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🇪🇺 - EU top jobs update (there’s a EUCO summit about it this week)
Senior EPP figures including Polish PM Donald Tusk and German CDU leader Friedrich Merz are scared that a deal with greens to keep Von der Leyen in charge might be too controversial with the voters. Increasing the chances for a Von Der Leyen-Meloni pact.
EPP group leader Manfred Weber adds: The EU must focus on securing peace, economic growth and limiting migration.
Senior EPP figures including Polish PM Donald Tusk and German CDU leader Friedrich Merz are scared that a deal with greens to keep Von der Leyen in charge might be too controversial with the voters. Increasing the chances for a Von Der Leyen-Meloni pact.
EPP group leader Manfred Weber adds: The EU must focus on securing peace, economic growth and limiting migration.
Jourová warns that Putin floods the EU with fake news on Telegram. She said the Russian-owned service “is especially active in the eastern member states where we have a Russian-speaking minority.”
She said Telegram was a “special case” because it claims to have only 42 million users in the bloc — below the 45 million threshold needed to be scrutinized under its new Digital Services Act — which places guardrails on the spread of harmful and illegal material online.
Jourová further believes that Telegram is underreporting its number of users to avoid falling under the DSA regulation and thus finds it necessary to inspect Telegram much more closely.
In an emailed response on Saturday, Telegram spokesman Remi Vaughn said the company is abiding by EU sanctions by blocking access to channels such as RT, Sputnik and NewsFront.
Telegram doesn’t use algorithms to promote sensational content to users, who receive only the information they explicitly choose to subscribe to, Vaughn said.
The Digital Services Act took full effect earlier this year and allows the EU to fine major platforms of as much as 6% of global annual sales if it finds violations — or ban repeat offenders from the EU.
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Putin Floods EU With Fake News on Telegram, Bloc Says
Vladimir Putin and “other hostile actors” are able to abuse a lack of regulation for the Telegram platform to spread fake news in the European Union’s eastern nations, a top EU commissioner warned.
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To the dismay of the Commissioner for Values and Transparency, Věra Jourová, who firmly believed that even encrypted messaging needs to be verified to ”better protect children”, the Belgian presidency of the European Council noted that too many EU member states will either oppose or abstain during the decisive vote for the child abuse law, citing privacy concerns.
The Belgians tried to solve the deadlock around the draft bill since taking the office last January but failed achieve a consensus and, as a result, the bill failed.
Under the Belgians' plan, messaging apps would scan pictures and links when users upload them via their services, and users would be informed of this under the terms and conditions. Users who refused the regime would be blocked from sending pictures and links.
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EU cancels vote on child sexual abuse law amid encryption concerns – POLITICO
Countries clash over how to safeguard privacy when rooting out illegal pictures and grooming on private chat apps.
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Other members include Mi Hazánk (Our Homeland) from Hungary, an irredentist party which claims Hungary's pre-Trianon borders, the Monarchist-Libertarian, Konfederacja from Poland, Se Acabó la Fiesta from Spain, NIKH from Greece and Hnutie Republika from Slovakia.
Both parties share a pro-peace agenda in the Ukrainian war.
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S.O.S. România se aliază oficial cu AfD. Europarlamentarii partidului intră în Grupul „Suveraniștii” - HotNews.ro
Comitetul Naţional al S.O.S. România a decis ca preşedintele formaţiunii, Diana Iovanovici-Şoşoacă, să fie candidatul partidului la preşedinţia României,
According to recent data, only 400,000 employees in the real sector financially support 600,000 pensioners and 200,000 budget workers.
This means that four employees in the real sector must provide for the pensions and salaries of eight people dependent on the public budget.
The latest statistical data reveal that in 2023, there were 675.6 thousand pensioners in Moldova. According to CNAS data, the overwhelming majority of pensioners (529.4 thousand people) receive old-age pension (on average about 3,680 lei), and 99.3 thousand - disability pension (2,446 lei). The highest pensions - over 14,631 lei - are given to "certain categories of civil aviation workers" (448 people).
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A explodat bomba despre pensii! Patru angajați muncesc pentru șase pensionari și doi bugetari - Bani.md
În Republica Moldova, situația economică se agravează pe fondul unei distribuții inechitabile a resurselor de muncă și a obligațiilor sociale. Conform datelor recente, doar 400.000 de angajați din sectorul real susțin financiar 600.000 de pensionari și 200.000…
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Noteworthy to remember that the EU banned at the outbreak of the Russo-Ukrainian war, Russian outlets like RussiaToday (RT), Sputnik and just yesterday enacted a ban on Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Voice of Europe, RIA Novosti, and Izvestiya.
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🇪🇺 - EU top jobs update (there’s a EUCO summit about it this week) Senior EPP figures including Polish PM Donald Tusk and German CDU leader Friedrich Merz are scared that a deal with greens to keep Von der Leyen in charge might be too controversial with the…
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Târziu said that Fidesz's outburst came from a lack of communication between the two parties.
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♦️ Ex-Portuguese PM, Antonio Costa (S&D) for president of the European Council
♦️ Current Estonian PM, Kaja Kallas (RE) for the European High Representative for Foreign Affairs (head of diplomacy)
♦️ Current president of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, (EPP)
These nominations have to pass the vote of the European Parliament, but as is with EU politics, no candidate is nominated if he doesn't stand a chance to pass the vote in the parliament, so we can safely assume that these will be the 4 people in charge of the European Union for the next 5 years.
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Currently, that position is held by the airbase at Ramstein, Germany.
