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EU countries’ budget scepticism continues even a week before the summit

The latest proposal for the EU’s seven-year budget review, which implies significant cuts and reallocations, has so far failed to convince member states – Euractiv.

The latest initiatives, tabled by the Spanish presidency of the EU Council and handed to EU ambassadors on Wednesday, demonstrate member states’ desire to limit the EU budget while maintaining financial aid to Ukraine. The draft compromise text is the latest in a series of documents put forward in recent months in an attempt to close the European budget revision deal in time for the European Council on December 14-15.

At the same time, national budgets are struggling to address the cost-of-living crisis.

The European Commission unveiled a €98.8bn package in June, including €66bn of new money to boost the original seven-year budget, the flexibility of which it says has been depleted by crises such as support for Ukraine and the COVID pandemic.

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A CPMI de hoje...meu ,boa sorte reportando aqui... são tantas emoções!

Estou em um congresso então não estou acompanhando ao vivo mas só estou vendo a cacetada de notícia que vem tipo assim:

RIP eu, rezem por mim

-Mod Nise da Silveira

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Eu-Startup Summit

Hello everyone

So recently, Adrian and I got the amazing opportunity to participate in the Eu-Startup Summit.

And OMG let me tell you guys it was an experience to have. We got the chance to meet a lot of entrepreneurs and got the chance to listen to successful entrepreneurs give advice to people who recently started up their first business. We got to meet a lot of funny people who we shared contact info with and got to talk to after the event.

Hopefully you guys will stick and keep following this blog to hear about more fun and interesting this here in Malta.

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What a day🤯

We had the great opportunity to be part of the team Thnx tags at the EU-Startups Summit in Valletta.

Thanks Thnx tags and MCAST for this unforgettable memories!

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Turkish President Erdoğan said the EU has made a great mistake

Turkish President Erdoğan: “Time will prove what a great mistake the European Union has made”  President of the Republic of Türkiye Recep Tayyip Erdoğan held a press conference following the Presidential Cabinet Meeting at the Presidential Complex.  Continue reading Untitled

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Global Britain Hit By Fresh Setback

UK Prime Minister @RishiSunak said: “We know the transformative power of reliable, responsible private investment. It’s the spark that is helping us to build ports in #Senegal & #Somaliland, hydropower projects in #Rwanda, & offshore wind in @India.

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G20’s ‘Ukraine Fatigue’ Signals Global South’s Knocking at Western-Dominated Order’s Door

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is greeted by Indian PM Narendra Modi at the G20 summit in New Delhi, Sputnik International, September 10, 2023. © Sputnik/Dhairya Maheshwari

The two-day meeting of G20 leaders wrapped up in New Delhi on Sunday, with Western powers failing to “Ukrainianize” the agenda, and a number of pledges made aimed at increasing the Global South’s voice in world affairs. Sputnik reached out to international affairs experts to get a sense of the summit’s impact on the shifting world order.

The G20 is being transformed from within by members from the Global South, with the West failing to hijack the intergovernmental forum’s agenda to focus on the Ukraine crisis, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.

“Largely due to such a consolidated position of the Global South in defense of its legitimate interests, it was possible to prevent the West’s attempt to ‘Ukrainianize’ the agenda, to the detriment of the discussion of urgent tasks of developing countries,” Lavrov, who represented Russia at the New Delhi summit, told reporters in a press conference Sunday.

Lavrov suggested that Global South countries are “no longer willing to be lectured” on the subject, and “don’t want don’t want to hear anything about forcing Russia to comply with the Zelensky formula.” US and EU-led efforts to foist their approach to Ukraine onto the rest of the world are “disrespectful,” an expression of “neocolonialism from Western countries” that “have failed this time,” he said.

Characterizing the summit as an “unqualified success” and a genuine turning point away from a Western-dominated world order, the Russian top diplomat hailed the Indian presidency’s ability to “coalesce G20 members from the Global South” in the pursuit of their interests, and promised that Russia would play its part in “strengthening these positive trends” during the upcoming Brazilian and South African presidencies of the G20 in the coming two years.

“I think that a healthy solution has been found in the declaration regarding the need to strive for a clear and equitable balance of interests,” Lavrov said. The path ahead will be long and difficult, but the summit was a “turning point in terms of a clear focus on precisely such tasks,” he said.

