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Commission sets out how the EU would absorb new members eualive.net/commission-s... Gradual access to selected policies, stronger post-accession safeguards, and a renewed push to drop unanimity on sanctions and foreign policy

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Commission sets out how the EU would absorb new members

The European Commission on Tuesday set out how it wants the Union to absorb new ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 13h

The Board of Peace, transatlantic loyalties, and the monetisation of diplomacy eualive.net/the-board-of... Hierarchy with a membership fee: how Trump’s Board reprices democracy in Wider Europe

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The Board of Peace, transatlantic loyalties, and the monetisation of diplomacy

Trump’s Board of Peace is not a peace process. It is a hierarchy with a ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 15h

Former German spy chief arrested over classified documents. Why Berlin keeps leaking secrets? eualive.net/former-germa... The arrest of ex-BND chief August Hanning is not a Russian plot, investigators say. The country’s wider exposure to foreign pressure is older and structural

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Former German spy chief arrested over classified documents. Why Berlin keeps leaking secrets?

Former German foreign-intelligence chief August Hanning was arrested on 6 October on suspicion of treasonous ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 16h

Croatia demands more than $2.7bn in military property from Montenegro eualive.net/croatia-dema... Zagreb says the tall ship Jadran is only part of a claim covering vessels, submarines and other assets that shifted from Croatian to Montenegrin locations after 1990

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Croatia demands more than $2.7bn in military property from Montenegro

Croatia is seeking the return of military property it values at more than $2.7 billion ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 19h

Meloni files to trademark her voice to counter deepfakes eualive.net/meloni-files... If the application is accepted, anyone using a cloned voice without authorisation could be required to remove the material, pay damages and answer for trademark infringement

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Meloni files to trademark her voice to counter deepfakes

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Monday 5 October filed an application with the European ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 19h

Drone strikes hit commercial ships in Bulgarian waters, triggering major Black Sea rescue eualive.net/drone-strike... The first such attack inside Bulgaria’s EEZ leaves one vessel sunk and another ablaze; two crew members are confirmed dead as regional tensions rise

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Drone strikes hit commercial ships in Bulgarian waters, triggering major Black Sea rescue

A large-scale multinational rescue operation is under way in the Black Sea east of Cape ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 22h

Fourth bid to end deadlock: President Nicușor Dan nominates diplomat Luca Niculescu as PM eualive.net/fourth-bid-t... Niculescu’s profile differs from those of his predecessors in ways that could reduce partisan friction

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Fourth bid to end deadlock: President Nicușor Dan nominates diplomat Luca Niculescu as PM

President Nicușor Dan on Monday designated Luca Niculescu, a career diplomat and state secretary in ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 23h

Yemeni forces retake Bab el-Mandeb coast as Houthis claim Saudi strikes eualive.net/yemeni-force... Government advance reaches Mocha outskirts while Hormuz tanker traffic resumes but oil prices remain elevated near $100

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Yemeni forces retake Bab el-Mandeb coast as Houthis claim Saudi strikes

Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces staged a lightning advance on Monday that pushed Iran-aligned Houthi fighters ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 23h

Turkey to build spaceport in Somalia as Erdoğan pushes for Moon mission eualive.net/turkey-to-bu... A spacecraft which has more than 80% domestic components is undergoing testing and is targeted for launch in the first months of 2027

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Turkey to build spaceport in Somalia as Erdoğan pushes for Moon mission

Turkey and Somalia have signed an agreement under which Turkey will build a spaceport in ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

U.S. sanctions Russia-linked payment network tied to Moldovan oligarch Ilan Shor eualive.net/u-s-sanction... U.S. Treasury sanctioned Russian platform A7, accusеd of helping sanctioned entities move money through the international financial system

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U.S. sanctions Russia-linked payment network tied to Moldovan oligarch Ilan Shor

The United States has sanctioned the Russia-linked A7 financial network led by Moldovan fugitive oligarch ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What the Irkutsk plague-lab case does and does not show eualive.net/what-the-irk... Russian authorities call Darya Shipilova’s illness pneumonia of unknown cause and say no work-related pathogen was found

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What the Irkutsk plague-lab case does and does not show

A laboratory technician at a Siberian anti-plague institute has died of severe pneumonia, and nearly ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Grain ship sinks off Romania after drone strike near gas platform eualive.net/grain-ship-s... Two crew members found deads as the Royad Mammadov, carrying Ukrainian grain, goes down close to a Romanian offshore installation

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Grain ship sinks off Romania after drone strike near gas platform

