"Polish government confirms Ukrainian air defence origin of missile

A Ukrainian air defence missile, and not a stray Russian missile, fell on a village near the Polish-Ukrainian border, government spokesman Petr Müller confirmed.

On Tuesday, a missile landed in the village of Przewodów in eastern P"

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"oland, resulting in the death of two people. Russian troops carried out a large rocket raid on Ukrainian territory on the same day and it was initially believed they were responsible for the attack.

The narrative quickly changed, indicating that the missile could also have been an element of Ukraine’s anti-aircraft defences in which the self-destruct mechanism failed to work. On Thursday, a Polish government spokesperson confirmed that the missile belonged to the Ukrainians.

“The materials gathered by our and allied services indicate that the reason for this incident was Ukraine’s defensive actions against Russia’s offensive actions,” said Müller.

“Russia unlawfully interferes with the territorial integrity of another country and here there is no doubt as to who bears moral responsibility for this type of situation,” he added.

Przewodów was visited by the President of Poland, Andrzej Duda on Thursday.

“It is definitely unfortunate that there was an accident, absolutely unintentional, it was not that this missile was aimed at Poland, it was not that this could be treated as an attack on Poland,” the president noted.

“There is a war going on across our border, Russia fired several hundred missiles against Ukraine, Ukraine defended itself, and in the course of these actions, unfortunately, what happened happened. No one wanted to harm anyone in Poland, let alone deprive anyone of life,” Duda explained.

Reports that Poland was hit by a Ukrainian missile were denied by both Kyiv and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who said the missile must have been Russian.

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"European Commission approves Romanian company aid scheme

A €500 million scheme to support Romanian companies affected by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was approved by the European Commission.

Romania notified the Commission, under the Temporary Crisis Framework, that it plans to grant companies acr"

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"oss sectors state aid in the form of guarantees on loans or subsidised loans.

In light of the economic uncertainty caused by the war in Ukraine, the scheme aims at ensuring that companies in need can access enough financial resources.

The measures are open to small and medium-sized enterprises (with an annual turnover above €4 million) and large companies across sectors with some exceptions, such as gambling and betting activities, insurance, real estate activities, energy and fuel distribution and trade. Financial and credit institutions will also be excluded, the Commission noted.

Under the first measure, with an estimated budget of approximately €300 million (about 1,500 million lei), the guarantees will cover up to 90% of the loan or lease principal. Losses will be sustained proportionally by the credit institutions and the Romanian state.

The budget allocated for the second measure, under which the aid will take the form of subsidised loans, is approximately €200 million (about 1,000 million lei).

The Commission found that the Romanian scheme is in line with the conditions set out in the Temporary Crisis Framework, and the maturity of the guarantees and loans will not exceed six years. The financial support can only be granted by 31 December 2023.

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"Kurti: Final agreement with Serbia within two years; visa woes continue

Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, said he believes the normalisation of relations with Serbia, including recognition, will be complete within the next two years, while the visa liberalisation decision faces opposition and "

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"requests for clarification.

During an interview with APA, Kurti said that he would not allow the formation of the Association of Serb Municipalities in the country and that the agreement signed to set it up was signed by the previous government, not him.

“Mutual recognition should be at the heart of the agreement. I took power last year; it was my predecessors who signed this agreement with the same people who are still in power in Serbia today. Why didn’t they implement it, then? Our constitution does not accept an ethnic association. Its essence is multi-ethnicity,” he said.

As for the Serb mayors in the north who resigned in protest, he said they would be replaced via an election. In addition, police that resigned will be replaced as “order and security must be guaranteed for all those who live in the four municipalities in the north.”

Tensions recently increased in Kosovo as Pristina moved ahead with plans to ensure all Kosovo citizens use license plates issued by the country’s institutions. The decision would impact 10,000 ethnic Serbs in the north who fail to recognise Kosovo’s sovereignty and continue to use Yugoslav-era plates.

