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What Exactly Is Required to Preserve Our Democracy?
The Atlantic
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July 11, 2025
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts Since The Atlantic first released the podcast Autocracy in America last fall, Donald Trump was elected president again. Staff writer Anne Applebaum describes how Trump’s...
EUR 3.66bn from EU Emissions Trading to Cleaner Energy Systems
Energy Industry Review
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July 10, 2025
On 3 July, the European Commission and the European Investment Bank announced that EUR 3.66 billion have been disbursed from the Modernisation Fund to support 34 energy related projects in nine EU Member States. These investments will support the...
Advances in Catalysts for Green Chemistry
Chemical Industry Digest
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July 8, 2025
Advertisement Abstract Green chemistry processes aim to utilize renewable sources using benign catalysts to manufacture chemicals and fuels. Catalysts are crucial for producing highly selective products by enhancing reaction efficiency and...
Pogačar claims 100th career win in Stage 4 of Tour de France
The Globe and Mail
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July 8, 2025
Open this photo in gallery:Slovenia's Tadej Pogacar, right, celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win the 172.2-kilometre fourth stage of the Tour de France on Tuesday.Mosa'ab Elshamy)/The Associated Press Defending champion Tadej Pogačar...
Misinformation, AI, Armed Conflict: What The Wealthiest Countries Worry About The Most
24/7 Wall St.
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July 8, 2025
Key Points The World Economic Forum surveyed over 11,000 business leaders around the world in a report on national-level fears. Among wealthy countries, economic downturn is the most commonly cited fear. In contrast to the developing world, fears...
Think Before You Take: Understanding Adult Medication Literacy in Saudi Arabia
Dove Medical Press
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July 10, 2025
Introduction Medication or pharmacotherapy literacy is defined as “an individual’s capacity to obtain, evaluate, calculate, and comprehend basic information about pharmacotherapy and pharmacy-related services necessary to make appropriate...
Italy joins EIF-led EU initiative to bolster trade with Ukraine by offering export guarantees
European Investment Fund
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July 9, 2025
Italy will become one of ten EU countries participating in European push to support trade with Ukraine. The InvestEU-supported Ukraine Export Credit Guarantee Facility is providing a total of €300 million in EIF guarantees, with SACE receiving €24...
Slovenia’s Opening of Embassy in Addis Strategic Commitment to Deeper Ties with Ethiopia, Africa: Ambassador
Ethiopian News Agency
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Addis Ababa, July 8, 2025 (ENA) - The opening of Slovenia's embassy in Addis Ababa is a symbol of strategic commitment to deeper political and economic ties with Ethiopia and the African continent, Slovenian Ambassador to Ethiopia, Kristina Radej...
Europe’s Urgent Call to Rearm: Danish EU Presidency Sets 2030 Deadline Amid Mounting Security Threats
EUToday
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July 10, 2025
23As Denmark assumes the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has delivered a stark warning to the European Parliament: Europe must prepare to defend itself independently by 2030. In a...
Chicago Bulls are embracing ‘Lachie’ Olbrich, their 2nd-round pick: ‘He’s going to hurt someone’
Chicago Tribune - Illinois
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July 8, 2025
Second-round draft pick Lachlan Olbrich has been getting acquainted with Chicago before the Bulls summer league team heads to Las Vegas for Friday’s opener against the Toronto Raptors “I love it,” he said. “The weather’s beautiful and being out by...
EU Council OKs Fiscal Rules Flexibility for Greece, 14 Other Member-States
To Vima
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July 8, 2025
The EU Council on Tuesday activated the so-called “national escape clause” under the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) for 15 member-states, one of which is Greece, to help facilitate, as it said, “their transition to higher defense spending at...
EU ministers activate flexibility in EU fiscal rules for Bulgaria, 14 other EU states, to increase defence spending
The Sofia Globe
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July 8, 2025
European Union finance ministers activated on July 8 the national escape clause under the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) for 15 member states to help facilitate their transition to higher defence spending at national level while ensuring debt...
'I've visited every country in Europe and there are four I wouldn't go back to'
RSVP Live
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July 10, 2025
Lexie Limitless, an American YouTuber who holds the impressive title of being the youngest person to visit every country in the world at just 21 years old, has recently named four European countries she might not necessarily recommend. Having...
Cork pole vaulter clears personal best at European Championships
West Cork People
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July 8, 2025
Irish pole vaulter and sports scholarship athlete from Cork, Conor Callinan, who represented Ireland at the European Team Championships in Maribor, Slovenia at the end of June, celebrated the best result of his career to date at the Championships,...
BALKAN BLOG: Can Croatia become a European energy and transport hub?
BNE Intellinews
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Croatia has ambitions to become a gateway for energy and trade in Europe, using its position on the Adriatic to link global markets with Central Europe. But as the small country ramps up investments in new gas pipelines, and the modernisation of...
Freak hailstorm batters Croatia as wildfires rage in Balkan countries
The Independent
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July 8, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Senator Katie Britt introduces nominee Lynda Blanchard at hearing
Jefferson Reporter - Alabama
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July 9, 2025
U.S. Senator Katie Britt introduced Lynda Blanchard, President Trump's nominee for U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Agencies, during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing in Washington, D.C. Blanchard, from...
Mt Snežnik area to become nature park
STA
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July 8, 2025
Ilirska Bistrica, 8 July - Ilirska Bistrica, one of the largest municipalities in the country, is planning to declare the area around Mount Snežnik in southwest Slovenia a nature park in order to better manage this area full of forests and...
Storms and fires hit Balkan countries following a period of extreme summer heat
The Independent
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July 8, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
PIX: Different French Open, same start for Nadal
Rediff
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Images from Monday's action at the French Open. IMAGE: Rafael Nadal looks on while wearing a face mask. Photograph: Julian Finney/Getty Images It might be an unusual French Open but claycourt master Rafael Nadal started his quest for a...