The airbase will host 16 F-16s of the Romanian army + a number of allied NATO aircraft periodically rotated after 6 months, MQ-9 "Reaper" UAVs recently purchased by the Romanian MoD and once finished, a new "military city" for the American & other NATO allied troops full with every desirable facility like kindergartens, schools, drugstores, restaurants, theaters (cinemas) & more, on top of the other military facilities like a new double runway, hangars, new fuel storage facilities, new command tower & more. The capacity of the airbase will increase from the current ~2000 personnel stationed to 10.000 and the families of those deployed.
The airspace around the airbase will become the most protected in Romania and perhaps even in NATO.
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🇪🇺 - EU top negotiators for EPP (Greece's Mitsotakis and Poland's Tusk), S&D (Spain's Sanchez and Germany's Scholz) and Renew (France's Macron and Netherlands' Rutte) agreed to the following deal:
Ursula Von Der Leyen from Germany's CDU (EPP) will be reappointed as president of the European Commission. She will need to be approved by the European Council, which should be easy after the Hungarian veto "suspense" is over, and then the European Parliament which could be difficult.
Antonio Costa, a former Portuguese socdem PM, will become president of the European Council.
Kaja Kallas, sitting liberal Estonian PM, will become High Representative for Foreign Affairs of the European Commission.
Italy, led by European and Conservatives Reformists, will "get a very senior portfolio" in the European Commission.
No mention of a deal on European Parliament speakership amid suspense on wether Malta's Roberta Metsola will serve a full 5 years or "half" 2.5 years term followed by a 2.5 years term by a socdem.
Ursula Von Der Leyen from Germany's CDU (EPP) will be reappointed as president of the European Commission. She will need to be approved by the European Council, which should be easy after the Hungarian veto "suspense" is over, and then the European Parliament which could be difficult.
Antonio Costa, a former Portuguese socdem PM, will become president of the European Council.
Kaja Kallas, sitting liberal Estonian PM, will become High Representative for Foreign Affairs of the European Commission.
Italy, led by European and Conservatives Reformists, will "get a very senior portfolio" in the European Commission.
No mention of a deal on European Parliament speakership amid suspense on wether Malta's Roberta Metsola will serve a full 5 years or "half" 2.5 years term followed by a 2.5 years term by a socdem.
They toured the Istanbul Shipyard Command meaning that the Romanian MoD is likely interested in acquiring some Turkish ships.
The ship industry in Romania took a big hit after the Dutch company, Damen Holding B.V. decided to leave the Mangalia shipyard following a blunder committed by the ministry of the economy, laying off its employees and returning the shipyard into the hands of the Romanian state who struggled to find orders before selling the shipyard to Damen in 2018.
Damen only retains the shipyard at Galați which it continuously expands. It successfully built a number of search & rescue ships for the Romanian Coast Guard and plans to build a ”drone carrier” for the Portuguese Navy. Damen has built at Galați a lot of ships for other navies, like the Pakistani Navy for which it built two corvettes, the Dutch navy for which it built a Combat-Support Ship (CSS) and a Joint Support Ship (JSS).
The Romanian Navy to make up for the lost capacity in the shipbuilding sector has resorted to buying old ships from other countries and refitting them with newer systems, like the two Sandown class minehunters and the two frigates bought from the UK. Last time we've heard from the navy was when it decided it wanted to build two brand new offshore patrol vessels (OPV) and jointly purchase with other EU members a planned new generation of corvettes believed to be ready past 2030.
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Elena Lasconi este noul președinte al USR: „De astăzi începe reconstrucția partidului”
Primarul orașului Câmpulung, Elena Lasconi, a câștigat alegerile interne din USR pentru funcția de președinte al partidului, cu 68% dintre voturi.
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These heads of state who are hated at home negotiated the future of the European Union behind closed doors and chose some particularly unreliable politicians.
Ursula von der Leyen is investigated by the European Public Prosecutor's Office for the COVID-19 vaccine acquisitions. She has refused to this day to reveal her private chat with Pfizer CEO, Alex Bourla when she sold some 40 billion EURs worth of vaccines in what is the biggest corruption case in the history of the EU. She is alleged to have bought COVID vaccines 25% more expensive than their market value.
Antonio Costa who is to lead the European Council was toppled in Portugal following the biggest corruption scandal in Portuguese history (Operation Influencer), regarding two lithium mines who might pose dangers to the health of the inhabitants nearby.
Kaja Kallas, the Estonian PM, will lead EU diplomacy after she was turned down from NATO because she was considered "too hard on Russia" despite being married to a man who had business dealings in Russia and kept conducting business in Russia after the placing of sanctions on Moscow.
It is unclear who will lead the European Parliament but it is expected that current president, Roberta Metsola (Malta) will continue to head it for the foreseeable future.
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🇷🇴⚽️🇸🇰Romania-Slovakia: 1-1 (Half time)
Duda’ 24 Marin’ 37
Score stayed the same past half time
Duda’ 24 Marin’ 37
Score stayed the same past half time
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Romania will purchase 54 K9 "Thunder" self-propelled howitzers and received the Romanian designation: K9 "Tunet" and 84 tracked K10 Ammunition Supply Vehicles as well as 17k 155mm shells worth 4.1 billion Romanian lei (~920 million EURs)
The K9 Thunder SPG can fire 8 shells in under a minute, which follows the lessons of the Russo-Ukrainian war, that artillery needs to vacate its position quickly after firing otherwise it risks being destroyed by counterbattery fire.
18/54 K9s will be manufactured in the city of Changwon the capital of South Gyeongsang province and will be delivered in 2025. The remaining 36 will be assembled in Romania.
Hanwha assures that the K9s were tested in the most difficult of conditions in South Korea and elsewhere, like Norway, India, or the Middle East, to account for climates and certain terrain features which South Korea lacks.
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