Kurti postponed the implementation on several occasions, and now the measures will be introduced gradually, with fines applicable from 21 November and the total ban coming into force from mid-April.

Talks have been taking place over the last week between essential stakeholders, including a recent meeting in Brussels. Deputy Prime Minister Besnik Bislimi said no license plate solution has been found so far.

“There are elements that we have discussed about the possibility of exiting the crisis, but there is no agreement,” he said after meeting the EU’s Special Envoy for the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue, Miroslav Lajcak.

Meanwhile, Kosovo continues to pin hopes on visa liberalisation, but at least two countries have opposed a timely decision. Following the Czech European Council Presidency’s proposal to liberate, the deadline for ‘silent’ opposition expired on 16 November.

Sources told Euronews Albania that two countries voiced opposition, one of which was Spain, while others asked for further clarifications.

The proposal of the Czech Republic, the country that currently leads the EU Presidency, was that the entry into force of visa liberalisation for Kosovo should be linked to the functioning of the ETIAS travel system, as requested by France, but at the same time the date of the decision’s enforcement should also be set: “not later than 1 December 2023.”

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"Eleven arrested in multi-million euro Albanian incinerator scandal

The Special Prosecution Against Corruption and Organised Crime, SPAK, announced the arrest of 11 people involved in the Fier incinerator scandal, but the names remain under wraps for now.

The incinerators affair saw the government "

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"issue three concessions for the construction and operation of waste incinerators in Fier, Tirana, and Elbasan to a company with no experience in such matters and with no demand.

First published in Exit, investigations revealed that the contracts would see the company being paid for every day the incinerators were not burning waste, even during the construction phase. This has seen millions in taxpayers’ money be ploughed into them, to the benefit of those behind them, with nothing in the way of results.

Furthermore, in the case of the Fier incinerator, it has now been discovered that the Energy Ministry accepted fake invoices and made payments to the tune of millions of euros for work that remains unfinished, even after the authorities seized it and its staff were charged with corruption and money laundering.

SPAK did not reveal details as to whether any of the 11 were public officials.

“We have no other announcements to make, investigations continue. When the investigations are finished, we will give an announcement,” SPAK spokeswoman Xuljeta Krasta told BIRN.

According to SPAK’s announcement, the concession company Integrated Technology Waste Treatment Fier was paid until June 30 2022, in the amount of €35 million, with a good portion of the funds earmarked for invoices that were subsequently deemed fraudulent.

“It turns out that on the part of the citizen Klodian Zoto, the main shareholder of the concession company ‘Integrated Technology Waste Treatment Fier’ sh.pk, in cooperation with the citizen Arenc Myrtezani, administrator of this company, falsified situations in the amount of €4 million have been reflected and used, for services that were not performed, value paid by the Contracting Authority and profited by fraud from the concessionaire company…,” SPAK said in their press release.

Ex- Socialist Party minister Lefter Koka and his former general secretary Alqi Blako have also been probed further amid the recent developments. According to SPAK, Koka received some €1.2 million in bribes from the concession company while Blako fictitiously employed his father in the Tirana incinerator, to the tune of €6,000 a month between October 2018 and January 2020.

Meanwhile, the government continues to pay the concessions under the terms of the contracts, arguing it cannot breach them, a point that has been disputed by local legal experts.

The EU has repeatedly called on the government to fully investigate the incinerator scandal and bring all those involved to justice.

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"Czech executive, legislative leaders split over V4 Hungary boycott

While leaders of both chambers of the Czech parliament decided to boycott an upcoming meeting with their Visegrád 4 counterparts over Hungary’s Russia policy, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala is going ahead with the summit of governm"

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"ent chiefs of the embattled regional grouping.

Fiala is planning to attend the meeting between prime ministers of the Visegrad group on 24 November in Slovakia, where he plans to discuss the controversial German €200 billion ‘economic shield’ and to push for a common approach in supporting industry and companies.

