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Germany's Interior Minister Nancy Faeser attributes the increased number of espionage cases unveiled to the fact that "the threat level is high and our security authorities have stepped up protection." The German domestic intelligence service, formally known as the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, has "massively strengthened" its counter-espionage measures, both in terms of personnel and technology, Faeser told the Dusseldorf-based Rheinische Post newspaper in remarks published on Friday. When asked about far-right AfD candidates for the European Parliament elections Maxi...
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The Bundestag extended the mandate for Germany's participation in the EU naval mission to enforce the UN's arms embargo on Libya for a further year after a vote on Thursday. A majority of lawmakers in the German lower house voted in favour of the motion, meaning some 300 service personnel will remain part of the EUNAVFOR Med Irini mission in the Central Mediterranean. The operation is a key part of the peace process led by the United Nations aiming to bring stability to Libya, with the mission the only actor enforcing the arms embargo on the high seas. The mission has tracked around 13,000 shi...
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The Bundestag extended the mandate for Germany's participation in the EU naval mission to enforce the UN's arms embargo on Libya for a further year after a vote on Thursday. A majority of lawmakers in the German lower house voted in favour of the motion, meaning some 300 service personnel will remain part of the EUNAVFOR Med Irini mission in the Central Mediterranean. The operation is a key part of the peace process led by the United Nations aiming to bring stability to Libya, with the mission the only actor enforcing the arms embargo on the high seas. The mission has tracked around 13,000 shi...
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The Bundestag extended the mandate for Germany's participation in the EU naval mission to enforce the UN's arms embargo on Libya for a further year after a vote on Thursday. A majority of lawmakers in the German lower house voted in favour of the motion, meaning some 300 service personnel will remain part of the EUNAVFOR Med Irini mission in the Central Mediterranean. The operation is a key part of the peace process led by the United Nations aiming to bring stability to Libya, with the mission the only actor enforcing the arms embargo on the high seas. The mission has tracked around 13,000 shi...
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Airlines will have to share security-relevant passenger information with authorities ahead of flights, a vote passed by the European Parliament in Strasbourg outlined on Thursday. Two new laws are aimed at "enhancing security at the EU's external borders and boosting the fight against crime respectively," parliament said. "Companies will have to collect and transmit passenger data, including name, date of birth, nationality, and passport details, systematically to competent authorities," it said. EU member states still have to approve the changes, but this is seen as a formality. "These laws w...
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The Foreign Ministry in Beijing summoned the German ambassador Patricia Flor on Thursday to discuss an espionage affair. German security services have arrested four suspects on allegations of spying for China, including an aide to a prominent politician in the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, Maximilian Krah. The German Foreign Office said in a statement that the Chinese chargé d'affaires had already been summoned to a meeting on the matter in Berlin on Tuesday. "The Federal Government's clear position on the ongoing investigations into alleged Chinese espionage activities was ma...
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French President Emmanuel Macron has called on Europe to take steps towards greater independence, economic strength and dealing with its own security. In the face of military threats, industrial competition from the United States and China and a questioning of democracy, Europe must expand its sovereignty, defend its values and protect its interests and markets, Macron said in a speech in Paris on Thursday. "We must realize today that our Europe is mortal, it can die," Macron told an audience at the Sorbonne University. "It depends solely on our choices, but these choices must be made now." In...
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French President Emmanuel Macron has called on Europe to take steps towards greater independence, economic strength and dealing with its own security. In the face of military threats, industrial competition from the United States and China and a questioning of democracy, Europe must expand its sovereignty, defend its values and protect its interests and markets, Macron said in a speech in Paris on Thursday. "We must realize today that our Europe is mortal, it can die," Macron told an audience at the Sorbonne University. "It depends solely on our choices, but these choices must be made now." In...
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The European Parliament plans to take decisive action against possible attempts at interference from the Kremlin in June's election and elsewhere in the European Union. In a resolution passed in Strasbourg on Thursday, members of the European Parliament (MEPs) reacted to MEP Maximilian Krah of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party being questioned by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) over suspicions he received money from Kremlin agents. MEPs also demanded the German far-right party "publicly declares without delay its financial relations, especially with the Kremlin," an EU Parli...
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The European Parliament voted in Strasbourg on Thursday to set up a new body for ethical standards to combat corruption in European Union institutions and monitor rules on lobbying and corruption. The agreement was reached between the eight main EU institutions, each of which has still to sign it. To date they have monitored their own affairs internally Parliament was prompted to act by the December 2022 Qatar corruption scandal that saw Belgian prosecutors investigating Greek politician Eva Kaili, who had served as one of the parliament's 14 vice presidents since the start of that year, along...
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