PARIS (Reuters) – French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou on Tuesday told lawmakers that France was drowning in debt, but pledged to listen to ideas to renegotiate a landmark 2023 pension reform in a bid to win support from the left to pass the 2025 budget. Below are some of the key quotes from his speech …
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By Anne Kauranen, Essi Lehto and Andreas Rinke HELSINKI (Reuters) -NATO countries will deploy frigates, patrol aircraft and naval drones in the Baltic Sea to help protect critical infrastructure and reserve the right to take action against ships suspected of posing a security threat, alliance members said on Tuesday. The military and political alliance is …
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NELAHOZEVES, Czech Republic (Reuters) – Upgrades to boost the capacity for oil deliveries to the Czech Republic via the TAL pipeline are complete, ending the country’s need to import Russian crude, Prime Minister Petr Fiala said on Tuesday. The Czech Republic has worked to wean itself off Russian oil and gas since Russia’s invasion of …
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By Marwa Rashad LONDON (Reuters) -Donald Trump will mark his return to the global stage with a virtual World Economic Forum appearance in Davos next week, as world leaders await details of the incoming U.S. President’s policies and his pledge to end the war in Ukraine. Trump is due to return to the White House …
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MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish police said on Tuesday they had apprehended a gang suspected of smuggling more than 40,000 tons a year of untreated urban waste from Italy to Spain. In a statement, police said Italian waste treatment companies, which were not named, had paid smugglers over 19 million euros ($19.5 million) since 2021 to …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s cabinet is set to approve plans on Wednesday authorising the armed forces to shoot down illegal drones following repeated reports of illegal flights over critical infrastructure, a draft amendment seen by Reuters showed. Germany has been on high alert for hybrid attacks from Russia since the full-scales invasion of Ukraine. In …
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By Andrew Goudsward and Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith concluded that Donald Trump engaged in an “unprecedented criminal effort” to hold on to power after losing the 2020 election, but was thwarted in bringing the case to trial by the president-elect’s November election victory, according to a report published on …
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ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis urged the European Commission on Tuesday to tackle power price discrepancies across the bloc, repeating previous calls for an electricity market with a more even sharing of electricity. Greece and other countries in southeastern Europe have seen power prices rising much faster than their northern peers since …
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By Lucy Papachristou (Reuters) – A court in Georgia ordered a media director to be sent to pretrial detention on Tuesday for allegedly assaulting a police officer at a rally over the weekend, the Interpress news agency reported. Authorities in the South Caucasus country are pursuing criminal cases against dozens of individuals as protesters continue …
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By Corina Pons and David Latona MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s opponents on Tuesday said a proposed tax on property purchases by non-European Union residents was “xenophobic” and they would not apply the levy in the regions where they govern. “The problem is not that people want to live in Spain, the …
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