We have indications that ahead of the elections, our enemies will try to attack us.

From here, from the Air Force base, from the long arm of the State of Israel, I send you a message: Do not mess with us — not now and not ever.

Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna called it part of a wider Russian campaign of sabotage and intimidation in Europe.

Three Latvian citizens suspected of starting the fire were detained and transferred to Estonia.

The outlets say the White House has enforced the ban inconsistently, including preventing CNN from carrying out its television pool duties. Judge Timothy Kelly restored their access for 14 days on Sept. 24, but that order expires Oct. 8.

The outlets want their previous White House and presidential access preserved until the case is resolved.

Source: WaPo

Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, and Finland — who finance ~40% of member-state contributions — called the Commission's proposed €2 trillion budget for 2028-2034 "simply not realistic."

They demand fundamental reform.

More spending on defense, competitiveness, and migration; less on agriculture and cohesion funds.

They face ~17 countries (including Spain, Italy) wanting to protect or grow farm/regional spending.

The MFF requires unanimity.

A diplomat warned:

Unless the budget is cut by hundreds of billions, there won't be an agreement this year.

Ireland, holding the Council presidency, must produce a compromise before the October 15-16 European Council.

A united Europe is the best idea we ever had. But even the best idea needs strong supporters. It needs people prepared to defend it, people prepared to improve it.

And if we keep commenting, complaining, waiting, whining, we will become spectators of our own decline.

Finally, on Russia's military presence in Syria, Russia used its basis to help Assad kill Syrians. Moscow still shelters him.

We hope that recent memorandum will lead to a reduced military presence and influence.

Syria has credible alternatives to dependence on Russia.

Europe wants Syria's transition to succeed. We want Syria to take its rightful place in the international family and we are ready to help turn this into a lasting process.

Our task now is to turn closer relations into concrete improvements for Syrians’ lives.

I will say it straight.

Britain has been on the wrong path for a long time.

Deindustrialization, deregulation, privatization, austerity, Brexit—and what has it given us?

A country run for vested interests, not in the public interest, with power held in too few hands and too many places left to drift.

I am ready to do things my predecessors wouldn’t. I will make a break with the direction of the past 40 years and put Britain on a new path.

Build a new economy and a new politics. That is the case I make to you today.

The British right talk about taking back control.

Never let them forget they are the ones that gave it away in the first place!