Romanian authorities on Monday mounted a search-and-rescue operation in the Black Sea after the general ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Guy Verhofstadt cooperating in probe over interns eualive.net/guy-verhofst... Belgian authorities, acting for EPPO and OLAF, are examining how EP interns were supervised; no specific allegation has been disclosed

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Guy Verhofstadt cooperating in probe over interns

The federal police in Belgium have opened an investigation into former prime minister and longtime ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez calls snap election for 29 November after housing defeat eualive.net/spanish-pm-p... Polls give the PP and Vox a clear path to government, with consequences for EU migration and climate policy

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Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez calls snap election for 29 November after housing defeat

Pedro Sánchez has called a snap general election for 29 November, converting a parliamentary defeat ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Seventeen EU states, led by Italy and Romania, move to shield farm and cohesion funds eualive.net/seventeen-eu... Giorgia Meloni and Nicușor Dan rally the Friends of Cohesion against further cuts in the 2028–2034 budget, setting up a clash with the six frugal countries

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Seventeen EU states, led by Italy and Romania, move to shield farm and cohesion funds

Seventeen EU governments, coordinated by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Romanian President Nicușor Dan, ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Cyprus issue post Guterres: moving towards permanent partition eualive.net/the-cyprus-i... The problem is not that the world has more urgent crises. It is that, following repeated failures, the issue may be regarded as one with a low probability of success. By Dionysis Dionysiou

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The Cyprus issue post Guterres: moving towards permanent partition

UN Secretary General António Guterres made two attempts to advance the Cyprus problem: one when ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Media association warns of pressures on Nova ahead of Serbia’s elections eualive.net/media-associ... ANEM says staffing and commercial moves at the portal form part of efforts to tighten control over critical outlets before the 25 October vote

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Media association warns of pressures on Nova.rs ahead of Serbia’s elections

The Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) warned on 4 October that new steps by ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Latvia’s election strengthens pro-Ukraine course eualive.net/latvias-elec... United List’s record result positions Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs to form a majority with the National Alliance, locking in high defence spending and continued military aid to Kyiv

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Latvia’s election strengthens pro-Ukraine course

Latvia’s 3 October parliamentary election produced a clear mandate for continuity in the country’s hard-line ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Dodik’s SNSD sweeps Republika Srpska vote as ethnic parties dominate Bosnia elections eualive.net/dodiks-snsd-... Preliminary results give the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats nearly 39% in the entity assembly

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Dodik’s SNSD sweeps Republika Srpska vote as ethnic parties dominate Bosnia elections

Preliminary results from Bosnia and Herzegovina’s general elections on 4 October point to a clear ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Bolsonaro beats expectations in Brazil presidential vote, will face Lula in runoff eualive.net/bolsonaro-be... Brazilian intelligence officials reportedly briefed a French and German delegation on alleged U.S. and Russian interference before the election

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Bolsonaro beats expectations in Brazil presidential vote, will face Lula in runoff

Right-wing Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro will face leftist President Luiz Inacio ‌Lula da Silva in ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Merz visits Kyiv under Russian attack, seals €8.5 billion in deals with Ukraine eualive.net/merz-visits-... Germany announces more than €1.3 billion in new aid, including air defence and energy support

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Merz visits Kyiv under Russian attack, seals €8.5 billion in deals with Ukraine

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz visited Kyiv on Sunday as Russian strikes continued to hit the ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Germany is exposed to sharper Russian disinformation - and has no French-style defence eualive.net/germany-is-e... Berlin tracks the campaigns but will not confront them. France’s VIGINUM service shows what a clearer mandate can do

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Germany is exposed to sharper Russian disinformation – and has no French-style defence

Increasingly professional Russian disinformation is targeting Germany. Berlin has recognized the problem, but it still ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Trump secures G7 release of up to 100 million barrels of diesel and crude eualive.net/trump-secure... Emergency stock draw, coordinated by the IEA over four months, follows U.S. pressure to curb rising fuel prices while sanctions on Russia stay in place

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Trump secures G7 release of up to 100 million barrels of diesel and crude

G7 countries intend to release up to 100 million barrels of crude oil and diesel ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Putin: “I hope Vučić will be prime minister of Serbia” eualive.net/putin-i-hope... Putin spoke about the elections in Serbia and Zelenskyy’s visit to Belgrade, and also touched on the NATO bombing: “It all started like this…”

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Putin: “I hope Vučić will be prime minister of Serbia”

Russian President Vladimir Putin in 1 October expressed hope that Aleksandar Vučić, the lead candidate ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Erdoğan puts new constitution at centre of Turkey’s parliamentary agenda eualive.net/erdogan-puts... Turkish president calls for a “year of the Constitution” as debate over the possibility of another presidential candidacy gains momentum

