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  • Saturday, 30 September, 2023
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    Battling corruption in Ukraine Premium content

    Postwar reconstruction and EU membership will depend on overcoming a decades-long legacy of graft and illegality

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    Former Slovakia prime minister Robert Fico, right, and liberal MEP Michal Šimečka
  • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
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  • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
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  • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
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  • Monday, 25 September, 2023
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  • Saturday, 23 September, 2023
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    Elections in the two central European countries will test support for Ukraine and measure the appeal of illiberalism

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  • Friday, 22 September, 2023
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  • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
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    Also in this newsletter: Why the EU is spending aid money on migration measures

    A view shows damaged cars in front of a residential building following the launch of a military operation by Azerbaijani armed forces in the city of Stepanakert in Nagorno-Karabakh
  • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
    Diamonds and gemstones
    Diamond industry slams looming sanctions on Russian gems Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: the EU’s future climate commissioner gears up for grilling on his fossil fuel past

    An employee holds a rough diamond at a factory in Moscow,
  • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
    EU enlargement
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    Also in this newsletter: Italy’s expanding migrant detention centres

    Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz
  • Monday, 18 September, 2023
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  • Saturday, 16 September, 2023
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    Swiss federal councillor Viola Amherd, Austrian defence minister Klaudia Tanner and German defence minister Boris Pistorius
  • Friday, 15 September, 2023
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    Why Brussels wants Mario Draghi to fix the EU’s competitiveness woes Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: How an ex Goldman Sachs analyst plans to take over Greece’s leftwing opposition

    Ursula von der Leyen standing next to Mario Draghi
  • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
    European Union
    Spain bangs the drum for EU investment in Latin America Premium content

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    Spain’s economy minister Nadia Calviño
  • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
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    Also in this newsletter: Austria’s former spy chief  warns of Russian meddling

    Ursula von der Leyen
  • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
    European Parliament elections
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    Also in this newsletter: Why Finland’s next president will be no stranger to Brussels

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  • Monday, 11 September, 2023
    G20
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    Also in this newsletter: EBRD calls for anti-corruption reforms in EU accession countries

    Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz at the G20 in New Delhi
  • Saturday, 9 September, 2023
    G20
    G20: A chance for Europe to shape the global order Premium content

    The west has to push for serious reform of the IMF to help rebuild ties with the global south 

    Chinese president Xi Jinping, his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen in Beijing, April 2023
  • Friday, 8 September, 2023
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    Also in this newsletter: Greece hit by devastating floods after record wildfires

    The Nataraja, a statue of Hindu lord Shiva as the cosmic dancer, installed next to ‘Bharat Mandapam’, the main venue of the G20 Summit
  • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
    European Parliament
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    Also in this newsletter: Why EU companies are calling for more money to secure critical metals

    Roberta Metsola on stage in front of an EU flag
  • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
    Spanish politics
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    Also in this newsletter: Belgium’s energy minister warns US is ahead of EU in green technology race

    Carles Puigdemont at the podium
  • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
    German politics
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    Also in this newsletter: green NGOs denounce the choice of new EU climate commissioner

    German Chancellor Olaf Scholz with a black eye-pad  at the chancellery in Berlin
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