The German non-profit organization Agora Digitale Transformation calculated that 50 Members of the European Parliament became victims of deepfake pornography, including 46 women. According to its estimate, that is every sixth female member of the current convocation.

#AgoraDigitaleTransformation #Grok #MembersoftheEuropeanParliament #deepfakepornography #EuropeanParliament #EuropeanUnion

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Germany’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office is investigating the operations of the «Russian House of Science and Culture» in Berlin and checking its tenants for possible sanctions violations. A month ago, the German government closed the building and expelled its employees to Russia.

#Berlin #Germany #EuropeanParliament #EuropeanUnion #Rossotrudnichestvo #RussianHouse

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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.

#Euroclear #Belgium #EuropeanCommission #EuropeanUnion #Russia #Ukraine

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EU sanctions relief for Mikhail Friedman and Alisher Usmanov did not restore their access to assets and funds in the West. Both remain under UK and US sanctions, so European banks and companies will take this into account in any transactions.

#LetterOne #AlisherUsmanov #AlfaGroup #EuropeanUnion #Luxembourg #MihailFridman

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The European Union did not speed up the allocation of part of the €90 billion loan to Ukraine, despite Kyiv’s request to send the funds in advance to cover the shortfall in military financing this year. Bloomberg sources say that instead, the EU is proposing that Canada, Norway, and Japan join the financing.

#Brussels #VladimirZelensky #EuropeanUnion #IMF #Ukraine #UrsulavonderLeyen

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The Russian border guard service detained the Cyprus-flagged cargo ship Västerbotten in the Gulf of Finland, which was heading to the Estonian port of Sillamäe. The vessel was held at anchor for several hours for inspection, then allowed to continue its journey, but it is still in the gulf.

#VladimirPutin #EuropeanUnion #Russianborderguards #Sillamäe #GulfofFinland #Sweden

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EU ministers are discussing the idea of temporarily suspending the submission of asylum applications in emergency situations. The initiative has already been supported by the ministers of Germany and Austria, and the trigger was the July influx of more than 70,000 migrants into Ceuta, a Spanish enclave in North Africa.

#Frontex #Austria #Germany #Greece #EuropeanUnion #Ceuta

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Emmanuel Macron, at a press conference in Madrid on September 30, backed UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s statement that the country could join the European Union again. The French president called this good news for Britain and for Europeans.

#Brexit #UnitedKingdom #EuropeanUnion #LabourParty #EmmanuelMacron #EndiBernem

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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.

#VisaCode #Germany #EuropeanCommission #EuropeanUnion #Leipzig #Russia

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UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham said at the Labour Party conference that Brexit has brought the kingdom more harm than benefit. He said he would use the upcoming summit with the EU to present options for long-term relations with the bloc.

#brexit #AndiBernem #UnitedKingdom #EuropeanUnion #LabourParty

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While ordinary Russians are being denied the opportunity to obtain visas to the EU, sanctions are being lifted from two emblematic figures of Putin’s Russia. The negative consequences of this decision are clear. But are there any positive ones? 

#AlisherUsmanov #Analytics #VladimirPutin #WarinUkraine #doublestandards #EuropeanUnion #compromises #Luxembourg #MikhailFridman #oligarchs #sanctions #France #elites

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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.

#VladimirZelensky #EuropeanCommission #EuropeanUnion #EuropeanPeaceFoundation #KajaKallas #Ukraine

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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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EU countries have agreed to allocate €6.6 billion from EU funds related to military aid to Ukraine. The decision was announced by the EU’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas.

#Hungary #ViktorOrban #EuropeanUnion #EuropeanPeaceFoundation #KajaKallas #Ukraine

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Since the start of 2025, Romania has raised about 604 million dollars from thousands of private investors through a government bond program with higher yields for blood donors, Bloomberg writes. Blood donors in the country can buy such securities with a yield of more than 7% annually — about one percentage point higher than for other retail investors.

#bloomberg #blooddonation #EuropeanUnion #bonds #Romania #StefanNanu

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The European Union imposed sanctions on September 24 against journalist Ksenia Fedorova, who previously headed RT in France. Her name became the 81st in the EU’s separate sanctions list for Russia’s destabilizing actions, created in 2024.

#EuropeanUnion #KajaKallas #KseniaFedorova #NATO #Russia #France

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The European Union is rearming too slowly and inefficiently to be ready to defend itself against Russia by 2030, according to a report by the European Defence Agency for the leaders of the bloc’s countries. Reuters пишет that EU defense ministers will discuss the document in Brussels on September 28, after which it will be presented to the union’s leaders.

#Brussels #EuropeanUnion #EuropeanDefenceAgency #KajaKallas #NATO #Russia

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The EU Council approved the eighth tranche of nearly €3 billion from the fund for Ukraine, and Kyiv will soon receive these funds. Nearly €800 million of this amount will be provided for the first time from the loan funds to support Ukraine.

#EuropeanUnion #Kiev #Norway #CounciloftheEU #Ukraine

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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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