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Erdoğan puts new constitution at centre of Turkey’s parliamentary agenda

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has put the drafting of a new constitution at the ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

North Rhine-Westphalia’s popular premier gains prominence amid Merz’s setbacks eualive.net/north-rhine-... Hendrik Wüst has consistently denied any ambition to replace the chancellor under current circumstances

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North Rhine-Westphalia’s popular premier gains prominence amid Merz’s setbacks

Pressure on German Chancellor Friedrich Merz intensified this week following a series of electoral setbacks ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Vučić received 78 percent of airtime devoted to political actors on five television stations eualive.net/vucic-receiv... The former President and SNS together accounted for 90.5% of the recorded time, while the Students’ List accounted for about 6.2%

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Vučić received 78 percent of airtime devoted to political actors on five television stations

The Bureau for Social Research (BIRODI) said today that Aleksandar Vučić, leader of the “United ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Trump wants Europe’s diesel reserves spent before the midterms eualive.net/trump-wants-... Washington wants the EU to release about 120 million barrels over six months to bring down pump prices in the U.S.

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Trump wants Europe’s diesel reserves spent before the midterms

The Trump administration has told Germany and France to draw down emergency diesel stocks or ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Calls to ban La France Insoumise follow violent school protests eualive.net/calls-to-ban... A government crisis meeting was told by intelligence services that the movement was “an operation organised by LFI and its proxies on the far left”

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Calls to ban La France Insoumise follow violent school protests

Bruno Retailleau, the leader of Les Républicains and a presidential candidate, said on 1 October ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ukraine uses its own FP-7 ballistic missile in combat for the first time eualive.net/ukraine-uses... Zelenskyy announces the launch and the move to serial production, as Kyiv’s compressed wartime industry moves from mass drone output to cruise and ballistic missiles

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Ukraine uses its own FP-7 ballistic missile in combat for the first time

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on 1 October that Ukrainian forces had carried out the first ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hungary and Ukraine agree a step-by-step deal to reopen Kyiv’s EU talks eualive.net/hungary-and-... Budapest will unblock two accession clusters if parliament passes minority-education changes already listed in the EU roadmap

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Hungary and Ukraine agree a step-by-step deal to reopen Kyiv’s EU talks

Hungary has agreed to lift its veto on two clusters in Ukraine’s EU accession talks ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Putin says seized Western assets could eventually be returned eualive.net/putin-says-s... In practice, temporary administration has in several cases been followed by the sale of businesses to Russian buyers at heavily discounted prices

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Putin says seized Western assets could eventually be returned

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Western companies whose Russian assets have been ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

High school students torch at least two schools as high school protests rage across France eualive.net/high-school-... Interior minister ⁠Laurent Nunez said that, in some places, troublemakers were moving from school to school to incite violence

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High school students torch at least two schools as high school protests rage across France

High school student protesters started fires in at least two French schools on Thursday, while ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Meloni seeks more room for manoeuvre on energy costs; Brussels gives the cold shoulder eualive.net/meloni-seeks... Rome and Prague ask for temporary suspension of the EU's Emissions Trading System and other measures to protect European industry and refineries

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Meloni seeks more room for manoeuvre on energy costs; Brussels gives the cold shoulder

The European Commission has given a disappointing response to Italy’s request for greater flexibility in ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Latvia moves to nearly ban Russian-language content on public broadcasters eualive.net/latvia-moves... Russian-language content on Latvijas Televīzija and Latvijas Radio will be permitted only in narrowly defined exceptional cases

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Latvia moves to nearly ban Russian-language content on public broadcasters

Latvia’s parliament has approved new rules limiting the circumstances in which the country’s public broadcasters ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Moscow takes the College of Commissioners more seriously than Brussels does eualive.net/moscow-takes... L’Express reveals Russian scenarios that include killing a commissioner; perhaps it is time the institutions noticed too

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Moscow takes the College of Commissioners more seriously than Brussels does

L’Express has done the decent thing and published the contents of a confidential September French ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

European payments groups join forces to challenge U.S. dominance eualive.net/european-pay... Alliance of Bizum, Bancomat, Wero and others aims to connect Europe’s existing instant-payment systems

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European payments groups join forces to challenge U.S. dominance

European payment groups serving 130 million people, including Spain’s Bizum, Italy’s Bancomat and Brussels-based Wero, ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Moldova promised deeper single market access before EU membership eualive.net/moldova-prom... Commission draft outlines gradual integration for candidates, with Chisinau and Kyiv cited as early beneficiaries in trade, energy and roaming

