EU leaders meet to ‘synchronise’ messaging on Israel-Hamas war on 17/10/23
After a week of confusing and contradictory messaging about the bloc’s position on the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, EU leaders on Tuesday (17 October) are expected to rally around a clear stance. Tuesday’s virtual summit of EU leaders, taking place at... Biden to visit Israel as Gaza war sparks humanitarian crisis on 17/10/23
US President Joe Biden will make a high-stakes visit to Israel on 18 October as the country prepares to escalate an offensive against Hamas that has set off a humanitarian crisis in Gaza and raised fears of a conflict with Iran. Two dead in Brussels terrorist attack with gunman at large on 16/10/23
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM - An unidentified shooter killed two people near the centre of Brussels on Monday evening (16 October), in what Belgian officials condemned as a 'terrorist attack', prompting the country to raise its terror threat level to 4, the highest since 2016. Georgia’s top court clears move to remove president on 16/10/23
Georgia's constitutional court on Monday (16 October) ruled that pro-Western President Salome Zurabishvili had breached the constitution by making unauthorised foreign trips, paving the way for her removal. Divisions over Kosovo-Serbia, enlargement, funding, ‘class’, laid bare at Berlin Process Summit on 16/10/23
TIRANA, ALBANIA - Leaders of the European Commission and Council as well as key EU member states are adamant that dialogue between Pristina and Belgrade must continue, despite uncertainty over the recent attack on 24 September in north Kosovo, just one of many divergences on display at the Berlin Process Summit in Tirana on Monday (16 October). China greets Orbán as only EU leader at Belt and Road summit on 16/10/23
The most senior EU leader expected to attend the third Belt and Road (BRI) Summit on 17-18 October is Hungary's populist Viktor Orbán, who arrived in Beijing on Sunday (15 October) and will join guests including Russia's Vladimir Putin. Celebrated Finnish peace broker Martti Ahtisaari dies at 86 on 16/10/23
Nobel Peace laureate Martti Ahtisaari, who served as Finland's 10th president between 1994 and 2000, died on Monday (16 October) at the age of 86, the Finnish president's office said in a statement. €20bn Ukraine war fund held up by EU budget talks on 16/10/23
Talks to boost the European Peace Facility (EPF), the EU's funding mechanism to sustain European military deliveries to Ukraine, are unlikely to be finished before EU leaders sit down to review the bloc's entire budget in December. Biden to push Israel, Ukraine weapons package well over $2 billion this week on 16/10/23
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday (15 October) that the Biden administration hopes to push a new weapons package for Israel and Ukraine through Congress that will be significantly higher than $2 billion. Putin to visit China to deepen ‘no limits’ partnership with Xi on 16/10/23
Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet Xi Jinping in China this week in a bid to deepen a partnership forged between the United States' two biggest strategic competitors.
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