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In snub to Russia, NATO confirms Georgia will eventually join the Alliance

NATO’s Stoltenberg asks for 2% after Trump tirade over defence spending

A torrent of accusations and acrimony mark first day of NATO summit

Merkel slams Trump over “total Russian control” jibe

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Issue 1258:Round 1 to Kurz (Print Edition)

EU Affairs

epa06880826 NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg gives a press conference at the end of the North Atlantic Council during a NATO Summit in Brussels, Belgium, 11 July 2018. NATO member countries' heads of states and governments gather in Brussels on 11 and 12 July 2018 for a two days meeting. EPA-EFE/TATYANA ZENKOVICH

NATO’s Stoltenberg asks for 2% after Trump tirade over defence spending

Bulgaria commits to Banking Union to join the Eurozone

epa05832978 New opel cars in front of the factory building of the German Opel car company in Eisenach, central Germany, 06 March 2017. US company General Motors (GM) and French PSA Peugeot Citroen Group on 06 March announced that French automobile maker PSA has signed a deal with GM to buy their European branches Opel and Vauxhall. The deal is reported to be worth 1.3 billion euros. EPA/FILIP SINGER

Paris not ready for trade détente with Washington

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Investors flock to Eurozone bonds as US-China trade war escalates

epa06880409 German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives for a NATO Summit in Brussels, Belgium, 11 July 2018. NATO countries' heads of states and governments gather in Brussels for a two-day meeting. EPA-EFE/CHRISTIAN BRUNA

Merkel slams Trump over “total Russian control” jibe

epa06879705 US President Donald J. Trump attends a meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (unseen) ahead of a NATO Summit, at the US Embassy in Brussels, Belgium, 11 July 2018. NATO member countries' heads of states and governments gather in Brussels on 11 and 12 July 2018 for a two days meeting. EPA-EFE/STEPHANIE LECOCQ

At NATO summit, Trump renews criticism of European allies

epa06878462 Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel (L) with British Prime Minister Theresa May (R) during a press conference at the Western Balkans Summit at Lancaster House in London, Britain, 10 July 2018. The UK is hosting the Western Balkans Summit in London 10 July. EPA-EFE/ANDY RAIN

Theresa May regains political momentum as her proposal is seen as a “breakthrough”

epa06843545 First Vice-President of European Commission in charge of Better regulation, Inter-Institutional Relations, rule of Law and Charter of Fundamental Rights, Dutch, Frans Timmermans, during the weekly college meeting of the European commission in Brussels, Belgium, 27 June 2018. EPA-EFE/OLIVIER HOSLET

Task Force says policy areas should be re-delegated to EU member states

epa06877488 European Union Council President Donald Tusk during a press briefing on NATO-EU Cooperation in Brussels, Belgium, 10 July 2018, ahead to NATO heads of state and government summit taking place on 11 and 12 July 2018. EPA-EFE/STEPHANIE LECOCQ

Tusk slams Trump, says ‘US won’t get a better ally than the EU’

epa05997502 Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank (ECB) and Chair of the European Systemic Risk Board, attends a hearing of the European Parliament Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) in Brussels, Belgium, 29 May 2017. Daghi attends the hearing to present and discuss the ECB's perspective on economic and monetary developments. EPA/STEPHANIE LECOCQ

Draghi warns he will not adjust ECB policy to protect the Italian budget

EU National News

epa06662253 CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on 'Facebook: Transparency and Use of Consumer Data' on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, USA, 11 April 2018. Zuckerberg is testifying before the second of two Congressional hearings this week regarding Facebook allowing third-party applications to collect the data of its users without their permission and for the company's response to Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election. EPA-EFE/SHAWN THEW

