French authorities have urged Vinted, Amazon, eBay, Meta and TikTok to remove listings for goods stolen during looting across France without delay and to work with police to help identify sellers. On Monday evening, Digital Affairs Minister Anne Le Hénanff and other government members will meet with representatives of these platforms and the French classifieds site Leboncoin.

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Italy’s visa center in Moscow announced a reduction in the processing time for tourist visa applications for Russians from 60 to 45 days. Visa Management Service (VMS) asks travelers to take the new сроки into account when planning trips.

#EuropeanCommission #EuropeanUnion #Italy #Moscow #Schengenarea

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17 EU governments sent a letter opposing cuts to agricultural and regional payments in the next seven-year budget. This stance has increased pressure on the Irish presidency of the EU Council ahead of the publication of the draft budget next week.

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The European Commission has begun work on the 23rd package of sanctions against Russia. According to Politico, it is supposed to further reduce Moscow’s income from oil sales, and the draft document is planned to be presented to EU countries by the end of 2026.

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The EU Council working group will discuss on October 14 the issuance to Russians of limited territorial validity visas (LTV), which allow entry only into one or several Schengen countries. On the agenda is the document «Issuance of limited territorial validity visas to Russian citizens for non-essential travel».

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On October 14, the Council’s visa working group will discuss the use of visas with limited territorial validity (LTV) in policy toward Russia. No decisions are made at this level; the agenda has been published in the Austrian parliament’s register.

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Starting November 1, rules will take effect in Turkey under which social networks will not be able to register or serve children under 15. The age of owners of existing accounts will be confirmed through the state portal e-Devlet, and profiles of teenagers aged 15–17 will be set to private by default.

#EUKIDSAct #children #EuropeanCommission #theInternet #restrictions #socialnetwork #Turkey

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The Irish presidency of the EU Council proposed cutting the bloc’s next seven-year budget for 2028–2034 by about 8% and reducing it by €159 billion in current prices compared with the European Commission’s nearly €2 trillion proposal. Germany and its allies in the «frugal» group said that this is not enough for an agreement.

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At the EU leaders’ summit in Brussels on October 15–16, Finland will propose stopping the issuance of tourist visas to Russian citizens. Prime Minister Petteri Orpo linked this initiative to concerns that Russia may try to organize sabotage in Europe.

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Paramount Skydance has completed its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) for $110 billion and created the combined company Skydance. The deal was closed after receiving all necessary approvals and fulfilling the terms of the agreement.

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On October 6, the European Commission proposed introducing a 15-year probation period for new EU members, during which a country could be stripped of voting rights or access to funds from the EU budget for violating basic democratic values. The EC presented the five-step package after a meeting in Strasbourg, France.

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122 members of the European Parliament proposed reopening the discussion on using Russian assets frozen in Europe to finance Ukraine. According to the French newspaper Les Échos, this concerns about 210 billion euros, which they want to transfer into a pan-European mechanism under the control of the European Commission.

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Gazprom has extended the agreement on supplying Russian gas to Serbia for another three months — until the end of 2026. This was reported by the director of the state company Srbijagas, Dušan Bajatović; the terms remain unchanged, and this is already the third three-month extension since the beginning of the year.

#AlexanderVucic #VladimirPutin #Gazprom #EuropeanCommission #Serbia #Serbiagas

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Police in several European countries have begun to отказаться from Oxygen Forensics software for extracting data from smartphones. In Romania, Latvia, and London, decisions have already been made to review, suspend, or discontinue its use, and the U.S. Department of Justice considers the Virginia-based firm to be secretly owned by Russians.

#OxygenForensics #EuropeanCommission #EuropeanParliament #London #USDepartmentofJustice #Romania

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The European Union has begun to discuss in detail tightening the rules for issuing tourist and short-term visas to Russian citizens. This concerns possible legislative changes that would make it possible to restrict visa issuance to certain categories of applicants.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the country needs to find $27 billion to close the gap in the defense budget over the next two months and avoid a shortage of weapons at the start of next year. According to him, most of the sum will go to drones, missiles, and supplies for the military.

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Poland has called on the European Union to allow member states to temporarily suspend the processing of asylum applications during «instrumentalized» mass migration. Warsaw itself has not registered requests from migrants arriving from Belarus since March 2025 and calls the measure temporary and emergency, although it has been in effect for 18 months.

#AlexanderLukashenko #EuropeanCommission #EuropeanUnion #Poland #Ceuta #UrsulavonderLeyen

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In 2026, the number of applications for Schengen visas to tour operators increased by 15–25% compared with last season. The Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR) estimates the share of multi-visas issued at 1–2% of tourists.

#ATOR #EuropeanCommission #EuropeanUnion #Italy #France #Schengenvisa

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From January 2025 to June 2026, Russia reflagged 107 vessels linked to the «shadow fleet» under its own flag. 72 of them transported fossil fuels worth €7.5 billion to the global market, according to a study by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air.

#IntershippingServicesLLC #EuropeanCommission #Italy #Libya #Russia #shadowfleet

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EU countries are discussing sanctions, visa restrictions, and cuts in funding to limit the return of Russian and Belarusian athletes to international competitions under their countries’ flags. These measures were proposed by the EU diplomatic service and the European Commission in an informal document, but it has not yet become the basis for an official proposal.

#Belarus #EuropeanCommission #EuropeanUnion #InternationalOlympicCommittee #Russia #Ukraine

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