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(Reuters) -Moldovan President Maia Sandu called on Tuesday for the European Union to open all negotiation clusters with her country by the end of the year. Speaking at an EU summit in Brussels, Sandu added that Moldova would continue pursuing critical reforms including in the judiciary and energy sector. (Reporting by Olena Harmash and Dan …

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BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Tuesday his government would launch a pension top-up from January 1, stepping up his political campaign ahead of elections in 2026. Orban said in a Facebook post that the so called “14th-month pension” would be introduced in several steps. Faced with a prolonged economic stagnation, Orban …

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KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday the European Commission’s latest report on Ukraine’s reform progress showed Kyiv was “confidently moving” toward EU membership and was ready to open the first three negotiation clusters. “We expect the EU’s decisive action to overcome all artificial obstacles for a strong and united Europe,” he wrote …

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BUCHAREST (Reuters) -Romania will set up an infrastructure fund to address flood emergencies over at least five years, a requirement to unblock European Union recovery funds, Environment Minister Diana Buzoianu said. The country has seen some of its worst floods in at least two decades in 2024 and this year, causing 10 deaths, burst river …

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By Sarah Marsh and Andreas Rinke BERLIN (Reuters) -Syrians no longer have grounds for asylum in Germany now the civil war in their country is over, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said, as his conservatives seek to fend off a surging far-right ahead of a slew of state elections next year. Germany was the EU country …

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