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In today’s news from The Capitals:
PRAGUE
The European Union should reassess its climate goals if there are no global allies because it cannot achieve them alone, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala said on Wednesday as newly re-elected US president Donald Trump appears on track to pull out of the Paris climate agreement. Read more.
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BERLIN
Germany’s CDU chancellor hopeful signals openness to ‘debt brake’ reform. Germany’s conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz (CDU/EPP) has signalled openness to reform the country’s constitutional deficit limit known as the ‘debt brake’ – a hotly-debated item that has partially contributed to the breakdown of the coalition government last week. Read more.
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PARIS
French prosecutors demand Marine Le Pen be barred from office in fake jobs trial. French prosecutors demanded Wednesday that far-right leader Marine Le Pen receive a jail sentence and be banned from public office for five years over charges she embezzled European Parliament funds. Read more.
French 2024 power exports have already beaten previous annual record. France has already exported 78 TWh of power to neighbouring countries this year, beating its previous annual export record of 77 TWh, the country’s main electricity transmission operator, RTE, confirmed during the presentation of its winter outlook on Wednesday. Read more.
NORDICS & BALTICS
STOCKHOLM
Swedish PM refuses ‘Trump-proofing’ talks with parties ahead of Trump call. Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has refused to hold talks with the country’s party leaders to discuss how to approach the new US administration of re-elected US president Donald Trump, as requested by leaders of the opposition Social Democrats and the Greens. Read more.
EUROPE’S SOUTH
ROME
Meloni silent as Mattarella slams Musk’s ‘intervention’ in Italian affairs. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has kept quiet on Elon Musk’s recent comments criticising Italian judges for again blocking Meloni’s migrant transfer policy with Albania, while President Sergio Mattarella responded to the billionaire, calling for respecting Italy’s sovereignty. Read more.
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MADRID
Spanish politicians clash over Teresa Ribera’s EU nomination. The Spanish government of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez (S&D) on Wednesday called the opposition Partido Popular’s (EPP) boycott of Teresa Ribera, Ursula von der Leyen’s Spanish commissioner pick, “shameful” and “anti-patriotic”. Read more.
Spanish infighting derails EU Parliament Valencia flood talks. A European Parliament discussion of the floods in Valencia descended into political bickering on Wednesday, with Spanish conservatives and socialists blaming each other for the disaster that has killed 223 people. Read more.
EASTERN EUROPE
WARSAW
Poland hails opening of US missile base as sign of its security. The United States opened a new air defence base in northern Poland on Wednesday, an event the European nation’s president said showed the country was secure as a member of NATO even as Russia wages war in neighbouring Ukraine. Read more.
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KYIV
EU court refuses trademark for Ukraine’s ‘Russian warship’ insult. The phrase “RUSSIAN WARSHIP, GO F**K YOURSELF” cannot be registered as a trademark, the European Union’s General Court in Luxembourg said on Wednesday. Read more.
NEWS FROM THE BALKANS
SOFIA
Borissov begins coalition talks with pro-Russian party BSP and populists ITN. Boyko Borissov, leader of the election-winning GERB (EPP) party, has opened negotiations with the pro-Russian Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) and the populists of There is Such a People (ITN) over a possible Bulgarian government. Read more.
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BUCHAREST
Romania approves purchase of 32 F-35s. Romanian senators on Wednesday gave final approval to a bill authorising contracts to purchase the world’s most advanced fighter aircraft, the F-35, with the first delivery expected in 2031. Read more.
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[Edited by Sarantis Michalopoulos, Daniel Eck, Alice Taylor-Braçe, Sofia Mandilara]
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