Lavrov also touched on the declaration’s inclusion of important concrete objectives, like reforming traditionally Western-dominated institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and the need for the US and its allies to fulfill the obligations and promises made to the Global South, like technology transfers and financial support.

“Developing countries will no longer accept being presented with the false choice of either fighting poverty or investing resources [to fight] climate change. This is a false alternative,” Lavrov stressed.

Blow to the West

“I think it’s fair to say that the West and in particular President Biden and the European Union would have wanted a stronger statement [on] Ukraine – that did not emerge at the G20 meeting. Instead, what happened was that there was a general view that there should be peace. And in fact, President Lula of Brazil was quite fatigued when he said that the G20 is not a place to discuss the Ukraine-Russia situation, that should be, in fact, discussed at the United Nations,” Dr. Iqbal Surve, a former BRICS Business Council chairman who played an instrumental in the creation of the BRICS’ New Development Bank, told Sputnik.

“So I agree completely with the sentiments that were expressed by, amongst others, the president of Brazil. And I do think it's important that we get peace and it's important for the Ukrainian people, it's important for the Russian people, but also it's important for world peace that we resolve these matters through negotiation…But I think it was important that the G20 was not used as a multilateral tool to have a one-sided perspective on the Ukrainian matter,” the observer said.

Dr. Surve agreed with Lavrov’s sentiments on the shifting balance of power inside the G20, pointing, for example, to the African Union’s acceptance as a permanent member of the bloc, and suggesting that it was the recent BRICS summit in Johannesburg which “unquestionably sent out a signal that there is a multipolar world emerging,” forcing “a rethink” and “a review or reassessment” inside the G20 about its composition.

“So yes, there’s no question that there is a shift, and the influence of the Global South has had an impact on both the composition [and] also the agenda and the outcomes of the G20 meeting,” the observer stressed.

“The chessboard in global politics has changed. And multilateral organizations no longer have a worldview which is essentially unipolar,” Surve noted.

For too long, Dr. Surve said, the G20 has essentially “ignored the needs of the developing world.” The fact that the past two of its summits have been held in Indonesia and India, and the next two will take place in Brazil and South Africa, will allow developing countries to get more of a fair shake from the intergovernmental forum and force it to take the developing world’s needs and interests more seriously. “I think the membership of the African Union representing Africa as one of the economic and political blocs similarly to the European Union is a very significant step in that regard.”

Surve also agreed that the need for a reform of multilateral institutions is “long overdue.”

“Whether we are talking about, you know, the United Nations, whether we are talking about the G20, whether we are talking about the World Bank, the IMF, organs of the United Nations themselves. The world has changed. I mean, the world population has changed. The majority of the world population now lives in developing countries. Economies of the world have changed. If you take the BRICS Plus grouping, it's more than 37% of the global economy, which is greater than the G7, for example. So you cannot have the same system or the same institutions with the same structures and format, which you had, you know, since the establishment of the United Nations. The world has changed fundamentally,” he said.

India Flexes Diplomatic Muscles

Dr. Suranjali Tandon, an assistant professor specializing in international taxation and sustainable finance from the Delhi-based National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, told Sputnik about the important, “inclusive” role played by India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in addressing the Global South’s longstanding demands at the G20.

“These include debt restructuring of developing countries, reform of global financial architecture, particularly the multilateral development banks, and [ensuring an] increase in concessional capital to these countries. A significant move to strengthen the voice of developing countries was the inclusion of the African Union as a permanent G20 member. With the G20 presidency passing on to Brazil and then South Africa, it is hoped that a multipolar world order may truly be emerging,” Tandon said.

“It’s abundantly clear that in order to meet any of the challenges such as climate change, global tax reform or even cryptocurrencies, developing countries will have to be in agreement. This is because developing countries now account for a large share of the global markets including that of commodities. More than a year of sanctions has also proven that developed countries cannot coerce countries to comply,” she stressed.

— Sputnik International | September 10, 2023 | Ilya Tsukanov

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Germany Says Saudi Arabia Conference Was A Success #nato #news #germany...

