🇪🇸Deputy PM Meets Fugitive Kingmaker To Shore Up Support

Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Diaz went to Brussels for talks with exiled Catalan politician Carles Puigdemont to try and garner his support and help keep PM Pedro Sanchez’s coalition in power.

The hung parliament election result in July left Puigdemont, in exile in Belgium since Catalonia’s failed independence push in 2017, as a kingmaker since his Junts party, a collection of separatists, will be crucial for winning the right to form a government.

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☄️ Putin: Russia Forced into Rejecting Grain Deal Over Sanctions on Agriculture, Bank & Insurance Firms

The Russian President accused Kiev of using the humanitarian corridor for terror attacks, adding that Ukraine's grain is not impacting on the global situation.

Russia is 'open to negotiations' and will continue exporting products to nations in need - despite the obstacles created by the West. Qatar has supported this, Putin said.

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🇮🇹 World’s Oldest Bank To Be Sold? Gov Split Over Privatisation Push

Italy’s governing coalition is bickering over plans to sell state-owned assets, including Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, to bolster finances as the country’s souring economic outlook sours and investors call for clear sale strategies.

Deputy Prime Minister Antonio Tajani has called for the bank to be privatised, but members of Deputy Premier Matteo Salvini’s League party rebutted the idea and said the sale shouldn’t be rushed.

The huge public spat comes as Meloni’s government try to free up cash for spending without adding to Italy’s mammoth debt, but a sale could anger EU regulators and set off alarm bells in financial markets.

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🇵🇱At Least 1 Polish Supermarket Worker Is Not Pleased About The Country Hosting Ukrainians 😬

"Pet Food"
"Ukrainian Cuisine"

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🤡 The MSM Is Finally Forced To Report On Ukrainian Corruption

But it'll be fine now. The new defence minister Rustem Umerov is in charge of the Ukraine Public Fund which organises the fire-sale of state owned assets to Western disaster capitalists. No problem, there. None at all.

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💲Meta Mega Cash In? Tech Giant To Offer Premium Facebook And Instagram To Please EU Regulators

In an effort to make the best of the dispute with Brussels over the harvesting of user data, the Silicon Valley giant is considering offering free and premium versions of its biggest platforms.

The free version would collect all of the user-information, whereas a paid version would be free from data harvesting, the NYT reports.

2023 - Where Your Privacy Is A Paid Feature 😎

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🇺🇦💲Ukraine Got $100 BILLION In Military Aid Alone, Reznikov Confirms

The recently booted Ukrainian Defence Minister said that just one day of war costs $100m after confirming that it has received $100bn from the West - 50% of the total coming from the United States.

He also confirmed that in other costs, the country also spends another $100m - money provided by its Western backers to ‘keep the country running.’

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🦠🥱Covid Testing To Ramp Up In The UK🇬🇧

New surveillance programs and testing will be launched across the country as scientists warn government officials they are “flying blind” when it comes to the virus because there are new variants floating around.

“Protecting the public from Covid-19 remains one of our top priorities. We continue to monitor the threat through our range of surveillance systems and genomics capabilities, which report on infection rates, hospitalisations and the risks posed by new variants,” the Health Security Agency said.

Yawn.

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🇷🇴🇳🇱Lockheed Martin Cashes In On Conflict In Europe

Never to miss an opportunity to make cash in the midst of conflict, the American firm is joining hands with the Romanian and Dutch government to establish a centre in Bucharest for skilling up the Romanian military, it claims.

However, the Dutch Ministry of Defence previously stated that the real intention of the new facility is to “train Ukrainian pilots and technical personnel.”

The facility will be built at Romania’s 86th “Lieutenant Aviator Gheorghe Mociorniță” Air Base near the border with Bulgaria, and comes as the US greenlighted Denmark and Amsterdam to provide fourth-gen jets to Kiev.

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🇺🇦🤡 Ukraine To Sue EU Because It Protects Its Farmers

Grain import caps, which are stopping local farmers in Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, And Slovakia from being flooded with cheap Ukrainian wheat, have infuriated Kiev, who confirmed they will take the bloc to court if the bans aren’t lifted.

The bans are set to expire on September 15, but if the EU chooses to extend them, “ Ukraine will bring the case against Poland and the EU to the World Trade Organisation,” the Ukraine deputy economy minister Taras Kachka said.

Ukrainian officials had previously accused Poland of selfishly putting its own “self-interest” above that of Kiev.

Yes, and?

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🇳🇱🇳🇴Passengers Stranded As Ferry Service Goes Bankrupt

Holland Norway Lines has been declared bankrupt, one week after suspending operations, as no serious candidate approached to buy the company, and now travellers who bought a ticket are likely to lose their money.

The company’s single ferry, the MS Romantika, carried some 1,500 passengers each way three times a week between the Netherlands or Germany and Kristiansand in Norway.

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❌ EU ‘Student’ Visa Racket Gang Busted In Malta 🇲🇹

A gang selling documents which gave access to Schengen Europe charged €18,000 to Vietnamese travellers who posed as students - and on Monday one ‘student’ was jailed for six months.

“They acquire a visa as students. But they never intend to be students... Malta is the easiest place to get a visa. They get it and flee," prosecuting Inspector Karl Roberts told the court.

Nguyen Thi Hanh, a 26-year-old Vietnamese national, left her newborn child with her mother to “study English” in Malta, but after 3 months, still can’t speak a word, the inspector said.

Authorities have been withholding passports to ensure the travellers return home. On this occasion, the woman was heading to board a flight to Budapest using someone else’s passport, police said.

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