“We prefer a common approach and common rules because, in a competition of national budgets, we would certainly not take first place, nor could we,” Fiala told Seznam Zprávy.

In deciding to go ahead with the meeting, Fiala is splitting with Czech Speaker of the House Markéta Pekarová Adamová and Czech Senate President Miloš Vystrčil, both of whom refused to sit at the same table with the Hungarian side at the upcoming meeting of the V4 legislative leaders the next day, forcing the Slovak hosts to cancel the meeting.

Vystrčil hails from Fiala’s liberal-conservative, softly eurosceptic Civic Democratic Party (ODS), while Adamová leads the government’s junior coalition partner, the fiercely pro-European liberal-conservative TOP09.

According to Seznam Zprávy sources, the leaders of the two chambers of the Polish Sejm would not have attended the meeting either.

In reaction, the Speaker of Hungary’s unicameral parliament, László Kövér, regretted the postponement of the meeting, saying, “the remarks of the speakers of the Czech Parliament concerning our country are untrue and disrespectful, they do not correspond to the facts, and they call into question the right of the Hungarian government to shape its policy in the Hungarian national interest”, his office wrote in a statement on Thursday, EURACTIV’s media partner Telex reported.

The difference in approach to Hungary is the latest sign of politicians in Czechia, Poland and Slovakia struggling to rekindle a long history of regional cooperation and Budapest’s continuing refusal to sever economic ties with Moscow.

At the end of March, Slovakia, currently at the helm of the rotating regional grouping presidency, was forced to cancel the meeting between respective V4 defence ministers after Poland and Czechia pulled out.

“I think it is no secret that Hungary has a different approach than the other three V4 countries. However, and this is important, our dialogue has led to Hungary supporting all the key decisions in the EU negotiations so far,” the conservative Czech prime minister emphasised. He also added that keeping EU unity is crucial.

For Fiala, it will be the first high-level meeting of the V4 group since his appointment in November 2021.

“I will not prejudge the results of the negotiations. The important thing is that we talk to each other. The V4 at the highest level has not

"Ukraine energy supply under persistent Russian attacks, heavy fighting in east

Russian missiles and shells hit Ukrainian positions in several regions and there was no let up in heavy fighting in Donetsk in the east, the Ukrainian military said on Thursday night (17 November) as Moscow’s occupying f"

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"orces appeared more active.

Ukraine’s energy infrastructure was under persistent attack by Russian missiles and drones from the capital Kyiv in the north to Dnipro in central Ukraine and Odesa in the south, the military said in a statement.

Ukrainian forces in the past 24 hours had downed two cruise missiles, five air-launched missiles and five Iranian-made Shahed-136 drones, it said. Reuters was not able to verify battlefield reports.

As the winter’s first snow fell in Kyiv, authorities said they were working to restore power nationwide after Russia earlier this week unleashed what Ukraine said was the heaviest bombardment of civilian infrastructure of the war, which began in late February when Russia invaded its neighbour.

About 10 million people were without power, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a Thursday evening video address. Authorities in some places ordered forced emergency blackouts, he said.

A UN agency said a serious humanitarian crisis loomed, with millions facing “constant power cuts” as Ukraine’s typically long, cold winter begins.

Meanwhile, a Dutch court convicted two Russian men and a Ukrainian man in absentia of murder for their role in the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014. Russian-backed forces and the Ukraine military have been fighting in eastern provinces since 2014, the same year Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine.

Dutch court sentences three to life in prison for 2014 downing of MH17

Dutch judges on Thursday (17 November) convicted three men of murder for their role in the 2014 shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine, and sentenced them to life in prison.

“Punishment for all Russian atrocities – both present and past – will be unavoidable,” Zelenskyy wrote on Twitter in response to the court’s decision.

Moscow called the ruling “scandalous”.

