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Viktor Orbán visits Vladimir Putin to condemnation from fellow EU leaders

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 5 July, 2024

Brussels disassociates itself from Hungarian PM’s Moscow trip, which he has tried to cast as a peace mission

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Viktor Orbán, Europe’s most pro-Russia leader, arrived in Moscow on Friday for talks with Vladimir Putin, days after making his first visit to Kyiv , as the Hungarian prime minister attempts to position himself as a peace broker between Russia and Ukraine.

Orbán’s trip to Moscow has drawn strong rebukes from fellow EU leaders and comes in the week that Hungary took over the rotating EU presidency until the end of the year.

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Civil servants obliged to carry out Tory Rwanda deportations, court rules

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 5 July, 2024

Union for civil servants claimed Home Office staff could be open to prosecution if Strasbourg rulings on Rwanda ignored

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Guidance drawn up by Conservative ministers which told civil servants to ignore Strasbourg rulings and remove asylum seekers to Rwanda is lawful, the high court has ruled.

The FDA trade union, which represents senior civil servants, brought legal action claiming senior Home Office staff could be in breach of international law if they implement the government’s Rwanda deportation bill.

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Shell to take hit of up to $2bn on Rotterdam and Singapore sites

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 5 July, 2024

Oil firm’s warning comes after it had to halt work on Europe’s largest biofuel project and sell refinery in Asia

Shell has warned investors that it will take an impairment charge of up to $2bn (£1.6bn) in its next set of results after it was forced to halt work on Europe’s largest biofuel project and sell off a Singapore refinery.

The oil company told investors to expect a non-cash writedown of between $600m and $1bn when it publishes its second-quarter results next month because of trouble at a major biofuel project in Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

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Marine Le Pen says National Rally have ‘serious chance’ for absolute majority despite polls – Europe live

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 5 July, 2024

Polling has shown that the most likely scenario on Sunday is that National Rally will not win an absolute majority of seats

At another Paris metro stop, I sit next to a middle-aged woman who asked that her name not be published.

Asked about Sunday’s election, she said: “honestly, I have no trust at all. It’s always the same thing, it’s always the same debates.”

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Greek coastguard’s treatment of migrants ‘clearly illegal’, says ex-officer

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 17 June, 2024

BBC records former special operations chief saying abandoning people at sea was an ‘international crime’

A former Greek coastguard officer has described as “clearly illegal” the actions of colleagues who abandoned nine migrants at sea in one of 15 alleged pushbacks from Greek islands or territorial waters that reportedly killed dozens of people.

In an interview with the BBC , Dimitris Baltakos, the Greek coastguard’s former head of special operations, refused to speculate about footage the broadcaster showed him, after earlier denying the coastguard would ever be told to do anything illegal.

The investigation forms the basis for a BBC2 documentary, Dead Calm: Killing in the Med?

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Greek island search for three missing tourists intensifies amid string of deaths

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 17 June, 2024

Six holidaymakers reported dead or missing in nine days as Mediterranean experiences ‘abnormally hot’ weather

Search operations to find three missing tourists on two Greek islands have intensified after police announced that two holidaymakers had been found dead on other islands over the weekend.

Rescue teams supported by sniffer dogs, helicopters and drones have been scouring the Cycladic islands of Sikinos and Amorgos for two French women and an American man who went missing last week.

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I was the first Muslim leader of a western democracy. And I say Islamophobia has poisoned our politics | Humza Yousaf

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 17 June, 2024

Anti-Muslim sentiment is so mainstreamed now that politicians like Suella Braverman barely bother disguising it

Humza Yousaf is a former first minister of Scotland and leader of the Scottish National party

While many in the world rightly bemoan the rise of populism, few are willing to confront the fact that it is the hatred of Muslims that is driving populism in Europe and the west.

In 2024, almost half the world’s population will take part in elections. Many countries have already gone to the polls, and in a number of countries, particularly across Europe, the biggest gains have been made by those who make a living out of vilifying Muslims.

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At least 10 dead and dozens missing in two Mediterranean shipwrecks

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 17 June, 2024

Rescuers near Italy report 10 bodies found on wooden boat and 50 missing in a separate incident off Calabria

At least 10 people have died and dozens are missing after two separate shipwrecks close to the Italian coast, rescuers said.

Ten bodies were found on Monday in the lower deck of a wooden boat in the central Mediterranean by rescuers from Nadir, a ship operated by the German charity ResQship. The charity said it saved 51 people who were onboard the sinking vessel, which is believed to have departed from Tunisia.

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EU heads gather to discuss new leadership in wake of far-right election successes – Europe live

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 17 June, 2024

The 27 heads of state and government meet for the first time since European elections and Macron’s decision to call snap vote in France

Ahead of the summit, leaders are meeting bilaterally and in small groups.

Latvia’s prime minister, Evika Siliņa , said Ursula von der Leyen has her “full support” for a second term as European Commission president.