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2040 Emissions Target: Where EU’s Climate Policy Is Headed
Bulgarian News Agency
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This article is based on content provided by agencies participating in the European Newsroom (ENR), including the Bulgarian News Agency. It looks as if the EU is slowly inching away from its green targets in favour of defence spending and revving...
What’s the Incentive for Anyone Good to Run?
Kandit News Group
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July 9, 2025
What a time to be alive! It’s in times like these that both journalistic and political careers are forged. Oh, how I remember reading George Smalley’s dispatch from the Battle of Antietam! Or how eager I was for the latest installment of what...
Weed tourism lights up global travel
BizNews
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Marijuana-inspired travel is the next big thing in the global travel industry as the world begins to realise that ganja really is the new tourism gold. Knowing that cannabis and the tourism dollar are fast friends would most likely have Bob Marley...
Western Balkans Leaders’ meeting in Skopje reaffirms commitment for swift delivery of the Growth Plan
The European Sting
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July 2, 2025
(Credit: Unsplash) This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. Today, Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos and the leaders of the six Western Balkans partners (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro,...
Inside Robert Jenrick’s New Right revolution
New Statesman
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July 9, 2025
There is a story being told about Robert Jenrick. It runs like this: shortly after 7 October 2023, and shortly before he resigned as immigration minister from his friend Rishi Sunak’s government, he was with his three daughters, who have an...
Untold Details of Ecuador’s Marble-Bunker Takedown and the Cocaine War Still Raging
LatinAmerican Post
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July 9, 2025
Just before sunrise on June 19, Ecuadorian commandos smashed marble tiles inside a seaside mansion and dragged the country’s most notorious fugitive, “Fito” Macías, from an underground lair—an arrest hailed as victory yet shadowed by fresh, unseen...
Discover the Art of Cooking in Italy
Breaking Travel News
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June 27, 2025
While every country has a national dish and a few regional specialties, Italy is the one little corner of the world that has elevated cooking from a daily necessity to an art form. For centuries Italian cuisine has embraced regional variations,...
St Pat’s boss Stephen Kenny hopes ‘unacceptable’ run comes to an end in European clash with Hegelmann
The Irish Times
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Uefa Conference League qualifying, first round, first leg: St Patrick’s Athletic v Hegelmann (Lithuania), Richmond Park, Thursday, 7.45pm Fourteen months ago, Stephen Kenny signed a five-year contract to begin the process of guiding St Patrick’s...
'Something that seemed utopic just a few years ago' – Meet Giusy Virelli, the woman behind the new incarnation of the Giro d'Italia Women
Cyclingnews
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July 2, 2025
Giusy Virelli is having her final few meetings at the RCS Sport offices in Milan before taking her flight ahead of the big opening day of the men's Giro d'Italia in Albania in May. For the RCS Sport events manager, this is the culmination of two...
Western Balkan leaders meet in Skopje to advance EU Growth Plan
BNE Intellinews
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EU Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos met with leaders of the six Western Balkans partners – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia – in Skopje on July 1, for a high-level meeting dedicated to the EU Growth...
15 Best International Places To Visit In August 2025 | Top Destinations
Femina
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In her album folklore, Taylor Swift croons in the song august, “August slipped away into a moment in time.” And before you realise it, this August, much like every other fleeting month, will eventually and inevitably vanish too. So make the most...
Bird flu hits Brazil’s poultry exports after May outbreak
The Poultry Site
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Import bans persist despite official clearance of commercial flocks An outbreak of bird flu in Brazil, the world's largest chicken exporter, has prompted countries to implement trade restrictions in an effort to prevent the spread of the virus...
Labor Productivity 35% Lower than Region
Albanian Daily News
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The economies of the Western Balkans continue to face low levels of labor productivity compared to the European Union average, but the productivity of Albanian workers is also the lowest in the Region. A comparative analysis by the Organization...
Djuric, Jenca discuss Kosovo-Metohija, region and international issues
Tanjug
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July 9, 2025
BELGRADE - Serbian FM Marko Djuric met with UN Assistant Secretary-General for Europe, Central Asia and the Americas Miroslav Jenca in Belgrade on Wednesday to discuss regional relations, the situation in Kosovo-Metohija and current international...
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner issued warning after buying up tiny island paradise for audacious $1.4 billion project… as locals adopt telling new nickname
Daily Mail
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June 29, 2025
As Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner move ahead with a plan to transform an Albanian island filled with decaying Soviet-era military outposts into a one-of-a-kind resort experience for the ultra wealthy, one local has a message for the couple....
Benidorm Fest 2026 Grand Final to be held February 14
ESCXTRA
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July 9, 2025
RTVE the official Eurovision broadcaster for Spain has confirmed the dates for Benidorm Fest 2026 and more details on the core team members producing the live shows. 🇪🇸 Benidorm Fest 2026 live shows to be held February 10, 12, 14 Following the...
Leaders of the Western Balkans and EU Commissioner Marta Kos in Skopje on the Growth Plan
Sarajevo Times
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July 1, 2025
European Union Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos and the leaders of six partners from the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia) gathered today in Skopje for a high-level meeting...
Tributes paid to ‘humanitarian legend’ Mike McDonagh
The Clare Champion
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July 8, 2025
Glowing tributes have been paid to an Ennis “humanitarian giant” who previously broke the blockade on the besieged city of Malanje in the Angolan central highlands during this phase of the war. The sudden death of Mike McDonagh on June 21, 2025,...
Vučić slams Kosovo bridge plan, warns exodus
Gazeta Tema
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July 2, 2025
BELGRADE, July 2 — Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić has protested to Western powers over Kosovo’s construction of two new bridges over the Ibar River, calling it a unilateral move that could trigger a “final exodus” of Serbs from Mitrovica’s...
Europe’s air connectivity impacted by geopolitics and market shifts
Airport World
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Despite increasing by +7% in 2025 over the preceding year, air connectivity (direct + indirect air connectivity) in Europe still remains -9% below pre‑pandemic (2019) levels, according to ACI EUROPE. The situation inevitably means fewer and more...