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While Barcelona mourns, police foils second attack in Catalonia

Migrant arrivals fall in Italy, rise in Spain

Italy ‘sees light’ at end of migrant tunnel

Germany sends ECB to European Court

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Issue 1220: French EU bridge to US (Print Edition)

EU Affairs

epa05075696 A view of the Vienna state opera in Vienna, Austria, 19 December 2015. EPA/CHRISTIAN BRUNA

Three European cities in the top ten of the Global Livability Report

epa05656914 Robert Fico, Prime Minister of Slovakia and leader of SMER party reacts at the Party of European Socialists Council in Prague, Czech Republic, 02 December 2016. EPA/FILIP SINGER

Fico pledges Slovakia to “core Europe” rather than V4

epa06149329 Spanish Policemen inspect a street in Cambrils (Tarragona), northeastern Spain, 18 August 2017, where at least four suspected terrorists have been killed by the police after they knocked down six people with their car at Paseo Maritimo. EPA/DAVID GONZALEZ

While Barcelona mourns, police foils second attack in Catalonia

epa06097632 A man walks among solar panels at the Quilapilun solar park in Colina, Chile, 19 July 2017. ATLAS Renewable Energy opened the solar photovoltaic plant, Quilapilun, the first large scale solar park in the metropolitan region of Santiago, with a capacity of 110 megawatts. EPA/ELVIS GONZALEZ

EBRD, Green Climate Fund back Egyptian renewable energy project

epa06053966 German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble presents the draft for the 2018 federal government budget during a press conference on the occasion of the in Berlin, Germany, 28 June 2017. The cabinet has decided on the draft for the 2018 federal government budget and the financial plan until 2021. EPA/CLEMENS BILAN

Schaeuble weighs in on the debate over ECB’s asset buying programme

epa06018206 Britain's Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn arrives to the Labour headquarters in central London in Britain, 09 June 2017. Britain's general election has ended in a hung parliament according to news reports, with the Conservative Party unable to gain a majority. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has called for Prime Minister Theresa May to resign. EPA/FACUNDO ARRIZABALAGA

Corbyn’s “constructive ambiguity” on freedom of movement: “which side are you on” ?

epa05234220 A picture made available on 29 March 2016 shows an oil well on the grounds of the Luetow petroleum production site on Usedom Island, Germany, 18 March 2016. The petroleum output has declined from 4,800 tons†(2014) to 3,600 tons (2015) as the crude oil sources in Western Pomerania are beginning to dry up. The company Engie (formerly known as Gaz de France) is producing oil at the drilling locations in Luetow and Mesekenhagen. EPA/STEFAN†SAUER

EU approves joint control over FHHGL by Brookfield and Engie

Jean-Claude Juncker, Doris Leuthard

EU, Switzerland to link emissions cap and trade systems

epa06137737 A general view of the Tarajal border crossing between Spain and Morocco, where some 250 migrants unsuccessfully attempted to jump the border, in Ceuta, Spanish enclave in northern Africa, 11 August 2017. Spanish authorities closed the border crossing on 09 August, after hundreds of migrants forced their way across the border enmass. The border is expected to be closed for one week. EPA/REDUAN

Migrant arrivals fall in Italy, rise in Spain

epa06124635 Migrant ship 'Iuventa' from German NGO Jugendrette arrives at the port of Trapani, after it was seized by Italian authorities, Trapani, Sicily island, southern Italy, 04 August 2017. The ship was seized, 03 August 2017, under the orders of prosecutor of Trapani for allegedly taking several migrants onboard who were accompanied by Libyan tugboats and not in immediate danger. Media outlets report that the Italian government states that the orders are being enforced to better regulate the rescue of migrants in the Mediterranean as a large proportion of refugees from Libya are now rescued by private NGOs operating in the Mediterranean Sea. EPA/GIANFRANCO CRISCENTI

Italy ‘sees light’ at end of migrant tunnel

EU National News

epa05832720 Rainer Seele, chief executive officer of Austrian gas and oil company OMV AG, attends a news conference in Vienna, Austria, 06 March 2017. OMV, Austria's state-controlled oil and gas company, announced the purchase of 24,99 per cent of the Juschno Russkoje gas field, a major upstream project in Russia. EPA/LISI NIESNER

