media just as London and the US consider allowing Ukraine to strike targets inside Russia.Moscow’s Federal Security Service (FSB) claimed without providing evidence that it had detected “signs of intelligence and subversive work” by the diplomats, and said it considered their actions “threatening the security of the Russian Federation.”Britain later said the expulsion occurred last month, and described the accusations as “completely baseless.” The diplomats left Russia weeks ago, and the British government is in the process of replacing them.The move was revealed hours after...
September 13, 2024

Russia expels 6 British diplomats on accusations of spying

Workers in Prague have been closing floodgates on the River Vltava
Central Europe braced for worst flooding in years
PRAGUE/WARSAW — Sandbags are being prepared in Austria, reservoirs have been emptied in the Czech Republic and flash floods are expected in Poland, as forecasters warn of days of "potentially catastrophic" rainfall.Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said there is “no reason to panic”, after attending a flood risk briefing in Wroclaw, amid forecasts of 15cm (6in) of rainfall in four southern provinces.In Austria, heavy rain and snow in the mountains has already led to travel disruption and Chancellor Karl Nehammer has said the army is ready to deploy up to 1,000 soldiers if necessary.The Czech capital is taking no chances, after floods that devastated the city two decades ago.Images from 2002 of flooded metro stations, residents being evacuated in rubber dinghies and...
September 13, 2024

Central Europe braced for worst flooding in years

Vladimir Putin
Putin draws new red line on long-range missiles
MOSCOW — The headline in this morning’s Kommersant newspaper captured the drama.“Vladimir Putin draws his red line.”Speaking in St Petersburg, President Putin sent a clear warning to the West: don’t allow Ukraine to use your long-range missiles to strike Russian territory.Moscow, he said, would view that as the “direct participation” of Nato countries in the war in Ukraine.“It would substantially change the very essence, the nature of the conflict,” the Kremlin leader continued.“This will mean that Nato countries, the USA and European states, are fighting with Russia.”He claimed that, for missile launches into Russia, Ukraine would require data from Western satellites and that only servicemen from Nato member states would be able to “input flight missions into these...
September 13, 2024

Putin draws new red line on long-range missiles

Sentenced to four years for his work as a journalist, Dmitry Luksha was released unexpectedly
Families cling to hope in Belarus after first release of political prisoners
WARSAW — Dmitry Luksha built up muscles breaking rocks in a Belarusian prison camp, put to work alongside men convicted of murder and drug smuggling.The journalist was imprisoned in 2022 and sentenced to four years for his reports on the mass opposition protests of 2020 and his country’s later complicity in the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.But he’s just been released early, one of several dozen political prisoners freed this summer in a series of surprise amnesties.It’s given hope to the relatives of others that further releases might follow.“One day they called me in, and a man from the prosecutor’s office just asked, ‘Do you want to go home?’,” Dmitry recalls, now in Poland with his wife, Polina.She’d been convicted as his "accomplice" and the couple were...
September 12, 2024

Families cling to hope in Belarus after first release of political prisoners

Poland has seen an influx in irregular migrants entering its country en route to Germany
Neighbors criticize German move to extend border controls
WARSAW — Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has denounced as "unacceptable" Germany's decision to extend temporary controls to all its land borders as part of its response to irregular migration.He is one of several figures from neighboring countries to criticize the move. Restrictions already in place at some of Germany's land borders will apply from next Monday with France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Denmark.The head of a Dutch-German alliance of border communities said it was a "panic reaction", while Austria's interior minister stressed it would not be take in anyone turned away by Germany.However, Germany's opposition conservatives said Berlin had not gone far enough.The three parties in Chancellor Olaf Scholz's government have...
September 11, 2024

Neighbors criticize German move to extend border controls

Ukraine and Russia regularly launch overnight drone raids on each other's territory
Ukraine strikes Moscow in biggest drone attack so far
MOSCOW — Ukraine on Tuesday launched its biggest drone attack so far on the Russian capital, killing at least one woman, wrecking dozens of homes and forcing around 50 flights to be diverted from airports around Moscow.Russia, the world’s biggest nuclear power, said it destroyed at least 20 Ukrainian attack drones as they swarmed over the Moscow region, which has a population of more than 21 million, and 124 more over eight other regions.The governor of Moscow, Andrei Vorobyov, said several flats in two high-rise apartment buildings in Ramenskoye in Moscow region were set on fire.Vorobyov said a 46-year-old woman died and three people were injured in Ramenskoye, while 43 people were evacuated to temporary accommodation centers.Ukraine has so far not commented on the attacks, but the...
September 10, 2024

Ukraine strikes Moscow in biggest drone attack so far

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