Facebook’s troubles over Cambridge Analytica data breach continue

Irish Senate

The Irish Senate passes a bill banning Israeli settlement imports

epa06831774 Hundreds of people attend a protest against the judicial decision to grant the release on bail to the five men accused of gang raping a woman back in 2016, in the popularly know as the 'Manada' (wolfpack) case in Huelva, Spain, 22 June 2018. The verdict sentenced all five accused to nine years imprisonment for sexual abuse of a young woman during San Fermines fiestas back in 2016. The sentence has caused a national outrage and several protests against the judge's decision to not consider the act as a rape since, according to the sentence, there was no violence. EPA-EFE/JULIAN PEREZ

Spain to introduce “only yes is yes” sexual consent law

epa03262932 Jamie Dimon (C), chairman of the board, president and CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co., prepares to testify before a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing about JP Morgan's massive trading losses in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, USA, 13 June 2012. Those losses exceed 2 billion US dollars. EPA/JIM LO SCALZO

Brexit could be “tough on the British people” says JP Morgan CEO

KLM suspends Iran flights because of US sanctions, Air France continues

World News

epa06882590 President of Georgia Giorgi Margvelashvili (L) and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (R) deliver a press statement during a two days NATO summit at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, 12 July 2018. NATO countries' heads of states and governments gather in Brussels for a two-days meeting. EPA-EFE/CHRISTIAN BRUNA

In snub to Russia, NATO confirms Georgia will eventually join the Alliance

Gazprom Uzbekistan

Russia, Uzbekistan review gas field development

epa05843805 Turkish Energy Minister Berat Albayrak (L), Turkish Family Minister Fatma Betul Sayan Kaya (C) and AK Party provincial chairman Selim Temurci speak to media after Kaya arrved back from the Netherlands, at Ataturk airport in Istanbul, Turkey, 12 March 2017. Kaya was barred by police from entering the Turkish consulate in Rotterdam on 11 March, after the Dutch government had denied landing rights to Turkish Foreign Minister Cavusoglu who planned a speech at the consul's residence in Rotterdam. The incidents have led to a diplomatic row between the two countries, and protests by Turkish citizens in the Netherlands as well as in Turkey. EPA/SEDAT SUNA

Markets spooked by the appointment of Erdogan’s son-in-law as minister of finance

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Russia’s Gazprom, PetroVietnam to boost hydrocarbon exploration

epa06645217 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C), Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (L) shake hands during a press conference after their meeting at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey, 04 April 2018. Erdogan, Putin and Rouhani are in Ankara for a trilateral meeting on the Syrian crisis. EPA-EFE/TOLGA BOZOGLU

Turkey vows to ignore sanctions against Iran

Leaders' Perspectives

Global brands are driving revolutionary approaches to mining

By: Zuneid Yousuf

Is Cyber the Perfect Weapon?

By: Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

How to Resolve Europe’s Political Crisis Over Migration

By: Guy Verhofstadt

The Declaration of Independence in the Age of Trump

By: Sandeep Gopalan

US Supreme Court’s Cellphone Privacy Ruling is a Call to Action

By: Sandeep Gopalan

A Crisis of Ethical Leadership

By: Nina L. Khrushcheva

Putin Family Values

By: Robert Skidelsky

Merkel’s House Divided

By: Slawomir Sierakowski

Latin American states have failed to make their own EU, but they should keep trying

By: Leonardo González Dellán

EU’s soft power to improve human rights in Morocco

By: Willy Fautré

Economic and environmental aspects of security to take center stage in Berlin

By: Sofio Katsarava

The Unspoken Cost of Regulation

By: Daniel Schlaepfer

At NATO summit, Trump renews criticism of European allies

epa06879705 US President Donald J. Trump attends a meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (unseen) ahead of a NATO Summit, at the US Embassy in Brussels, Belgium, 11 July 2018. NATO member countries' heads of states and governments gather in Brussels on 11 and 12 July 2018 for a two days meeting. EPA-EFE/STEPHANIE LECOCQ

As soon as he arrived in Brussels for the NATO two-day summit from Wednesday, US president Donald Trump said his efforts had