The Donetsk region has experienced the heaviest fighting in Russia’s nine-month-long war on Ukraine. Russian forces were reinforced by troops pulled from Kherson city in the south which Ukraine recaptured last week. Russian forces fired artillery on the towns of Bakhmut and nearby Soledar, among others, the Ukrainian military said.

Russian fire also hit Balakliya in northeastern Kharkiv region, which Ukraine recaptured in September, and Nikopol, a city on the opposite bank of the Kakhovka reservoir from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station, the statement said.

Grains deal extended

Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych said seven people in Zaporizhzhia were killed, while Ukrainian forces had driven back Russian attacks on the town of Huliapole, to the east of the city of Zaporizhzhia.

"Kazakhstan tells EU: We can supply all 30 critical raw materials you need

Officials from Kazakhstan told a Brussels audience on Thursday (17 November) that the resource-rich country will soon be able to offer all the 30 critical raw materials the bloc needs, according to a list adopted in 2020.

Vi"

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"ce-Minister of Industry and Infrastructure Development Marat Karabayev said the main topic of this visit and the meetings held with EU institutions was the implementation of the recently-signed Memorandum between Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Alikhan Smailov.

EU signs 'strategic partnership' with Kazakhstan on green hydrogen, raw materials

As UN climate talks kicked off in the Egyptian resort city of Sharm El-Sheikh, the European Union is moving forward to secure partnerships with developing countries on hydrogen and clean technologies, starting with Kazakhstan.

On 7 November on the fringes of the COP27 conference in Egypt, the two agreed to establish a new partnership ensuring the development of a secure and sustainable supply of raw materials, developing renewable hydrogen and battery value chains, and boosting the green and digital transformation of both economies.

In terms of potential in mining and exporting critical raw materials, Kazakhstan ranked fourth worldwide, while in aluminium among the top 10, Karabayev said.

In terms of next steps, a roadmap was needed to implement the memorandum, and for this purpose a “big meeting” was being prepared for 7 December, gathering not only government bodies and the EU, but also participants of the private sector, he said.

Among the issues to be discussed would be bringing ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) in Kazakhstan, especially in the mining sector, creating value chains and value-added cost “so we don’t see Kazakhstan just as a supplier of critical raw materials”, Karavayev said.

Another avenue was the co-financing of research between Kazakhstan and the EU, on issues such as geological digitalistaion.

The EU needed 30 types of rare earth materials, such as beryllium, tantalum, niobium, Karabayev said, referring to a list adopted in 2020. He explained that among them Kazakhs companies currently produce 16. Regarding nine of them, Kazakhstan has deposits, although it does not yet mine them. Regarding the remaining five, he said “we know we have deposits, but we don’t know the quantities”.

Karabayev said that big companies were operating in Kazakhstan, naming Arcelor Mittal, Glencore, Fortescue, Rio Tinto, and in his words a document such as the memorandum would encourage new technology and further cooperation.

Peter Handley, Head of Unit for Raw Materials in the Commission’s DG GROW, said that one of the purposes of the memorandum was to better use technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and generally have a reduced footprint from human economic

Handley added it was very much in line with the spirit of the Commission

"APEC summit disrupted by suspected North Korea ICBM test

Asia-Pacific leaders gathered in Bangkok on Friday (18 November) for a summit to focus on economic woes but their schedule was disrupted by a North Korean suspected intercontinental ballistic missile test while police fired rubber bullets to "

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"disperse protesters.

US Vice President Kamala Harris convened a meeting of leaders from Australia, Japan, South Korea, Canada and New Zealand on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit to discuss the missile launch.

An official in charge of the security for the summit said police fired rubber bullets to disperse about 350 Thai anti-government protesters after a clash about 10 km from the summit venue in the capital, Bangkok.

APEC host Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha of Thailand, earlier urged participants at the summit to seek sustainable growth and development after economic and social challenges from COVID, climate change and geopolitical rivalries.

“We can no longer live like we did. We need to adjust our perspective, ways of life and ways of doing business,” he said to an audience that included Harris and China’s President Xi Jinping.

