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Von der Leyen arrives in Kyiv promising Ukraine electricity funds for winter

9th - Higher Ed
Russia continues to target the war-torn country's energy infrastructure, leaving parts of the east in darkness for hours at a time.
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The number of deaths by suicide in Europe decreased by 13% in a decade

9th - Higher Ed
In 2021, there were about 47,000 deaths due to suicide in the EU, according to Eurostat.
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Portugal asks EU for assistance as wildfire reaches residential area

9th - Higher Ed
Almost 1,600 firefighters have been deployed to fight fires in 20 different areas on Monday, as the country battles with high temperatures and strong winds.
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Germany reinstates land border checks for six months in much-criticised move

9th - Higher Ed
Germany has reinstated border checks at all land crossings on its nine borders to curb migration and tackle crime, according to officials.
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Brain drain in Western Balkans spikes amid absence of opportunities

9th - Higher Ed
Youth brain drain is becoming a worrisome problem for the Western Balkan countries of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Kosovo and Serbia.
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Thousands rally in Brussels to back Audi workers and call for EU industrial action

9th - Higher Ed
Initially launched in solidarity with employees at the Audi plant in Brussels, Monday's rally in the Belgian capital became the call for measures to preserve Europe's industrial sector.
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Doctor shortages, low pay and overtime: Europe's hospitals are under the weather

9th - Higher Ed
Europe is suffering from a healthcare crisis, with chronic staff shortages, low pay and overtime prompting strikes in Germany, Slovenia, and Sweden. In France meanwhile, a controversial medicine education reform has students and doctors...
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Is the border-free Schengen Area about to unravel?

9th - Higher Ed
Recent developments in Germany and Hungary linked to irregular migration have cast serious doubts over the future of the Schengen Area.
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EU weighs 'strong' response to Iranian deliveries of ballistic missiles to Russia

9th - Higher Ed
The bloc says it has 'credible' information Tehran is procuring Moscow with ballistic missiles.
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EU says ‘credible information’ Iran sent missiles to Russia

9th - Higher Ed
The European Union says its allies have shared intelligence that Iran supplied Russia with ballistic missiles.
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The EU must play "leading role" in Venezuela, says opposition journalist

9th - Higher Ed
Former Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Edmundo González has fled into exile after being granted asylum in Spain, delivering a major blow to millions who placed their hopes in his upstart campaign to end two decades of...
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The EU must play 'leading role' in Venezuela, says opposition journalist

9th - Higher Ed
Former Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Edmundo González has fled into exile after being granted asylum in Spain, delivering a major blow to millions who placed their hopes in his upstart campaign to end two decades of...
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EU envoy urges Kosovo and Serbia to step up efforts towards normalising relations

9th - Higher Ed
Kosovo was a Serbian province until NATO's 78-day bombing campaign in 1999 ended a war between Serbian government forces and ethnic Albanian separatists in Kosovo, pushing Serbian forces out.
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ETIAS: The new visa Brits will need to enter the EU in 2025, what it costs and who gets it free

9th - Higher Ed
Travellers will need to apply online before they'll be allowed into EU countries.
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EU-donated mpox vaccines arrive in DRC after WHO declared health emergency

9th - Higher Ed
The 100,000 doses of the MVA-BN vaccine, manufactured by the Danish company Bavarian Nordic, have been donated through HERA, the EU's agency for health emergencies.
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Summer 2024 was hottest on record, EU climate change monitor says

9th - Higher Ed
The world is emerging from its warmest Northern Hemisphere summer since records began, the Copernicus Climate Change Service says, as global warming continues to intensify.
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NGO rescue missions in the Mediterranean 'not a pull factor' for migrants, Frontex chief says

9th - Higher Ed
Irregular crossing of EU borders has decreased by over a third in 2024 so far.
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Cyprus and EU-funded Lebanese forces complicit in forced returns of Syrian refugees, report claims

9th - Higher Ed
The European Union is 'bankrolling' Lebanese institutions without monitoring their compliance with fundamental rights, Human Rights Watch says.
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Czech parents face rising costs as school year gets under way

9th - Higher Ed
The hike in education-related expenses remains a growing problem, especially for poor and single parents, but also for the children of refugees.
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Vestager denounces EU capitals' 'lack of efforts' in nominating women Commissioners

9th - Higher Ed
The European Union needs to "show boys and girls" that leadership means men and women "leading together," Vestager said.
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Borrell says EU should consider sanctions on Israeli ministers over Gaza war remarks

9th - Higher Ed
But the proposal is unlikely to find consensus among the EU's 27 member countries who are divided over their approach to the war in Gaza. It has already been criticised by Italy’s foreign minister as "unrealistic".
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Economic portfolios are key in talks to choose new EU commissioners

9th - Higher Ed
All governments must announce their nominees for the European Commission by 30 August.
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Let Ukraine strike deep into Russia and keep the momentum, Kuleba urges EU countries

9th - Higher Ed
Dmytro Kuleba has urged EU countries to take "bold decisions" and allow Ukraine to use donated weapons to strike deep into Russian territory.
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EU's top diplomat calls for three-day ceasefire to curb polio spread in Gaza

9th - Higher Ed
The polio disease has re-emerged in the war-torn enclave more than two decades after it was eradicated.