🇦🇱🇪🇺 - EU enlargement boss Marta Kos:

Congratulations to Albania for taking another step towards EU membership.

Today, we opened the Internal Market cluster. While tariffs return elsewhere, we’ll be breaking down barriers to trade and business.

🇦🇿🇨🇾 - Azerbaijan inches ever closer of Northern Cyprus recognition.

🇺🇦🇩🇰 - Denmark confirms troop deployment to Ukraine for drone warfare training.

Sudan Civil War: [15/4/2025]: 🇸🇩
While SAF made further advances into the urban heart of Ombadda, Sudanese armed forces made significant gains on the outskirts of the city, advancing from Saffra suburbs towards Kordofan governorate. As a result of these operations they took control of the towns of Al-Kou, Abu Hashem, Al-Atwaiya and Fitasha, including the military camp of the same name (15°30'54.0 ‘N 32°12'01.6 ’E) entering Kordofan from the north from Khartoum.
Map: [ https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=19IxdgUFhNYyUIXEkYmQgmaYHz6OTMEk&ll=15.586856242457342%2C32.25729986309964&z=11 ]

🇨🇦⚡️- Green Party has been removed from both the French and English language debate's due to lack of qualified candidates running.

🇪🇺 - The EU will expedite the return of asylum seekers from Bangladesh, Colombia, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, India, and Kosovo to their home countries, after designating these seven nations as "safe".

🇷🇸🇽🇰 - New Serbian Prime Minister Đuro Macut says "Kosovo remains central to Serbia's national interest".

🇬🇧 - UK Supreme Court only clarified the scope of existing frameworks — particularly how the Equality Act 2010 interacts with the Gender Recognition Act 2004, not as much as the groundbreaking ruling some want it to be.

🇬🇧 - What the ruling implies in practice is only that in Scotland, the SNP's women in administration council quotas don't include trans women.

🇺🇸🇮🇶 - US Vice President JD Vance calls the 2003 American-led invasion of Iraq a "strategic disaster", adding that skeptical Europeans could have spoken up more forcefully against it.

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🇺🇸🇯🇵 - Trump says progress with Japan on tariffs.

🇫🇷 - Paris courthouse evacuated after bomb threats.

🇫🇷 - The mailbox of a prison guard got vandalized in Amiens, France.

🇫🇷 - Overall portrait:

Cars burned down in 8 jails' parkings
Rifle shots fired at 8 jails's doors and windows.
A courthouse evacuated due to a bomb threat.

And now this.

The mailbox is obviously a way to scare the guy, to tell him "We know where you live".

On the long run, if you repress people who are actually smart because you don't want to hurt people's feeling that they are all "equally special and all went through exactly the same stuff"... well its not compatible with modernity on the long run. Modernity needs people who are actually smart, and it needs them doing their job properly without having to rely on "soft skills" to get their projects approved.

Modernity needs people who are smarts, and it needs them doing their smarts guys thing, not being at Walmart to "make other people feel comfortable their ego is in check".

🇪🇺 - ECB cuts interests rates by 25 basis points.

🇷🇺🇩🇪🇺🇦 - Russian Foreign Ministry:

The use of Taurus missiles to strike Russia's critical infrastructure can be regarded as Germany's direct participation in the war on the side of Ukraine.