Supported by Libya, Norway, Austria’s OMV boosts oil and gas production

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Denmark’s Vestas sees decreased Q2 revenue

epa00599971 Anti gay wedding protesters make their point at pro gay wedding supporters outside Belfast, City Hall, Northern Ireland, Monday, 19 December 2005. Shannon Sickles and Grainne Close became the United Kingdom's first gay couple to win legal recognition under a new British civil partnership at Belfast City Hall on Monday. EPA/PAUL MCERLANE

N. Irish Court rules that gay marriage is policy not a right

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Ericsson to shed nearly 25% of its worldwide workforce

epa05540996 Thousand of protesters participate in a demonstration against the new labor law in Paris, France, 15 September 2016. The controversial reforms already voted into law, aims to bring down France's unemployment rate of around 10 percent by making the French labour laws more flexible. EPA/ETIENNE LAURENT

French unemployment drops to 2012 levels

World News

epa05238715 (FILE) An undated handout file photograph made available on 04 March 2016 by the North Korean news agency KCNA shows the test-firing of new-type large-caliber multiple launch rocket system by the North Korean military. On 01 April 2016, according to media reports in South Korea, North Korea fired an unidentified projectile into the sea off its east coast. Tensions between North Korea and the west have intensified due to the west's implimentation of economic sanctions in response to North Korea's pursuit of nuclear weapons and test firing of delivery systems. EPA/KCNA/HANDOUT SOUTH KOREA OUT HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY

N. Korea emerges as technologically self-reliant on ICBM production

epa06144815 Residents view damage caused by a mudslide in the suburb of Regent behind Guma reservoir, Freetown, Sierra Leone, 14 August 2017. According to news reports citing Sierra Leone's Vice President Victor Bockarie Foh, hundreds are feared dead with thousands displaced after a mudslide in heavy rains occured near Freetown. EPA/ERNEST HENRY

Freetown drowns in failed urban planning

epa06144547 US President Donald J. Trump makes a statement on the violence this past weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, at The White House in Washington, DC, USA, 14 August 2017. President Trump condemned white supremacists groups and announced that the US Department of Justice has opened a civil rights investigation into the incident where a car hit a crowd of counter-protesters in Charlottesville on 12 August, killing one person and injuring 19. EPA/Chris Kleponis / POOL

Trump insists there are two sides to the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia

epa06125845 Afghan families who were displaced from Khakrez district of Kandahar due to ongoing conflicts between Taliban and Govt. security forces, receive food ration distributed by the authorities, in Kandahar, Afghanistan, 05 August 2017. The government now controls less than 60 percent of Afghan territory amid gains for the Taliban, who governed the country for several years prior to the US invasion in October 2001. EPA/MUHAMMAD SADIQ

Taliban write to Trump about policy wrongs

epa06145286 Iranian lawmakers attend session of presenting the new government in Tehran, Iran, 15 August 2017. Media reports state Rouhani on 15 August warned of the possibility that the Islamic Republic could pull out of a nuclear deal signed with the world's major powers within hours if the United States keeps on imposing new sanctions. EPA/ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH

Rouhani says Iran could restart nuke programme in hours, talks with Putin

Leaders' Perspectives

Values-based approaches are the gateway to legacies

By: Shanu Hinduja

The G20’s harmony without Trump

By: Jeffrey D. Sachs

Asia’s unhappy anniversary

By: Barry Eichengreen

Beware the ideas of May

By: Andy Carling

Permission-less innovation? Not in Europe!

By: Žiga Turk

Ban Heavy Fuel Oil in the Arctic

By: Ranulph Fiennes

The Macron Doctrine?

By: Zaki Laïdi

Death or democracy in Venezuela

By: Enrique ter Horst

East – West battle over workers’ pay

By: Martina Dlabajová

The ten commandments of Brexit negotiations

By: Mikuláš Dzurinda

Together we can further inspire young people to believe in their own innate creativity

By: Jeff Archambault

EU and BEREC celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution with increasing “nationalization” of the telecom industry.

