🇫🇷 Anti-Democratic Pension Reform Comes Into Effect

A rise in the retirement age, adopted by the government without a vote in Parliament - and despite the opposition of 93% of the population and millions of protesters taking to the streets - comes into force on September 1.

Democracy, eh?

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🇮🇪Public Hit With Triple Price Hike Whammy To 'Save The Planet'

Big increases for petrol and diesel, waste disposal and hospitality come into force on Friday, with the waste increase imposed to force people to recycle better.

The extra charges for unrecycled rubbish includes a waste recovery levy of €10 per tonne (or 1,000kg), and a €10 increase to the existing “landfill levy” to €85 per tonne.

The move seems to be a panic as Ireland is set not to meet a EU target of 55 per cent recycling of municipal wastes by 2025.

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☢️🐖🇩🇪 Radioactive German Pigs Shouldn't Be Eaten, Say Scientists

People are warned not to eat wild boar from the Bavarian Alps in Germany, as they're supposedly filled with nuclear radiation.

Research in Nature magazine showed radioactive particles were active in 88 percent of the animals due to nuclear testing during the Cold War and the Chernobyl disaster which brought particles down in rain.

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🇬🇧Lockdown Is Back For British Kids Due To Concrete Safety Concerns

More than 100 schools in England will have to fully or partially close buildings over fears the concrete roofs could collapse on pupils as they return for the autumn term.

The Department for Education said some the state facilities may have to move completely and some children may be forced back into pandemic-style remote learning.

Will a mask help?

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❗️🇳🇱NEW: Dutch Foreign Affairs Minister Resigns

Wopke Hoekstra is leaving his post to become a candidate to go to the European Commission as Commissioner for Climate.

A hearing in the European Parliament on his candidacy is slated for the near future.

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🔥 'Wildfires' Aided? EU Slashes Firefighter Numbers

Ten EU member states cut the number of firefighters in their forces between 2021 and 2022, an analysis of Eurostat data shows.

France saw the biggest drop in its firefighter force, with a 5,446 reduction, in just one year.

This was closely followed by Romania, which cut -4,250 people and Portugal, with a 2,907 reduction.

Slovakia that recorded the highest percentage of losses, down 30% over the same period. (Statista)

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🇵🇱Ukraine’s Polish Massacre Film Suspended Due To Fears Over Backlash

The most expensive film in Ukrainian history, Dovbush, gives a positive depiction of how rebels slaughtered and pillaged Poles in the 18th century, but its premiere has been postponed until after Warsaw’s election as it will offend the Polish public.

“The Ukrainians, in gratitude for our help, made a film which shows that the Poles must be killed because Polish lords are pigs? President Duda would probably burst into tears of tenderness into Zelensky’s shirt,” the editor-in-chief of Najwyzszy CZAS Zommer writes.

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🇬🇧Masses Of ULEZ Cameras Destroyed

A crowd-sourced map appears to show that 450 out of the 1,762 new cameras installed to catch non-compliant vehicles in the expanded zone have been damaged or are missing, the Mail Online Reports.

The scheme only came into effect on Tuesday 😂

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🇦🇲⚔️🇦🇿 Armenia and Azerbaijan said on Friday that they had sustained casualties in fighting along their common border, northwest of the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Armenia's Defence Ministry said two of its servicemen had been killed and another wounded in shelling near the town of Sotk. Azerbaijan said that Armenia had struck positions in the Kalbajar region using drones, wounding two Azerbaijani servicemen. It said it was taking "retaliatory measures".

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🇬🇧🇪🇺 Aviation Scam Discovered

Fake parts for Boeing and Airbus planes were supplied by AOG Technics, a little-known London-based company, for older Airbus SE A320 and Boeing 737 aircraft, Bloomberg writes.

It remains unclear exactly how many parts were installed and how many aircraft were affected, but the CFM56 engine, allegedly part of the fakes, is installed on thousands of narrow-body aircraft, which form the basis of the world's fleet.

The EASA has advised operators to quarantine parts that have forged documents while it waits for AOG Technics to provide details on the real origin of the questionable parts.

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🇺🇦War Tax To Be Tripled

Ukraine wants a three-fold increase on the levy from January 1 - from the current 1.5% of the public's salaries to 4.5%, according to a bill proposed by the Ministry of Finance.

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🇬🇧Cost Of Living Crisis Bites Hard-Working Families

While hard-up Brits have to choose between warmth and eating, the government of millionaires and billionaires hands taxpayer dough to Ukraine, supports energy company profiteering, and introduces new costs on working people who commute to work via ULEZ schemes.

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❗️🇩🇪NEW: ‘I Did Nazi Sh*t,’ Bavarian Deputy PM Finally Admits

Following a week-long scandal about a Nazi pamphlet he circulated as a school boy, Hubert Aiwanger “yes, I too did sh*t in my youth. Yes, I messed up too.”

“The leaflet was horrible, that cannot be explained away,” he said on Friday at the “Karpfhamer Fest” in Bad Griesbach.

However, he decried modern cancel culture for the scandal. Trying to silence somebody for something that happened 35 to 40 years ago, "to the point of destroying their professional existence,” is wrong, he added.

“There are many things that one would no longer do afterwards. But you also have to allow a person to become smarter in life,” and claimed the furore around him was "perhaps to bring the Greens into the state government."

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