Bartjan Wegter : «La police anti-terroriste doit accéder aux messages cryptés»
The autumn budget will mop up some damage, but the true source of the economic crisis is clear. The government should now fix it – don’t hold your breath
Imagine a family stuck in a house that constantly floods. The carpets are soaked, the walls damp. It’s always cold, no matter how much they turn up the heating.
The family try everything. They promise to replace the sodden carpets and find new, innovative ways to warm the house. Someone with a laptop wonders if AI might be the answer. But no one ever looks upwards and says: maybe we should just repair the giant hole in the roof.
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Ukraine could be forced into an agreement but plan as it stands seems too bizarre for Zelenskyy to sell to his public
We’ve been here before: the Trump administration announces a roadmap towards peace in Ukraine that seems to be dramatically skewed towards Moscow’s demands; Volodymyr Zelenskyy gets on the phone to alarmed European allies; they quickly call Trump to message him that the whole idea is unworkable; the plan quietly dies. Rinse and repeat.
This time it feels a bit different, however. Reports on Friday suggested the US has threatened that if Ukraine does not sign a hastily concocted peace plan, Washington could withdraw intelligence-sharing and other support critical to the Ukrainian war effort.
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Former French president complains about noise in extract from A Prisoner’s Diary, to be released next month
Nicolas Sarkozy is to publish a book next month called A Prisoner’s Diary detailing his 20 days in jail.
The book was announced 11 days after the former French president was released from prison while he appeals against his conviction for criminal conspiracy over a scheme to obtain election campaign funds from the regime of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
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Maciej Konieczny claims Europe’s sole supplier, in Poland, sends much of its production to US, which exports it for use by Israel
Europe cannot supply enough TNT to defend either itself or Ukraine largely because its monopoly supplier of the explosive is contracted to send much of its production to the US, which then exports it for use by Israel in Gaza, a Polish MP has claimed.
Maciej Konieczny, a member of the leftwing Razem party, said the Polish company Nitro-Chem, owned by the Polish Armaments Group, could not keep up with demand partly because it had signed successive contracts to supply TNT to the US, where it is used in bombs supplied to Israel.
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Mpox cases continue to rise in parts of Africa, three years after a major outbreak infected nearly 100,000 people

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MILAN — The European Space Agency has tapped a consortium led by Thales Alenia Space Italy to develop its Argonaut lunar lander and has outlined a division of labor for the program across several European firms. Thales Alenia Space Italy will act as the Lunar Design Element (LDE) prime contractor and ensure that all subsystems […]
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Classification plan will create basis for ‘significantly stricter’ prosecutions, says interior minister
Germany plans to treat the use of date rape drugs like the use of weapons in prosecutions as part of measures to ensure justice for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.
“We classify date rape drugs, which are increasingly used as a widespread tool in crimes, as weapons. This creates the basis for significantly stricter prosecutions,” Alexander Dobrindt, the interior minister, said on Friday. “We are committed to clear consequences and consistent enforcement. Women should feel safe and be able to move freely everywhere.”
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Central bank chief warns that the bloc’s dependence on third countries for trade and security has left it vulnerable
Europe’s economy is “geared towards a world that is gradually disappearing”, according to a warning from Christine Lagarde that the EU needs reforms to spur growth.
The president of the European Central Bank (ECB) said the EU’s dependence on international trade had left it vulnerable, as major partners had turned away from the trade that made the bloc’s exporters wealthy.
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Police say Nathan Gill received at least £30,000 while he was an MEP, from Oleg Voloshyn, an alleged Russian asset
Reform UK’s former leader in Wales Nathan Gill has been jailed for 10 and a half years for taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia when he was an MEP.
Gill, a key member of the Ukip and Brexit party groups led by Nigel Farage in the European parliament, had pleaded guilty to eight counts of bribery between 6 December 2018 and 18 July 2019.
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Alors que la dépendance aux technologies américaines et chinoises s’accentue, l’Union européenne multiplie les signaux en faveur d’une reconquête numérique. Mais derrière les discours politiques, une initiative portée par onze champions européens entend structurer, enfin, une réponse continentale. Une alliance inédite pour définir un véritable cloud souverain Comme le signale un article de France 24, […] Opening in Alicante airport is the chain’s first move into mainland Europe, and will offer outdoor drinking
Wetherspoon’s is to open its first pub outside the UK and Ireland, serving alcohol from 6am every day to sun-seeking Britons waiting for their plane in the departure lounge at Alicante airport.
The opening in Spain, scheduled for January, will be the first foray on to continental European soil for the pub chain, which said it expects to pursue more footholds on the continent in the coming years.
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