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Moldova promised deeper single market access before EU membership

Moldova could secure progressive entry into key segments of the European Single Market and selected ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Test for the ruling coalition in Montenegro eualive.net/test-for-the... Andrija Mandić keeps the speakership, but his condolences to the Mladić family have split the ruling majority and put Montenegro’s final EU reforms at risk

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Test for the ruling coalition in Montenegro

Although Andrija Mandić has survived a third attempt to remove him as Montenegro’s speaker, the ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A sarcophagus of Macedonian marble for the tsar of the Bulgarians eualive.net/a-sarcophagu... Bulgaria received the remains of its tsar, Greece received 48 relics, and North Macedonia received one more reason to argue about the past. By Emilia Milcheva

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A sarcophagus of Macedonian marble for the tsar of the Bulgarians

Tsar Samuel no longer divides Bulgaria and Greece, but he still stands between Bulgaria and ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Protesters shout "No EU with Rama" as von der Leyen comes to back Albania’s EU bid eualive.net/protesters-s... Albania is shaken by its Flamingo revolution, the country’s biggest civic uprising since the fall of communism

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Protesters shout “No EU with Rama” as von der Leyen comes to back Albania’s EU bid

Tensions flared outside Albania’s government headquarters in Tirana on Wednesday as European Commission President Ursula ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

7500 over the desert: how FZ1073 became a live drama before anyone knew what happened eualive.net/7500-over-th... Hollywood will not have to invent the beats. It will have to decide which version of them is true

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7500 over the desert: how FZ1073 became a live drama before anyone knew what happened

The first images from Ben Gurion on Wednesday evening already looked like the last reel ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Unsurprisingly, Siegfried Mureșan’s government falls in Parliament eualive.net/unsurprising... President Nicușor Dan must now decide between a new nomination and snap elections

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Unsurprisingly, Siegfried Mureșan’s government falls in Parliament

Romania’s months-long government crisis entered a new phase on 30 September 2026 when Parliament rejected ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

From Brussels, Bulgaria’s Radev warns of nuclear risk, calls for Ukraine diplomacy eualive.net/from-brussel... Rumen Radev argues that continued arms deliveries to Ukraine risk escalating a confrontation with the world’s largest nuclear power

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From Brussels, Bulgaria’s Radev warns of nuclear risk, calls for Ukraine diplomacy

Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev has called on Europe to put diplomacy at the centre ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

French high school protests escalate into nationwide clashes eualive.net/french-high-... Students blockade schools over teacher shortages and overcrowding while government and hard-left leaders trade accusations of violence and repression

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French high school protests escalate into nationwide clashes

More than 400 people, the majority of them minors, were detained across France on Tuesday ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hijack code, fighter jets, then a cockpit brawl: how the Flydubai Dubai–Tel Aviv flight story unfolded eualive.net/hijack-code-... The open question is: was it wise to pair a Russian and a Ukrainian in the cockpit?

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Hijack code, fighter jets, then a cockpit brawl: how the Flydubai Dubai–Tel Aviv flight story unfolded

A Flydubai Boeing 737 MAX flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv transmitted the international hijacking ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Slovak parliament ousts environment minister after coalition partner breaks ranks eualive.net/slovak-parli... Fico’s narrow majority is now in doubt, with a January snap election among the options as the 2027 budget deadline approaches

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Slovak parliament ousts environment minister after coalition partner breaks ranks

On 29 September 2026 Slovakia’s National Council voted to dismiss Deputy Prime Minister and Environment ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Tokayev proposes Kazakhstan–Germany investment and financial platform eualive.net/tokayev-prop... Baiterek holding would handle project structuring and German export-credit and investment-insurance agencies could take part

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Tokayev proposes Kazakhstan–Germany investment and financial platform

President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has proposed a joint Kazakhstan–Germany investment and financial platform that would combine ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Vučić takes your order: highways first, then Kosovo, hold the NATO eualive.net/vucic-takes-... How voters are reacting to the messages in the electoral ad will become clear on 25 October

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Vučić takes your order: highways first, then Kosovo, hold the NATO

Serbia is heading into early parliamentary elections on 25 October 2026 after nearly two years ...

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Bulgaria, Greece and Romania sign €22.8bn action plan to connect Aegean, Danube and Black Sea eualive.net/bulgaria-gre... Officials present the initiative as civilian infrastructure that also supports military mobility on NATO’s eastern flank

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Bulgaria, Greece and Romania sign €22.8bn action plan to connect Aegean, Danube and Black Sea

Transport ministers from Bulgaria, Greece and Romania signed a joint action plan on 29 September ...

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