🇵🇱🇰🇷 • Poland secures $6.7B deal for 180 more South Korean K2 Black Panther main battle tanks (MBTs), with 61 to be built locally.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 • Russian President Putin ready to meet with Ukrainian President Zelensky after "preparatory work at the expert level", Kremlin says.

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🇩🇪 • German Economy Minister Katherina Reiche is pushing for a reform to the country's basic income support scheme, known as Bürgergeld, in light of rising costs.

"It must be the case that working is more worthwhile than staying at home," Reiche said on Monday during a visit to the semiconductor company Infineon.

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🇩🇪🇵🇱 • Germany has deployed five Eurofighter jets and 150 troops to a Polish airbase to boost NATO’s eastern defense amid Russian threats.

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🇪🇺🇨🇳 • The EU is planning sanctions on China (PRC) for allegedly supplying drone engines to Russia, disguised as "refrigeration units." 15 EU nations confronted Beijing, met with denials or silence. An EU diplomat warns China's support is critical to Russia's war effort.

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🇸🇪🇳🇴🇩🇰🇺🇸🇺🇦 • Sweden, Norway, and Denmark have pledged $500 million to a NATO-led initiative to supply Ukraine with U.S. weapons, including Patriot missiles, to bolster its defense against Russia.

The funds, part of the NATO Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List (PURL), aim to ensure rapid delivery of critical equipment. Sweden contributes $275M, Norway $146M, and Denmark $90M. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte praises the swift action.

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🇪🇸 • Spain has dropped plans to buy F-35 fighter jets due to a shift in defense spending priorities toward European-made equipment, despite budgeting €6.25B for new jets.

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🇳🇴🇮🇱 • Norway is reviewing its $1.9 trillion sovereign wealth fund’s investments in Israeli companies over links to Gaza strikes and West Bank occupation.

The move follows public backlash after the fund increased its stake in Bet Shemesh Engines, accused of servicing warplanes used in Gaza.

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🇺🇦🇷🇺 • A few days after Russia’s newest nuclear missile submarine, Knyaz Pozharsky, entered service, Ukrainian intelligence agencies claimed they have stolen data from the Russian Navy that point to the submarine’s vulnerabilities and published related documents.

Russian authorities have yet to comment on the leak.

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🇵🇱 • Karol Nawrocki officially sworn in as the new President of Poland.

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🇮🇹 • Italy's government, under PM Giorgia Meloni, is pushing to restart the long-delayed Messina Strait bridge project, connecting Sicily to the mainland. The €13bn initiative is now being framed as strategic military infrastructure, potentially allowing Italy to count it toward NATO's defense spending targets.

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🇷🇺 • Moskow's State University closed their "Nature of Time Institute", which had held over 850 meetings in 25 years. They were trying to develop means of teleportation and time travel.

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🇮🇹🇺🇸 • Elon Musk’s SpaceX has signed a historic agreement with the Italian Space Agency to transport experiments to Mars aboard Starship. The missions will carry payloads designed to collect valuable scientific data.

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🇩🇪 • Germany’s industrial production plunged 1.9% in June—the sharpest fall since May 2020 and well above the expected 0.5% drop—pushing factory output to its lowest level since the pandemic.

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🇳🇱 • Netherlands says it's not planning to recognize Palestinian state at this time.

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🇮🇹🇺🇸🇷🇺 • Rome is being floated as a possible venue for a Trump-Putin summit that could take place as soon as next week.

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🇪🇺🇺🇦 • Today, the Council of the EU decided to provide Ukraine with €3.056 billion under the Ukraine Facility, - Ukrainian PM Svyrydenko

We are grateful to the Danish Presidency for its clear support. Every such decision brings us closer to a strong Ukraine in a united Europe.

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