By: John Strand

Trump is considering arming Ukraine with lethal weapons

epa04858659 US soldiers in action as they attend joint military exercises in Yavoriv training ground, near the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, Ukraine, 24 July 2015. The Saber Guardian/Rapid Trident - 2015 drill kicked off at the Yavoriv military base in western Ukraine, close to the border with Poland. Some 2,000 soldiers from 18 countries including USA, Poland, United Kingdom and others will take part in the training. The training program is part of a long-term strategy improving of Ukrainian defense potential and increasing of the professionalism of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Saber Guardian/Rapid Trident - 2015 started on 20 July and will be until 31 July 2015. EPA/MYKOLA TYS

The Trump administration has reopened consideration of long-rejected plans to give Ukraine lethal weapons, even if that would plunge the

By Dan Alexe Contributing Editor, New Europe

Energy

epa05832720 Rainer Seele, chief executive officer of Austrian gas and oil company OMV AG, attends a news conference in Vienna, Austria, 06 March 2017. OMV, Austria's state-controlled oil and gas company, announced the purchase of 24,99 per cent of the Juschno Russkoje gas field, a major upstream project in Russia. EPA/LISI NIESNER

Supported by Libya, Norway, Austria’s OMV boosts oil and gas production

epa06001274 OPEC Secretary General Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo gestures as he waits to meet Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (not pictured) during their meeting at the Gorky residence outside Moscow, Russia, 31 May 2017. The meeting with the OPEC Secretary General comes a week after the alliance of the world's biggest oil-producing nations extended their agreement to cut output for an additional nine months and non-OPEC countries including Russia chipped in with a further reduction. EPA/ALEXANDER ZEMLIANICHENKO / POOL

Nigeria, OPEC review market conditions, output cut deal

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Denmark’s Vestas sees decreased Q2 revenue

epa05145121 A Lukoil petrol station in Poznan, Poland, 05 February 2016. Russia's Lukoil oil company informed in a press release that they will sell 230 fuel stations in Poland and the Baltic states to Austria's AMIC Energy Management. The deal is expected to be finalized in the second quarter of 2016. According to the Polish Organisation for Oil Industry and Trade, Lukoil operated 116 fuel stations in Poland at the end of the third quarter of last year. EPA/JAKUB KACZMARCZYK POLAND OUT

Excluding Iraq, Russia’s LUKoil boosts hydrocarbon production

epa06097632 A man walks among solar panels at the Quilapilun solar park in Colina, Chile, 19 July 2017. ATLAS Renewable Energy opened the solar photovoltaic plant, Quilapilun, the first large scale solar park in the metropolitan region of Santiago, with a capacity of 110 megawatts. EPA/ELVIS GONZALEZ

EBRD, Green Climate Fund back Egyptian renewable energy project

epa05262989 (FILE) A file picture dated 01 June 2004 shows a general view of a petroleum processing plant in the rich oil producing region of Jubail, eastern Saudi Arabia. At least 12 people died and 11 others were injured in a fire that broke out in a petrochemical products plant on 16 April 2016, in Jubail, according to a Royal Commission spokesperson. A total of 23 people were in the factory creating a lethal bottleneck effect with workers unable to exit the building. The 11 injured have symptoms of suffocation with six of them in critical condition at hospitals near the area including the Jubail Royal Commission Hospital. EPA/STR

Oil drives Saudi H1 budget deficit lower

Vestas

Mexico makes a transition towards renewables

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Shell wraps up SADAF chemicals sale in Saudi Arabia

epa06146868 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (R) and his Bolivian counterpart Fernando Huanacuni Mamani (L) attend for their meeting in Moscow, Russia, 16 August 2017. The meeting will be on Bolivian-Russian cooperation. EPA/SERGEI ILNITSKY

Russia, Bolivia to boost joint gas, nuclear, renewables projects

epa05234220 A picture made available on 29 March 2016 shows an oil well on the grounds of the Luetow petroleum production site on Usedom Island, Germany, 18 March 2016. The petroleum output has declined from 4,800 tons†(2014) to 3,600 tons (2015) as the crude oil sources in Western Pomerania are beginning to dry up. The company Engie (formerly known as Gaz de France) is producing oil at the drilling locations in Luetow and Mesekenhagen. EPA/STEFAN†SAUER