By Dan Alexe Contributing Editor, New Europe

Energy

Gazprom Uzbekistan

Russia, Uzbekistan review gas field development

epaselect epa06880334 (L-R) Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, British Prime Minister Theresa May and US President Donald J. Trump (C) before the start of the North Atlantic Council round table during a NATO summit in Brussels, Belgium, 11 July 2018. NATO countries' heads of states and governments gather in Brussels for a two-day meeting. EPA-EFE/OLIVIER HOSLET

A torrent of accusations and acrimony mark first day of NATO summit

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Exxon, Total get the green light for drilling off the Greek island of Crete

epa06865402 (FILE) - A general view shows members of Parliament voting on a resolution on the integrity of the Commission?s appointment of its Secretary General at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, 18 April 2018 (reissued 05 July 2018). Members of the European Parliament on 05 July 2018 oted to reject a copyright law which has to go back to tripartite disucssions. EPA-EFE/PATRICK SEEGER

MEPs call for EU budget to do more for the climate

4 July 2018, Debate on the Future of Europe with national associations of local and regional authorities
Belgium - Brussels - July 2018
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Stefano BONACCINI, President of the Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR)

Karl-Heinz LAMBERTZ, President of the Committee of the Regions

Nicolas LÉTÉ, Cabinet of the President at European Committee of the Regions

Markku MARKKULA, First Vice-President of the European Committee of the Regions

EU cities and regions call for new governance to tackle climate change

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Regulators push EuroMed gas infrastructure investments

WEB

Russia’s Gazprom, PetroVietnam to boost hydrocarbon exploration

epa05267319 A general view of the construction site of the Belarusian nuclear power plant near the town of Ostrovets, some 180 km from Minsk, Belarus, 19 April 2016. The power plant project consists of two power plants, each capable of 1,200MW, that are currently under construction. The Belarus government expects the first unit to be commissioned at the end of 2018, and the second by July 2020. EPA/TATYANA ZENKOVICH

EU welcomes completion of Belarus NPP risk and safety assessments

WEB

Nord Stream-2 negotiates with several Export Credit Agencies

epa06205881 A wind turbine, part of the Saint Nikola wind farm, stands in a field near the town of Kavarna, Bulgaria, 15 September 2017. Saint Nikola Wind Farm brings 156 megawatts of electricity. Bulgaria's largest wind farm was put into operation in 2010. The investment project is worth 270 million euros. EPA-EFE/VASSIL DONEV

EU group examines South East Europe’s renewable potential

Internet & ICT

epa06662253 CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on 'Facebook: Transparency and Use of Consumer Data' on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, USA, 11 April 2018. Zuckerberg is testifying before the second of two Congressional hearings this week regarding Facebook allowing third-party applications to collect the data of its users without their permission and for the company's response to Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election. EPA-EFE/SHAWN THEW

Facebook’s troubles over Cambridge Analytica data breach continue

KLM suspends Iran flights because of US sanctions, Air France continues

epa00950950 (FILES) - The file picture dated 29 April 2002 shows an employee of Salzgitter AG who handles molten iron at the company's furnace B in Salzgitter, Germany. Salzgitter, the maker of rolled steel and steel tubes, is to take over German industrial conglomerate Kloeckner-Werke for an undisclosed price, it was announced Thursday, 08 March 2007. Kloeckner-Werke, through its KHS unit, is one of the world's major makers of bottling and packaging equipment for factories. The Salzgitter company, said it had entered a contract with WCM Group to acquire 78 per cent of Kloeckner stock for a confidential price. EPA/RAINER JENSEN EPA/RAINER JENSEN

EU to limit steel imports after US raised tariffs

epa06495181 A man enters the cabin of an Embraer E190-E2 commercial jet with a tiger design painted on its nose at the static display ahead of the Singapore Airshow at the Changi Exhibition Centre in Singapore, 04 February 2018. The Singapore Airshow will take place from 06 to 11 February 2018 and will showcase aviation and defense technologies from around the world. EPA-EFE/WALLACE WOON