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Turkey, Sweden to hold first security talks after joining NATO

Turkey and Sweden will hold their first meeting on Wednesday on a security pact that the two sides agreed on for Ankara to approve Stockholm’s bid to join NATO, Reuters reports.

The meeting will take place during Swedish Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard’s visit to Ankara and is of “special importance” in terms of improving co-operation in the fight against terrorism, the Turkish diplomatic source said.

Turkey approved Sweden’s application to join the military alliance in January after more than a year’s delay due to concerns over Sweden’s stance on groups and individuals it considers terrorists and an arms embargo that Stockholm later lifted.

One of Ankara’s demands to Stockholm was to amend anti-terrorism laws and crack down on members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which the United States and the European Union also classify as a terrorist group, as well as a group it accuses of organising the failed 2016 putsch.

The creation of the “Security Treaty” was agreed upon by then-NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg and the leaders of Turkey and Sweden at the alliance’s summit in 2023. The two sides also agreed that Stockholm would present a roadmap on counterterrorism.

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BERLIN AIMS TO HAVE "BEST EQUIPPED" NATO ARMY DIVISION IN EUROPE IN 2025 

T German soldiers with the crew of an army TOMA Puma. (https://playcrazygame.com/greece/2023/07/18/german-army-chief-we-want-the-best-equipped-division-in-nato-by-2025/) BERLIN, July 17 (Reuters) – Germany is confident it will have the best equipped army division amongst European NATO allies in 2025, Army Chief Alfons Mais told Reuters, as countries are scrambling to gear up their troops in the…

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Anthony Fineran (B 1981), EU Summit Tax 1951, 2023

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Western support for Israel’s assault on Gaza has poisoned efforts to build consensus with significant developing countries on condemning Russia’s war against Ukraine, officials and diplomats have warned.[...]

In the flurry of emergency diplomatic visits, video conferences and calls, western officials have been accused of failing to defend the interests of 2.3mn Palestinians in their rush to condemn the Hamas attack and support Israel. In the first days after Hamas’s assault, some western diplomats worried that the US was giving carte blanche to Israel to attack Gaza with full force. That had eroded efforts since Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine to build consensus with leading states in the so-called Global South — such as India, Brazil and South Africa — on the need to uphold a global rules-based order, said more than a dozen western officials.[...] “We have definitely lost the battle in the Global South,” said one senior G7 diplomat. “All the work we have done with the Global South [over Ukraine] has been lost . . . Forget about rules, forget about world order. They won’t ever listen to us again.”

Many developing countries have traditionally supported the Palestinian cause, seeing it through the prism of self-determination and a push against the global dominance of the US, Israel’s most important backer.[...] Some American diplomats are privately concerned that the Biden administration’s response has failed to acknowledge how its broad support of Israel can alienate much of the Global South.[...] Russia and its ally China have cultivated warm ties with the Palestinians. Russia’s president Vladimir Putin on Tuesday met Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing. “What we said about Ukraine has to apply to Gaza. Otherwise we lose all our credibility,” the senior G7 diplomat added. “The Brazilians, the South Africans, the Indonesians: why should they ever believe what we say about human rights?”[...]

Just four weeks before the Hamas assault on Israel, leaders from the US, EU and western allies attended the G20 summit in New Delhi and asked developing nations to condemn Russia’s attacks on Ukrainian civilians in order to uphold respect for the UN charter and international law. Since last Sunday, many of those officials told the Financial Times they have had the same argument read back at them in demands for condemnation of Israel’s retaliatory assault on Gaza, and of its decision to restrict water, electricity and gas supplies there.

17 Oct 23

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Studyblr - Introduction Post

Hi everyone! I haven’t done an introduction in ages! So I thought to give it another shot and maybe motivate new Studyblrs to do it too and reach more followers, so we can all be a supportive community! <3 (We already are, but you get the point haha) #studyblrsunite

1. About me

Name: Sophia

Major: Business Administration and Sustainability

Current Average: A+

Where I am studying: Germany and France

Jobs: Student Assistant (Sustainability Department), Working Student at a bank (Sustainable Finance)

Volunteering: G20 Summit, my own EU project “SchoolStainability”, Debating Union Board Memember, Sustainability Lectures @ Uni

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Topic: Studying to get into Oxford (or any elite university), sustainability, mental health

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