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SpaceX restricted military-grade Starlink service to Ukraine on the night of 13-14 October without warning, imposing a speed limit on Starshield terminals that disrupted drone operations and air defences, with significant consequences for civilian infrastructure and life. The Wall Street Journal and CBS News subsequently reported that Elon
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By Sebastian Dreck Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski said this week that the United States has not contributed a single cent to the defence of Ukraine since January 2025. “The US no longer finances this war,” Sikorski said. “For more than a year and a half. We are doing it.
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By Constantine Murmur The week of 14 October 2026 began with SpaceX throttling military-grade Starlink service to Ukraine — specifically, imposing a 160 kilometre per hour speed cap on Starshield terminals, the kind used by drone operators, without warning, in the middle of active operations. Ukrainian drone commanders lost connectivity
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What Deloitte’s Cyprus operation tells us about the EU’s financial architecture By Our Brussels Correspondent On 12 October 2026, a joint investigation by BBC Panorama, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, The Guardian, and the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project published findings from more than 500,000 leaked
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The announcement came on Wednesday — Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica and Vodafone signing a letter of intent to explore a joint bid for satellite spectrum, to be used for direct-to-device mobile connectivity across Europe, to be governed under European rules, by European operators, from ground infrastructure located on European
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To the Editors of The Roundabout Sir, I write, as before, in a capacity I am not at liberty to disclose, having read your fourth issue’s investigation into the EU’s Blocking Statute with the attention it deserves and the scepticism it invites. Your description of the Blocking Statute
Issue 4
The United States withdrew from GRECO — the Group of States against Corruption — in late September, having been a member since 2000. Only Russia and Belarus have previously left, in 2023 and 2024 respectively. The State Department explained that membership offers no tangible benefit to US national security. GRECO’s most
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By Sebastian Dreck The European Commission fined AliExpress €23.5 million for breach of the Digital Services Act in relation to illegal and unsafe products. AliExpress’s response was to challenge the fine in the EU courts, joining X and Temu, who have challenged their own DSA fines. Every fine
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By Constantine Murmur The United States of America has, in the course of the current administration, withdrawn from or announced its intention to withdraw from the following international institutions and agreements: the World Health Organisation, the UN Human Rights Council, the Paris Agreement on climate change, the Venice Commission on
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What the EU’s unused legal weapon tells us about its commitment to the rule of law By Our Brussels Correspondent In 1996, the European Union did something unusual. Facing a United States law that threatened to punish European companies for trading with Cuba — a country with which the EU
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The word I keep hearing this week, in corridors and at the bar and once, memorably, in a lift between the second and fourth floors of a building I will not name, is “kompromat.” Nobody says it loudly. It is always offered as a possibility rather than a conclusion, with
Issue 4
To the Editors of The Roundabout Sir, I write as a long-standing observer of European affairs and a subscriber since your first issue, to note with some puzzlement that your publication, which describes itself as covering EU affairs from Brussels, devoted the greater part of its third issue’s