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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By Constantine Murmur The United States of America has, in the course of the current administration, withdrawn from or announced its intention to withdraw from the following international institutions and agreements: the World Health Organisation, the UN Human Rights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
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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