
Ukraine would be entitled to a massive €186bn of subsidies over seven years if it joins the EU
As Kyiv would be entitled to approximately €186bn of EU subsidies over seven years, that would cause a revolution in how Brussels’ budget is generated and force a deep reform on the way the EU works before Ukraine can be admitted.
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EU passes €50bn support for Ukraine in new budget, but US only has six months of funding left
The European Union has voted through a new multi-year budget for 2021-2027 that locks in €50bn of funds for Ukraine, but new US spending bill excludes Ukraine.
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NBU abandons fixed exchange rate
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has officially declared the end of the 18-month-long fixed-exchange-rate regime and introduced a "managed flexible" exchange-rate system, effective from October 3.
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Baking land, bath tub warm seas, melting ice caps - in charts
The seas are the temperature of bath water and the land is baking. This year the rise the global temperature in June already passed the 1.5C limit compared to the 1850-1900 base set in the Paris Accords as the upper limit for global warming.
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Russia haemorrhaged money last year, but Kremlin working overtime to stem capital flight this year
Sanctions on Russia have failed to cut the Kremlin off from the export revenues from oil and raw materials that are being used to fund the war in Ukraine, but they have bled the country of hundreds of billions of dollars – indirectly.
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Poland's Law and Justice mounts vicious campaign to retain power
Jaroslaw Kaczynski's radical rightwing party accuses centrist opposition of treachery as it seeks an unprecedented third consecutive term.
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Ukraine to become “a military production hub” as counter-offensive stalls
Ukraine hosted an international defence industry conference in Kyiv on September 30. The country hopes to attract international arms manufacturers and make Ukraine a “large military production hub" to break the stalemate on the battlefield.
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VISEGRAD BLOG: Orban should hold the champagne just yet
Robert Fico, Slovakia's likely next premier, has little interest in foreign policy and is unlikely to deliberately choose to antagonise the European Commission.
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Robert Fico's Smer wins Slovak general election
But whether he can form a majority government now depends on his former lieutenant Robert Pellegrini's Hlas party.
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