Boeing pairs with Embraer to balance the Airbus-Bombardier alliance

epa06603084 Members of Parliament vote on the Guidelines on the framework of future EU-UK relations at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, 14 March 2018. The MEPs have signs reading '#allforjan' on the tables. In the afternoon the MEPs debate on the safety of journalists across the EU referring to the murder of Slovak investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee Martina Kusnirova. EPA-EFE/PATRICK SEEGER

European Parliament to review copyright rules in September

STO01 - 20010412 - STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN: A young Iranian child shouts slogans standing in front of a portrait of Maryam Rajavi (L) and Masoud Rajavi (R), leaders of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, as some 150 Iranian activists protest Thursday, 12 April 2001 in downtown Stockholm to protest what they claim a new wave of executions and arrests in their home country Iran. They carried signs with slogans like "EU: It's time to cut ties with the mullahs" and "We call for trial of the mullah criminal leaders by an international tribunal". EPA PHOTO PRESSENS BILD/HENRIK MONTGOMERY (FILM)

Six arrested in Europe for alleged bomb plot against Iranian opposition in France

ATH01 - 19980701 - ATHENS, GREECE : A Greenpeace activist holds a paper with a graph illustrating the high air pollution levels, during a happening organised by Greenpeace outside the Ministry of the Environment in Athens 01 July. Greenpeace staged a symbolic funeral of the "civillian who died of atmospheric pollution" and with the message "take the measures (against pollution) before they take us (into the coffin)", claimed the ministry should solve the atmospheric pollution problem immediately, as the high temperature in the city increases the pollution levels. EPA PHOTO/LOUISA GOULIAMAKI

15 Swedish private companies account for 8 % of Sweden’s decrease in GHG emissions since 2010

Airbus threatens to leave UK in case of no-deal Brexit

epa05673102 An US pilot taxis one of two F-35 Adir stealth jet fighters as they land at the Nevatim Air Force Base in the Negev desert, south of Beersheba, Israel, 12 December 2016. Two F-35 jets, nicknamed Adir or 'Mighty' are part of Israel's plans to acquire 50 planes by 2022. EPA/JIM HOLLANDER

US Senate prohibits sale of F-35s to Turkey

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European Commission cancels first WiFi4EU call, carries budget forward

From the NE Knowledge Network

The Knowledge Network

epa02150995 (FILE) A file picture dated 11 March 2010 shows a euro coin and notes in Frankfurt Main, Germany. On 10 May 2010, German Chancellor Merkel defended the 'unprecedented' 750-billion-euro (960-billion-US dollar) safety net for eurozone members agreed upon overnight in Brussels. Merkel said the 'unique' measures served to 'strengthen and protect' the euro currency against 'broad attacks' on the markets. Merkel also stressed that any such bail-out would be attached to stringent demands for any ailing economy to enact budget reforms. EPA/TOBIAS KLEINSCHMIDT

The Economy is back!

By Francisco Jaime Quesado

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By Francisco Jaime Quesado

The Knowledge Network

epa02150995 (FILE) A file picture dated 11 March 2010 shows a euro coin and notes in Frankfurt Main, Germany. On 10 May 2010, German Chancellor Merkel defended the 'unprecedented' 750-billion-euro (960-billion-US dollar) safety net for eurozone members agreed upon overnight in Brussels. Merkel said the 'unique' measures served to 'strengthen and protect' the euro currency against 'broad attacks' on the markets. Merkel also stressed that any such bail-out would be attached to stringent demands for any ailing economy to enact budget reforms. EPA/TOBIAS KLEINSCHMIDT

Opportunity for a New Agenda

By Francisco Jaime Quesado

The Knowledge Network

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Hubs of Competence

By Francisco Jaime Quesado

Tusk slams Trump, says ‘US won’t get a better ally than the EU’

epa06877488 European Union Council President Donald Tusk during a press briefing on NATO-EU Cooperation in Brussels, Belgium, 10 July 2018, ahead to NATO heads of state and government summit taking place on 11 and 12 July 2018. EPA-EFE/STEPHANIE LECOCQ

European Council President Donald Tusk took US President Donald J. Trump to task on the eve of a key two-day NATO summit that

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