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By Jan Strupczewski BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union leaders will seek on Thursday to convince Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to join a plan to offer stable financing to Ukraine, but they are also ready to provide the cash to Kyiv without Hungary if their arguments fail. The plan is to help cover Ukraine’s 2024-2027 …

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By Erol Dodrudogan and Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Farmers descended on Brussels to press a summit of European Union leaders to do more to help them with taxes, rising costs and cheap imports, throwing eggs at the European Parliament, starting fires near the building and setting off fireworks. Major thoroughfares in Brussels, the heart of …

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BERLIN (Reuters) – Security staff at some of Germany’s biggest airports, including the global hub Frankfurt, walked off the job on Thursday, grounding flights and piling pain on Europe’s largest economy. The 24-hour strike, called by labour union Verdi, is the latest in a series of industrial actions that has paralysed the country’s transportation sector …

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By Anna Voitenko NOVOVOLYNSK, Ukraine (Reuters) – When Illia Muzyka, a 29-year-old border guard in the southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, was captured soon after Russia’s full-scale invasion, he feared never seeing his fiancee again. Unbeknown to him, Alina Panina was also taken as a prisoner of war (POW) a few weeks later in the …

A Ukrainian couple, held as POWs by Russia, are finally reunited Read More »

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union member states should agree to a long-term aid package for Ukraine, Estonia’s prime minister Kaja Kallas said on Thursday ahead of the summit regrouping leaders of the 27 EU member countries on the subject. As Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Obran is the only one of the 27 to voice his …

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By Nacho Doce and Charlie Devereux BURELA, Spain (Reuters) – Watching news of Senegalese migrants arriving on the Canary Islands stirs memories for Babou Diouf of the same perilous journey he undertook 17 years ago and his arduous path to his new home – Burela, on Spain’s northern coast. Diouf, 46, a fisherman from Bassoul …

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By Renee Maltezou THESSALONIKI, Greece (Reuters) – When Yolanda Kalantzi and Georgia Ampatzidou fell in love eight years ago, they said the idea of getting married was “science fiction” in deeply conservative Greece, where LGBT+ couples cannot wed or adopt. Now they have a tentative wedding date for spring, tease each other about their ballooning …

Greek same-sex wedding bill allows couples to dream, at last Read More »

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgium’s Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said on Thursday he was confident the leaders of the 27 European Union member states would find an agreement on financial aid to Ukraine. He added there was no alternative to a compromise on Ukraine aid among the 27 EU member states and that such an …

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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson condemned “an attempted attack” against the Israeli Embassy in Stockholm, after an object believed to be an explosive device was found outside it and destroyed by the national bomb squad on Wednesday. Embassy staff had notified police of the object, triggering a large response from law enforcement, Swedish …

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