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Lithuania is urging the European Union to consider altering its voting conditions after Hungary blocked two major measures linked to Ukraine, including a €90 billion financial assistance package and a new round of sanctions against Russia. The dispute follows Budapest’s decision to halt support for the measures over concerns about disrupted Russian oil supplies via the Soviet-era Druzhba pipeline.  Hungary argues...

Ukraine deserves a just peace, and Moldova will stand with it, Moldovan President Maia Sandu said on the fourth anniversary of the Russian invasion. Several Moldovan lawmakers are taking part in commemorative ceremonies in Kiev on Tuesday with their Ukrainian colleagues. . "At the dawn of a day that changed history, Ukraine chose to resist. And it remains standing. The bravery...

Romania's president Nicusor Dan on Tuesday vowed to stand with Ukraine 'for as long as possible' on the grim 4th anniversary of the Russian invasion which has left up to 1.8 million dead. The conflict shows no sign of ending as it enters its 5th year. Nicusor Dan's statement on X "Four years ago, one of the most terrible scenarios for Europe...

Romanian Foreign Ministry spokesman has responded to former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev after he called the head of EU diplomacy ‘a blond rat.’ In a less than gentleman-y message, Medvedev accused "Kaja, the blond rat of working to ensure that hundreds of thousands of former Russian servicemen would never enter the Schengen area.” “What a loss for our fighters. Well, they...

Ex Ambassador to Washington Peter Mandelson was arrested on Monday on suspicion of “misconduct in public office” following revelations about his dealings with Jeffrey Epstein, the late sex offender. It less than a week after the former Prince Andrew was taken into police custody on the same grounds. Both men are suspected of improperly passing British government information to the disgraced...

Romania has moved to cancel identity papers for more than 160,000 people, including 100,000 Moldovans. Since Romania joined the European Union in 2007, there has been a surge of Moldovans taking advantage of Romanian laws giving them an easy path to citizenship. Some 900,000 Moldovans have legally, acquired Romanian passports if they can prove that a grandparent was originally Romanian. Having a...

Bitcoin remains rangebound despite further CLARITY Act talks. ProShares launches first money-market ETF which meets GENIUS requirements Bitcoin remains rangebound, trading between $66,000 and $71,000 and seemingly in need of a catalyst to drive prices higher. Similarly, major altcoins such as ethereum, XRP and solana are also consolidating and struggling for direction, writes Simon Peters, cryptoasset market analyst at eToro. .One major...

In recent days there have been intense disputes on the "technical recession", and various causal responsibilities have been put forward. It remains to be clarified how serious it is that it is called a "recession" and how acute its "technical" nature is. And the concern is also to understand when the current economic decline began. The textbook definition of technical...

Trump picks fight with France over a political killing, Bibi coalition picks a fight with US Jews, China busts sanctions In recent days, Trump has warned mafiotically that Ukraine must “come to the table fast,” and Marco Rubio, his glum secretary of state, skipped the key Ukraine meeting at the Munich Security Conference. It’s all part of the same reality...

Hungary’s PM Viktor Orbán has threatened to veto the European Union’s proposed €90bn financial assistance package for Ukraine. He will yield if Kiev restores Russian oil deliveries through the Druzhba pipeline, he says. The pipeline, one of the largest oil transport systems in the world, carries Russian crude westward through Ukraine to Central European countries including Hungary and Slovakia.  For Hungary and...