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The Subcommittee on Security and Defence will hold a hearing on the security in the Eastern Partnership area and the impact of Russian military doctrine, force posture and capability development, on 27 October 2021.

The hearing is taking place in view of the own-initiative report on 'Security within the Eastern Partnership and the role of the Common Security and Defence Policy'. The Committee will also look into the growing malign and destabilising impact of Russia's Wagner Group, in particularly in Africa.

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European states risked wasting the €750bn in their post-pandemic recovery fund, Ireland's member of the EU's Court of Auditors, a financial watchdog, has warned. "Where money is being put out quicker, normally you would say the risk of fraud is inherently higher," Tony Murphy said Monday. "The other risk is that we would get projects which are not the best quality," he told the Irish Times newspaper.

Some Covid hygiene rules were reimposed in the Czech Republic and Romania on Monday, while Poland and the Netherlands said they were considering similar steps, amid a surge in infections, especially in eastern Europe. "The pandemic is far from over," the World Health Organisation said. "It's mainly unvaccinated people who need care, who have the highest risk of getting infected and infecting others," Dutch health minister Hugo de Jonge said.

We propose a mandatory solidarity mechanism that allows for flexible options. Every member state will have to contribute in one way or another - through either relocation, return sponsorship or capacity-building measures, writes EPP rapporteur Tomas Tobé MEP.

In 2009 Connie Hedegaard presided over the Copenhagen climate conference that ended in rancour - and left Europe on the sidelines. Hedegaard went on to become the first European commissioner for climate action.

The European Commission has demanded the immediate release of the detained Sudanese leadership, including its prime minister and other cabinet members. "We call on the security forces to immediately release those they have unlawfully detained," EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said in a statement. PM Abdalla Hamdok was detained after the military dissolved the civilian government and declared a state of emergency.

The European Union has demanded Israel stop settler expansion, after Israeli authorities on Sunday announced the publication of tenders for the construction of more than 1,300 housing units in the occupied Palestinian territories. "We call upon the government of Israel to halt settlement construction and to not proceed with the announced tenders," said an EU spokesperson in a statement.

Facebook will fuel more episodes of violent unrest around the world because of the way its algorithms are designed to promote divisive content, whistleblower Frances Haugen told the British parliament, Reuters writes. According to Haugen the social network follows a start-up culture where cutting corners was a good thing and said it was "unquestionably" making hate worse.

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has "welcomed" comments by eight out of the 10 embassies whose envoys he threatened to expel they would abide by the Vienna Convention on non-interference in internal affairs. The statements by Canada, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, and Sweden were a "step back", pro-Erdoğan media added. France and Germany said nothing. The 10 ambassadors earlier called for justice for a jailed Turkish philanthropist.

Poland is raising the number of soldiers on its Belarus border from 6,000 to "about 10,000" to stop Middle East migrants being flown in by the Minsk regime, Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Monday. Two border guards were temporarily hospitalised over the weekend when a group of 60 to 70 asylum-seekers tried to storm a barbed-wire fence. One guard was hit in the face with a stone, Poland said.

An EU foreign-service spokesperson urged China to "act in line with its international commitments and to respect Hong Kong's rights and freedoms" on Monday, after Amnesty International said it was closing its office there due to a Chinese security law. EU states have not issued a high-level statement on Hong Kong since Hungary vetoed one in May, despite promises to do so at the EU 26-level, leaving out Hungary.

Belarus is working with a notorious organised-crime boss to terrorise opponents in EU states, a former regime insider has alleged.

The EU Commission says war rhetoric has no place between member states, following an interview by Poland's prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki, who warned the Brussels executive not to "start the third world war" by withholding EU funds.

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Length of video : 71'

Disclaimer : The interpretation of debates serves to facilitate communication and does not constitute an authentic record of proceedings. Only the original speech or the revised written translation is authentic.
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