Established to promote economic integration, APEC groups 21 economies that account for 38% of the global population, and 62% of gross domestic product and 48% of trade.

Prayuth did not refer to North Korea’s missile, which Japanese officials said landed just 200 km (130 miles) off Japan and had sufficient range to reach the mainland of the United States.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who is in Bangkok for the APEC meeting, told reporters that North Korea had “repeated its provocations with unprecedented frequency”.

The APEC gathering is the third summit in the region in the past week. A Southeast Asian summit that included China, Japan and the United States was held in Cambodia while the Group of 20 (G20) nations met on the Indonesian island of Bali.

The earlier meetings were dominated by the war in Ukraine as well as tensions over Taiwan and the Korean peninsula.

Campaigners are keen to see leaders address food insecurity, surging inflation, climate change and human rights.

A reminder of such grassroot demands came as the anti-government protesters clashed with police after trying to overturn a police car plastered with posters of Prayuth and Xi.

Videos on social media showed protesters trying to overturn a police car, throwing projectiles and charging at police, while officers in riot gear advanced on them with shields and beat them back with batons.

Police said they used rubber bullets to disperse the activists and arrested 10 people.

‘Deliver hope’

Thai Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai said on Thursday the APEC meeting was taking place at a “pivotal juncture” with the world facing multiple risks.

“That’s why APEC this year must rise above these challenges and deliver hope to the world at large,” he said in a statement.

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"Solar, wind industry worried about ‘daft’ EU permitting rules

New emergency permitting rules tabled by the European Commission just over a week ago would concern only “new” renewable energy projects and fail to address the hundreds of gigawatts currently stuck in the administrative pipeline, indust"

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"ry sources say.

Last week (10 November), the European Commission tabled temporary emergency rules to accelerate the deployment of renewable energies like wind and solar, saying the ongoing energy crisis fuelled by Russia’s war in Ukraine calls for exceptional measures.

Under the proposal, renewable energy projects “would be presumed to be of overriding public interest” and benefit from shorter permitting procedures ranging from one month for solar rooftop installations to six months for the repowering of large wind farms.

The proposal is currently being examined by EU member states, with the bloc’s energy ministers due to meet in Brussels on 24 November to reach a political agreement.

But the wind and solar industry are worried about language in the regulation specifying that the faster-permitting rules should apply to “new” projects only.

Indeed, the presumption that renewables are of overriding public interest “only applies to new permitting procedures that start during the application of the regulation,” says the Commission proposal presented last week.

A draft of the member states’ position on the proposal, seen by EURACTIV, hammers the point home by adding a new Article 1a stipulating that: “this regulation applies to all permitting procedures with a starting date within the duration of its application”.

For the renewable energy industry, this means hundreds of gigawatts of solar and wind projects will remain stuck in the administrative pipeline.

“It’s daft to apply this only to new projects,” said Giles Dickson, the CEO of WindEurope, an industry association.

According to Dickson, there are “at least 100 GW of wind and solar combined which are currently stuck in permitting” procedures, and “probably a lot more”. And those will remain unaffected by the emergency permitting rules if the proposal goes through.

Solar industry representatives are worried as well. “There is currently a very significant volume of projects across the EU27, at different stages of development,” says Dries Acke, policy director at SolarPower Europe, an industry association.

If that pipeline of projects was accelerated, it “could significantly progress the self-proclaimed aims of the Regulation: help to mitigate the effects of the current crisis, strengthen the Union’s security of supply, reduce volatility in the market and lower energy prices,” Acke told EURACTIV.

Brussels tables emergency EU permitting rules for renewables

The European Commission on Wednesday (10 November) tabled temporary emergency rules to accelerate the deployment of renewable energies like wind and solar, saying the ongoing energy crisis fuelled by Russia’s war in Ukraine calls f

"What the US mid-term elections mean for Europe’s digital agenda

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