EU approves joint control over FHHGL by Brookfield and Engie

Internet & ICT

epa06115684 (FILE) - Pedestrians walk on a street past a large TV screen showing North Korean leader Kim Jong-un broadcasting news of North Korea's latest missile launch, in Tokyo, Japan, 04 July 2017 (reissued 29 July 2017). According to South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff, North Korea has test-fired a ballistic missile into the East Sea on 28 July 2017, from the North's Jagang Province. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un hailed the latest intercontinental ballistic missile test as a success claiming he could strike the entire continental US, state media reported. EPA/KIMIMASA MAYAMA

Mogherini convenes EU ambassadors over situation in North Korea

epa06124467 (FILE) - A worker poses on request of press photographers next to a turbine at the Siemens Gas Turbine Plant in Berlin, Germany, 02 March 2017 (reissued 04 August 2017). The European Union (EU on 04 August 2017 imposed sanctions on Russian nationals and companies for diverting gas turbines bought from Siemens to the Crimea region. According to the EU, this move woiuld support Crimea's seperation from Ukraine. EPA/CLEMENS BILAN

Russian deputy minister blacklisted in new EU sanctions over Siemens case

epa06117659 US Vice President Mike Pence (R) signs the guest book during a meeting with Estonian Prime Minister Juri Ratas (L) in Tallinn, Estonia, 30 July 2017. Vice President Mike Pence is in Estonia for the first stage of a three-country visit of Eastern Europe. EPA/VALDA KALNINA

US vice president Pence wants Patriot missiles in Estonia to deter Russia

Crypto-Apocalypse: Bitcoin Cash and Vinnik’s arrest put blockchain back in the spotlight

BMW chooses UK over Germany to build new electric car

Google

France battles for global enforcement of the “right to be forgotten” at the ECJ

5G declaration signing by Estonian minister Urve Palo in Tallinn, Estonia, 18 July 2017

5G network development on rails after EU-28 Tallinn declaration

epa04372343 Toomas Hendrik Ilves, President of Estonia, speaks to the media during a press conference about the marking the NETmundial Initiative launch, at the World Economic Forum headquarters in Cologny near Geneva, Switzerland, 28 August 2013. The "NETmundial Initiative for Internet Governance Cooperation and Development" aims to contribute to the broader international effort to advance multistakeholder Internet governance on the basis of the NETmundial principles articulated by an unprecedented multistakeholder conference. EPA/MARTIAL TREZZINI

(InCiSE) Index: UK and Estonia have the best civil service in Europe

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Three years on, damning report on Russia’s involvement in downing of MH17

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Cybercriminals startle international community

From the NE Knowledge Network

The Knowledge Network

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Sharing Ideas & Acts

By Francisco Jaime Quesado

The Knowledge Network

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FedEx plays an active role in the JA Europe Company Program so that the entrepreneurial skills of young people can be nurtured and developed

The Knowledge Network

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Platforms of Future

By Francisco Jaime Quesado

epa05983676 CEO of Walt Disney Spain, Simon Amselem (3-L), poses next to the president of Spanish postal service, Javier Cuesta Nuin (2-R) and Stormtrooper movie characters during the presentation of the Star Wars 40th anniversary stamps in Madrid, Spain, 23 May 2017. The stamps, printed with lenticular technology, shows Darth Vader, Chewbacca, R2D2, C3PO, Yoda and a Storm Trooper, have been issued on occasion of the 40th anniversary of the saga. EPA/Manuel Carretero

Together we can further inspire young people to believe in their own innate creativity

By Jeff Archambault

Britain wants Brexit talks to move to next phase

epa06037875 British Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union David Davis at a press conference at the end of a meeting with Michel Barnier (not seen), the EU Chief Negotiator of the Task Force for the Preparation and Conduct of the Negotiations with the United Kingdom under Article 50, dubbed the 'Brexit' at EU Commission in Brussels, Belgium, 19 June 2017. The first stage of the negotiations concerned the fate of European expatriates in the UK and Britons settled in Europe, the question of the Irish border and the 'financial regulation' between the UK and Europe. Negotiators agreed on dates, organisation and on priorities to achieve best possible outcome from Brexit talks. EPA/STEPHANIE LECOCQ

Britain wants talks with the European Union to move on to the next phase of Brexit, as it sets out

By Beata Stur

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