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EU action plan: less illegal migration via the Eastern Mediterranean

The EU Commission wants to curb illegal migration across the eastern Mediterranean Sea with an action plan. Border protection is to be significantly strengthened, EU Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson announced in Brussels on Wednesday.

Von Newsdesk

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Ukraine can hope for longer-term aid from the EU

The news overshadowed the meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels: Russia was not only blocking the extension of the grain agreement but bombing Odessa and the grain silos there for the third night in a row. Josep Borrell spoke on Thursday of a "barbaric attitude" by Moscow.

Von Newsdesk

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Turkey: a difficult partner

Relations with Turkey are at a low point. President Erdoğan's re-election is unlikely to change much for the time being. Only EPP leader Weber speaks plainly.

Von Eric Bonse

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Funda Tekin – At the interface between EU and Turkey

Funda Tekin arrived in Istanbul just a few days before the interview with Table.Media. For three months, the scholar is living and working on the Bosphorus and researching EU-Turkey relations, one of her main areas of focus.

Von Sarah Schaefer

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Ukraine: mine-riddled fields, UN grain agreement expires

Next Saturday, the UN grain agreement between Ukraine, Türkiye and Russia ends. There is no extension in sight yet.

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Baerbock: two-state solution not an option for Cyprus

Minister for Foreign Affairs Annalena Baerbock (Greens) has promised Cyprus support in its efforts to reunify with the northern part of the island. "Germany stands firmly by your side here," she assured her Cypriot counterpart Ioannis Kasoulides at a joint press conference in Berlin on Monday.

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Turkey continues to stand in the way of Sweden's NATO accession

According to the head of Sweden's government, Ulf Kristersson, Turkey's demands on his country continue to stand in the way of Sweden joining NATO. "Turkey has confirmed that we have done what we promised them," Kristersson said Sunday at a security and defense conference in Sälen, western Sweden.

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Turkey: Sweden still needs to meet requirements to join NATO

Turkey does not see the preconditions for Sweden's planned NATO accession fulfilled. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu accused the government in Stockholm on Thursday of failing to extradite terrorists.

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Erdoğan wants to extend grain agreement to other goods

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan wants to extend the export agreement on the shipment of Ukrainian grain across the Black Sea to other goods. In a phone call with Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin on Sunday, Erdoğan said, according to his office, that relevant preparations and export of food and other goods could be started gradually.

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Bosnia and Herzegovina supposed to become candidates for EU accession

The Commission recommends granting Bosnia and Herzegovina candidate country status to the Council. But to do so, the country still needs to complete a number of reforms such as strengthening democracy, fighting corruption, strengthening media freedom and better managing migration flows.

Von Markus Grabitz

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Turkey seeks alliance with Russia and China

Turkey is seeking membership in the SCO economic and security alliance of states around China and Russia. These two countries declared on Friday, that they wanted to expand cooperation with other states in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).

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