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Barely days after COP29 climate talks end, the United Nations will hold yet another make-or-break summit to tackle mankind's insatiable appetite for environmental destruction. This time the goal is a global treaty to end plastic pollution. trib.al/gS75mp4

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is ready for Denmark to support both common debt and more state aid to increase investment in European defence and to increase European competitiveness, she said in an interview with the Danish news agency 1/ dr.dk/nyheder/politi…

💣Belgian police raid homes of former EU justice chief Didier Reynders – two days after end of term ftm.eu/articles/europ… via Follow the Money EU

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European Council President António Costa takes the temperature in EU capitals and finds it is distinctly not green. politico.eu/newsletter/bru…

Romania: The Constitutional Court has annulled the first round of the presidential elections, requiring the entire electoral process to restart from the beginning. This decision follows evidence of interference by foreign powers in the electoral process. Notably, voting for the

🚨 BREAKING: Romania’s top constitutional court has annulled the country’s presidential election, after security services warned the vote had been distorted by a mass Russian influence campaign to favor a far-right candidate. Full story: trib.al/BTOltfA

The Syrian joy on here. What incredible news to wake up to. Thinking of all the Syrians I crossed paths with in Turkey and beyond

The fall of Bashar al Assad is cause for great joy. All who care about Syria know the reasons to worry. But first let us rejoice at Syrians overthrowing one of history’s most cruel, corrupt, and inept regimes.

If anyone's looking for a stringer in the region, my former Politico colleague Clothilde has moved to Amman — reports in French and English + speaks Arabic 👇

The European Union should prohibit solar geoengineering technologies to combat climate change and push for a worldwide ban for the time being, the bloc's scientific advisers said today: politico.eu/article/top-ad…

Politicians aren’t helping the economy with their constant demands for tweaks to the bloc’s green rulebook, EU climate chief Wopke Hoekstra told me + Barbara Moens in an interview. politico.eu/article/changi…

The EU's current climate strategy risks triggering a huge backlash. But instead of slowing the green transition, Brussels should speed it up — and make it affordable, ex-crisis chief Janez Lenarčič told me in an interview before leaving office. Read: politico.eu/article/europe…

Right-wing governments in the Netherlands and Sweden have thrown their weight behind an ambitious European Union climate target for 2040. "We think that 90 percent is doable. It’s hard work, but it’s doable,” Sophie Hermans told us today. pro.politico.eu/news/191140 (€)

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